Sunday, October 15, 2006

Winston-Salem Journal Endorses Sharpe

"An impediment to change." That's how the endorsement of Roger Sharpe in today's W-S Journal describes Madam Virginia Foxx.

Coulda, shoulda, woulda: "...Foxx could have moved toward the moderate center and reached out to her Democratic and independent constituents .... She could have been a representative with a mind of her own, one who was willing to do what was in the best interests of her district. She could have abandoned the shrillness that poisons our politics and could have tried to build consensus."

But that ain't what happened, says the editorial board of the Journal:
Foxx has not only swallowed the party line uncritically; she has also helped to spread it. She spouted the Bush administration's rosy talking points on Iraq even as military commanders were painting a grimmer picture. Given the opportunity to speak out against the House leadership for its woefully inadequate response to the Mark Foley e-mails to House pages, she declined. She has exploited fears and prejudices against immigrants. She has played fast and loose with the truth, including sending letters and e-mail messages misrepresenting this newspaper's editorial policies in a ploy to raise more money.

The Journal didn't quite get around to the undeniable conclusion that she's an embarrassment to the good people of the NC-5. But we'll take what we got.

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