Posted on 11/07/2010 10:35:10 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The National Republican Senatorial Committee spent $3 million in the week before the election on the ill-fated campaign of Carly Fiorina, despite polling that showed her trailing by 9 points to the tiny Marxist Barbara Boxer (Fiorina ended up losing by...9.8%).
In the mean time, Ken Buck lost by a tiny margin in Colorado; Nevada’s Sharron Angle lost by a similar narrow vote total, Dino Rossi was edged by Patty Murray in Washington, 27,000 votes swung the election against Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and and Joe Miller is hanging by a thread in Alaska.
In Alaska, the final results may not be known for some time, but the NRSC’s final ads actually ended up helping Lisa Murkowski in her write-in campaign against GOP nominee Joe Miller. Instead of attacking Murkowski — the candidate who most threatened the party’s nominee — the NRSC instead took aim at Democrat Scott McAdams, who had no chance of winning. Any support they drove from McAdams was far more likely to go to Murkowski than to Miller — meaning the NRSC effort probably did more harm than good for Miller’s campaign.
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Give directly to conservative candidates — and don’t send even a dime to the NRSC or any of Karl Rove’s pathetic groups (e.g., “American Crossroads” — or, as I like to call it, “American Double-Crossers”).
You can and should support the PACs of true conservatives like Jim DeMint, such as The Senate Conservatives Fund.
Dude, it’s Palin who cost us these seats.
Rove’s group spent about $2 million to help Ken Buck. Buck was just a dead dull candidate. He couldn’t stay on message and didn’t have the fire in his belly.
Some more money here to rebut the nonstop attack ads could have rescued Ken Buck’s awful campaign.
>Your flight in from Mars must have been delayed.
I agree on Buck.
I can't help but think that the vote-killing kerflufle between Tancredo and Maes at the top of the ballot helped to turn a lot of conservatives off, costing Republicans all down the ballot votes, and costing us close races. This is probably the same reason why we didn't unseat Perlmutter in CO-7.
Agree: Never again another dime to the NRSC. I gave more money this year directly to Senate candidates than ever before. Next year, NRSC envelope goes in the trash.
From your handle, are you by any chance related to Governor Moonbeam?
I just bet you are, dude.
Leni
Buck proved himself in the primary when he whined about a pre-planned Palin media visit on the day of the state assembly. He said Palin was rude for coming to the event on the day he was scheduled to win the assembly. If that was enough to bother him, he wasn’t strong enough to fight for the seat.
aaaah Moon, I recognize sarcasm when I see it...
well played
If you check the MoonbatMullet’s posting history, you’ll see, it posts about a handful of times a year aka troll. Don’t feed’em.
Nope, check the post history ... moonbat troll.
Wonder why Peggy Noonan didn’t warn the Republican Party about wasting money on Fiorina?
I get it - you're a joke!
I don’t know. It’s hard to say. We won other state-wide races down ballot: Secretary of State (beating a dem incumbant), Treasurer (beating a dem incumbant) and Attorney General. I just think both Buck and Maes were not good candidates at all (understatement with Maes).
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