Posted on 04/21/2014 5:31:50 AM PDT by cotton1706
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - There’s been no free path to potential victory for Barbara Comstock as she tries to win the Republican primary contest next Saturday for the 10th Congressional District in northern Virginia.
The front-runner has the blessing of most Republican elders and has already raised an impressive $760,000 in her bid to replace retiring incumbent Frank Wolf.
But she’s also encountered sharp elbows from some tea party rivals for not being sufficiently conservative. Republican leaders have tried to tamp down these attacks, but with little success.
“They feel she’s the anointed one and no one should stand in her way,” said Howie Lind, a former Navy commander and one of Comstock’s opponents. Lind has blasted Comstock for voting for President Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary, as well as for supposedly supporting expanding Medicaid eligibility, which Comstock has voted against multiple times.
Prince William County Delegate Bob Marshall, an outspoken social conservative also in the race, has questioned Comstock’s qualifications and dismissed party leadership’s support of her candidacy.
“They want a woman to counter this, ‘we’re against women thing’” said Marshall.
Comstock campaign manager Susan Falconer said the attacks are in response to Comstock’s leads in recent polls.
“It’s been sad to see that the other campaigns have responded with increasingly negative and more desperate attacks,” said Falconer.
The tenor of the primary contest stands in contrast to the unified front presented by state Republican lawmakers in blocking Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s efforts to expand Medicaid eligibility. But it also underscores the continuing intra-party tensions between the establishment wing of the party and its more conservative factions.
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Hope Lind wins the primary. Great to see people who served their country win.
“Great to see people who served their country win.”
Did you back McCain in the 2008 primaries ?
from the article: ““They want a woman to counter this, ‘we’re against women thing’” said Marshall. “
The DNC over the last 3 congressional elections have been agressively promoting candidates who are war veterans to counter the “democrats are not patriotic and are soft on defense thing”.
What the hell are sharp elbows? Can we speak English please?
Sharp elbows = truth.
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