Posted on 03/10/2009 2:25:06 AM PDT by MitchellC
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler will not run for Senate.
In a brief statement issued tonight, the Waynesville Democrat said that he has decided he will not run against Republican Sen. Richard Burr in 2010.
"I was flattered to have been asked by so many people across North Carolina to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010," he said. "However with our nation facing the most difficult economic times in generations, I feel my efforts are better utilized focusing on solutions to these challenges rather than campaigning across the state."
Shuler, a conservative Democrat from the mountains, had been increasingly mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate in recent weeks.
Attorney General Roy Cooper has also been on the shortlist.
There’s no position in the NFL which a truly stupid person can play. D.C. sports writers were in shock after interviewing this guy when the Redskins drafted him. One noted that you only had to talk to the guy for five minutes to comprehend that he was not bright enough to play quartterback in the NFL and another exclaimed something like ‘oh my God, they’ve just drafted Gomer Pyle...’
Please, easy on the insults regarding Gomer Pyle.
Any chances this(Shuler) former Vile can be beaten?
He’s the best (only?) Republican the Democrats have.
I like Roy Cooper. I don't even know his party affiliation, though the article reads like he's a Dem. He's a real straight arrow - he's cleaning up some of the corruption in Raleigh/Durham, shining a flashlight into a lot of inconvenient places. FReepers might remember him for going after Nifong, that corrupt DA in the Duke Lacrosse case.
I agree with you on Cooper. He is a Democrat, but has always seemed like a fair guy to me.
He is from my hometown of Rocky Mount, NC.
Why is it that my recollection was that he went after the Nifong LONG AFTER it became obvious that Nifong was a rat? Too long after.
No, he and Cooper need to run against each other and form a circular firing squad. Shuler is sitting in a Republican district and we need a Republican in it. His “44” rating from the ACU would be the equivalent of a liberal Republican and he votes to keep Pelosi as Speaker and corrupt buffoons like Charlie Rangel as Chairman of Ways & Means.
As for Cooper, he’d be just another vote for the corrupt False Messiah-Harry Reid-Pelosi junta. We need to be taking out that party’s members from top to bottom and replace them with Conservative Republicans, period.
That’s right, I’m a little disappointed that he’s dropping out as well. Shuler v Cooper could have done Shuler in and given us a better opportunity to win back NC-11.
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