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Cao Is No Goner (Louisiana update)
The American Spectator ^ | October 21, 2010 | Quin Hillyer

Posted on 10/25/2010 6:34:25 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Here is the situation on the ground. Before the campaign really heated up, Cao actually led the polls by a wide margin, because his hard work and sincerity have made him very popular among all races and ethnicities in the New Orleans area. Once the campaign heated up and he was re-identified in the black community as a Republican, he dropped behind. But internal polls -- and my own anecdotal sources, as a native New Orleanian and veteran of New Orleans politics -- show him now within a typical survey's margin of error.

He also has momentum. National Democrats, thinking Cao a goner, have withdrawn campaign aid for Democratic opponent, state Rep. Cedric Richmond. But Richmond has a checkered past that the local media finally is starting to really focus on. Amidst other official ethics problems, Richmond lost his law license for lying in election qualifying papers in 2005. He's also under fire, or under investigation, for alleged financial shenanigans involving a non-profit with which he has been closely associated.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; gao; la2010; nola
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To: BillyBoy

Good point. As someone who’s come out against Dede Scozzafava, Lindsey Graham, Lincoln Chafee (in 2000, before joining FR), and Lisa Murkowski, I also support Joseph Cao. I don’t support his health care reform vote at all, but it’s not like anyone one else from New Orleans would vote any better.

I find it encouraging that Cao is getting cross party endorsements. It would be a huge coup if Deuce McAllister of the New Orleans Saints were to endorse him.


81 posted on 10/26/2010 5:04:38 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit.)
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To: Kirkwood
Cao voted against both the stimulus bill and the obamacare bill.

Not entirely true. Cao was the lone Republican vote in favor of Obamacare the first time the House voted on it. When they voted on the Senate version (the one that eventually passed), Cao voted no.

82 posted on 10/26/2010 5:13:37 AM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: ConservaTexan
How does Licoln Chaffe/Colin Powell sound? Although you would never admit it, that is what you are arguing for.

No. That is not what I am arguing for. But you have already posted that you would prefer that the corrupt democrat should win over a moderate republican.

83 posted on 10/26/2010 5:57:34 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: ConservaTexan

Yep, you are irrational. The choice for this particular election is Cao or Cedric Richmond who is a known corrupt and Dollar Bill Jefferson clone. Out of the two choices available for the seat the rational conservative choice is Cao. He was unopposed in the primary for the record.

A “principled” vote in that election results in the Congressional Black Caucus gaining a new lifetime member. It also is a vote to keep the Wicked Witch of the West as the Majority Leader.

THis isn’t about party but strategy. Politics requires thinking past the ideology at times. The purists fail to grasp that and hence we end up with the total opposite type of candidate gaining a lifetime seat. A “principled” vote in this election is a vote for a marxist democrat who will vote 100% of the time with the 0bama agenda.


84 posted on 10/26/2010 6:24:48 AM PDT by CajunConservative (0, we'll stop treating you like a dog, when you stop treating us like a hydrant.)
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To: ConservaTexan

Cao (R-La.) says he’d weigh Pelosi and Boehner ‘equally’ for Speaker


85 posted on 10/26/2010 6:49:53 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup
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To: stocksthatgoup

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/124777-cao-says-hed-weight-pelosi-and-boehner-equally-for-speaker


86 posted on 10/26/2010 6:54:16 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup
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To: stocksthatgoup

Thank you.


87 posted on 10/26/2010 7:21:17 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: CajunConservative; SeeSac; BillyBoy; cherry; AuH2ORepublican; okie01; stocksthatgoup

I’d be embarrassed if I had spent last night and this morning defending Cao. Multiple sources provided, take your pick. Thanks, stg!

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/124777-cao-says-hed-weight-pelosi-and-boehner-equally-for-speaker

http://weaselzippers.us/2010/10/19/rino-rep-joseph-cao-says-hed-consider-pelosi-for-house-speaker/

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1010/Cao_could_go_either_way_on_speaker_vote.html?showall


88 posted on 10/26/2010 7:33:51 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: ConservaTexan
I’d be embarrassed if I had spent last night and this morning defending Cao.

Not as embarrassed as you should be defending picking a corrupt democrat over Cao.

89 posted on 10/26/2010 7:38:23 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac

Not once did I defend picking a corrupt democrat. I merely want a consistent conservative, not someone who claims to be conservative, but then votes for 0bamacare and is willing to consider voting for Pelosi as speaker. How can you defend a person who cannot say, with conviction, I will never vote for Nancy Pelosi?


90 posted on 10/26/2010 7:46:54 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: ConservaTexan
Not once did I defend picking a corrupt democrat.

You said you would dance a jig to celebrate the corrupt democrats win over Cao.

91 posted on 10/26/2010 7:49:13 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: ConservaTexan
Not once did I defend picking a corrupt democrat.

Here is your post which clearly says you would rather see the corrupt democrat win rather than 'rino' Cao.

"I would rather be in principled minority than a majority full of RINOs."

92 posted on 10/26/2010 7:51:59 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: ConservaTexan
Not once did I defend picking a corrupt democrat.

I finally realized that you are correct. Not once, at least three times ...see the below

Cao is as conservative as it will get.

If being the only (R) to vote for 0bamacare is as conservative as it gets in that district, I say let the dems have it.

93 posted on 10/26/2010 7:56:13 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac

And I stand by that comment. I will dance in celebration of a RINO being culled from the herd. I am not surprised when a liberal democrat votes like a liberal. I cannot stand it when a supposed conservative votes like a liberal. Once again, you are supporting the likes of Collins, Chaffe, Graham, Snowe, and Powell. They are the type of politicians that got us into this mess, and you somehow expect them and their ilk to get us out? I would rather lose a seat than win and get shafted everytime this lib decides to “cross party lines.”


94 posted on 10/26/2010 8:00:05 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: SeeSac
Cao is as conservative as it will get.

It doesn't matter how many times you say it, noting for Nancy Pelosi is not conservative.

95 posted on 10/26/2010 8:04:49 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: ConservaTexan

I didn’t say that.


96 posted on 10/26/2010 8:15:27 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: ConservaTexan
Once again, you are supporting the likes of Collins, Chaffe, Graham, Snowe, and Powell.

Supporting Cao over a corrupt democrat is NOT supporting Collins, Chaffe, Graham, Snowe, and Powell as you say it. However, you statements supporting Cao's defeat and the election of a corrupt democrat are perfectly clear.

97 posted on 10/26/2010 8:20:10 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac
You said Cao is conservative. Your guy said he would consider supporting Nancy Pelosi for speaker. Anyone that considers voting Pelosi anything but GUILTY is not a conservative.

BTW, I never said I supported picking a corrupt democrat, but somehow you attributed those words to me. (even though you supplied a quote of mine that said no such thing) I could agree with you, but then we would both be wrong and I see no point in that.

98 posted on 10/26/2010 8:27:27 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: stocksthatgoup
Cao (R-La.) says he’d weigh Pelosi and Boehner ‘equally’ for Speaker

But he will vote for Boehner.

99 posted on 10/26/2010 8:28:13 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: omegatoo
You don't understand what he did. Cao only voted for Obamacare after they hit the magic 218 number. He did this to satisfy his district. He always said that he would not be one of the votes that passed the bill.

He did vote against the final bill.

He is the best we are going to get in that district. I would gladly vote for him if I live there.

100 posted on 10/26/2010 8:30:48 AM PDT by kara37
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