Monday, March 13th, 2006...4:04 pm
Now All Fourteen of His Supporters are Going to Have to Find Someone Else to Vote For
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Sen. John Greene has dropped out of the Governor’s race. According to a report on KJZZ this afternoon, Greene had trouble getting his usual allies in the business community to support him because they are resigned to a Len Munsil victory. Whatever happened to Don Goldwater?
If this is the case, that moderate businessmen didn’t rally to Greene’s side, it would follow a pattern that is all too common among the Chamber of Commerce types in our state. The stages are like this:
- The business community hunts for a moderate candidate
- The buisiness community gives tepid and/or useless support
- The buisiness community discovers that their candidate isn’t doing well, probably due to lack of support
- The business community abandons candidate to support conservative probable winner, thinking that they can get a good deal out of him or her
- Conservative candidate wins
- The buisiness community discovers that the conservative was actually serious about the stuff that he or she said during campaign
- The business community cries to the few Democratic office holders about what happened to their party, and could you please help us pass a few bills?
- The business community continues to support Republicans, and we go back to step 1
6 Comments
March 13th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Um, not quite Tedski.
Actually, in this case, according to Greene’s own statement to the Phoenix Business Journal, he couldn’t get support from the business community because they told him they were already supporting the governor.
March 13th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
How about this analysis.
Pro-abortion candidate finds out he is in the wrong party.
March 13th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Pro abortion person finds out he’s in the wrong party?
Wow. Someone better tell Barry Goldwater, Rudy Giuliani, Arlen Spector, Barbara Bush, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Sen Olympia Snowe, Sen. Susan Collins.
March 13th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Barry Goldwater endorsed Karen English when she first ran for Congress.
That concludes my cool AZ knowledge.
March 14th, 2006 at 6:49 am
Phx kid:
I really hope the Republicans continue to drive away pro-choice Republicans…it will leave the party with a small block of like minded voters with no capacity or power to govern.
Without party moderates and independents, Republicans would not have the House, the Senate, nor the Presidency. If the Democrats can capture these voters, they will win in 2008.
March 14th, 2006 at 9:39 am
it works both ways. The Democrats are working pretty hard at dring away pro-life Catholics.