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Will McBride: 'in striking distance' (Florida GOP Senate Primary)
St. Petersburg Times ^
| 9-2-06
| Anita Kuman
Posted on 09/04/2006 7:18:27 AM PDT by TitansAFC
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Interesting move. I guess the ball is in Collins' court (and Monroe's) as far as the request for endorsements go. Rarely does such a move happen, but I credit McBride for boldly asking rather than just sitting on his hands and pretending his opponents would make no difference or don't exist.
Still, Katherine Harris zealots keep telling us the polls all lie (even by 40% margins), so I guess there's a good chance McBride is actually well ahead of Katherine Harris anyway.
Here's hoping to move a seat from the "absolutely certain Democrat retention" to "leans Democrat retention" column. Who knows?
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:18:29 AM PDT
by
TitansAFC
To: TitansAFC
I hadn't heard much about him uintil recently. He does have some very straight-forward ads running here and seems like a good candidate.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:21:14 AM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Bumper Sticker: Honk if you've never seen an Uzi shoot from a car window.)
To: capt. norm
I hope he wins. If he does I think he deserves the RNC's support for pulling it off. Democrats should not be able to win in Florida.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:24:55 AM PDT
by
Rawlings
(Tipton Time!)
To: TitansAFC
For me, the biggest appeal of Katherine Harris is the thought processes and guts that moved her to rule in the contested Florida race .. locking out a Socialist theft and exposing their tactics.
As a man (or woman) thinketh, so is he (or she).
Katherine's 'problems' IMO are not earth shaking flaws in her character nor ability to formulate thought .. thereby come to conclusion(s) .. ultimately .. legislate.
That's the main target of the socialists ... the root of how a person thinks.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:26:15 AM PDT
by
knarf
(Sevices for my lost, now considered deceased, tagline at 2 PM .. all welcome.)
To: knarf
I already early voted for harris but Mcbrides position on not being in favor of a premptive strikes concerns me but if he wins i will obviously vote for him instead of fat moore loving nelson
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:33:39 AM PDT
by
italianquaker
(Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
To: TitansAFC
Will McBride is the best hope of winning in November and of beating Harris tomorrow. He is a Conservative who wants to go and control and cut out all the pork spending. He wants to put an end to all th reckless spending going on in Washington. This is a major issue. We need more fiscal Conservatives in Washington.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:35:26 AM PDT
by
FloridianBushFan
(I support National Security. I SUPPORT HR4437 . Will McBride for US Senate)
To: TitansAFC
Joe Farah chimes in:
Vote for Katherine Harris
Posted: September 4, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Whenever the media establishment's long knives come out for a politician, I figure the person is doing something right that he or she is a legitimate threat, that he or she is effective and getting to the enemy.
That's the conclusion I came to after reading an L.A. Times hit piece on Rep. Katherine Harris, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51811
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:37:48 AM PDT
by
OK
To: TitansAFC
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:37:53 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(The right wants victory, the left wants surrender. It's that simple.)
To: Rawlings
Chaffee will lose and Harris will win their primaries.
Despite the NRC's shameless attempts to enforce the 'conservatives need not apply' rule.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:43:22 AM PDT
by
duckln
To: OK
Farah advocated not voting for Bush in 2004.
He is a purist - not that I'm not. But I also believe in winning to get Conservative things done, as opposed to backing only hardcore Conservatives and enjoying a Democratic Supermajority in a Senate with no RINOs.
Harris can't win - she can't even cut a 30% deficit. McBride has an outside shot.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:44:28 AM PDT
by
TitansAFC
("Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.")
To: duckln
On Steve Laffey vs. Lincoln Chafee:
Not only did Laffey come out and declare, "I'm not a conservative," but he also called for the firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and criticized President Bush on the war in Iraq.
I'm not sure Laffey winning is a very positive thing at all.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:47:33 AM PDT
by
TitansAFC
("Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.")
To: TitansAFC
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:50:13 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Katherine Harris for U.S. Senate)
To: TitansAFC
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:50:16 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Katherine Harris for U.S. Senate)
To: NautiNurse
IMO, the national party messed over Harris six years ago when they failed to defend her against the onslaught of criticism when she was just doing her job. They allowed her to be labeled a party hack and drove her negatives down. Now what other issues she has are magnified and only reinforce the negatives her own party allowed to accumulate.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:55:03 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
To: gov_bean_ counter
sorry, drove her negatives up.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:56:05 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
To: TitansAFC
Okay, if McBride wins the nomination, I figure he's got a secret "ace in the hole" for the general election.
It is Florida, remember, the home of the infamous butterfly ballot debacle.
So...Will McBride sounds an awful lot like Bill McBride, and maybe that will confuse the Dems and they'll vote for him thinking since he didn't beat Jeb for the Governorship, he deserves a shot at the Senate. (end/sarcasm)
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:57:26 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: dawn53
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:58:44 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Katherine Harris for U.S. Senate)
To: knarf
For me, the biggest appeal of Katherine Harris is the thought processes and guts that moved her to rule in the contested Florida race .. locking out a Socialist theft and exposing their tactics. Don't disagree, but she should have served several more terms in the House to build up her rep before taking on the Senate. It was just a stupid miscalculation. Too soon, akin to Rick Lazio taking on Hillary Clinton, or the woman who defeated Cynthia McKinney running for the Senate after one term also.
To: TitansAFC
No, Farah did vote for Bush in 2004.
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posted on
09/04/2006 8:05:29 AM PDT
by
OK
To: NautiNurse
Thanks for posting that timely reminder.
I will vote K. Harris.
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