Rickets ?
Posted on 08/05/2005 5:02:03 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
If J. Peter Ricketts runs for the U.S. Senate, he and the wealth he acquired through Ameritrade could shake up the race. Ricketts, son of the founder of Ameritrade and worth at least $218 million, could become the third Republican to enter the 2006 race in hopes of unseating Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said several people active in the Republican Party.
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This one has "losing campaign" written all over it.
Republicans need to run qualified people who are known to the public, at least against incumbents.
Corzine managed to win in NJ, but I would think that's the exception and not the rule.
Several businessmen have run statewide in Georgia and lost.
Money does not equal victory.
Why can't we have a multi-millionaire take on a BAD Democrat. Ben Nelson has been fairly decent in supporting the President on important issues.
Before embracing Ricketts's candidacy, make sure he hasn't slept with any union leaders!
Rickets ?
I don't care who takes him on, so long as someone does. Nelson had the opportunity to switch parties or at least tell his party they were wrong to filibuster Judges and Bolton. He didn't have the guts to do it. He deserves to go.
I wish it were Hagel. He seems like a mole to me.
Eh, he'd probably have a better chance then any of the other announced candidates.
I still can't figure out why Bush appointed Johanns to the Cabinent when there were so many other qualified people who didn't have an important Senate race that was on the horizon for them in '06.
That's right. And Corzine was a Rat. Rat candidates can be corporate because their party is largely immune from anti-business prejudices. They're the party of the little guy, remember? Also, he wasn't running against an incumbent.
Bush has a strong bias toward non-Washington appointees, especially people he's known -- in his case, this often means governors. I doubt that this makes for the best appointments, but Bush is very much into being "comfortable" with people.
Yah, and I'd be all for that if he appointed, say, the Governor of a state where we didn't need the Governor for a Senate race.
I wish he would have appointed George Nethercutt. He ran a difficult race for Senate when nobody would and lost, and heck, he deserves something for taking down Foley in '94.
It doesn't necessarily mean that, but you are wrong that it's just Corzine.
Mark Dayton, Maria Cantwell, and several others have won in part by being able to give themselves a lot of money.
I know, and other good examples are Jay Rockefeller, Herbert Kohl, and Diane Feinstein. Problem is, they're all Rats. See my prior comment.
Well, Feinstein was Mayor of San Francisco before hand, so that's not the whole story with her, but yah, you make a point, most of them are D's.
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