There is a potential republican primary for Jim Bunning's Senate seat next year. That is unless republicans can avoid the dreaded free market.
The idea of the "free market" works well in some situations, would be disastrous in others, but its best work in the United States is done in elections. We saw a great Democratic primary between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama last year. There was a lot of passion and work to win over Democratic primary voters: in other words, a very vital free market. No one folded like a card table. Mitt Romney, I am thinking about you.
Republicans rejoiced in the fact that their party delivered a weak, almost non-existant, free market primary and that the Democrats offered the exact opposite. They laughed at the Democrats and showed nothing but disdain for free market forces in their own primary. The republican party is like the business that just buys up all of its competitors to gain market share rather than actually delivering the best product and letting their customers decide. Like corporate buy outs, the republican primary was decided more by private, backroom meetings than by voters at the polls.
Those same conservative, anti-free market feelings are apparent in the "race" for the republican choice to run for U. S. Senator in Kentucky next year. Kentucky's Secretary of State, Trey Grayson has formed an "exploratory commitee" for the race, but he says he will run only if incumbant republican Jim Bunning does not. Rand Paul has done the same thing and is toting the same line. And, of course, you have Mitch McConnell lurking in the background.
I am sure that the leaders of the republican party in Kentucky would love nothing better than to select their candidiate in a closed, smoke-filled backroom, free from those nasty, chaotic market forces. That is kind of what happened in the special election to fill Brett Guthrie's State Senate seat earlier this year.
Because there wasn't the time or resources to have a primary in that special election, the executive committees of both the republican and Democratic parties met seperately and selected their candidates who would run in the race. That was about 50 insiders on each commitee deciding, not exactly a good example of free markets and free elections. The republican executive committee chose J. Marshall Hughes as their candidate. I wonder, if they ley the free market decide, would we have had the same choices in that special election.
If republicans really believed in the free market and had faith in those voters who are registered as republicans in Kentucky (whoever those are?!?!), Grayson and Paul would be out their running regardless of what Bunning does. They should let the voters decide.
The idea of the "free market" works well in some situations, would be disastrous in others, but its best work in the United States is done in elections. We saw a great Democratic primary between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama last year. There was a lot of passion and work to win over Democratic primary voters: in other words, a very vital free market. No one folded like a card table. Mitt Romney, I am thinking about you.
Republicans rejoiced in the fact that their party delivered a weak, almost non-existant, free market primary and that the Democrats offered the exact opposite. They laughed at the Democrats and showed nothing but disdain for free market forces in their own primary. The republican party is like the business that just buys up all of its competitors to gain market share rather than actually delivering the best product and letting their customers decide. Like corporate buy outs, the republican primary was decided more by private, backroom meetings than by voters at the polls.
Those same conservative, anti-free market feelings are apparent in the "race" for the republican choice to run for U. S. Senator in Kentucky next year. Kentucky's Secretary of State, Trey Grayson has formed an "exploratory commitee" for the race, but he says he will run only if incumbant republican Jim Bunning does not. Rand Paul has done the same thing and is toting the same line. And, of course, you have Mitch McConnell lurking in the background.
I am sure that the leaders of the republican party in Kentucky would love nothing better than to select their candidiate in a closed, smoke-filled backroom, free from those nasty, chaotic market forces. That is kind of what happened in the special election to fill Brett Guthrie's State Senate seat earlier this year.
Because there wasn't the time or resources to have a primary in that special election, the executive committees of both the republican and Democratic parties met seperately and selected their candidates who would run in the race. That was about 50 insiders on each commitee deciding, not exactly a good example of free markets and free elections. The republican executive committee chose J. Marshall Hughes as their candidate. I wonder, if they ley the free market decide, would we have had the same choices in that special election.
If republicans really believed in the free market and had faith in those voters who are registered as republicans in Kentucky (whoever those are?!?!), Grayson and Paul would be out their running regardless of what Bunning does. They should let the voters decide.
Nice thinking, moron.
