Comments on: Red State Weekly Political Synopsis

By: athelas

athelas — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:01:41 +0000

Yet at least he retains a lead.

By: esy16

esy16 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:07:51 +0000

Jane Norton is in (as I said earlier), Ken Buck is out, and Michael Bennet will face a primary challenge from former State House Speaker Andrew Romanoff.

Also, the point I made earlier about the NRSC being stupid with their premature pseudo-endorsement of Norton should not go unnoticed. There is already backlash in Colorado and I can’t imagine it will get better. Conservatives in the state will now likely start to rally around Frazier with Buck out of the picture and will be directly at odds with Norton and the NRSC.

By: roscopico

roscopico — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:11:43 +0000

Walker is the only legitimate candidate for governor. While Newman is a credible force, this election is not his. There has been talk of Tim Michaels throwing his hat in the ring as well: and Thompson is done. Take my word for it.

Meanwhile, Tim Michaels ran a contentious and close campaign against the resident Libbie Senator Feingold. Perhaps now that Governor “Diamond Jim” Doyle has “wee-weed” in the pool quite enough to place WI on par with MI (thus rendering hopes for re-election something similar to catching a leprechaun) Michaels could win this time around.

The sad thing: everybody and their cousin is running for governor while “Term Limits” Feingold runs uncontested.

By: proudgop

proudgop — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:48:45 +0000

IA Branstad would crush Culver I pray he runs

IN Hill; Sodrel should not run again

IL I like Kirk he is best we can do in that state

WI really like Walker; the fact he has won in Milwaukee is plus for us
Hopefully, Thompson who hinted he has one last race in him runs against Feingold

CO Norton seems like good candidate

MA I think the MA GOP should go with Curt Shilling for vacancy; he has state wide name and has money to run short race

By: proudgop

proudgop — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:46:16 +0000

because he had image problem and he didn’t even live in district

I think we have great shot off taking down Massa, Bishop, Hall, Acuri, and Murphy with the right candidates

now if only the NY GOP could actually get solid candidate against Gillibrand

By: proudgop

proudgop — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:44:00 +0000

Here is the thing we have all these candidate lining up to take on Lincoln

I’d like to see someone like Baker run against Snyder

or what about all these statewide races; perhaps the AR GOP could actually get some traction in 2010 with getting some statewide people elected

By: psyop_hic

psyop_hic — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:19:58 +0000

I’m glad to see Terry Branstad back on the political scene. He was a great governor. Too bad he was succeeded by our current SecAg (east coast Liberal and father to a classmate of mine) who bankrupted the Hawkeye State.

By: Kyle-MI

Kyle-MI — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:26:34 +0000

Just checking his webiste, http://mattsak.com/ Sakalosky seems solidly conservative.

From a CQ article,
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/08/nebraska-rep-terry-defending-r.html#more
it seems Sakalosky is unhappy with Terry’s votes on TARP and fuel efficiency standards for autos. I am not crazy about government imposed fuel efficiency, but it is not high on my priority list either. On the TARP vote there were other otherwise strong conservatives (i.e. Sen. Coburn R-OK) who voted for it. Compared to the other liberal Democratic bills such as Healthcare, Cap & Trade, & the Stimulus; I am a little less concerned about TARP than other conservatives.

I am all for primarying RINO’s but there are higher priority targets than Terry.

By: mriggio

mriggio — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:21:14 +0000

about right-minded folks in Illinois having no good state-wide candidate choices, a fellow Red Stater advised me to look into this Precinct Chairman thing. I’m just about ready to take his advice…

By: Freedomlover

Freedomlover — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:18:37 +0000

Giannoulias is a basketball buddy of Obama.