Politico notes the trend:
Polls show at least four candidates favored by the National Republican Senatorial Committee would lose their primaries if the elections were held today. And five other committee-preferred candidates are entangled in competitive contests that are far from sure bets.
In the early stages of the election cycle, the NRSC’s ability to lock in top-tier talent like Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, former Connecticut Rep. Rob Simmons, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in California appeared to be huge wins for the party, not to mention shrewd political plays.
But now, GOP primary fields in some of the most competitive Senate races in the country have been turned upside down.
Crist is just the first careerist insider to be given the boot. Others will follow – and it is to be hoped that the GOP powers-that-be will learn the lesson: don’t get involved in a primary fight. Don’t try to pick the candidates for the party faithful: let the party faithful pick the candidates.
The Democrats are being much slower on the uptake here – as a for-instance, it looks like the party will successfully shove Specter down the throats of Pennsylvania Democrats…and I’m betting that Specter gets crushed in November (if, on the other hand, Specter loses, then the GOP candidate will probably win…but in a very tight race). The time of the elite is over in America – a new Era of the People has dawned.
God bless it.
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