03-19-2018, 10:18 AM
@HOTPE: While I agree that the Republicans won't be the answer to Hawaii's problems any time soon, Djou might serve himself (and the state) better by becoming an independent voice. I have seen several promising moderate and reform minded Democrats in this state become either co-opted or marginalized by "leadership" of the Democratic Party and its Byzantine power struggles. My hopeless fantasy is that some sensible people like Djou might form the nucleus of a centrist, reform minded movement. Who knows, it might even spread to Washington, where the two-party system seems to display a new failure every day.