Mickey Kaus is no right winger and he’s on board with Porkbusters.
Samantha, I live in a very blue state. In this very blue state, we have come to the point where even liberals think that the Big Dig was assinine policy. I work with self identifying liberals who fear the R word, and when you talk to them about policies, they say that the state legislators are clueless and out of touch with real voters and taxpayers. The challenge here is that no R is able to evade the knee jerk reaction, even if there are a lot of areas where policy wise we could agree.
I am not saying that they are middle of the road here, what I am saying is that even most (all but two in fact) libs I know here believe that the state legislature is too far to the left of the electorate.
That’s an opportunity.