She learned a lot from that experience, no doubt.

The sane Ron Paul supporter. I know they were seen as largely mythical creatures. I mean who could honestly be a sane person and be a Ron Paul supporter. Urban legend until his son ran. I’m content with Rand Paul *as senator*, his dad is nuts though.

I guess, I’m waiting for more information to find out if Radtke is nuts or sane because I have been shown that not every Ron Paul supporter is as bat $@#! crazy as Ron is.

We’ll see.

P.S. We haven’t figured out yet if she was just being nice to Ron because he spoke at the same conference she was. Its possible she is only luke warm to the man, but was just being friendly. We just don’t know yet.

Since Radtke is a Paulbot, I wonder if she thinks Ron Paul to be the founder of the Tea Party Movement?

Last year, I hoped the Tea Party rallies would inspire average citizens to run for office. Now the organizers of Tea Party rallies are moving to run for office. In Maine, there is talk of the ME chairman of the Tea Party Patriots, Andrew Ian Dodge, is considering challenging Snowe in the 2012 Senate primaries. Overall, I think its good that Tea Party activists are taking the next step in the political process. We the voters shall vet them.

Scope, that is a very salient point in electoral politics. I still remember the Tennessee Senatorial primary in 2006 in which we had a wide open shot to elect a solid conservative who would undoubtedly win in the general election in such a red trending state. We had two solid conservative in former Congressmen Van Hilleary and Ed Bryant. They tore each other apart and handed the nomination to Bob Corker. Yeah that Bob Corker!

You can add at least Nevada this year to the list.

This is exactly the thing that scares me the most about the ’12 POTUS primary. There will be at least half-dozen candidates and we’ll end up with the one who has the biggest theological following. It might be possible to avoid this in the various states – Utah has IMO the best system for nominating – but there’s not much we can do nationally.

that’s the problem. In the 5th district VA election, at least, we had at least a few fairly good conservative candidates. The vote was so split between them that none of the conservative candidates had a chance against the more moderate candidate. It really became a fight between who was considered the most conservative. I promise you, the winner did not have his constituients concerns in mind. He voted for the biggest tax increase in VA history, with a sitting Democrat Governor, that didn’t even ask for the amount that was passed. He voted for another tax that was overturned by the courts because it was considered taxation without representation. There were a few other bad votes as well, but, he won the primary. The only saving grace of his election was that he did beat Tom Liberal Perriello. Perriello was one of the 5 top Dems that were very vulnerable for 2012. Mickey Mouse could have unseated him. There was no reason to elect a moderate.

We had several good conservative candidates, at least 3 out of 6-7 final field. And while, I personally liked Bert Mizusawa – who Bearing Drift endorsed in the primary (Bert Mizusawa), I disagreed with that endorsement. While an excellent individual, Mr. Mizusawa was not a current resident of VA-02; he and his wife both work in Northern Virginia, and their children are were/enrolled in the Fairfax school district. It was the principle of the thing, Mr. Bearing Drift, and saying something was not so, when it was, violated several principles. IMO, your site and editorials were certainly not geared to understanding VA -02. While knowing how much BD did not like Rigell (who did win back the seat from the Dems), Mr. Mizusawa, and let me say again, we liked him personally, had spent his childhood in Hampton, but came here to get a start politically, because it was much harder to do it in the Northern Virginian Congressional Districts. So, no, BD, people weren’t “lying” about Bert.
Principles affects my perception on endorsements. I’m open to learning about any candidate, and would prefer to see some background and facts about the candidates and their stand on the issues. So, it is a wait and see.