In Defense of DINO Hunting

Lee — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:02:35 EDT

Thursday morning in the Wall Street Journal, Club For Growth head Pat Toomey has an oped ("In Defense of RINO Hunting") defending the success and legitimacy of his organizational's primary election efforts. For those unaware, Club For Growth is an ultra-conservative PAC with the goal of making the Republican Party even more rabidly anti-tax (for the rich) and friendly to the policies favorable to big business. The Club for Growth raises large amounts of money - both for right wing challengers to semi-moderate GOP incumbents, and for conservatives in competitive races with Democrats.

Though it is very difficult to seriously compare the expansion of the progressive movement and the transformation of the Democratic Party to the nefarious Club for Growth, some of the Toomey's rhetoric is interesting. After noting that the Republican establishment usually writes the CFG off as "stupid" (Tom Cole) and "wrong" (Newt Gingrich), Toomey makes a rather critical point:

Thus comes the demand for an uncompromising obeisance to the bottom line: Elect as many Republicans as possible, regardless of how they will vote once in office.

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In Defense of DINO Hunting