Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:37:29 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:38:38 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

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There are no sane Republicans, nor uncorrupt.=20

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That's unduly pessimistic.
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They are just local and so unknown to outsiders.
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I will, however, concede that they are getting harder to find.

 
Again true a decade ago, but at least in our local party the sane people
are being driven out.  We have folks running for city council who are
obsessed with stopping abortion and promoting what they claim to be
Christian values.  One of the big deals is promotion of school vouchers,
which are likely of real benefit in some urban areas but which here are
primarily used to fund de-facto school segregation.  So many of the
small-government pro-business Republicans are no longer active in the
local party.
--scott
 

A friend of mine was the treasurer of the Republican party for a county
in Virginia.  He left that post when the local party voted to nominate
Oliver North for the Senate, and became much less active as a republican
in the following years.

Running in an area filled with retired high-ranking military officers,
none of whom would /ever/ have lied to Congress and took his doing so
as a betrayal of their service. Didn't work.

The last I heard of him, he was being used by a local State legislator
(with what passed then for a very conservative attitude, although she
would probably be considered nearly sane today) as an endorser. She
lost her bid for higher office (House of  Representative, I think, or
possibly Senator). She probably would have anyway, but I doubt being
endorsed by a high-ranking military officer famous for lying to
Congress helped as much as she hoped.

Still, IIRC, he /did/ have enough sense to call out the NRA
leadership, possibly resulting in their legal problems. Although why
the NRA didn't just leave New York and re-incorporate in Texas, where
I am sure they would be very welcome, I have no idea.

He may yet be a registered republican, though.  Not being familiar with
this part of  the American system I don't know whether such things lapse
with time.

My mother received fund-raising letters from the RNC for at least
three years after she died.

So the registration may have lapsed, but I suspect the fund-raising
letters continued.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"