[Sosfbay-discuss] No great press out of Pennsylvania

[Wes Rolley]

> It occurs to me that if those people live green values the
> Republican Party will be the better for thier efforts. If not, the
> status quo meanders on....

After working with the McCloskey campaign against Pombo, I will 
guarantee that there are Republicans for who the adjective "green" is an 
apt descriptor.  At the head of the list I would put McCloskey and 
Martha Marks.  Marks is the head of an organization named Republicans 
for Environmental Protection and very much involved in trying to return 
the Rebpublicans to their traditional positions where the word 
"conservation" was applied to the environment, not just power.

I know that there are many who would criticize Christine Todd Whitman 
for her position on Nuclear Energy, however I don't think that anyone 
can find fault with her description of the current Republican Party.  I 
quote two items from an interview with the Concord, NH Monitor.

"We are being defined as a very narrow, mean-spirited, litmus-test 
party," she said yesterday. "And that's not the party in which I grew up."

and -

"With the national parties, it's gotten very, very partisan, so that any 
issue is looked at from the political perspective and not the policy 
ones," she told an audience of about 50 at a GOP luncheon at the Holiday 
Inn in Concord. "We need to be concerned about the fact that every issue 
is looked at through that prism."

The latter comment applies equally to Democrats as well as Republican.

Remember, over 30% of Republicans voted for McCloskey in the Primary.  
They are good people, your neighbors and mine.   The villification of 
"Repugnicans" in the rhetoric of the progressive blogs is not going to 
make it easy to attract them to better choices.  It only makes it harder 
to hold civil conversations.





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"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
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