Posted on 07/31/2012 6:41:48 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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What about the other opportunities when he could have taken on a dem incumbent and at worst taken one for the team? He had to run for the WH because the Senate was beneath him. Live with him for one term? It will end up meaning 2 because no one will challenge him when he’s 75. That’s how the game is played. We will do the same in the blue states where I would be more comfortable. Think NM and Mass. The one in Maine took herself out. Maybe she should have been pushed out.
It's preposterous for him to point a finger at Hovde - what an old fraud.
Yes, sometimes businessmen cover their bases, so to speak, by donating to another party - we're not babes in the wood, here, no need to blush and look shocked when it comes up.
Hovde is already running better in the polls against Baldwin and would be a far stronger candidate in the general election than that old fossil.
Fitzgerald is laying the groundwork for a future run. Neumann missed his boat when he unilaterally disarmed against Feingold and ushered Russ into the US Senate.
We voted yesterday — for Hovde.
I said I support Neumann. I am well aware of Thompson’s deficiencies. I support Neumann, but expect Thompson to win, and distrust Hovde completely.
Any of them would be a SERIOUS upgrade over Kohl.
You might be right about Thompson for two terms. I do fear Baldwin, but think she could beat Hovde.
Go Neumann.
Unfortunately it looks like the way these guys have conducted this primary campaign they have turned a sure winner against an extreme leftist into making her a clear favorite to take the seat.
I had not seen that poll; Thompson had been up over Baldwin by 15 not long ago.
There is still time to define Baldwin, but she’s shrewder than most hard left pols.
I’d been leaning towards Hovde, until he started running that mud-throwing ad.
Granted, I do not watch much TV or listen to radio all that often, but I’ve not seen or heard any of the candidates throwing mud at Hovde, as he claims. In fact, he’s the one throwing mud in the ad complaining of mud throwing.
So, I’ve cooled on Hovde.
I really like Fitzgerald. I like him right where he is, though he is leaving his current position, unfortunately, regardless. If he had the money and organization to go up against Baldwin, he’d be my first choice.
Assuming his new-found conservatism is genuine, how long would Thompson serve?
That leaves Neumann.
You must not watch ANY TV or listen to ANY radio. A surrogate outside group that employs former Neumann staffers began a blistering mud-throwing ad campaign more than a month ago. Neumann followed up with his nearly-identical official mud-throwing ads a week later. Those ads drowned out the positive ads Hovde has been running for the last 5 months.
Neumann is pursuing the same sort of distortion-filled (I will refrain from calling them pants-on-fire lies) campaign as he did during his dishonest 2010 gubernatorial primary campaign against Scott Walker.
Neumann should be the LAST candidate you consider.
I do like Fitzgerald, but Fitzy is from such a small town and has such a tiny base of support to run a statewide campaign that I'm not sure he would prevail against Baldwin and her union/Soros financing. On that basis alone, I will vote for the self-financed Hovde.
Tommy is just too old and too much of a GOP-e big spender for my tastes. And when he jumped in and began his own phony attack ads on Hovde, Tommy destoyed any feelings of goodwill he developed as our gaffe-prone loutish governor more than a dozen years ago.
I’ve already voted absentee for Fitzgerald, a true conservative.
Tommy is too old, and was a big spender, and we need someone who can hold the sea for more than one term.
Hovde is an unknown, he strikes me as a Johnson wannabee, he doesn’t live in WI.
Neumann, I will never forgive him for his nasty campaign against Walker during the primary for governor.
I agree with all you said, except that I’ve met Hovde and I trust him. I would have loved to have voted for Fitzgerald, except I have serious reservations about his ability to raise the funds to win in the General. I heard an ad on the radio from Fitzgerald today on my way home from work, and I said to my husband that Fitzgerald should have run that ad 6 months ago. He agreed.
I’ll go a little further on Tommy. He was just horrid at our Lincoln Day Brunch. Angry. Loud. Yelled at us. All of the candidates were there, and Hovde was the best. He also sat at my table, and we found him to be very personable. But, even there, Fitzgerald gave the best speech. Fitz commented on being the only candidate who had received death threats. That really set Tommy off who went on a rant about how he had received death threats 20 years ago.
Ah, that's the gaffe-prone loutish governor I remember.
So then, Fitzgerald or Hovde? Whether or not Fitzgerald has the money for the general, he has certainly earned my trust and my vote.
New primary poll from “We ask America” TT and Hovde tied at 23% Neumann 17% Fitzgerald 12%.
I’m voting for Fitz. For all the reasons you stated.
Tommy-too old
Newman-perennial candidate, what’s the next office he’ll run for?
Hovde- can’t fill Johnson’s shoes, carpetbagger.
Fitz - proven conservative
I think it's great that we can chose among such good candidates.
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