Gregg's best chance for victory

John Gregg could be on to something.
The Democratic candidate for governor of Indiana has made an unabashed pitch to moderate and more centrist Republicans, arguing that their party has moved so far to the right that they are stranded.
He may well have a point.
The real question is: Where is the center of the Indiana Republican party?
Has it moved far enough right that Richard Mourdock, who knocked off longtime Sen. Richard Lugar in the primary, represents the center?
Or are those mainstream GOP voters uncomfortable with Mourdock, uneasy with his views, or upset about his challenge to Hoosier party icon Lugar?
Mourdock, the Tea Party’s darling, hasn’t made it easy for centrists to get on board.
He’s proposed getting rid of the Environmental Protection Agency; not reining it in, but junking it. He’s suggested that both Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional, which ignores a couple of generations of Supreme Court review.
Add to that the whole Chrysler misadventure, which found Mourdock not only working against the rescue of Hoosier jobs but wasting tax dollars on an ill-conceived court challenge, and you have enough to give Main Street Republicans pause.
Gregg’s argument, which may or may not find an interested audience, is that in a world when the GOP has moved so far to the right, fiscally conservative Democrats represent the center.
Will he be able to sell his case to disaffected centrist Republicans while still holding onto the traditionally Democratic base?
That’s hard to predict. But as strategies go, this one looks like candidate Gregg’s best course for success. — J.R.

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