MSNBC is raising the stakes:
GOP Sen. Richard Burr, who, if he wins re-election in 2010, could end up becoming a rising national star, is taking the lead for the Senate GOP on the issue of health care.
Washington types felt the same way about Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory. If he'd won the governor's mansion last year in spite of the Obama blue wave, he would be in the spotlight right now as the new face of the GOP.
On a somewhat related note, Reynolds High is inducting Burr into its sports hall of fame.
A standout high school football player who played in the 1973 Shrine Bowl, Burr went on to play defensive back at Wake Forest University.
Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Fred Smith also played in the Shrine Bowl and went on to Wake Forest.
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Re: When you wish upon a star
On topic, I agree that Burr is the last chance of those that recruited him, namely Rove, Cheney and Bush, to save a dying brand and ideological legacy.
That's if Burr doesn't reinvent himself as a moderate with liberal tendencies along the way, in which doing so he kills the Bush era once and for all better than any Democratic victory ever could.
I'm just not sure the insanity defense to Burr's one-time support of both the bank bailout and CAFTA holds as much water as the average towel in a dark skinned teenager's face does at GITMO.
We'll see how long Burr can hold his breath under pressure from the right.