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Posted on 05/15/2022 3:31:31 PM PDT by T Ruth
MEYERSDALE, Pennsylvania — Unless either Dr. Mehmet Oz or David McCormick pulls out a miracle between today and Tuesday evening, just over 20% of the Republican primary electorate is going to nominate Kathy Barnette for U.S. Senate.
This would mark the first time in modern Pennsylvania Republican primary history that such a complete unknown wins with no statewide infrastructure to support her candidacy, zero money, and little scrutiny. If she succeeds, she will have upended a race between two capable candidates who, up until a week ago, seemed to be locked in a two-man contest.
This would also mark the first time in Pennsylvania Republican primary history that an insurgent candidate has ever won a primary race. ***
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*** There is no state party to rescue Oz or McCormick, because the party didn’t even have the spine to endorse in this race. ***
As a consequence, the party’s decision not to endorse in the governor's or Senate races has had long-reaching implications. By failing to do so, it left a ridiculous number of candidates in the race for both offices — in particular for the governor's race, where nine candidates stayed in long past their expiration date. This allowed the eccentric, far-right Doug Mastriano to suck up all of the oxygen.
In short, if Barnette wins — and everything at this moment points in that direction — she will undoubtedly run shoulder to shoulder with Mastriano. They’ve endorsed each other, they campaign together all the time, and they hold the same outsider standing — even outside of Trumpworld.
It is hard to find any pathway where either of them will win in November, even in the remarkable conditions available to Republican candidates right now.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
She was a fruity lady who was into witchcraft 10 years ago. They use her to scare people into voting for the liberal.
First some said she had little chance to win the primary, now it’s she has little chance of winning the general. Well maybe, that would be the conventional take on things. But many American voters are p*ssed off, and when they get like that surprises can happen.
Being an outsider attacked and shunned by the establishment could lend her a certain advantage. What can voters look forward to with either Oz who will most likely be wishy washy at best, or McCormick who just seems like a McConnell clone in many respects? So damn the torpedoes, it’s full speed ahead!
She’s not a witch. She’s you.
They undermined her campaign by spreading stories like the "witch" thing, and they played dirty tricks by inserting a fake tax lien on her home with the IRS as a campaign issue, and then mysteriously removed the lien when the campaign was over.
Taking out O'Donnell gave us Democrat Chris Coons, who then went on to influence Jeff Flake into supporting the Brett Kavanaugh investigations.
See this thread by her former lawyer (and Freeper Moseley):
Bannon's War and The Christine O'Donnell Myth
-PJ
TV presence, stage presence, smooth rhetoric, public speaking skills, large org, lots of $$$.
Dems are screwed this cycle, so why not go with our most outspoken candidates—witches, Mourdocks, all of them?
He didn’t think quick in the debate.
O'Donnell identifies as a young earth creationist, and in 2011, on the subject of evolution, she said, "You know what, evolution is a myth... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?"
-PJ
Correct, but she made some great points.
Perhaps with some justification, in both cases I may say.
Salena Zito is still pissed two Conservatives are being nominated in PA. Film and funny animal videos at 11.
It seems to me that for the Senate race, the Dems are going to put up a left-wing extremist.
However, I do not feel confident in predicting any particular outcome.
I believe you should. My complaint with Barletta isn't his positions or his character, I just watched him sink against what should have been a very defeatable candidate in 2018 and that was the difference for me. Hopefully he has improved and has a long future in shaping PA politics.
Mastriano has more upside for me, but he has downsides as well, and he hasn't run a statewide campaign before, so he's unproven there. To the extent that he tried to do something statewide in the senate, he failed as well (I'd like to hear more about how he picked three counties for auditing, but managed to pick ones, even the heavily republican one, that each had activist democrats as solicitors. Was it his staff that blew that basic research, was it the snake Corman sabotaging him? How has he improved?)
The difference was that Williamson was one of many in a crowded Democrat presidential primary, while O'Donnell was the candidate who unseated the incumbent in a statewide Senate race. Williamson was expendable, O'Donnell was not.
In my opinion, there was no justification for the GOP to willfully give up the Delaware Senate seat. Chris Coons was a beatable candidate, but Mitch McConnell valued installing sycophants to build his power base over winning seats.
-PJ
Bingo !
You’d think that would’ve moved leftists into voting for her, especially given their love for Satanism and Wicca.
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The PA GOP establishment has a nasty habit of offering minimal “support” for candidates that they don’t like.
Ask Scott Wagner about the support he received four years ago when he challenged Wolf.
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