Posted on 06/10/2013 12:32:06 PM PDT by cotton1706
A conservative blogger has thrown his hat into the ring to challenge Rep. Alan Grayson, the liberal firebrand from Florida.
Jorge Bonilla, a Navy veteran who has never held public office before but works as a professional court interpreter, is announcing Monday his run for Florida’s 9th Congressional District seat.
“The central question of the 2014 election is this: Are We The People still capable of self-rule, or do we abandon the American Revolution and concede that a small, connected elite from Washington, D.C. and New York is better capable of running our lives than we are ourselves?” Bonilla says in a press release going out Monday.
Bonilla served in Desert Storm and was honorably discharged in 1993. He has since worked in retail, financial services and mortgage banking.
He has written about politics at the Shark Tank, a Florida political news website.
Javier Manjarres, the managing editor of the website, says of the contest: “The race against Grayson will be the one to watch this cycle. This race will be an ideological slugfest between Bonilla’s conservatism and Grayson’s hard liberalism.”
This man has obviously watched Reagan's 1964 A Time For Choosing Speech. It's a timeless theme!
A more vile human being, I know not.
Wonder if Grayson will go racist again and sabotage the Hispanic GOP cadidate to run against an Anglo in a predominantly Hispanic district?
That is how he won last election
*ping*
I have decided that the term “firebrand” means “nitwit”.
I thought Republican voters made that mistake on their own. What did Grayson do?
His people were helping “the White guy” to win the GOP nod (a la McCaskill in MO helping Akin), since Grayson was not too keen on facing a Hispanic nominee in the general in a district with those demographics. As was implied, he’ll probably try it again.
McCrapskull helped Akin in the GOP primary? He was my choice to win that, I should have listened to Clintonfatigued (whom I guess still hasn’t gotten a new computer).
It was one of those, “Be careful what you wish for...” things. Had Akin not sabotaged himself, he came out of that primary with a wide lead for the general. McCaskill bet on the right horse to assure a win, but for the wrong reasons (she thought he’d be too Conservative, which he wasn’t, it was his ill-chosen words on rape).
Grayson took a similar tack, helping said White guy as being “more Conservative” than the Hispanic for the primary (as the Hispanic would have a better shot with the base voters of Grayson’s). It worked.
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