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Ex-GOP Legislator Blasts Bilbray
Human Events ^ | 06/02/06 | John Gizzi

Posted on 06/02/2006 9:03:04 AM PDT by Kuksool

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1 posted on 06/02/2006 9:03:06 AM PDT by Kuksool
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If Pelosi becomes House Speaker, I'm going to compile a body count of fallen pro-border security Republicans in the 2006 election and compare their RAT replacements on how they vote for amnesty in the next Congressional session. (If the RATS do take the House, then there will be an amnesty bill signed into law).

I will then flash the data on various FR threads to show "how teaching RINOs a lesson was productive".

Bilbray may be the first one on my list.


2 posted on 06/02/2006 9:04:45 AM PDT by Kuksool
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Right on. Great idea.


3 posted on 06/02/2006 9:05:25 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (I would rather be an Iraqi in a Hidatha guarded by Marines, then a subject of Al-Qeda anywhere.)
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To: Kuksool

I smell rove's stink all over this.


4 posted on 06/02/2006 9:05:32 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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I'll bet Rove plans on using Bilbray's possible defeat as a method to pound nervous Republican incumbents into submission on immigration reform.


5 posted on 06/02/2006 9:07:30 AM PDT by Kuksool
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I don't doubt it. Bilbray has gone on record opposing the McCain senate immigration amnesty debacle and was rewarded by having McCain pullout of a campaign stop for him.

If the OBL RINO's want to play hardball, we'll play hardball come November. We'll play by the same rules they are.

Rove and his center right ilk will not win the war for control of the party.


6 posted on 06/02/2006 9:12:07 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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Baldwin said he is backing Hauf over Bilbray for nomination for the full term and takes no side in the race in which moderate former Rep. Bilbray faces a tough challenge from Busby.

No problem with this.

In his words, "I'm trying hard to help Bill win the primary, but it's hard to help him without somehow affecting the special election."

This is BULL. He couldn't have waited until after the 6th? I suspect he wants Busby to win in the expectation Bill Hauf (after winning the primary) will unseat her in the 2006 general election.

7 posted on 06/02/2006 9:13:07 AM PDT by nosofar
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This is so obviously phony as to be laughable and yes it does stink of Turdblossom. Apparently the administration (read Rove) really think most Americans are so dumb that 'failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform' will cause them to vote Dem or stay home. Well that's the theme Rove has tried out on Republican Congressmen. Maybe a lot of them are that dumb and don't understand the mass of rank and file Americans hate the Administration's Comprehensive immigration Betrayal bill.
8 posted on 06/02/2006 9:25:45 AM PDT by robowombat
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Bilbray, however, is a border troll.


9 posted on 06/02/2006 9:40:20 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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Good point. In any given election, you have to decide what the key issues are. Right now, immigration has moved to the top of the list next to terrorism. I would vote for a tight border/strong national security guy who was pro-abort at this time, becuase if we don't immediately correct this, there won't be a nation for babies to be born into.


10 posted on 06/02/2006 9:54:47 AM PDT by LS
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This is BULL. He couldn't have waited until after the 6th?

Both the primary and the runoff for the Special Election are being held on June 6th.
It's not effective to campaign after an election.

11 posted on 06/02/2006 10:08:21 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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With the way the House Leadership conducted itself over the FBI raid on Jefferson's fridge, the Congresscritters maybe that foolish to believe Rove's spin.


12 posted on 06/02/2006 10:11:17 AM PDT by Kuksool
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What is a border troll?


13 posted on 06/02/2006 10:16:04 AM PDT by robowombat
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This Bill Hauf guy . . . what's his fund raising look like? There are always more conservative options in any election, but they may not be viable. Viability is an important consideration in elections. Voting for your neighbor down the street who is more conservative than the GOP candidate running with the fundraising to win makes no sense.

Point being, if Hauf's fundraising is zero compared to Bilbray and a letter of this kind could hurt Bilbray in the Special election, then the letter should not have occurred.

And whose idea was it to have a special election the same day as a primary. This special election is to fill that seat for what, 4.5 mos?


14 posted on 06/02/2006 10:16:16 AM PDT by Owen
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I'll bet Rove plans on using Bilbray's possible defeat as a method to pound nervous Republican incumbents into submission on immigration reform.

And for this you blame conservatives if he loses?

15 posted on 06/02/2006 10:37:25 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: robowombat

He was a lobbyist for FAIR, he's totally hard-core on immigration, it's his only conservative issue.


16 posted on 06/02/2006 10:50:22 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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Is there a Freeper in this district that can tell us what is really going? Who will probably win? I would hate to think this district going Democratic.


17 posted on 06/02/2006 11:38:50 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
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You really need to lay off the crack pipe.


18 posted on 06/02/2006 11:42:20 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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Hauf is pro Cuba and does business there.

Bilbray has a history of being tough on the border issue
when he was in congress in the 90s


19 posted on 06/02/2006 2:34:45 PM PDT by SoCalPol (.We Need a Border Fence Now.)
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I'm confused. Is Bilbray running in two elections at once? A state legislative primary and a US congressional election?


20 posted on 06/04/2006 5:59:25 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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