Posted on 08/08/2014 5:18:11 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
Patriots, it is frustrating and painful when a good" man of the people" candidate like Joe Carr loses to a lying Washington machine "betrayer of the people" like Lamar Alexander. The fact that Lamar Alexander voted for Obama's agenda 62% of the time is all you need to know about him.
My Conservative Campaign Committee team and I were boots on the ground in Tennessee, driving all over the state participating in rallies and other events for Joe Carr. We felt the pulse of the people and there was excitement and enthusiasm for Joe.
At one of the Joe Carr rallies we attended, a local Carr supporter bent my ear big time, expressing his frustration with the fact that Carr did not run tons of radio ads much earlier in the campaign; missing an opportunity to win over early voters.
I tried to explain to the frustrated Joe Carr fan that his campaign simply did not have funds to run tons of radio ads. Lamar Alexander's war-chest was $7 million dollars provided by DC power brokers. Grassroots efforts raised $1.3 million for Joe Carr.
But there were several bright spots. Joe Carr received 41% of the vote. Carr would have probably won if we had enough money to really get his message out to Tennessee voters. Thanks to the efforts of Rep. Joe Carr, Tennessee enacted the toughest illegal immigration laws in the country. Carr was eager to get to DC to help Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and our conservative troops on the front-line in the battle to stop Obama's fundamental transformation of our great nation.
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I’m from Townsend.....
“Alexander didn’t even win by a landslide. That should worry him unless he thinks he’ll get Democrat votes in the general”
Democrats will not even be voting for democrats in the general election. The party in TN is basically the black population. There are no black candidates and so they will stay home
If it had been Alexander against Carr and Carr only, Carr would have won by more than 10,000 votes.
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I plan to write Carr in on the November ballot.
My friend complains about congress and the damned republicans that won’t stand up to Obama...then he votes for Lindsey Graham.
There are wrong conclusions being drawn to support specific politics.
The Tea Party did not lose anymore than anybody that loses to an incumbent. Incumbents win. It takes really bad, I mean really bad incumbent to lose. The incumbent Republican Tony Shipley lost here....... he was really really bad
Carr’s loss was more the rule than the exception.
“My friend complains about congress and the damned republicans that won’t stand up to Obama...then he votes for Lindsey Graham.”
Yeah, that’s the low information crowd that returns skunks like Alexander, Graham, and McCain to office even while they’re complaining about Washington.
“Carr’s loss was more the rule than the exception.”
It is tough to knock off an incumbent. That’s why it’s relatively rare.
No finish...that was all.
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