Posted on 05/11/2010 10:25:12 PM PDT by FTJM
Despite a favorable electoral climate for Republicans and former Rep. Rob Portman's huge funding advantage over his Democratic opponent in the contest for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat, polls show the race in a dead heat.
Conservatives and "tea party" activists say Mr. Portman's record as a moderate Republican has failed to fire up not only core GOP voters but also what may prove just as important to victory - the "tea party" movement. Complicating the picture is the failure of that movement to meet expectations in some of the May 4 Ohio GOP primary elections.
Mr. Portman's resume, though extensive, has elements that raise red flags for conservatives - his service in the White House of President George H.W. Bush, who raised taxes and enlarged government; his election to six terms in the U.S. House, where he voted for the kind of spending that tea party supporters oppose; and his service as U.S. trade representative and then budget director in the big-spending George W. Bush administration.
"The tea party sees Portman as the establishment's guy, so the GOP establishment now is saying, 'Don't dismiss him just because he's a party guy,' " Ralph King, a coordinator for the Ohio Tea Party Patriots, told The Washington Times. "But that's asking us to look past his record - giving money to the United Nations and opposing [Colorado Republican] Tom Tancredo's try for a border measure in Congress."
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Not even once. You're lying like an Arlen Specter.
Party before principle, unless it's convenient.
RWP. And you need to actually read the thread bud.
It’s like a RonPaul 911 Inside Job Party in here lol.
How does moderation ensure success in a general election?
You’re choice is between a Rep. and a D.
Do the math.
How does moderation ensure success in a general election?
Moderation has nothing to do with it.
You have two candidates now. An R and a D.
The D is uber liberal and will vote to pass Obama’s Socialist agenda.
It aint rocket science.
The article is about Portman’s moderation and how it is hurting him in a general election, despite what we keep being told in CA.
They don't want to talk about that.
They don't want to talk about that.
Too rabid for them?
looks like we are right back in 2006 where the mob here all said it was better to give the elections that year to the rats to teach the GOP a lesson.... hmmmmm that certainly has worked out well /s
When the RINOs lost and then tried to blame their failure on everybody else?
You control the calendar. You control the committee chairmanships.
When RINOs win, it’s proof we should support RINOs.
When RINOs lose, it’s proof we should support RINOs.
When RINOs lose, it’s proof we should support RINOs.
Anything else is hate.
“I’m not sure what some people expect in this case. For Palin to endorse the rat?”
How about keeping her trap shut?
No when Freepers were all saying let the democrats win.... and they did... where did that get us? Pelosi and Reid, that’s what... and now with Obama the utter destruction of our country. Personally, I care more about my country... and in this case Portman is the ONLY Republican running so I would vote for him if I lived in Ohio.....which I don’t... thank GOD I live in Arizona where we still have sanity, no thanks to all the Californian’s who have moved here.
The RINOs who lost want to blame their failures on maybe a half dozen Freepers? Their dishonesty is epic.
The article is about Portman’s moderation and how it is hurting him in a general election”
Yep, the article. But you deadenders have turned it into an insane plea to not support Portman against an uber liberal Democrat.
You changed the point, now you deal with it.
Anybody who doesn’t vote for Portman in the General is just a kook or a liberal.
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