[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You realize that the Republicans who ran against Bill in both of his races couldn't win a race in some high school student newspaper council, right?

If you don't have qualified candidates who speak truth to power, what do you think those voters are going to do?

This is simply a failure of the Republican Party that continuously cede big-city and blue state races to the Dems without giving these voters an honest choice.

[firebrand]

See my comment #14 on this thread.

I worked for a Republican candidate in 2002, and since it was the Upper East Side, it started to look like he might have a chance. So the state party gave him a few million. Otherwise, they don’t. It’s just throwing money away.

As I said, it’s a vicious circle. Once we are in this bad of a shape, much worse than 2002, it can never get any better.

I know the one thing that might work but I’d be a fool to tell it here. If a campaign really wanted my advice, and not just my labor, I’d tell them.