{"id":22529,"date":"2010-11-04T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=22529"},"modified":"2010-11-04T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:50:35","slug":"why-would-we-want-a-senator-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=22529","title":{"rendered":"Why would we want a Senator Castle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seriously. Why<\/a>? I mean, clearly the Republican primary voters of Delaware didn’t want him, and this was their<\/i> election. So why do so many GOP cheerleaders wish Republican primary voters of Delaware would have been smart and savvy enough to vote for a guy those voters didn’t want representing them, casting their vote instead for a woman they believed would<\/em>?<\/p>\n

There is nothing “extreme”<\/a> about the Tea Party message, and there’s nothing in that message that should put off “moderates.” O’Donnell did well with independents, despite having no support from her own party machinery. And yet because GOP establishment types were so quick to scoff and sniff and run away from O’Donnell or Angle (and, initially, Rubio), they lent credence to the idea that the Tea Party is “extreme,” and so obviously racist, fascist, nativist, populist, and anti-intellectual. Not to mention, longing to squeeze into tight black goth garb and couple with the Beast.<\/p>\n

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if sold on its merits, classical liberalism — and the Tea Party’s message is essentially a classical liberal message — crosses party lines and appeals to anyone who believes in individual liberty, smaller government, equality of opportunity, and the rule of law. It is constitutionalism — legal conservatism \/ libertarianism — substantively alienated from the rudderless country club Republicanism of Lindsey Graham, or the vote-counting gamesmanship of Karl Rove, for whom winning temporary majorities and chairmanships is more important than governing from a coherent philosophical base.<\/p>\n

We don’t need slicker candidates. We need committed candidates.<\/p>\n

Standing back and letting the Dems and the GOP establishment — both inside the Beltway and in the blogosphere — hammer away at your party’s duly-selected candidates (or hammering at them yourself), then pointing to the failure of those candidates as proof of your own initial assertion of their deficiencies, is nothing more than a transparent begging of the question.<\/p>\n

Or at the very least, it’s a big fat thumb on the scale of reckoning.<\/p>\n

Me, I want us to take the Senate when it is truly us<\/i> taking the Senate. Meaning, I want conservatism and classical liberalism promoted and defending by actual conservatives and classical liberals. I’m just “purist” that way I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously. Why? I mean, clearly the Republican primary voters of Delaware didn’t want him, and this was their election. So why do so many GOP cheerleaders wish Republican primary voters of Delaware would have been smart and savvy enough to vote for a guy those voters didn’t want representing them, casting their vote instead for a woman they believed would? There is nothing “extreme” about the Tea Party message, and<\/p>\n

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