Posted by
Katy Grimes on Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:09:47 AM
California Insurance Commissioner and Gubernatorial
candidate Steve Poizner is making the media circuit right now. He’s getting
peppered with questions about his evolving positions and political ideology.
Is it ideological change or political expediency?
Poizner is not making the political shift from Democrat to
Republican; he is merely changing hard-core moderate positions to political
positions more palatable to Conservatives:
- Pro
tax on rich
- Moderate
social, centrist Republican
- Anti-oil
drilling
- Centrist
married to a Democrat
- Large
Donations to democrat candidates and the DNC
He’s always played down the large donations to Al Gore and
the Gore/Lieberman campaign and perhaps it’s merely because he can. Most people
do not have the financial resources Poizner has; consequently we cannot play
both sides of the aisle – the way nearly all of the very rich do.
Poizner has explained that his wife wanted to attend a
$10,000 Gore fundraiser; the reason for the largest donation. Most men will not
only bow to their wife’s wishes, but will escort their wives in public. Is this
so unusual?
Has Poizner been over handled? As evidenced by the
McCain/Palin campaign, handlers often do not have the stomach for strong
positions and always steer the candidate right into wishy washy, moderation.
We see this behavior in nearly all political newbies.
Poizner has become increasingly staunch on conservative
positions as he becomes experienced, yet still is reticent to take firm
positions on offshore oil drilling, abortion, and taxing.
His record with Proposition 39 and “Taxpayers for
Accountability and Better Schools” and the subsequent hundreds of thousands of
dollars in donations, raised taxes on millions of Californians – an attempt to
solve an educational problem, but a naïve mistake.
Poizner has changed his “No offshore drilling” position to
the answer to the state’s energy, economic end employment needs. What are we to
make of this huge shift? And if he is so supportive of offshore drilling, what
about other energy resources such as nuclear power? He claims to support
nuclear power, but what will he do about it?
With candidate Steve Poizner, there are more questions than
answers at this juncture.
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