Posted on 08/07/2014 6:51:44 AM PDT by upbeat5
Conservative activists are pouring every last resource into Tennessee in hopes of pulling another stunning Republican primary upset, this time in Thursday’s U.S. Senate racing pitting longtime Washington insider Lamar Alexander against tea-party upstart Joe Carr.
The defeat of Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, in Virginia’s Republican primary energized the conservative base in Tennessee, providing hope that perhaps Alexander could also be ripe for the picking.
While Alexander has enjoyed a healthy lead in the polls and has a huge spending advantage, his support is considered more “soft” than Carr’s and therefore more likely to stay home on election day. And the two issues Carr’s supporters are hammering Alexander on are illegal immigration and gun rights.
Alexander voted for granting a “path to citizenship” to illegal aliens in Senate Bill 744, a bill supported by President Obama and called “amnesty” by conservatives. While endorsed by the National Rifle Association, Alexander’s opponent has gained the support of Gun Owners of America, the National Association for Gun Rights and several other gun rights groups. His detractors cite his vote in favor of confirming the “gun grabbing” Eric Holder for attorney general and his voting with Democrats to allow debate on Obama’s background check bill last year, even though he ended up voting against the bill.
“What we’re doing is working. Everything ‘s almost in place that was in place against Cantor,” said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, who has been working the phones in Tennessee for the past week along with hundreds of other volunteers.
“Lamar has the Democrat party machine bringing out votes for him in Nashville and Memphis, and he has a vote splitter in the race in Dr. George Flynn, but everybody else is stepping up to hit for us,” Gheen said.
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There are also two Dims “with a chance” fighting to oppose Carr/Lamar! in November. That may also help.
Hard to remain positive, but I’m trying. The Cuccinelli and McDaniel gut-punches are still sore.
“Carr might pull off a 48-percent vote...at best.”
That is a real possibility.
“I don’t think he was ever the ‘best’ candidate to oppose Alexander.”
Perhaps not, but he was the best who stepped forward. After vetting the various potential candidates, the Tennessee tea party groups selected Carr. And Carr has made few, if any, mistakes. I went to one of his campaign stops and was very impressed. He is a solid conservative and, while not as “slick” as Alexander, is very savvy.
“As for voting for Alexander in the fall? No....if I were from Tennessee....I’d just stay home or vote Democrat on this particular ticket.”
Agreed.
“I like how the campaign manager said they’ve followed the Brat model.”
I think when Joe Carr announced his candidacy, he knew he would be swamped by Alexander in terms of money. Without money, Carr has at times appeared to be invisible.
He wasn’t getting much attention both (i) because he didn’t have money to advertise, and (ii) because Tennessee’s race is so late everyone was focused on the earlier races (Cornyn, McConnell, Cochran, Graham, etc.).
But a real boost to Carr has been the BeatLamar team. In my opinion Michael Patrick Leahy has done a great job of putting in place a real grassroots, on the ground, shoe leather campaign on a shoe string budget. We’ll see tonight how effective it has been. But if Carr pulls this out, a lot of credit will have to go to Leahy.
...vote Democrat...
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There is NO way I would EVER vote for a Democrat after what I observed taking place at their last convention.
Don’t vote Democrat. Write in Carr.
(I wonder if that is possible?)
You can write in who you wish. I almost wrote in Rocket Raccoon for Governor this morning.
I hope you are right
Again, guys, I hope you are right. The grassroots has been fighting hard. But, trust me, much of Middle TN has neither heard nor seen anything in the way of support for Carr. You can’t beat Lamar without a ground game.
I have asked to help the campaign on numerous occasions and, until last week, I heard nothing. Not a good way to run a campaign if your budget is tight, but people are at least willing to door knock and hold signs
Even if I am wrong, I would rather spend this time in hope, prayer, and trying to help than moping. After tonight, if I am wrong, there will be more than ample time to mope.
No, Igtar, if we lose tonight, we can mope some, but then we MUST turn our attention to the other Senator from our state and take out Corker!
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