Posted on 01/25/2006 8:31:11 PM PST by george76
A multimillionaire businessman entered the GOP race to challenge Sen. Robert C. Byrd on Wednesday, hoping to deny the 88-year-old incumbent Democrat a record ninth term.
John Raese, 55, said he would campaign on a platform touting free enterprise ...
a rebirth of capitalism...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee heralded the filing by Raese, a former state GOP chairman who has sought office before.
Though four other Republicans are running in the party primary, the GOP committee called Raese "the first financially credible opponent Byrd has faced since 1982."
Raese's last major foray into election politics came nearly 18 years ago.
With narrow losses each time, he ran against Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., in 1984 and challenged then Gov.-Arch Moore in the 1988 GOP primary.
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We'll probably have to wait until Byrd just can't do it anymore.
Please GOD send Byrd into retirement. It's time for someone to get him to go home. Let this be the one.
BWAAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!
I fear we will have to wait for the old monster to go to the great Klan meeting in the sky before we are rid if him.
How pathetic that the governance of the greatest country on earth comes down to nothing more than money.
OTOH, I am thrilled to see the GOP are challenging these cretins. First frankenstein of CA and now the KKK of WV.
This is good news. Byrd has a credible opponent who will be properly financed. Although he last ran 18 years ago, he did run a decent campaign is a state that has turned red. We have a chance to send Sheets Byrd into retirement.
Are you always such a pessimist? There seems to be an outbreak of the stuff on FR tonight.
His vote on Alito will be much more important.
Hope Raese takes Sheets to the cleaners. About time.
I hate to be the one to say it, but Robert Byrd is not the worst Dem on Capitol Hill. Truth be told, there are many I'd rather see forced into an early retirement before Byrd.
We have to clean them out of red states first.
They are pretty much all the worst in their own way.
When you look at today`s Rat Senators, it`s really hard to find one that is any great thinker. Matbe Joe on terrorism but the rest are real lightweights. Not a Scoop Jackson or Monahian in this bunch.
Maybe if Rease gets elected he could lead the charge to have Byrd's name striped off all WV buildings named in "honor" of a certain KKK member.
As I suspected and now confirmed. A person, no matter how much in lockstep with the Party better have money or the Party don't want ya. Pathetic.
I've no idea of W VA politics, but it's difficult to imagine that the citizens of that state are still so besotted as to re-elect their senior senile Senator.
Just as a guess, I'd say this turkey hasn't been stuck in the electoral oven because he continuously delivers pork to the behind-the-scenes thieves in his state. We have these thieves in my state, too, of course, and likely enough in yours.
As Ben Franklin commented when a lady asked him, coming out of Constitution Hall in Philadelphia in 1787: ''Mr. Franklin, Mr. Franklin, what kind of government do we have?''
''A republic, madam, if you can keep it.''
Nowadays, we can't, we must trust mostly to either luck or Providence. Nowadays, sadly, the political class have taken over virtually everything, and we're stuck for our lifetimes with the overpaid, staggeringly incompetent, and perfumed princelings (and princesslings, mustn't be sexist) who infest both the Regress and the bureaucracy.
The only question that remains, in my humble view, is whether this nation will be destroyed by the incompetents and the one-worlders before a second Civil War breaks out.
May a gracious G-d bless our Republic, and also d*mn this government's betrayal of the Republic.
FReegards to you!
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