Smerconish: Let’s Dilute the Influence of Conservatives in the GOP March 3 2009
A great idea from a man who voted for President Obama.
But let’s leave Michael Smerconish’s presidential preferences aside and focus on the substance of his remarks. On this evening’s Hardball, Smerconish claimed that Republicans need to “dilute the influence of the conservatives in the Republican presidential nominating process, because we are nominating people who can’t get elected.”
Smerconish was responding to a clip of Rush Limbaugh calling on RNC Chairman Michael Steele to do just the opposite, and do something “about our open primary system and fixing it so that Democrats do not nominate our candidates.”
Is Smerconish’s complaint about John McCain being too conservative?
I know there’s a bit of leap here, but Democrats picked John McCain for the GOP candidate. I agree with Michael Steele, open primaries in NH and other early states influenced voters to cross over leading to Mavericky early momentum… who was apparently too conservative for Michael Smerconish?
No he wasn’t.
This is the same Michael Smerconish… “i’m voting for Obama because he’s a good guy.”
Exit thought: None of whining about conservatives in the Republican party has anything to do with Michael Smerconish’s BFF Senator Arlen Specter. Nothing at all.
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