Fusion Fights On – Fission Fizzels.
Well, I’m sad that there is not going to be a flurry of primaries this year. A Dana Garrett primary of Bob Gilligan would have been one for the ages.
I guess, in the end, the Republicans figured that fusion candidates were a bigger threat to the Democrats. Or maybe Dana, Mike and Nancy really did have an impact. Then again, maybe Mike Castle stepped in as is his habit.
Anyway – It is official. If you lose a primary for say…the Democratic Party Candidate for Congress (as Karen Hartley Nagel did last time out) you can still run in the general election as member of the “Hey Look at Me” party while endorsing the incumbent Mike Castle (as Karen Hartley Nagel did last time out).
Why can’t I escape the feeling that liberals won the right to continue stabbing themselves in the eye with a sharp stick ? Oh well.
The headlines will read: Republicans Saved Democracy~!
Dave Burris and Tyler Patrick Nixon shall get the credit for turning the GOPers against HB177.
Dave pulled his strings as the great vote chaser of Sussex and talked the entire GOPer caucus to vote no.
Dana’ guest poster, Mark Brunswick, certainly gets credit for his brilliant postings on the subject.
The fact that Dave Burris held the whip hand on this makes it even more clear to me that Republicans voted out of some perception of short term advanatage.
I like Burris, but it is all about next November with him.
On second thought – that might be a bit of projection on my part. Most of my feelings about Fusion have to do with the fact that it is not efficient or effective for left of center Dems to split up into a bunch of suspicious factions.
If I had reduce my thoughts down to one sentence it would be;
Fusion helps Mike Castle and by extension George Bush- so I’m against it.
“Why can’t I escape the feeling that liberals won the right to continue stabbing themselves in the eye with a sharp stick ?”
I suspect because you lost your balls and haven’t taken on your party’s leadership on behalf of what is right. You kept telling yourself that if you just go along and wait the others out, then someday the “good” people will advance through attrition. But you forgot that goodness is mutable and when people just “go along” and wait, they change into what they at first resisted: common, lackluster party hacks.
Get your balls back, Jason. There is no room any more for those who don’t have them.
No. That’s no it. Why can’t I shake this feeling?
Hmmm…?