1. Donate money to candidates who have a shot at winning. Giving money to Simcox is like throwing it down a rat hole. It won’t make any difference and Simcox will never be heard from again after this election.
2. Get involved in the Party at the local level where you live.

Don’t think I won’t try to donate money to Simcox or any other conservative Candidate in the Primary, its the only way I can influence elections outside my stupid state.

At any rate, how will the loss of a seat impact the LA delegation?

You MUST have a minor league to develop new “players”. We don’t, and frankly because the retention rate for Senators and Congresscritters is 85%+++ there’s no incentive to have one.

The only reason we’ve got a shot at flipping two seats from liberal R to conservative R is because there is someone available and qualified to run, somebody with experience and who can raise money. That would be Toomey and Marco Rubio. We also had a shot at tossing Chafee in RI, again because there was a viable candidate in place, and he might have lost had the NRSC stayed out of the race.

I’d love to see the ME Girls replaced with conservatives. I’d rather see McCain and Graham (and half a dozen others) tossed first. But there is no viable candidate waiting in the wings to oppose them.

Oh, and there is no way in hell you can third party candidates in the general and do anything but elect Democrats. That is a well established principle on both sides – just ask former President Gore.

It had been lost in the shuffle.

If you’re primarying Cao as a matter of principle, you’re doing it to set an example for the other traitors in the party. Tactically, the best course is to drain all the money out of Cao’s campaign and let Richmond take him out. Either way, there should be ZERO support put behind him next year.

And if you think I’m hard on him, check out what this cat had to say: http://www.manlyrash.com/blog/me-hate-you-long-time-joe

Look, I don’t like Cao’s record. He sucks. And, I could make the argument that since he’s going to get creamed in ’10 he should have been willing to stick his neck out, it’s not like he’s got anything to lose. But he didn’t. Oh well. I really don’t care because he ain’t gonna be around in 14 months anyway.

And I’ll come back to my original question about him: who is available who could run against him?

Now then you ignorant pinhead, with respect to Simcox:
1 – There will be no Democrat of substance running in the general.
2 – McCain can raise $10MM easily for this race.
3 – He can spend all but $50 in the primary and still win the general.
4 – Simcox has more baggage than McCain.
5 – Simcox can’t raise enough money to be competitive.
6 – There is NO REPUBLICAN in the state who will run against McCain because of the above. None.
7 – There is no correlation to “taking out Arlen” and “taking out McCain”. First of all you ignorant fool, there was a viable candidate on the ground in PA. There isn’t one in Arizona. The two guys who’ve already announced are both jokes and JD Hayworth couldn’t get elected dog catcher.

With respect to kicking people out of the Party, I’m pretty sure you’re the kind of guy who, if he had his way, we’d have no Party left.

You bet I’m OK with Cao. He’s a crappy Republican and he got elected in that district because – and only because – Jefferson ran and the way the election laws in LA work he squeeked out a win. He will get his head handed to him this in ’10 by a huge margin and then you can quit your fricking whining about how liberal he is when you have another crook in the Black Caucus.

With respect to Castle, I have no idea. I lived in DE for a while a long time ago but I don’t follow DE politics so I have – and haven’t made – a comment.

With respect to NY23, you have a situation there that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the country. It was a special election with no primary. In a primary DeDe would likely have lost to Hoffman. The key is to have a viable candidate. The third part of the NY23 equation is that the Conservative Party is a viable entity in NY State. And, as I’m sure you have absolutely no clue, it is the Conservative Party of New York and has no relationship to anything anywhere else. Very few states have multiple parties where a conservative third party is actually viable.

Cao’s voting record on SCHIP, the Omnibus nightmare and a few other key bills this year have made him one of the worst investments the GOP can make not just because he’s a goner next year.

So the idea that “we can’t get anybody who’s going to do any better” is a canard. Cao would be lucky to get 35 percent in the absolute best of circumstances; thanks to his horrendous voting record he’s probably not even getting 30. My guess is if he gets primaried he’s going to lose and if a legit Republican runs they’ll end up with more raw votes than Cao got last year.