Posted on 08/19/2012 6:16:39 AM PDT by bert
To what conservative Senatorial candidate should I send my money?
The preservation of conservative principle and ideals is a good thing, a necessary thing, and must be applauded. The continued application of principle to a short term situation in which all aspects of conservatism cannot be brought to bear becomes an exercise in futility and wasted time and effort.
Such is the case in the current presidential election. Conservatism cannot have an effect on choosing an opponent to run against Obama. That decision was made in the primaries. There are pretenders who will take you money and your pretend vote but the exercise is futile.
That limited restraint does not apply across the board and in fact has no bearing at all on the remaining but extreme important races for seats in the congress. The strength of the conservative movement and of Free Republic should be redirected away from the battle for presidential nominee to the other races.
For a conservative who lives in a state where the Senate incumbent is up for reelection and has no competition and has loads of money, a prudent course is to find a worthy conservative candidate elsewhere. It has been an established practice for many Freepers to shun giving money to the Republican House and Senatorial campaign committees because they do not always support conservatives. A better choice is to find a worthy candidate and contribute directly by finding his website and putting the contribution on the credit card. It is clean, quick and easy.
The question then becomes who are the Senate candidates with conservative credentials who can best use the money? Are there Senate candidates that can be as worthies for the funds we have available for contribution ( that is above and beyond the funds for keeping the doors of Free Republic open)?
I think it would be helpful if Freepers in the various states with knowledge of the candidates and their relative strengths could provide some insight. The only race I have small knowledge of is Florida where the incumbent has massive available funds and some help to the Republican candidate might be worthwhile. The problem is the Republican Mack might not be the best conservative among those across the country .
Thus the problem.
Who are the most deserving conservative candidates in need of some help?
We cannot affect the Presidential race but we can certainly provide some leverage in the Senate. That must be our course of action
Connie Mack for sure. Mandel is a good one too. we definitely have to look at the North Dakota and I think Scott Brown will have his hands full holding on to Teddy Kennedy’s seat. And of course there’s Tommy Thomson in Wisconsin. Virginia and Montana seem like they wouldn’t need much to flip back and I can’t see Indiana turning blue over Mourdock. Hoosiers are conservatives. Deb Fischer looks like she is going to crush Kerrey which is kind of surprising. It looks Todd Akin has a large lead over McCaskill so we’re good there.
Give to the close races. Mourdock in IN, Mandel in OH, Hoekstra in MI, Rehberg in MT, Berg in ND.
The Senate will be a hell hole until we repeal the 22 Amendment.
Todd Akin.
He’s very conservative and running against Claire McCackle in Missouri.
I would say Connie Mack IV, but then again, maybe not.
5.56mm
if I had money, I think I’d send some to Ted Cruz.
Cruz doesn’t need it. That’s a reciepe for a minority.
Please consider Tom Smith in PA. He started and ran a coal company and is Tea Party in attitude. He is running against Casey, who is a Dem rubber stamp in his first reelection run, and is beatable.
I have given money to Josh Mandel and have done a little bit of volunteer work for his campaign. I decided that I was not too much into Romney (although I am getting more comfortable with him lately) so why not give to a senator race. The senate is going to be as important as winning the white house.
Charlie Summers-Maine
Tommy Thompson is looking like a shoe-in, up ten percent in recent poll.
Money should be spent on closer races.
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I...O.. ya ya .... If you only knew what it is like to live in Columbus when you are not an OSU inbred native fan. OSU football is the official religion of central Ohio. Go to church, school function, cookout, watch TV...and you get to listen to the OSU hymns.
Tom Smith in Penn could use some help. He’s been endorsed by Tea Party Express.
Brilliant! ... Maybe all this vitriol being stirred up over the ABO turn to Romney (yetch, but what else we got?) can be channeled into really useful effort. We’re Freepers. We don’t have to live in a state to work for conservatism in that state.
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Great list. Saving for later!
Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin who is running against the vile lib, Tammy Baldwin(who has union support and money).
He would join conservative Ron Johnson in DC and Wisconsin has a chance to go red for the first time since 1984.
Maybe. or maybe we should find our six easiest battles and fortify our positions there so as to ensure a final victory in the war. I say six because six out of nine looks like the magic number.
maine looks a lot like a lost cause. King is 18 points ahead. He was recently 28 points ahead in a other poll. We should plan on losing Snowe’s seat so it doesn’t bite us in the ass when we do.
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