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Long-shot GOP Senate candidate Chuck DeVore pins hope on conservative credentials
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 3/25/10 | Mike Zapler and Ken McLaughlin Mercury News Staff Writers

Posted on 03/26/2010 7:54:51 AM PDT by SmithL

With a copy of the Constitution always in his coat pocket and a monologue about the ills of progressivism never far from his lips, Chuck DeVore is very serious about his politics. But as Glenn Beck rattled off DeVore's low ratings from liberal interest groups during an appearance on Fox News last month, the Republican Senate candidate was practically giddy.

The League of Conservation Voters: 5 out of 100. The Sierra Club: 0. Planned Parenthood: 0. Beck then handed DeVore a congratulatory jar of M&M's, eliciting a guffaw from DeVore as he popped a candy into his mouth. "You intrigue me," Beck told DeVore.

The segment encapsulated DeVore's greatest strength in his long-shot bid to beat two better-known and better-funded opponents in the June GOP primary. In a year when tea party protests have become a driving force in GOP politics, DeVore is firmly in sync with the movement — the conservative's conservative in the race — boasting decades of activism in the GOP and purity on hot-button Republican issues.

But should DeVore overcome long odds to defeat Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell, the Orange County assemblyman's main asset could become a big liability in the general election, where moderates typically hold sway. While DeVore enjoys a strong grass-roots following, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has successfully painted past Republican opponents with ideological profiles similar to DeVore's as far outside the mainstream in Advertisement left-leaning California.

DeVore concedes that in a normal political year, he probably wouldn't have a chance against a three-term Democrat in this blue state. He opposes abortion, rails against environmental regulations he believes are suffocating businesses, and thinks the just-passed health care bill is an abomination.

But these, he stresses, are not normal times. He argues that a Republican winning Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts was...

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TOPICS: California; Issues; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: chuckdevore; devore; theonlyconservative

1 posted on 03/26/2010 7:54:51 AM PDT by SmithL
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And DeVore says his anti-tax, anti-federal spending positions will appeal to the 20 percent of California voters who are independents, as well as conservative, working-class Democrats uneasy with Boxer's liberal record.
It sure appeals to me!
2 posted on 03/26/2010 7:55:30 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Chuck is the only candidate in the race worth supporting:
http://www.chuckdevore.com/action


3 posted on 03/26/2010 7:56:22 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Confiscation of wealth with out explicit consent is not charity.)
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To: SmithL

Speaking of Repubs, I never thought I’d see the day where I would vote for another Bush, say Jeb Bush but..alas, this day has come.


4 posted on 03/26/2010 8:00:09 AM PDT by MissyMack66
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To: SmithL

Well, he’s got my vote.


5 posted on 03/26/2010 8:15:58 AM PDT by Persevero (Ask yourself: "What does the Left want me to do?" Then go do the opposite.)
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