NC Primary
Drudge’s election day reports are almost always wrong, so but if he’s right this time about a 15-point loss for the Hildebeest, Operation Chaos may soon be in chaos itself. As a registered Republican, I can’t do much about that, but if you’re a registered Democrat or independent in this state, you can. Keep Hillary’s campaign alive, both for Rush’s reasons and because quite frankly, if a Democrat victory is a given this year, President Billary would be the lesser evil.
Meanwhile, in the primary that I can vote in, I plan to vote for Fred Smith. Pat McCrory struck me as a decent guy, and actually made the better imporession of the two in the recent Civitas debate, but John Hawkins thinks McCrory is a RINO, and as a recent transplant who’s almost as clueless about state politics as most people are about the national variety, I have little choice but to defer to John. I am curious, though, as to what kind of RINO McCrory (allegedly) is. From where I sit, RINOs come in two classes:
- Real RINO. If this guy gets the nomination, we might as well cede the general election to Moore or Perdue, ‘cuz a Democrat is really going to win anyway. Examples of Real RINOs: Lincoln Chafee, Jim Jeffords, Michael Huffington (back in the days when they pretended to be Republicans at all). Depending on what issues you care about, Mike Huckabee may warrant the label also.
- Quasi-RINO: OK, not really Republican in name only, and certainly better than any Democrat, just not Republican enough for one’s taste. Examples: John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Bush (definitely the first, and arguably the second).
My sense is that McCrory is more of a Class 2 RINO than a real one, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Errr, I mean, if we come to it, which we won’t if Smith wins.
UPDATE: Looks like Drudge was right for a change. At the local level, McCrory it is, so here’s hoping my sense about him was righter than my sense about Drudge being predictably wrong. Type 2 RINOs I can deal with, Type 1, not so much.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:45 am
McCrory is definitely a Class 2.