Vanity: I'm the guy challenging John Boehner.

Youtube ^ | 1/7/2014 | Eric Gurr

[stuckinohio]

Posted a video on economics and would like your thoughts. It's about six minutes and essentially lays out a big and fundamental difference between myself and Mr. Boehner. All comments and criticisms welcome.

[cripplecreek]

I’m not an Ohio voter but its always a smart move to make your case to FR.

Good Luck.

[DManA]

You want honest constructive criticism?

The Stan Laurel statue over your left shoulder is distracting. It looks like he’s laughing at you.

[PubliusMM]

Have you successfully registered your campaign with the appropriate county Boards of Election?

[cripplecreek]

You might want to consider a new FR account too. Some will eat you alive over your screen name.

Something more pro Ohio like Standing in Ohio or Strong in Ohio.

[x]

Um ... change your online name?

[C. Edmund Wright]

Do what Lee Bright is doing challenging Lindsey Graham in SC….run against Obama, Pelosi, Reid….and Boehner as an enabler of them……

[matginzac]

Advice: don’t say rape is asked for, don’t say you’ve been a witch, don’t deny women their free birth control and/or abortion and don’t quote the Federalist Papers...

[Innovative]

And why is it all Boehner’s fault, instead of the fault of the Democrats?

Recommend you don’t run and not distract primary voters.

If you want to do something useful, help Republicans defeat Democrats, instead of the other way around.

[SkyPilot]

"I’ve known John Boehner for over two-and-a-half decades. I don’t hate John Boehner. Was I angry at John Boehner in 2006? You better believe it. I make no bones about that. But John Boehner has always been, and this is my opinion, but I think the opinion of many, on the lazy side in the sense that he’s a get-along guy. He doesn’t like a lot of controversy. He’s always enjoyed the golfing. I would have to term it an addiction for John Boehner,” Ney said. I’m not calling anyone an alcoholic, being a recovering alcoholic, but I’ve got to tell you John Boehner is a constant drinker of wine. He’s been seen with lobbyists for decades on a nightly basis and drinking. I’m not judging him, but I think it’s part of the story."

Former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio

John Boehner: When drunks lead Congress, disaster is the only option

"My friends and contacts on Capitol Hill from my days as a Congressional staff member (press secretary, chief of staff and committee staffer) from 1981-87 and a later stint from 1987-1992 as Vice President of Political Programs for the National Association of Realtors, tell me that Boehner’s bouts with alcohol abuse are well known around Capitol Hill and the subject of much concern.....“Is John Boehner a drunk? Of course he is,” a House GOP aide says his boss grumbled to him recently. “He’s a boozer.” When Boehner became Speaker of the House in 2011, more than a few Republicans shook their head and wondered why. Some speculated on just how long it would be before their new Speaker got caught drunk in public.

Boehner needs help. The man is a full blown alcoholic. I have great sympathy for him, but he has no business being number 3 in line to the Presidency given his current addiction. He needs to resign as Speaker and get himself into a program.

[GraceG]

Say this: Even if I disagree on social issues with others I do not want to use or build the government tools that are often used to abuse people with differing viewpoints.

[P.O.E.]

Go for it.

[truth_seeker]

“The man is a full blown alcoholic.”

I’d like to see your source for this claim.

[GraceG]

Here is a Vanity Ad idea I posted to Free Republic a few days ago, feel free to steal it to crush Ball-less bawling Brainless Bawling Boozing Bone-head Bohner.

Here si my idea for a Commercial for the Tea party that might wake up some people and who know could help create a Populist Tea party movement.

[Commercial Starts]

Narrator: “For years the Democrat Party has said that they problem in Washington is Big Business”

[Show pictures of Fat Cats on Wall Street and smoke stacks and Big Lobbyists]

Narrator: “And for just as many years the Republican party has sadi that the problem in washington is Big Bloated Government”

[Show pictures of the IRS agents and Bureaucratic paper work, money being flushed down the toilet and red tape and images of clueless government workers and maybe a 1,000,000 dollar toilet seat]

Narrator: “Both the Republicans and Democrats are WRONG! The problem with Washington is Collusion of Big Business and Big Government!”

[Show images of Big business lobbyists (GE, ADM, etc) shaking hands with crooked politicians that have both democrat and republican symbols on their suits]

Narrator: “Big Business plots and schemes push pass regulations that only they can easily comply with while the small and medium businesses feel the squeeze the most. Keeping their competition down they use the Big Government apparatus to destroy their competition until they either go broke or can buy them out.”

[Go to a clip of Rockefeller saying: Competition is a Sin ]

Narrator: “And Big Government does what it can to keep these Big Business types in power no mater what party they are with because they can always rely on filling their campaign coffers by helping Big Businesses to squash their competition..”

[Show a graphic of campaign contributions by GE, etc..]

Narrator: “The Tea Party has a better idea, why not limit the amount of power that government has so it cannot be co-opted by Big Business AND the people in government itself who get themselves positions of graft and power by being the middle men. Remember the issue isn’t Big Government vs. Big Business, the issue is Stopping the monopoly of power BOTH of them have and ending the stranglehold that they have over the individual and small/medium businesses.”

Narrator: “You want a REAL change, Vote for the Tea Party!”

[GraceG]

If you want to do something useful, help Republicans defeat Democrats, instead of the other way around.

Oh so if we had 100 more Bohners it would all be peachy keen A-ok right?

[unlearner]

To have a shot at beating Boehner you will have to hire a very good PR firm with political experience and raise (or invest) a lot of cash.

You cannot win a debate with Boehner unless people are engaged. The majority of voters are never going to listen to logical arguments but will base their decision on perceptions they get from sound bites, how polished your ads and videos are (rather than the actual content), and some positive news coverage which will be hard to come by. If you could get some positive coverage on conservative talk radio you might have a shot.

Make your case to several conservative talk show hosts. if any will give you some airplay you might be able to raise cash and gain some traction with the listeners at the same time.

You need a website and a list of your campaign issues distilled down to very simple talking points / sound bites, pronto. You have to have some takeaway ideas that the average voter can comprehend and easily recall expressed in a few seconds. Tough job, but that is how the game is played.

That’s my two cents.

[cripplecreek]

I would point out that there is only one reason the democrats, GOPe, and chamber of commerce are all attacking the tea party.

They know we mean it when we say we intend to end the cronyism and corporate welfare.

[unlearner]

Sorry, cripplecreek. Post 16 was meant for stuckinohio.

[Innovative]

You are quoting a guy (Publisher of Capitol Hill Blue) who said:

“After watching what George W. Bush and the Republican leadership of Congress have done to the country I love, I am sorry I ever had anything to do with these people. They are, I believe, a much bigger threat to freedom and the American way of life than any terrorist with a bomb or foreign dictator with a hate-America agenda.”

I found it on democratic underground and unfortunately the original link that was posted there is not good anymore — this is from 2005.

So his bashing of Boehner doesn’t have any credibility.

[Innovative]

If Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress as a start and hopefully the Presidential office, you bet we would be a lot better off.

Why is it that “conservatives” are focused on defeating Republicans and ending up helping electing communists? How is that helpful to the “conservative cause”?