Contrast Cameron’s deliberate effort to reach out to voters who, as he has put it, have “idealism and progressive ideals hard-wired into their DNA” with what’s happening in the Republican Party.
In today’s GOP, someone like Cameron would be condemned as a big-government sellout and buried under a mountain of tea bags. For even as the news in Britain focused on Cameron’s comeback courtesy of his effort to detoxify the Conservative Party brand, the political news here was Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision to abandon the Republicans and run for the U.S. Senate as an independent…
The Arizona madness is a good example of how Republicans are working hard to rescue the Democrats. The state’s new law, pushed by Republicans in the legislature and signed by the Republican governor, would require police to question anyone of whom there is “reasonable suspicion” that he or she might be an undocumented immigrant…
In Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labor Party is trying to hang on by insisting that Cameron’s changes to the Conservative Party are merely cosmetic. Democrats don’t have that burden. Here, moderate Republicans are being forced to plaster themselves with right-wing makeup just to survive. Or, like Charlie Christ, they’re deciding to go natural, and leave.
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