The proof will be in the pudding. If Hostettler can’t raise money or campaign worth a hoot, he won’t win the Primary. Issue settled............AND.........BTW...........
The article does not indicate that Stutzman is a very good Conservative. What say ye to the charges made against him in the next to last paragraph shown in the thread?
Given that I’ve read more about the three main GOP candidates than just that one article schilling for Hostettler, I am not at all worried about Stutzman’s conservative bona fides. Hostettler, on the other hand, is up there with Ron Paul in his opposition to the War on Islamofascism (which is why he’s got the support of Paulites nationwide). Hostettler is excellent on most other issues, I’ll grant you that, but being an ally of Code Pink when it comes to our war in Iraw iis quite a strike against him in my book.
And then there’s the fact that Hostettler won’t fundraise or run a traditional campaign. That is a huge problem in a statewide race against a Democrat who will spend tens of millions of dollars, and I don’t think that you can brush that aside by saying “if he can win the primary then he will have proven his success as a campaigner, since it is possible to get 30% or so in a low-turnout primary without spending much money (with free publicity such as the one provided by this thread) and win he nomination, but it would be a recipe for disaster in the general election.
Remember, Hostettler represented a congressional district that gave President Bush 62% in 2004, and his refusal to raise money or run a concentional campaign resulted in his losing reelection by a whopping 60%-40% margin in 2006. The guy who beat him? Brad Ellsworth, who is the Democrat Senate candidate this year. As I said in my prior post, I was willing to give Hostettler another chance, thinking that he had learned his lesson from his disastrous 2006 campaign, but his anemic fundraising totals prove that he refuses to give this race the seriousness it deserves. Ellsworth will hurl as much mud as he can at the GOP Senate nominee; how will Hostettler fight back if he can’t run TV ads because he refuses to fundraise or go on TV?