And TAND Stands Correct
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 23:04
A blogged a couple weeks ago about Norm Coleman ("In Order to be Missed....You Have to Go Away") and said this:
When it comes to the prospect of being tasked by the party to do the necessary work to get a candidate like Coleman elected, I get downright depressed. You see, even if I have to compromise on scores of other issues, at the end of the day I'm not convinced that Coleman could at least adhere to the bare-bones minimum for conservatives: "Will he raise taxes?" The answer is a resounding "Yes. Yes, Norm will raise taxes." If we know this, if we really know this, then why are we even contemplating Coleman as a candidate?
The piece got a lot of attention and some in the big tent weren't so happy...
The New York Times reports today that Senator Coleman is part of a new center-right GOP group, the American Action Network, that has been formed to mirror groups like John Podesta's Center for American Progress. Happy to hear it.
The article also reports this:
The organizers are less ideologically conservative than many Republican activists. Mr. Coleman, for example, would not rule out higher taxes as well as spending cuts to reduce the debt.
Game-Set-Match
