Posted on 10/04/2007 9:28:30 PM PDT by george76
Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M) will run for the New Mexico Senate seat that is expected to open up officially later Thursday when Sen. Pete Domenici (R) declares that he will not seek reelection in 2008, according to a source familiar with Wilson’s decision.
Domenici has taken Wilson under his wing in recent years, and as he has gotten older, Wilson’s name has topped the list of potential heirs.
A strong campaigner, she has survived several multimillion-dollar challenges in a swing district ...
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Typical enemedia reporting. The fired U.S. attorneys were only the worst of the Clinton holdovers. GWB hamstrung his own administration by not firing them all.
I am not from New Mexico and do not know much about Heather Wilson, but I do know that a lot of Soros money has been employed against her and that alone would make her an excellent Senator, in my opinion.
I hate to correct you here, but Iglesias was a Dubya appointee and active Republican (barely losing the open race for Attorney General in 1998). The problem is that he was clearly not aggressive enough in prosecuting the multitude of rodent corruption in an unusually corrupt state. Domenici and Wilson's roles in the matter were along the lines of inquiring "Why the hell isn't he doing his job ?" He was dragging his heels, so there should've been no surprise when he was canned. ALL U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President, and if they aren't doing their jobs effectively, they can be replaced, period. This was a non-scandal.
Swell.
Well, from a detached political perspective she’s obviously skilled at retaining a district increasingly becoming more Democratic in a very bad year for Republicans. She proved that in 2006.
The state as a whole has trended slowly to Dems, just as her district has. Mainly due to fleeing liberals rushing in, and fraud.
The state isn’t quite as unwelcome to Republicans as her district, and she strikes me as a politician first.
I’m not sure if she is an idealogue. If she is, she only indulges those personal beliefs when it suits her political advantage. Her state campaign may be slightly more friendly to conservatives then her district one because of the makeup of the state. *Maybe*.
Her district will be endangered as a result of her running for Senate. Even if a Republican retains it, they will probably be even more liberal on votes then her own record.
That she is running means one or two things. Either she’s calculated she has no chance of surviving another close House race, or she thinks ‘08 will be a slightly friendlier year for Republicans in ‘08. If that is true, it probably bodes well for Republican recruitment. Many of their first choices turned them down in ‘06 expecting big losses at the ballot box. The Congresswoman in West Virginia they approached to challenge Byrd comes to mind.
Personally, I don’t consider her an addition for conservative ranks in the Senate. I’m not jumping for joy.
The establishment? Hard to say. I don’t think she’ll make them do Cartwheels like they are over their movement to draft General Pace or the way they are reacting to Johanns (another that doesn’t excite me), but they’ll probably be satisfied if she’s the nominee.
Isn’t the consensus that Bill Richardson would win in a cakewalk if he gave up his run for President, which he almost assuredly will - unless he’s trying to get on the ticket with HRC...?
Heather Wilson isn’t the most conservative Republican in New Mexico, and I truly hope that there are other Republicans who are more than willing to compete for this U.S. Senate seat. Conservative Republicans at every political level throughout the U.S. must seriously get their act together asap so that they can truly win big in ‘07, ‘08, and beyond! I truly don’t want a socialistic U.S. to exist at anytime in the future!
Is Udall also looking to run ?
Word has it that he wants to become more senior in the House rather than run for Senate. But the dem machine here may throw him at it depending on who they can muster up.
Also according to Rogle, Darren White will most likely run for Heather’s vacated seat. Which would be a damn good thing.
Does Darren White have a good chance at Heather’s vacated seat ?
To my surprise, Udall took himself out of contention. He doesn’t want to lose his seniority in the House to be a backbencher in the Senate.
Heather Wilson, what a relief - I saw the headline and my instant thought was that it referred to one of the new residents of NM named “Wilson” — either Joe or Valerie Wilson of Plamegate infamy. Of course, either of those jackals may still announce a run for the Senate - I expect to see them more active in Demagogue politics once Valerie’s fraudulent book is released in a few weeks....
This is a surprise :
Udall took himself out of contention...
Good news. She knows how to win tough races and can raise the money needed.
Thought that myself.
I didn’t know Pete had a degenerative brain disease....very sad.
It is all relative. Wilson has a lifetime ACU rating of 80 thru 2008. Domenici has a rating of 74.3. The two Dems from NM, Udall and Bingaman have lifetime ratings of 4.2 and 12.5 respectively.
Thru 2006 vice 2008.
Sad.
Pete is one of the good ones.
Thanks for the clarification. GWB, like his Dad, has appointed far too many Republicans who act like Democrats in the futile attempt to make nice and be friends. To his Dad’s credit, someone once asked him what was his worst mistake as president. He replied “He’s sitting on the Supreme Court.” The reference was to Souter, not Thomas, who was his best appointment.
I think so. He’s a pretty straight forward guy that a lot of people respect. This is District 1 so it will get nasty no matter how you slice it.
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