Charlie Crist of Florida, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Castle of Delaware

Face it, GOP ‘Moderates’ Are Party Traitors

By Warner Todd Huston
Friday, November 5, 2010

A party is a party. Sure, in politics there are internal fights, jealousies, and intrigues, but when the final push to election day is upon its members, a party supports the one carrying the party banner. They may be disgruntled because the man they supported didn’t win the primary, but they hold their tongue and pull the lever for the Party candidate. Many even about face and hit the hustings for the party guy even as they worked against that candidate in the primary.

Like I said. A party is a party. It’s how the game is played and Democrats play this game well.

They do it so well that when Markos Moulitsas of the far left website DailyKos attempted to destroy Connecticut’s long-serving Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman in 2006 it was big news. Further when Liberman then dumped his party affiliation and ran as an Independent — and won — it was something almost never before seen. Usually when the left and Democrats get past the primaries they rarely buck the party line and they all align dutifully behind the nominee.

Democrats know what a party is for. For the large part, all wings fold into place on election day. But Republicans cannot do this, it seems. And it’s mostly because their so-called “moderateâ€