By Erick Erickson
Death of the Moderate ... Democrat
It is worth noting that
last Tuesday several moderate Democrats went down in flames in Pennsylvania continuing a trend that has escalated since 2008. Liberals do not want moderate Democrats in their caucus.
What is most interesting about it however is how there has not been a ton of coverage about the death of the Blue Dogs" more dogs dead in Barack Obama and the lefts war on dogs.
Had moderate Republicans been defeated we would have major stories on pretty much every news network and on the front page of every paper in America. That makes it most interesting however from a conservative perspective
Routinely we hear that Republicans cannot win in New England despite Republican successes in New England in 2010. Routinely we hear about the GOP driving moderates out of the party. Big tent cliches surround the stories. Rarely does the ongoing purging of the Democratic Party make such news.
In fact the Democratic Party has become increasingly hostile to moderates though the media rarely cares to focus on this because the reporters whod pay attention often are to the left of the moderate Democrats and proclaim their position the center. Those moderate Democrats are therefore well outside the mainstream.
I do not lament the decline and fall of
the Blue Dog Coalition. The United States remains a center-right nation and Democrats must continue to run as centrist" to appeal in swing states.
Their true colors ruin their chances.
The fewer centrists" they have the more difficult it becomes for them to appeal to voters including Hispanic voters who continue to be some of the most socially conservative voters in America.
The lesson here though is that partisans in both parties prefer their candidates to stand for something and fight for something. The medias predominant bias is a good government bias and reporters hail those Republicans and Democrats who work across party lines to get things done in Washington.
And what have they done? Were at $15 trillion and counting to what theyve done.
But it was done in the name of good government a concept that is always framed as our salvation and will ultimately be our damnation as we go bankrupt with repeated good government compromises.
Erick Erickson is Editor-in-Chief of RedState.com the largest right of center blogging community on the internet & is also the most widely read right of center blog on Capitol Hill.
