Re: Is Artur Davis they face of a new Big Tent GOP

Crist has already started some political infighting among the Democrats...   The real question is the tolerance for diverse opinion within a party...   The Democrats have less than the GOP...

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/08/a-charlie-crist-challenge-to-rick-scott-in-2014-democratic-nightmare-or-gift-1.html

>>> The mere suggestion that Crist would switch from no-party affiliation to the Democratic Party already is stirring up trouble in Democratic circles. "Some party leaders who are encouraging him and others who are very much against it,'' one party insider told us.

On Saturday, September 1, 2012 8:37:57 AM UTC-4, Larry wrote:

The same way that Charlie Crist is the new face of the Democratic party tent.
 

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:04:26 -0700
From: jgg...@hotmail.com
To: opendeb...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Is Artur Davis they face of a new Big Tent GOP

The Democrats, if reality based, should hope not...  Is he but the start of a generation shift away from Democrats...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/29/us-column-artur-davis-idUSBRE87S1D920120829

>>>  The simple truth is that as the Obama years wore on, Davis found himself agreeing more and more with right-of-center figures like Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Their tough-minded, whatever-works pragmatism resonated with his experiences, while the Obama administration's highly ideological approach did not. Davis anticipates, in his words, "the rise of a reform-oriented center-right that is bent on restoring accountability and market principles to public systems" over the next decade.
The really interesting question about Davis's political future is whether the GOP will become the party of Daniels and Christie and Jeb Bush or, as its critics allege, something narrower, angrier and more ideological. Davis has made it clear that he believes conservatives should seek to reform and improve government as well as contain its growth. This is a conviction widely shared among real-world Republicans. Yet apart from the aforementioned governors, all of whom have their idiosyncrasies, it has few convincing champions in the Republican political class, least of all in Congress.
If Mitt Romney is elected president, he will have a brief window of opportunity to seize this ground and to make the GOP the party of reform, aspiration and inclusiveness. If he pulls that off, Artur Davis will be the harbinger of a much bigger, more consequential shift.

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