From Robert Stacy McCain who marvelously uses The Godfather analogy:
The desire of leading Republicans to recover their power — their influence, their prestige in Washington — is perfectly understandable. Like Fredo, however, the Beltway GOP leadership is weak, stupid and cowardly, seeking to curry favor with an implacable enemy by disrespecting their own family.
By picking Crist 15 months ahead of the Florida Republican primary, John Cornyn and the NRSC showed disloyalty and disrespect to the GOP grassroots, effectively declaring to the Moe Green Democrats, “Yeah, Moe, we’ve learned our lesson. We can’t disrespect you. We’re your friends. Look, we’re going to nominate an Obama-loving, stimulus-endorsing sellout.”
In this scenario, the conservative base of the Republican Party is cast in the role of Michael Corleone. And that’s what the Not One Red Cent movement is about.
It’s not about Charlie Crist. It’s about respect.
While early polls show Crist comfortably ahead of Marco Rubio, its not over yet. Crist is popular with the press, but amongst grassroots conservative through Florida, he has problems. This is especially true in the GOP stronghold in the Panhandle. Rubio’s campaign has not really gotten off the ground yet, but he will. When he does its likely that establishment GOP like John McCain and Sarah Palin will be staying on the sidelines for the state’s republicans to fight it out.
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This post was written by bobsikes on June 11, 2009
