Posted on 05/31/2004 5:53:09 AM PDT by amigatec
Return of the Maverick
by Robert Novak SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Tom Coburn, the plainspoken obstetrician from Muskogee, Okla., was back in Washington briefly last week. Republican senators greeted him with mixed emotions. He is their best hope for keeping an Oklahoma seat Republican in the closely divided Senate. The bad news is, he would be as prickly in the Senate as he was during his six years in the House (1995-2000).
Coburn's problem is that he takes seriously the professed Republican agenda: limited government, entitlement reform and anti-abortion advocacy. He was a rare sincere GOP supporter of term limits, leaving the House after three terms as he promised to do. The result is scant support for Coburn from the Republican establishment, in the nation's capital as well as Oklahoma. If elected to the Senate, he will do it largely on his own.
(Excerpt) Read more at coburnforsenate.com ...
I always liked Nickles but this Coburn sounds like a dandy if he can cut through the national party apparatus. We need more guys like him who won't go along to get along.
Horror of horrors! I cannot imagine a politician that adheres to the ancient goals of the party such as smaller government and fiscal responsibility. He must be headed off at the pass and funding cut off.
Oh dont worry im sure that "conservative" george bush will back a arlen spector type moderate over this guy so as not to endanger the liberal wing of the r/dnc
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