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May 18, 2005
Are They Anything Like Team Zissou?
Those charming party-cleansers at Team GOP returned yesterday to haunt The Bob.
"With serious questions swirling about Republican U.S. Senatorial candidate Bob Corker’s total inability to create support among Tennessee's rank and file Republicans, Bob Corker, again, has turned to his Democrat enablers for help," the Team wrote in a press release. The problem? Corker is letting Clayton McWhorter, a one-time Democratic candidate for governor, raise money for Corker's Senate fund with one of those good ol' thousand-clams-a-plate dinners.
Can somebody explain to me the logic behind Team GOP? I've seen about a dozen of their press releases now, and checked out their blog, and it seems like their criterion for liking candidates is exactly how Republican said candidates are. I will assume, to give the Team the benefit of the doubt, that by "Republican" they mean "fiscally and socially conservative as the theoretical offspring of Ronald Reagan and a nun." Which is a litmus test, I suppose, even if I can't say much in its favor. But then why the focus on "turncoat Republicans" whose only sins are giving succor to Democrats? Why this rhetorical tack, which switches the focus from issues to labels? What justification can there be for raising pragmatic partisanship to a purity crusade? What morons does this appeal to?
In politics, you can stand on rabid idealism, or you can root root root for the home team. But if you do both, and treat one with the moral seriousness of the other, why should anyone take you even mildly seriously?
| By mesh | 11:24 AM
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