Hey, ya all! We have a BIG senate race coming up in 2006, to try and get rid of Maria Cantwell. I'm wondering what the Washington FReeper consensus is for considering recruiting Alan Keyes to come out here and run as our Republican Candidate? Thoughts?
You need your head examined...
I don't think that carpetbaggers have done well historically in the Soviet of Washington.
If you look at Republican elected officials you get Slade Gordons, Dan Evans, John Spellman folks elected by the Puget Sound Dem's. Dino Rossi and Rob McKenna are considered very very moderate and "well behaved" and so are acceptable to Puget Sound "sensibilities."
It is only because Gregoire is so obviously incapable of managing state Government that she has to fight for the Governorship. My fear is that with the two person primary we would have had Gregoire versus Sims with no Republican in the November election. (yes I prefer the open primary, but that isn't what we are going to get.)
Just like it took a very liberal or centerist Republican to win in California, it will take someone with "star power" or a political image that isn't "conservative" to replace Maria Can't-Vote-Well.
If you are joking, it isn't funny. If you aren't joking, you are insane.
Keyes is finished as a candidate or as a political force.
No.
Lets just re-run John Carlson, cheaper to bring him here and he would lose by almost as much.
Why would anyone want a candidate that can't get 35% of the vote anywhere?
Good luck in getting rid of Maria Cantwell. I fear WA State is as gone to the Left as California.
while I love Keyes, he is not the canidate that we need....
Jennifer Dunn?.....Could Steve Largent move back here ?
about Rossi.....I was afraid of King county..I noticed last night or early this am that they had tons of votes yet....
I never expected Rossi to win...afterall, this is all demonrat, all the time, and even with the terrible budget crisis year in and year out, people keep putting them in office..
I hope Dino can pull this off..maybe for a change, the late votes will fall for him and not the RAt.....
Go for it. He did such a wonderful job in Illinois.
If Alan Keyes comes and runs in this state...I will vote for Cantwell. I can't stand a carbetbagger. Our newly-re-elected Congresscritter Inslee is a carbetbagger and he won't leave.
I'm wondering what the Washington FReeper consensus is for considering recruiting Alan Keyes to come out here and run as our Republican Candidate? Thoughts?"
LOL -- save Keyes for unwinnable races where you want a real blowout.
How close did Nethercutt get? Can he run again? Or find a software millionaire to run?