Posted on 05/14/2015 8:35:14 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Russ Feingold, the only US senator who voted against the 2001 Patriot Act, has announced he will launch a campaign to regain his seat in 2016.
Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, lost a re-election bid in 2010 to Ron Johnson, a Tea Party Republican. Feingold had served three terms.
In a video released on Thursday and first obtained by the Huffington Post, Feingold says that “billionaires and big corporations are calling the shots” and “we need to get started fixing all this”.
“Let’s fight together for change,” Feingold says. “That means helping to bring back to the US Senate strong independence, bipartisanship and honesty.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The Usual DailyKos/MSNBC suspects are cheering, saying this is "taking the fight to the Koch's!"
My, my a plea for bipartisanship. When a progressive makes such a plea, it can be translated as, “Let’s do things my way!”
In the next iteration of America, the capital must be dispersed throughout the nation, with the Senate in one place, House in another, Supremes in another, and President in another. And Congressmen should not live in the place where they meet, they go there for a month at a time to conduct business and then back home.
Johnson’s a good Senator and we need to keep him there. You think Feingold gets us closer to where we want to be?
Ron Johnson, a Tea Party Republican.
Could have fooled me by his voting record, I thought he was another Democrat in an R jersey.
Mark Levin BATTLES Sen. Ron Johnson over Obamacare defund strategy
You may not think Johnson is as conservative as you want him to be, but Feingold is left of Bernie Sanders.
Isn’t this the same Russ Feingold that introduced a Senate bill that would make ALL water property of the Federal Government.
Re-read my post and let me know what part is confusing you about whether I prefer Feingold to Johnson. I think you will find that nothing in that post says anything of the kind. But you sure are quick to play the "bad Republican is better than a democrat" card. With Johnson, that is still the case, but he is disappointing. With many others, it is becoming clear that it is not necessarily the case. As a recent article mentioned, conservatives might be better off with Harry Reid still majority leader, since Harry Reid's agenda can get passed with House support now, after McConnell pushes it through the Senate.
If Hillary is the nominee, he might win. He lost only by 5 percent in 2010 when Democrats sat that election out. Lord why does he of all people have to run. They couldn’t find a person with zero chance? This is not really great news for our side.
LOL. When is Mark Levin going to run for the Senate. You’re confusing an entertainer with someone who actually knows how to win elections. It’s a rookie mistake.
A “good” Senator doesn’t vote to confirm Loretta Lynch.
And he wants to make sure he gets his share.
Paranoid hate speech by Russ Feingold — who lost in 2010, and whose idea of “fixing this”, bipartisanship, and taking back the country from billionnaires is making the 8 years of Demwit rule disappear from the pages of history, being the sole vote against the obviously bipartisan Patriot Act, crushing freedom via McCain-Feingold, and pushing the George Soros and Tom Steyer agendas.
If conservatives are so naïve as to believe that we have to wait until we get a perfect conservative to change America, then how did we end up winning on guns and abortion?
Change real change, happens from the ground up. We have to capture the thoughtspace and to do that we’ll need to end government school education. Right now the big fight to to keep the FCC and the FEC out of the Internet.
Ron Johnson or any other Senator is going to moderate once they get elected. Cruz has moderated quite a bit already. It’s the nature and intent of Republics to moderate and avoid the vagaries of revolution and swift change. Liberals have forced swift change on us, but they’re losing.
So in Wisconsin who are you going to get to beat Ron Johnson and be this ideal candidate?
Better to work to defeat Feingold, a person who did real damage to our republic with his election reforms aka incumbent reelection laws. The fight is generational and always will be. We need to make strategic changes and dominate the thoughtspace to win. That’s already happening.
So then where is your ‘good’ Senator and how do you get 60 of them elected? FReepers would do better to fight on a single cause or win local elections. Allegedly there are 300K accounts. If just 1% of FReepers ran for office and only 1/3 of those won, we’d have 1000 conservatives serving right now. Are you too old to participate?
I like the idea, can we create and run on the Freeper Party line?
Power corrupts and you gain power over time, which is why I am in favor of term limits - no more than 12 years in any seat.
Perhaps, but some areas of the country you might want to run with a bit more stealth. It is all about winning.
Conservatism is conservatism. It is an ideology based on moral truths and the rule of law, the US Constitution and the bill of rights, individual freedom and pride in our culture and heritage. It does not change or moderate. If you are moderate, or support those who are susceptible of moderation, I suggest you would be happier reading David Brooks and George Will, not giving us excuses for Republicans who leave town with principles and then give in to Power's siren song. Jesse Helms never did that. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee haven't done that. Jeff Sessions hasn't done that. Ron Johnson has. He is weak-minded, like those guys on whom Jedi mind tricks work.
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