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June 14, 2005
Olympia Snowe must be destroyed
Also on Political Animal, the Senators up for re-election sorted by their popularity. Snowe is the fifth-most popular Senator, the second-most popular up for re-election. She's ideologically unobjectionable, but she is at the same time one of the most reprehensible people in politics today. Every "moderate" blue-state Republican who coasts by in their home state by relying upon personal moderation, then goes right back out and votes with the Republican majority in its attempts to bring back the nineteenth century must go.
Rick Santorum is one of the more unpopular Senators, because he's unabashedly unmoderate in a moderate state, so he's vulnerable. But nearly all the time, the Snowes of the world vote with the Santorums who control the Republican agenda. It is time that the Democratic Party hung the radical right around the necks of these northeastern moderates. They need to choose sides, or rather to be seen to choose sides. Senatorial campaigns must be nationalized; people in Maine must realize that a vote for Olympia Snowe is a vote for Bill Frist.
Posted by Mac Thomason at June 14, 2005 06:33 PM
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Interesting note, on the full list there are 15 Republicans and 4 Democrats below 50%. Of the 15 Republicans, 33% are up for re-election next time. Of the 4 Democrats, 75% are up for re-election next time. The lesson? The GOP is good at smearing before a campaign, but the Republicans just suck all the time. :)
Posted by: Dan at June 14, 2005 09:30 PM
From the political point of view he is right. Ever republican in the House is Tom DeLay, every one in the Senate is Santorum or Frist.
They habit of voting in near lock step makes it easy to show how even the most moderate of the Republican party is just enabling the radical wing.
Posted by: John at June 15, 2005 08:59 AM