[COEXERJ145]

Oh this thread is going to get heated. Wait until all the crazies wake up and see it.

However, it just goes to show that single issue candidates (no matter what the issue is) do not win elections.

[2banana]

Many elections are decided by less than a margin of 5%...

[MrNatural]

Is that correct? I had read elsewhere that that Gilchrist got around 25% of the vote, vs. 45% for the winner, Campbell. Anyone?

[Calusa]

No one for immigration reform could get elected for dog-catcher in Mexifornia. Actually his third place protest candidacy may be viewed as a Pyrrhic Victory.

[petercooper]

I like those 12 words. I'll add 3 more.

Win the war. Confirm the judges. Cut the taxes. Control the spending. Seal the borders.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[Paulus Invictus]

You must add three more words: Stop illegal immigration! I don't believe that the anti-illegals are a small minority either. Hewitt is wrong about this issue.

[Malesherbes]

Hewitt had to strain his analysis thru several filters to come up with 10 percent. Gilchrist's 25 percent is a very good result given the circumstances.

[funkywbr]

Note the MSM is barely reporting it and when the Nov elections were won and the Dems RETAINED their seats the MSM were shouting about it and telling US it was a preview of what was to come in 06/08.

SIlence now from DEM.

[jmc813]

Despite massive media attention and around-the-clock boosterism from local radio flaks and know-nothings John & Ken

Hugh has been really turning me off lately. I've never been a huge fan of his due to his liberal/moderate positions, but personally attacking competing radio hosts is completely unprofessional.

[Revolting cat!]

[fisherman90814]

Thanks for posting the tripe from HH. He drinks rino coolaid every day when he wakes up. John Campbell will be another suck a** republican who tows the party line and doesn't do a dam thing that the voters want besides rubber stamping all of Bush's stuipid ideas on illegal immigration.

[Checkers]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535925/posts

[Hank Rearden]

So what does this guy want to spend hundreds of billions on? Bush already beat him to "free" pills.

[RichRepublican]

Sad for us here in So. Cal.

[MikefromOhio]

I think Hugh's statements are kinda harsh, but that's his opinion, but I found one fallacy within it:

If that's the best this constituency could do in the best of circumstances, it isn't a "movement," it is rather a small, but important "constituency," but not an electorally decisive one.)

As close as the past 3 elections have been, going back to the 2000 Presidential elections, the 2002 mid-terms and the 2004 Presidential elections, NO constitutency or movement can be completely ignored anymore. Another thing, while Gilchrist is a one issue wonder, if he can expand his platform somewhat so he can escape that label, he might be onto something.

[Checkers]

Is Jim Gilchrist going to run in Randy "Duke" Cunningham's old district?

[A CA Guy]

I heard I think on KFI or KABC that this vote according to John Campbell was a big message against the extremist views regarding the border. (which we would call securing the border and following the current laws about apprehending illegals).

This bum has to go next election in principle just based on what he said in calling the border issues extremists ones.
This guy seems bought and paid for by the no-change collective.

[dennisw]

Hugh Hewitt is behaving like an unprincipled dolt here. American sovereignty means nothing to him.

[JohnBDay]

I'd agree that single-issue candidates don't win elections, but it's still an important issue. I'd say there's a better than 50% chance than the 2008 Republican nominee will be a supporter of border reform.