Roll Call profiled the upcoming Kentucky 4th Congressional District GOP primary with an article that included the following quote:
“I am not of the establishment. I am a Republican. And I think I represent all paradigms of the Republican Party,” (state Rep. Alecia) Webb-Edgington said.)
In other words, she is an establishment candidate. The Republican party contains people who really want to break up the big government, bailout, debt-and-tax status quo and it also contains people who prefer to keep things pretty much as they are, but for themselves to be in charge of it.
You can't represent both of those and Alecia Webb-Edgington does not.
We will keep having nasty primaries about the direction of the Republican party between those who really want smaller government and those who do not until this is resolved. The best you can do is represent one side and work to persuade the other. Until then, claiming to represent both is a pretty cynical (and increasingly ineffective) way of perpetuating the establishment.
You can read the Roll Call article here.
