Posted on 07/14/2008 2:40:11 PM PDT by Rebelbase
AP and Asheville Citizen Times restricted sources, no quoting from articles please. Carl Mumpower is the R candidate running against 1st timer D Congressman Heath Schuler.
Mumpower is calling it quits until he sees the republican party start acting like conservatives again.
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Post vacation NC ping please.
Ulterior motives crossed my mind. What if he’s genuinely a conservative guy who doesn’t want to get tarred with the baggage of losing an election because the party has moved so far left?
The writing was on the wall months ago, so the timing for me is questionable.
One less guy for McCain to throw under the bus.
I’d like to see Congressman BillyBob come off the bench and take it too Heath.
John Armour would be a great representative for that Congressional district, and would more clearly reflect the district’s prevailing conservative political
philosophy.
Better to let Heath Schuler win another term, making him pretty much invincible forever.
Since he suspended his campaign does the party have any right to replace him?
Mumpower explains it in his own words this morning in an audio interview on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWM-oQkthQ
Oh yea, that is going to do a lot of good.. one less Conservative in office, leaning everything left.. Surprised the drama queen didn't just endorse his Dem rival.
No kidding. Odds are he knew he was going to get his “Impeach Bush” ass handed to him in the election.
This is an "Ah, it's good to be home" ping.
You frickin’ idiots that are opposing this man should be applauding him. He is doing what many conservatives are doing about McCain, not running and not voting for a non conservative republican party. Don’t like it? Then force the party to move toward the right, where they should be anyway. Hurray, for this man!
He’s taking a ballot position and not running a campaign. That is dishonest and does not provide voters with an alternative. If he’s disgusted with the national GOP, he could either (a)run his own agressive campaign and disown the GOP except for the ballot position he has won or (b)invite the party to replace him by running a third party campaign.
This is either grandstanding or the man is a fool. McCain was the Republican nominee long before the NC primary. If he was so offended why did he run in the first place?
A real conservative would run and fight to take back the party as an elected conservative congressman. Sounds like the voters of this district are lucky this Jesse Ventura wannabe dropped out.
Seems stupid to me. If he wants the Republican party to change, he’s gonna need to be apart of it, otherwise he’ll just be irrelevant.
Withholding support does not move the party. Conservatives gave up their influence on Presidential election by rejecting McCain in favor of anyone else. They failed to defeat McCain, and they’ve sent nasty letters, emails, and everything but money to McCain. Now its too late to turn that around because McCain has $32 million in the bank(against Osama’s $43 Million) McCain has to spend it and what ever he raises until the convention, before the convention. Because McCain took government financing, he can only spend the taxpayer financed $85 M from convention to general election. Even if conservatives wanted to show their support with money McCain doesn’t need it. Losing conservatives has not harmed McCain and may win the center and the Presidency.
The RNC has $54M to the DNC’s $4M. McCain has been doing fundraisers where he is asking for $28,500 a plate. McCain can’t accept more than $2,300 (after the convention he could even keep the $2,300) the rest is going into the RNC, and that money will be spent on McCain. That gives McCain/RNC an almost 2 to 1 cash on hand advantage over Osama/DNC.
Unfortunately for GOP congressmen, the conservatives have not only rejected McCain but they forgot to support conservatives in the House (DCCC $47M - NRCC $7M) and the Senate ( DSCC $39M - NRSC $22M.) rats now sit in the seats of JD Hayworth, John Hostettler, Dennis Hastert, Tom Delay, and Rick Santorum. The danger for conservatives if Republicans stay home is McCain will still win but the GOP will lose more seats in the congress and this will force McCain to move further left to get legislation passed by the new Congress. McCain centrist policy will become the new far right conservatism. If Osama wins, a New Fairness Doctrine will eliminate talk radio and shut down political web sites. Conservatives, like a beaten wife, will shuffle back to the GOP when we nominate Susan Collins in 2012.
Ding ding ding! You can't change an organization from the outside.
I leave it to others to decide whether that is what Mumpower has just done, with this latest gambit. What think you?
Congressman Billybob
First three in the series, "American Government: The Owner's Manual" are here, and also on FR
In the words of George Will, “Nothing comes to those that sulk.” This guy is working for the Dems, not conservatives and not Republicans. If he cared about the country, he’d keep going, win the seat, and help change the Party from within.
Shuler is fairly popular here. Mumpower probably knows he doesn’t have a chance to defeat him. Lots of us don’t like him here in Asheville. Shuler is more like the old (normal) democrats.
Congressman Billybob
First three in the series, "American Government: The Owner's Manual" are here, and also on FR
McCain was elected by democrats switching parties, not by conservatives. He is an evil person, just short of Obama, I will vote for him but only by puking after I pull the lever!
You are kidding, right? He isn’t quitting as a voter, he is quitting as a candidate. IF he is Conservative, he is giving Conservatives one less voice. Some of the responsibility for the GOP being less Conservative can be found right in his mirror.
I never applaud a quitter. He isn’t forcing the party to move right, he is giving it a shove leftward by taking out his ‘right’ vote in the government.
Is this a campaign tactic to win votes? I’d like to see how it goes... This is like a Miss Universe contestant who said, “I want a world peace, or else”...
He is an idiot that thinks that he doesn’t need the conservative base and that he can win the hispanic vote. You don’t get any stupider than that. I will vote for him , but I will not like him and if we had anyone at all running against him he would not get my vote!
There weren't enough party switchers to nominate McCain. He got plenty of Republican votes, it's just that the conservative votes were split among several good candidates. It was a wide open primary this time, and something we haven't seen in many years, so folks had no idea what to expect.
The man is a hero !
Don’t just abandon the Party that abandoned us, slam the door in their face.
Well! He’s certainly teaching us a lesson.
In you words, frickin idiot, only thing is you need to look in the mirror to find the idiot.
This is my district and this guy is a jerk.
I never applaud a quitter. He isn’t forcing the party to move right, he is giving it a shove leftward by taking out his ‘right’ vote in the government.
A-Men, what the @#!@$ did this jerk run for if he was going to pull this crap?
That’s it, let’s teach our children to be quitters. What does Gramm call it, Whiners. Why doesn’t this punk just turn Rat? If you don’t like the heat punk, get out of the race and let somebody at least try. What a Bi@@@. We’d kick this guys @@@ in our state.
Interesting, this post is followed by the usual hard assed, blustering RINOs.
No surprise here. You do it their way, like liberal, or else. Hahahaha!
I couldn't agree more. This guy is a jerk.
Unfortunately it's my district and my state.
I just moved here and I thought John Armour stood a chance and voted for him. Unfortunately he ran third in a three man race.
I guess Shular will be my Congressman whether I like it or not.
props to Arlo Guthrie
Presuming that Armour isn't advocating the reimplementation of a National Speed Limit, yes.
Where do we find these stupid RETARDS? Mumpower should be deported to North Korea.
Mumpower has enough issues to fill a book and the people who nominated him didn’t understand what they were getting themselves into.
Unfortunately, Shuler badly needs to be defeated this year. He has the makings of a major threat to Dole or Burr down the line.
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