There's a lot of this sort of thing going on right now in my Missouri/Kansas neck of the woods, such as the story in today's Politico.com that Missouri tea partiers are all up in arms about republican Roy Blunt and his U.S. Senate campaign for the seat being vacated by fellow repub Kit "Porky" Bond (link to full story at bottom).Now, are the tea partiers opposed to Blunt for all the right reasons, such as the fact that he's a career politician, political fatcat and basically just a younger version of Bond whom the voters should send back to Springfield, Missouri for a not so well-earned retirement? Of course not! Instead, they're all over Blunt's a$$ with cries that he's not a "true conservative" and that it's an "abomination" (don't they mean to say Obamanation?) for non-Missouri tea partiers like Michele Bachmann to endorse Blunt.
And in the jayhawker state where I currently live, we have the GOP primary race for the U.S. Senate between Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt -- two obviously staunch, bona fide conservatives (which is not a positive) who are largely indistinguishable. Moran and Tiahrt have been going around for weeks now bombarding the airwaves with mean-spirited, mindless ads claiming that each is "more conservative" than the other. And I have to vote for one of these idiots! (Since Independents are forced this fall to return a balance of power to DC amongst these two awful parties).
Of course, the democrat party is no different, with its far leftist powerbrokers and money constantly working to undermine and defeat any dem politician not viewed as being sufficiently liberal or progressive. I actually at times almost feel sorry for some of these politicians in these two parties whom I know are not liberal or conservative ideologues, and I frankly don't know how they do it -- how they can go around during primary races (perhaps necessarily but certainly disingenuously) trying to appeal to the ol' party "base." It's one of the most scuzball sights and components of what is already a broken, sleazewad American political system.
But at the end of the day, I don't feel sorry for these non-ideologue politicians. If they had the conviction to ever just stand up for themselves and what they truly believe, regardless of the consequences, the same political system would be much better off for it. But we never get that. We just get deranged right-wingers and loony left-wingers, plus mealy mouthed "moderates" who are too afraid to ever fight or stand up for their beliefs.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40345.html
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