The key words in Spence’s last submission are "within the next month" which to me indicates no urgency on anyone’s behalf – rather an attempt to placate the grassroots.
Anyway, there is quite a number of reasons to be upset about this hire which have been discussed here and everywhere else over the last couple of days. I share many of the complaints, and am shocked and angry.
But getting down the the point of this missive – there is always one good thing about hiring a Democrat. Generally, the Democrat insiders and grassroots are as partisan as we are. I can’t imagine the vast majority are thinking of Kennedy as anything but a traitor to the Democrat Party. Imagine what our reaction would be if, for instance, our good buddy Jon Fleischman had gone to work as Gov. Davis’s Chief of Staff. We’d drum him out of the Party. I doubt many of us would be thinking "well now we have our guy in there and he’ll control policy." Instead we’d know that old John knows all our strategies and tactics and dirty laundry and since old John would never be welcome home to the GOP he would have great incentive to to share such information with his new
benefactors.
I’ve always been a very partisan Republican – but there is not much I enjoy more than seeing a Democrat turn against their own people. At this point, Kennedy is as stuck with us as we are with her. I mean when you think about it, Benedict Arnold lived out the rest of his life loyal to the crown, not the new United States of America. (See, the use of the name of American turncoast Benedict Arnold in the title wasn’t about the Governor as such after all).