Will you be remembered as a 'Bad German' or a 'Good German'? 

I got the above link from Lex after reading his post quoting Driftglass' lecture and questions for moderate Republicans; a moniker that fits me.  Even though I didn't vote for President Bush last time out, Driftglass speaks to people of my political persuasion thusly...

"You, Mr. Personal Responsibility, are personally responsible for the mess we are in and if you continue to pretend that it wasn't you, or you didn't know, or you didn't mean it, or whining "Clinton was bad too!", or the Klansman working the door at the GOP Clubhouse "doesn't really mean it" or is just showing his "Pride," then there will never be a Pettycoat Junction Water Tank big enough to hold the quantity of the Blood o' the Lamb necessary to hose you clean of your sins.

So why do you keep doing it?

Are you plain dead-mule stupid?

Or just cowards?

Is it purely psychological, or is there also some kind of congenital cerebral malfunction?

Come and tell us: How do you have the nerve to lie down with these dogs -- year after f***ing year -- and still tell the world that the DeLay-faced mongrels sucking at your teats ain't really your babies?

How indeed?   So which will it be... good German or bad German?  Why can't there be third choice and still remain a figurative 'German'?  Moreover, I see just as much bad in the fringes of the Democratic Party as I see in the fringes of my own GOP.  My party's 'fringies' happen to be in control of my party right now, so is that fact reason enough to bolt from a party who's central tenents originally appealed to me? Is it best to fight for a shift back to the middle, or abandon the GOP for the Dems whose Michael Mooreish side irks me as much as DeLay?

We need a leader for the party of the middle course.  When she comes along, I will switch affiliations so fast it will make your head swim.

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Guarino thinks that all candidates for City Council should eschew the endorsement of the black-centric Simkins PAC.  Citing involvement on the part of some members of the PAC in recent financing fiascos such as Project Homestead, he urges all candidates to shun the once-very-powerful political action committee...

"Given the fruits it has produced, the PAC no longer has the ethical standing to influence local elections in this manner.  Every candidate for City Council needs to repudiate any active or implied support from this PAC.  They need to refrain from seeking its assistance.  They must foreswear any association with it.  They should deliver an unequivocal signal to the PAC that they refuse its help, and forbid it from acting on their behalf..."

The large majority of the PAC's membership had little or nothing to do with how St. James Homes money was squandered or the many improprieties of the late Rev. Michael King's Project Homestead, so I don't paint the entire group with a single brush.

As I said in the comments to his post, the PAC's influence seems to be waning, but not necessarily because of real or perceived transgressions on behalf of some it's membership.  I believe it is because they don't carry through on promises made... as in...

"...Two years ago the PAC endorsed the new baseball stadium and urged voters to reject the ordinance change ostensibly because, as PAC leader Steve Bowden stated, "we have written guarantees" that a certain percentage of work on the stadium would be performed by black citizens of Greensboro.

When the work was underway and few such workers were observed doing the actual work, Bowden admitted that no such "written guarantees" existed..."

That said, as a part of my decision on whether or not to run for City Council, I made phone calls to some members of the PAC to guage their level of support and recieved only positive responses despite my public criticism of that broken promise.  Although their influence is apparently sliding within the black community, their endorsement is still critical in a tight city-wide race, as Councilwoman Florence Gatten is about to find out.

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