aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Friday, September 28, 2007
Why Jim Marshall Ain’t So Vulnerable
LATER: Flakattack at Tondee’s Tavern voices the more traditional liberal reaction. My take remains that one man’s “political expediency” is another’s “electability.”
U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Macon) appears to have learned the Max Cleland lesson: Go to Washington, vote as a central-casting national Democrat and Georgians will bring you home. Marshall was the only Georgia Democrat to vote against the big-dollar expansion of the campaign-fodder health insurance entitlement. He’s in a competitive district.
While I disagree with Wooten on everything the merits of the program, I agree that’s what Marshall’s about.
So does Peach Pundit, “It may piss off the base of the party, but it neutralizes a lot of Republican opposition against him.”
SEE ALSO Jim Marshall (D-GA): still not liberal, “I’m [a liberal] steamed by the stupid liberal targeting of Marshall.”
