Top Conservative Blogger Calls For Boycott Of NRSC Over Crist
Uh oh — the conservative backlash against the national GOP for its endorsement of moderate, stimulus-supporting Governor Charlie Crist in the GOP primary continues apace.
Top right wing blogger Erick Erickson of RedState.com is now calling for conservatives to stop giving money to the NRSC over the endorsement of Crist, who is running against conservative former House Speaker Mark Rubio.
Erickson denounced the NRSC’s decision to endorse Crist as “wholly unacceptable,” adding: “If the NRSC thinks this is smart, we must not waste our time or energy with them. Join me in pledging no money, no help, no aid, and no support for the NRSC’s efforts in the 2010 election cycle.”
Relatedly, in response to my claim yesterday that the Florida GOP primary was shaping up as a battle royale for the soul of the GOP, Republicans argued to me that Crist’s overwhelming establishment support, and Rubio’s near-total lack of name recognition, guarantee that this won’t be any kind of huge battle at all.
But primaries are notoriously volatile and unpredictable, and there’s a long way to go until Election Day 2010. Rush Limbaugh could start savaging Crist, and right-wing bloggers are trying hard to cast the race as a fight over the GOP’s future. If the traditional news orgs start telling the story this way — as they did with the 2006 Joe Lieberman primary — this primary could indeed shape up as a battle royale over the party’s soul.
By the way, the boycott-NRSC movement already has a Facebook page.
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If the Democrats didn’t have Erick Erickson to do our dirty work for us we would need to invent him!
… no November victories, no seats picked up, few seats held, no way to filibuster anything anymore, and another huge loss of self-identifying Republicans. The future face of the RepubliFringe Party.
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BTW, Eric, I’ll join you in that pledge. I definitely won’t contribute anything to the NRSC this election cycle.
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Sometimes I suspect folks like Erikson and the entire Club for Growth are actually a covert operation organized by the Dems. I mean, seriously, could they possibly play more into the Democratic party’s hands?
I smell another defection.
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I didn’t really see any opinion polls on Americans as to what their opinion was when Specter switched parties. If the public thought it was Specters fault or if it was perceived to be the GOP’s fault for becoming to ideological.
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I wonder what the majority of the public would think if Christ flipped parties.
I checked Limbaugh’s site last night to see if he’d figured out how to handle the Crist matter. Not yet.
mike
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I don’t think we want Crist to flip because he can go down in flames in the primary then either Kendrick Meeks or another strong candidate can win the general giving us a real democrat in the Senate.
“Top right wing blogger Erick Erickson”
Now that’s just sad.
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