re: #76 Sharmuta

I guess I’m less interested in beating up on Snowe as I am in getting back to what Reagan said because he was absolutely right. I grow weary of shooting the messenger, and I hope we don’t do that here. Is she being hypocritical- yes. But it doesn’t mean the message should be ignored because the carrier is less than stellar.

Great point - Snowe completely misses out on the point about repercussions for the collapse that she, Collins, and Specter did on the porkulus bill which permitted that bad legislation to pass. Instead of seeing the impact of that and Specter’s pollsters report to him that he would not win either the Repub primary or running as an Independent (hence his self-centered / power & ego motivated decision to change parties) - its far easier to blame the GOP itself and its lack of tolerance.

I’m all for a decision in the GOP about what its core values need to be and which values we shouldn’t tolerate in the party in order to be positioned to have credibility to express a better vision and agenda to the country. But, let’s not let Snowe or Specter define the debate any more than we should let creationists and birchers define the debate.