Posted on 08/08/2014 10:52:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chest-thumping conservative to get elected, once elected, go back to their old back-stabbing ways. One word - John McCain (that’s not the word I had in mind).
ping
Carr ran a ho hum state rep election campaign, not a state wide US Senate campaign. Almost totally ignored W TN, what few stops he made were RSVP last minute ones. 1 open one with just hours notice on a work day. I drive Hwy 51 from Atoka in Tipton Co to Bartlett TN often not 1 sign up. Not even during early voting. No yard signs. No counter ads to lamar. He needed personal time with family, well that goes by the wayside during an election campaign that just takes a few weeks unless you have a dying relative.
He did not hit on lamar’s Military votes, and W TN is a large Military retirement area.
People can’t just take off work, cancel appointments, etc to see a man who should have done a Sat after noon stop in a location designed to draw from a 3 county area. Much of which is rural.
He votes 62% dem does that answer your question? He is also a oath breaker, he promised in a book he wrote 2 terms and out. He never was a conservative. He just was the lesser of 2 evils when he ran the first 2 times. The Dem was 100% socialist.
Fixed it for them.
Field, you could have run a better campaign than Carr ran. I thought it stunk. He ignored the small donors, Seniors, Military, Ret Military. And W TN. Stuck to his own stomping grounds in Mid to East TN and big donors.
I wonder why some people go to the trouble of writing in-depth analysis only to throw it all away with BS like this.
I heard Carr didn’t have much money but that sounds like a poorly run campaign to me.
We must expect and demand better, in future elections.
Spot on. The real problem tea party candidates face is their own constituency. You have to be blemish-free on conservative issues. Yet successful politics requires some compromise. Even Saint Ronald compromised to move the ball forward. So that means you get inexperienced candidates.
I think 867V309’s real name is Jenny!
That's the GOPe mantra:
"Run to the right in the primary, run to the center in the general."
Let’s not forget the true conservatives who held their ground, also. The Slimes actually had me worried about Amash with their snarky little misleading article before the primary, but he won by a mile.
Hey Boss!
There’s a reason Senators are generally RINO compared to House members:
House seats may contain few or no cities, unfortunately, every Senator is elected at large. Predictably, states with lots of cityRAT election thieves and dead voters can easily overwhelm the rural, normal-people vote.
IOW, the cities pick the Senators. That’s why state legislatures should be electing the US Senators.
Incumbents are hard to unseat and that’s just a fact of life. The Tea Party has given these RINO’s some really bad moments though. Maybe it will affect their votes this next go around.
Democrat crossovers and RINO voters are always useful in general elections. No point in winning nomination and losing in general like Akin, Mourdock, Angle, O’Donnell etc.
1. Open primaries-Democrats should not be choosing the Republican candidates period.
2.Simple mathematics-you cannot have 2, 3, or 4, candidates on the ballot running against 1 person. The Tea party candidate with the highest percentage of recognition and ability, pre-primary needs to run. Everyone else should drop out and ask their supporters to back that candidate.
Of course rino(closet democrat) dirty tactics played a major part in some election losses too (Mississippi).
The good news is that these low life dirt bags have been flushed out into the open. We are now aware of how far they are willing to go to keep their power and ability to help the democrats.
(As a side note- I hope McDaniel is seriously considering a write in campaign. I think he might be able to win. Imagine the message that would send. )
Overall I agree that this past primary had good results for the Tea Party considering the fact that they are brand new to the election game. They can gain more positives if they are willing to learn what they can from it and fine tune their future election efforts.
That Carr got as high a % as he did was remarkable, given that he was essentially a protest candidate. Had he as many $$ resources as Lamar!, he would’ve won.
Very. very cool! ;)
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