Republican idiocy

Is it the public-private partnership favoring McCrory:

I'd almost make a recommendation instead, that it not be too detailed, but the term "private", I think, limits you. I'd almost go public-private or private-public. There's so many things you have that overlap into shared respnsibilities and I just tend to think there's a way we would use our resources more effectively. I just hope the title of your committee doesn't give the perception that we have to segregate public from private.

Or is McCrory the anti-government crusader that Chris Christie says he is:

Fishing expedition comes back empty-handed:

Perry, who has been registered to vote in North Carolina since at least 1975, according to election records, was dismayed to receive a letter this month from the Wake County Board of Elections suggesting she may no longer be qualified to vote because she might be dead. "My initial reaction? I was mad as hell," Perry said Monday morning.

I would be mad as hell, too. What if she had been on vacation, or the letter got mixed up with some junk mail and accidentally tossed in file 13? Would her failure to respond have caused her name to be purged? And as far as this is concerned:

It worked in 2008, and it will work this year:

Among 18- to 30-year-old voters, 36 percent are “very excited” – the lowest level of any age group. The poll also shows 58 percent of N.C. likely voters age 30 and under support Obama versus 34 percent who would vote for Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Logic would tell us that the more "mature" voters would be the ones who would weigh evidence and vote objectively. Unfortunately, most of us have already made up our minds, using an astounding level of immaturity in the process. So it's up to those meddling kids:

An ideological chasm, or election year posturing?

Democrats are holding their political convention in the urban landscape of Charlotte, North Carolina, which is studded with more than $800 million worth of public projects that wouldn’t exist without local Republicans. “That’s kind of ironic, isn’t it?” McCrory said in a phone interview yesterday. “I’m not hearing my name mentioned, but that’s OK.”

Of course it's okay, since you're trying to conceal your "government sponsored growth" past from all the anti-government zealots barking from the GOP's back yard. If you want to make them wag their tails, you have to speak their language:

Browsing through the right wing Rhinoceros tonight I came across an article that I agree with (unusual) but for the contrary reason.

if Newby is not reelected and Republicans lose their majority on the state Supreme Court, much of what the legislature will do could be overturned after lawsuits work their way up the judicial ladder.

We must take the judicial races very seriously this year. It's the only recourse if the worst happens and Republicans win all else.