1/23/11, "A stunning upset in Washington," American Thinker, Herbert E. Meyer
"This weekend the Washington State GOP dumped its chairman and elected longtime radio host - and serious pro-life conservative - Kirby Wilbur to lead the Party into the 2012 elections.
Washington State is divided politically, as well as geographically, by the Cascade range of mountains. On the East side of the Cascades, often called "the other Washington," the state is solidly and reliably Republican. On the West side of the Cascades
- -- which is to say, Seattle --
- there's a statue of Vladimir Lenin.)
For more than two decades now, a civil war has raged within the State GOP. The grass roots has been conservative, while the party leadership -- known to grass roots Republicans as the Bellevue Establishment,
Now the grass roots Republicans have risen up and wrested control of the GOP from the Bellevue Establishment.- and led by former US Senator Slade Gorton,
- and ignored its candidates.
- for the third time in six years, after two failed races for governor - lost to Patty Murray.
- Out here, this is nothing short of a revolution.
For 20 years, Wilbur's early morning talk radio show was must-listening for anyone in and around Seattle with even the slightest interest in local, state and national politics. (For my money, he was the country's smartest, sharpest radio host, and also its most gracious and congenial.) He's solidly conservative, and seriously articulate.
Don't be surprised if Kirby Wilbur emerges as one of the national GOP's leading spokesmen."
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This news will be labeled by 'No Labels' phony John Avlon as the 'far, far right' taking over, especially because Mr. Wilbur is described as pro-life. Avlon may even label the move as
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This news will be labeled by 'No Labels' phony John Avlon as the 'far, far right' taking over, especially because Mr. Wilbur is described as pro-life. Avlon may even label the move as
- "far, far right with a cherry on top."
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