…or finds one of them, at least.
Last night, the state GOP had their annual pep rally, with keynote speaker Representative Pete Sessions from Texas. According the the NJ reports, there wasn’t much remarkable about the meeting, which included the usual calls for party unity, the usual fawning over Mike Castle (with nudge nudge wink wink hints at a run for the Senate by Castle) and the usual avoidance of what happened to their dreams of a permanent repub majority (they weren’t “fortunate” at the ballot box). But, according to this article, Sessions had this to say contrasting the differences between the two parties:
“We have community leaders, and they have community activists,” he said. “The Democratic Party is made up of people who are marching on City Hall.”
Read that again.
So the difference between the two parties is that Rs are mostly people who are looking for followers; while Ds are getting out in the trenches trying to make change. So which group do you want to be part of?
It seems odd to try to denigrate the business of getting your voters and allies out where government decisions can be influenced — whether you are knocking on doors talking to voters or organizing against some environmental atrocity or going to City Hall to remind them who they work for. Especially in the last election where the Rs spend much of their time buying clothes for Sarah Palin and her crew, working on their name calling skills (I guess thinking that they could get Obama to play the dozens with them), and working overtime to ramp up the fear factor among voters. Sessions doesn’t seem to get that if Rs had more folks in the street (and at the ballot box) for his guy then they wouldn’t have so many wounds to lick — which is really puzzling since boots on the ground is a key element of any election. Sessions wants you to know that Republicans really are pretty contemptuous of the basic obligations of citizenship, as he spends his time lamenting that his party doesn’t have enough followers.