There’s an awful lot of people, around the web this morning, talking about this Washington times story, about how the republican national committee has fired all of its phone solicitors. The story goes, that this is the result of a grassroots donor rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy.
Much as I object personally to that policy , I must say that this is overreaching in the extreme. The bottom line here, is that phone bank operators are a temporary lot, and nothing can or should be read into their being dismissed, particularly during the run up to a presidential election. If anyone was going to be doing any major changes with regards to staffing, right now would be the time to do it, wouldn’t you think?
One suspects, after reading all of the reaction and the ballyhooing, that there are many who would like to claim victory by virtue of this phone bank dismissal, who really don’t have a whole bunch to be claiming victory about, otherwise, and to whom manufacturing a victory, became the only option.
What we are seeing here, is a group of people trying to maximize the effect of what breaks there have been between the White House and the republican rank and file. Particularly, the conservative wing of the party. I will remind the reader that I have repeatedly stated over the last eight years that President Bush is no conservative. Never has been. Never will be. On that basis I submit to you that a break of this type was inevitable. that breakup would also be consistent with the lack of enthusiasm being shown the current crop of front runners on the republican side. There is not one of them that can be seriously considered as a conservative. At best, these are centrists, much the same as President Bush is. the particular choices of where they got left and right, may vary somewhat, but on the whole , they are centrist.
This does not bode well for the left. Nor does it bode well for anyone “running to the middle”.
It does bode very well indeed, for conservatives such as Fred Thompson. We’ve discussed here in the past, the degree of support that he is getting from the grass roots. He actually has more support from the American voter, right now, that all but a few from either party, and he’s not even running yet.
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