The Bull Moose Swings Loose
October 06, 2004
Marshall Wittmann, former communications director for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and operator of the fabled (now defunct but soon to re-emerge) Bull Moose blog, has defected from the GOP to become a political independent and senior fellow with the Democratic Leadership Council. Today NDOL.org announced Witmann’s ship-jumping, describing him as being “best known in Washington for his tartly worded challenges to the coalition of Washington lobbyists and Religious Right activists who have dominated George W. Bush’s Republican Party.” NDOL states that “Wittmann sees an opportunity for Democrats to build a new majority if they are willing “to reach out to disaffected moderate Republicans and independents. That is both the hope and the cause of this unreconstructed Bull Moose.”Choice Bull Moose quotations that are hard to argue with:
“In 2000, the Republican Party clearly had the opportunity to recapture the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, by advocating government as an agent of national greatness and insisting on reforming government and corporate influence on it. However, that path was far too threatening to the Republican elites. Then, and now, they have chosen the dollar over the flag by favoring corporate cronies over a politics of national unity.”
“[T]he leaders of the religious right have betrayed their constituents by failing to champion such economic issues as family leave or access to health insurance, which would relieve the stresses on many working families. The only things the religious conservatives get are largely symbolic votes on proposals guaranteed to fail, such as the gay marriage constitutional amendment. The religious right has consistently provided the ground troops [for the GOP], while the big-money men have gotten the goodies.”
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