Monthly Archives: December 2009

On “The Right Hook,” at least once a week we kibitz aboot the “establishment vs. the base,” which being the New York State Young Republicans has come up regularly in the past month thanks to the debacle known as the NY-23. Personally I’ve always considered myself to be more a conservative than a Republican (one’s a series of beliefs, the other is just a job) and while the party dropped the ball eight ways from Sunday in choosing whatsherface, that was more of a drastic example.

And I still say my conservative brethren may not have been singing the praises of the NY Conservative Party had they known aboot them endorsing liberal Democrats cross endorsed by the WFP (aka ACORN) in Nassau and Westchester, and in the case of Nassau tried to sabotage the county executive’s race in favor of the Dems just so that the local conservative chair could keep his job in the administration, but I digress.

The question remains when to fight and when not to fight, and in the case of cats like Erick Erickson from Redstate.com (the most influential conservative website on the Internets), it always seems time to fight. Erik, along with many others believe, that the principles always come first, especially in dealing with a Republican establishment that continues to let conservatives down. Two points he made in a recent interview that I feel need repeating. The first concerns the race between JBdotC fav Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist…
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