Posted on 02/04/2014 9:38:38 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Greetings from one of your southern neighbors here in Kentucky. I wish you the best in your efforts to replace Boehner. We are, similarly, in the process of trying to oust McConnell from the senate and replace him with Matt Bevin. The republican party needs to shed itself of these RINOs. Good luck. I’ll be pulling for you.
I live in Liberty Twp as well!
I’ve met Matt Bevin. He’s a really great person. Also very smart. I’m pulling for him as well.
Best wishes for your success!
IMHO we’ll get Lindsey Graham in a runoff- three challengers already. Multiple conservatives running is actually good in the runoff states, but the others we need to back a single challenger, as in the case of Boehner
I think runoffs originated in the South as a means to make it more difficult for blacks, liberals, or carpetbaggers to win elections. But runoffs now serve a great function of ensuring that the eventual winner will be the choice of a larger percentage of the voters than one vote with no runoff if no one receives a majority.
Maybe primary voters who oppose Boner will settle on one candidate before election day in Ohio. But the place runoffs are most needed is in presidential primaries. We usually have a ‘winner’ no more than halfway throught the state primaries, a winner who received around 1/3 of the total vote. And with four or five conservative candidates and a couple of RINOS, we end up with the RINO.
But that won’t change since it benefits the GOPe so much and gives us candidates like McCain and Romney.
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