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To: roses of sharon
Again, I see nowhere on the Club for Growth web site, that they vet candidates about their immigration policy beliefs

Do you remember the Illinois Senate race where Alan Keyes got his a$$ handed to him by Barack Obama? Alan Keyes was in that race because Jack Ryan, the winner of the GOP Primary, dropped out due to a sex scandal where he tried to get his (ex)wife to perform public sex acts with him.

Jack Ryan was the candidate supported by the Club for Growth and the Whitehouse. His opponent in the GOP primary race was Jim Oberweis who is a good conservative. He was specifically opposed by the Whitehouse and the Club for Growth because he came out STRONGLY against illegal immigration. They were so opposed to him that they would not even back him as the candidate after Ryan dropped out even though he had run a fairly close second in the primary. He surely would have done better against Barack Obama than Alan Keyes.

When money gets funneled through the Club for Growth, you are providing the big business open borders lobby with a club that can be held over the heads of conservatives that might otherwise vote to secure our borders.

The Club for Growth often backs good candidates. I think their advice is worth listening too. Just don't funnel money through them. Give it to the candidates directly so they are free to vote like conservatives rather than as the bought and paid for tools of the open borders lobby.

9 posted on 05/24/2005 8:17:04 AM PDT by jackbenimble (Import the third world, become the third world)
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To: jackbenimble
Cks are made out to the candidate and NOT the Club.

I'll have to ck out the reasons they gave for not backing Jim, I was not aware that they made an issue of immigration.

(I think some wanted to test Keyes in a race, how he would hold up, ect.)

From what I hear the RNC is hearing complaints about the Republican org in Illinois.

Anyway, at least we are exploring different options, it is fantastic that the conservative base is making itself heard on immigration and judges.

Personally I would like to see a "Club for the Destruction of the NY/DNC media"!
10 posted on 05/24/2005 9:01:46 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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