Posted on 05/07/2010 6:53:08 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
I just don’t see conservatives turning out in great numbers to vote for Whitman and Carly. Is the plan to elect them with disgruntled democrat voters? There aren’t enough moderate Republicans in CA to elect them without the base of the party turning out. Who will be on the ticket that will generate enthusiasm for conservatives?
The prospect of voting out Boxer is a plus, but to replace her with someone who says her two favorite senators are Diane Feinstein and John McCain won’t motivate many of us.
I dislike McCain for many, many reasons, but as far as I know he hasn’t been responsible for any critical votes in favor of abortion. Unlike some other Republicans.
You may be right. However, many pundits think Fiorina will do well, could give Boxer a run for her money. I don’t know. But DeVore can’t even win the primary. End of story. Next step? Campbell or Fiorina. Pick one or stay out, what do you think is right for Palin?
For a person who writes eminently sensible things at FR that I often enjoy reading, I really don’t understand why it isn’t obvious to you.
Schwarzenegger was not perfect by any means, and he has not been good. He’s not been conservative, principled, or competent.
That’s what “the perfect is the enemy of the good” gets you.
Another Austrian Sheisskopf!
Don't forget the "one who can win" Gov. Girly-man Arnie who promptly turned into a liberal Kennedy Democrat.
That’s why the Palin endorsement was so important. She bring conservative credentials to Carly. She gives the tea party movement the permission to support a candidate they otherwise might feel uncomfortable with.
And she gives the pragmatic conservatives cover to support Carly without being bashed by the ideologues.
Rick Santorum revealed in 2008 that McCain’s MO was to stop virtually all pro-life, pro-family legislation in the back rooms of the Senate.
Alan Keyes has no credibility, his ranting has left him with negative credibility. The fact that he rants again Fiorina is a plus for her.
He has far more credibility than these McCain Republicans.
“And a candidate who can win unlike yours.”
RIGHT.
Alan Keyes was the least successful US Senate candidate for the Republicans in our generation, managing to lose - badly - two times. He has no place lecturing others on how to advance conservative ideals via Senate campaigns. His campaign led to ... President Obama! (If keyes was more effective in 2004 in exposing the real Obama, he wouldnt have waltzed into office with 70% of the vote and the aura of the future of the Dem party).
Maybe Carly aint rock solid, maybe Palin is wrong to endorse her, and I’d probably pick DeVore myself if I was voting ... BUT ... let us keep our eye on the prize here.
We have two Cali Senate seats own by leftliberal Democrats.
Democrat Majority Delenda Est.
Defeat all Democrats!
That includes Boxer.
Sniping at our own only to lose to leftwing dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks uber-liberal Boxer is pointless!
DEFEAT ALL DEMOCRATS.
>What does Keyes do for a living?>
That is the $64,000 question.
I did hear he may be a hand blow dryer with all
that hot air.
Well said!
I didn’t know that the Doctor Senator Tom Coburn has also endorsed Carly Fiorina.
“a candidate who can win”
Obama can win, and DID.
with the help of the sit at home and third party crowd
Yep. He has. I understand Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe have as well. Carly’s getting ‘em in the back rooms and telling them what they want to hear. That’s the way I see it.
I really don’t understand why it isn’t obvious to you.
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What is obvious to me is that if we fold on DeVore, we will not have a conservative senator elected in CA. Another thing that is obvious is that there will be a McCain wing of aisle crossers in the senate. McCain-Gramnesty-Brown-Collins-Snowe-Crist-Fiorina -and others currently running as conservatives but who will have an epiphany when they get elected. Along with the surviving dems, they will have enough votes to carry the day for the progressive agenda even if Republicans have an impressive victory in November,.
Also obvious is that if we want to elect conservatives, we actually have to vote for them. We have to be strong enough to resist the media telling us they can’t win. If we don’t vote for them, they will never win.
There has been a lot of talk here about no more RINOs and not letting the media or the Republican Party tell us who our candidates are going to be. Yet some now are anxious go with a candidate who we have doubts about. It’s not enough for the media to tell us who to nominate. There is even a ballot measure in June to change the primary system so that everyone can vote and the top two vote getters are the run-off candidates in November. Under that system, we would be lucky to even see a Republican on the general election ballot.
If we are serious about electing conservatives each of us has to vett the candidates. Carly Fiorina is a McCain progressive. Tom Campbell is a liberal. Neither can I consider in any way as a conservative, and therefore I won’t vote for either of them. DeVore may or may not be able to win, but he is a conservative. DeVore’s challenge is money. Fiorina has a greater challenge, thousands of former HP employees who will campaign against her. Her problems at HP will be daily news during the campaign.
Please don’t take my view of Fiorina as a criticism of Gov.Palin. I still believe she is the best hope for victory in 2012. I believe that her advisors on this race are viewing it historically and neglect the factor that the Tea Parties will be this year. There is real energy out there, but if you don’t give them someone to vote FOR, it will be wasted.
Sarah Palin backs another RINO:
She’s now 0-for-2
This doesn’t make her look very bright, and certainly doesn’t increase her appeal to Conservatives in the GOP; she’s turning into another Kay Barely Republican or (shudder) Olympia Snowe, and I no longer think we have any need for her.
KBH is lagging. She’s in the senate until 2012.
She hasn’t won a damn thing and won’t. Period.
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