Potts Playing the Potter Role from It's a Wonderful Life

What a bitter, bitter man. He obviously has no life. Many of you have already enjoyed www.stoppotts.com, the anti-Russ Potts website "exposing" him for who he really is. I find the similarity of his name to the Potter character in It's a Wonderful Life quite convenient for analogies. He even looks like him and talks like him a bit.

I'm personally sick of this mantra from so many sources about this new factionalism in the Republican Party. There have always been factions within the Republican Party. It is in the very nature and character of political parties to have personalities and ideologies struggling for control of the party. In the 1980s, we saw a very intense battle between the Christian right embodied in the Moral Majority, Pat Robertson, and the Christian Coalition versus the more traditional country-club Republican types. The caucus meetings for sending people to state conventions were heated and nasty. In 1993, we saw John Warner turn his back on Mike Farris, the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor, accusing him of all sorts of barbaric practices. Again in 1994, John Warner abandoned the Republican Party nominee, this time in the person of Ollie North and endorsed a third party candidate, Marshall Coleman, who had twice been the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in the 1980s. In 2001, the split between Hager and Earley was a little more tame, but still many Hagerites refused to vote for Earley. The fact is a split between moderates and the right of the Republican Party of Virgina is not new. It's always existed, and it comes and goes regularly depending on the situation. It keeps the party young and brings new people into the party, strengthening us in the end. That's the benefit of factions in a party system. We come together at the end. For those of us who don't know how to come together (thank you, John Warner, you traitor), we will not forget.