Closing Ranks

Congratulations to Monica Wehby and other GOP candidates in Oregon for their primary wins last night. Now it's time for winners and losers to close ranks and move on to do the same in the November general election in true blue Oregon and nationally. 

Ben Carson has a salutary column this morning about the necessity of doing this and specifically Wehby's position on abortion, which is different than his own, yet he still supported her. I was in the same boat  as Carson regarding Dr. Wehby but believe that she has the best chance of unseating Sen. Merkley in the general election and it definitely cannot be said that Merkley is any way better than Dr. Wehby in any category. 

The same is true across the country. The media has been full of stories about Establishment GOP and Tea Party fights in primaries across the U.S. That's what primaries are for - to pick a potentially winning candidate for a local setting and this is a good and necessary process. Once the primary process is done, however, it's all about beating the other side which almost always has a worldview very, very different from anyone in the GOP. 

No, it's time for Establishment and Tea Party, conservative and moderate, and every other type of Republican to join together and support each other's candidates in November because the last 5 years have vividly shown us the alternative and how it is ruining the country. 

townhall.com/columnists/drbencarson/2014/05/21/charting-a-course-between-principle-and-pragmatism-n1840923