Franklin County GOP’s Country Club Blue Blood Squishy Leadership Supports Rudy
From Dan Williamson:
Brad Sinnott, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Central Committee, thinks he knows how to resuscitate his dying party.
It can’t be saved by himself or Doug Preisse, the party’s chairman, or Steve Stivers, its much-hyped congressional candidate, or even Dewey Stokes, who might run for county commissioner again.
To rescue the Columbus Republicans, Sinnott is counting on a thin-skinned, cross-dressing, thrice-married New Yorker who is disliked by his own children.
“There’s no question but that Rudy Giuliani, if he’s the nominee, redefines in the popular mind what it means to be a Republican,” Sinnott said this week.
The Franklin County GOP isn’t endorsing in the presidential race, but it’s clear who the local party is rooting for this winter.
For local Republicans, the best thing about Giuliani is he isn’t George Bush.
“What happens in modern politics is that the two parties redefine themselves every four years by who they choose to be the top of the ticket for a presidential year,” Sinnott said. “The fact that we are about to choose a new party leader could be very hopeful to state and local Republicans in 2008.”[…]
Probably what Sinnott likes about Giuliani is the same thing culturally conservative Republicans don’t like about him.
He isn’t very religious. He hangs out with gay people. He has a record of supporting abortion rights, gun control and liberal immigration policies. He himself is a swing voter, having very publicly endorsed the re-election of Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994.
So, there you have it. In the county which I live, the party of Goldwater and Reagan is the party of open borders, gun control, “abortion rights”, Mario Cuomo, and buggery.
When the Brad Sinnott/Rockefeller/Christine Todd Whitman wing of the GOP ran the show, Republicans were a small minority in Congress for many years. Republicans win majorities when they campaign on Republican principles, and Sinnott is a moron for sharing his liberalism with Dan.
I just can’t like Rudy. Maybe it’s my simple thinking, but I can’t support someone who cheats on their family the way Rudy did. If you can’t be honest and decent with your family, how can you be honest and decent with the rest of the nation? Good policy starts at home.
If the Franklin County GOPers think Rudy the Judas is their Jesus and Savior, then the image Republicans have these days of just having politically “lost their way” since 1994 will be downgraded to the image of a party who thinks their maybe-leader’s lies, cheating, philandering, bilking of taxpayers for personal pleasures and ability to change positions to cater to would-be voters is the way to go.
And I hate to break it to Dan (I’m secretly a Republican worshiper) Williams and the FC GOPers, but Rudy Giuliani is George W. Bush, only a smarter model. He didn’t say one discouraging word about Dubya’s antics in seven years, and from what he’s said in the debates, he just what to double down on what Georgie has done so far. More war, more prosecutions and likely more interpretations of the Constitution that will continue the notion that the presidency is another way to spell Monarch.
The question Giuliani and the other un-magnificent seven need to answer is this: Tell us how you will be different from George W. Bush now so that we’ll know that if you really don’t espouse different policies and just want to continue what he’s done, that we’ll be stuck with you for four years just like we’ve been stuck with Dubya and that’s not what American wants anymore. So unless you can tell us the degree of difference between you and Dubya, it will be assumed that you are he and we are not all together.
The Republican Party doesn’t need to reinvent itself. It needs to RECOMMIT itself to the things that made it great, including low taxes, fiscal responsibility, and limited government. Recommit, not reinvent.
Rock on, Nathan.
Sinnott is a moron anyway, and so is everyone else in that Franklin County cesspool that made Ohio the quintessential RINO state. Even though a lot of bad things are happening in the Republican Party in Ohio with still more to come, it is a lot of fun to watch the Franklin County Party implode. If we ever truly have a better Republican Party in this state someday, it will be because this party organization will probably never again be able to wield the power and influence it has had for the last 30 years.