Just a report of a Pa. political event. It looks like tax & spender Tom Corbett is going to get primaried.
A crowd of more than 80 braved the ice and a snowbank-filled parking lot, tonight, Feb. 18, to meet candidates Bob Guzzardi and Roger Howard and hear WPHT radio host Chris Stigall critique our present class of politicians.
Especially the Republican class.
Stigall was the guest of the Delaware County Patriots at the Newtown Square, Pa. Knights of Columbus Hall.
"I struggle to understand what Republican means anymore," he said. Stigall, who is bald, said if he "had hair he'd pull it out" after hosting two prominent Republicans on his show.
Stigall noted that "big tent" once meant agreement on the major principles while overlooking minor disputes.
"We may not agree on every issue but we agree that the country is in trouble," he said. "The 'big tent' has been highjacked."
He said some in the party establishment are trying to spin Ronald Reagan as having been a "great compromiser" rather than the great communicator as he was known in his lifetime.
He read a long excerpt from a 1977 speech by Ronald Reagan that could have been made regarding today's political circumstance. He noted there were no compromises on principles.
Stigall, who was once a congressional assistant to Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO6), whom he still greatly admires, said the general public has a tendency to put politicians on a pedestal, a fault he once considers himself as having.
"This deifying is another something I won't do anymore," he said. He said the final cure came after he was invited to a one-on-one dinner by a prominent politician and lectured about "getting his mind right" after he had been criticizing the policies the pol had been backing.
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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