Posted on 02/04/2010 4:16:10 PM PST by AK_47_7.62x39
I got a mail today from BJ Lawson, the FABULOUS principled candidate who ran against David Price in the last congressional election.
He is considering running again, after initially deciding not to.
Dr. Price is a wonderful man, and a decent human being. He is a Duke graduate physician, who started his own company and understands business. He is a solid hard money advocate and a solid Austrian school economics guy. He is a gunner (serves as a range master at the Durham Outdoors Club), pro life, limited government, pro grass roots, anti federal encroachment type of guy.
He is still in the initiatory phase of running, but is sending out letters to past donors and supporters. This guy was a Tea Party guy before there WAS a tea party!!!
He is the real deal.
Please, if you want to see principled, small government, common sense, anti federal power guys in DC, watch for developments here in NC.
I think Price is vulnerable. He got de-throned once in 94. Obamamania won't get him by this time. Keep an ear out.
Whoops!!! Body should read:
“DR LAWSON is a wonderful man.......”
David Price is, of course, a wheedling sycophantic scumbag and DC whore, who would sell his momma for a few goodies thrown down to the Tarheel state.
I was gonna say, HUGE typo there. You should ask the Mods to fix that for you.
*ping*
SORRY AK,,,,Frank Roche is the conservative horse in this race. BJ blew it by sitting on the sidelines.
Some candidate... if you cant even cite his website.........
BJ is a socialist....nuff said
I’m not sure how fantastic this is, really. I’ve been fairly impressed with what I’ve seen of Frank Roche, and between 2008 and Scott Brown’s victory in Mass., I’m less sold on the idea of a Paulite like Lawson being able to win where a conservative can’t (and yes I know Brown is no Reagan, but he’s probably a lot closer to that than he is to Ron Paul).
And, this seems a bit opportunistic of Lawson at this point. He gave it a great try in 2008 but got clobbered and now he has that stench on him. He lives in a Dem-held state House seat, why not try for that?
Lawson is a Paulite libertarian, not a socialist.
If Lawson is making serious plans to jump in, I’d like to get on his e-mail list.
I appreciate the idea of rewarding the early bird in a race.
But which man is better and has a better chance to win should be the question.
We shall see.
What was the name of that black Republican city councilman (or maybe county commissioner) from Durham from maybe 8 or 10 years ago? We need to think outside the box if we’re to have a chance of beating Price.
Hm, not sure who you’re referring to. You’re not talking about Vernon Robinson, are you? He lost to Brad Miller in 2002 when the 13th district was drawn, and then lost the 5th district primary to Virginia Foxx in 2004. He was on the Winston-Salem city council IIRC.
No, I’m talking about a black Republican from Durham (nit W-S); I think he ran in the GOP Lt. Gov. primary in 2004. Was his name Michael Stokes?
Don’t remember a thing about him...
You may, in fact be correct. I was terribly disappointed when he initially announced he would not run. As of today, he has NOT yet declared he will run, which is why there is not yet a website up. His old "Lawson for Congress" still says he won't run in 2010.
In fact, if we were in a primary where Roche were truly PRINCIPLED on the second amendment, no federal instrusion into private markets (he supported TARP) and had already invested huge pools of time and money, I would demur.
I do respect your position. Lawson is in the exploratory phase, here, although he needs to move quick.
Roche is a fairly wealthy guy. Can he not afford more than one campaign troll to monitor threads? Could you not at least pass off the responsibility to reply to another person on your call list?
Stith was, and is, a fine man.
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