Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Florida has a Lieberman

Commentary By Ron Beasley




Charlie Christ does a Lieberman:

Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist
has decided he will run as an independent in the race to fill the
Florida U.S. Senate seat, Crist allies tell Fox News. The official
announcement is scheduled for Thursday at 5pm ET in St. Petersburg,
Florida.

The Senate campaign has been rough and
tumble for Crist, he was once the front-runner -- but in recent months
began trailing his GOP opponent, Tea Party favorite and former Florida
State Speaker Marco Rubio.  Rubio has been able to turn a 30-point
deficit in the polls into a 30 point lead over Crist.

Crist has said that under no circumstance
would he drop out of the race, saying he will do what is best for the
voters of Florida. The governor says Republicans in Washington want him
to stay in the Republican party but voters in Florida have told him they
want him to run as an independent.



Matt Yglesias thinks this is another example the closing of the Republican mind, but is it instead an example of ego driven politics - the ideology of self?  Daniel Larison votes for the later.



No one has to agree with or even like Marco Rubio to appreciate the one
service he has done for Florida, which is to expose how Crist�s desire
for personal advancement trumps any and all other considerations.
Whatever their reasons for the Republican rank-and-file�s rejection of
Crist, there are few candidates more deserving of rejection than Crist
because of the sheer opportunism that has marked his career and which he
will continue to display this year.

........this political episode is no more evidence of the �closing of the conservative mind� than Lieberman�s primary loss in 2006 represented some unreasonable extremism from the left. Both are cases of horrible, opportunistic politicians who desperately want to be in political office and have no respect for the views of their core constituents. Their respective parties legitimately rejected them and preferred a challenger candidate instead.



Just what we need - two Liebermans in the Senate!



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