Mainstream Roadkill What? The MainRoad Party is Formed

Our story yesterday about Lynn Kessler’s frustration over the squeeze being put on her party does not reflect a new emotion for state legislators. Years ago a group of pro-choice Republicans starting meeting and calling themselves “Mainstream Republicans”.  Kessler’s comments to our reporter Erik Smith is an echo of the conversation that hatched the Mainstream Republicans.

The winners of these ideo-concentrations are the fringes of existing parties. The Rs were captured by the Christian, ultra-conservative-right, government-hating non-regulated-private-sector wing of the party. Now the Ds are moving toward the far-left, growing-government, increasing-tax- burden, public-employee-union-promoting, beyond-common-sense-green end of the block.

Not one thing that either extreme group advocates is bad or wrong. But you can’t run a state when your only goal is to dictate to the masses what they do with their own bodies. Nor can an organized party govern when their first goal is redistributing the (declining) wealth to state workers, and programs that are poorly managed and marginally beneficial.

Logic dictates that the growing middle could or should come together and elected a new majority.

We here at Washington State Wire we encourage Washingtonians to wake up, take note, look behind the glossy mailings and the buzz words and rise up and elected some independent thinkers.