Peering into the GOP’s big tent
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By Shawn Day
When Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced last week that he wouldn’t run for governor as an independent candidate, the lifelong Republican conceded one of the reasons was his desire to keep his political identity.
Longtime friends, he said in an emailed statement, “encouraged me to not give up on the Republican Party and continue working to get our party back on a more mainstream course.”
Given recent events, that could be his next full-time job.
Day is an editorial writer for The Virginian-Pilot.
March 20, 2013 - 6:13 AM
We live in times when Sarah Palin is considered more relevant to the GOP mainstream than Bob McDonnell. Poor Bill Bolling … his party imploded while he wasn’t looking.
GOP needs to decide if they’re going to be demo-lites or truly a choice to the democratic party. There is deadwood left over from the BUSH era..forests of it.
Dems want to keep it in power. The heads want to stay in power, even if/when it means losing.