Posted on 04/28/2004 4:43:55 AM PDT by randita
You are one admirable Conservative.
If anyone's interested, the URL to contribute to Hoeffel is http://www.hoeffelforsenate.com/involved/contribute.cfm
Well let's see Toomey(the guy you support, I also) says he agrees more with Arlen Specter, yet you wish to see the election of a person who disagrees more with the guy you support(Toomey).
Have no idea, if this is Wednesday morning disappointment for a campaign that you worked for, but the kamikaze political tactics that you are proclaiming this morning, is not very logical, IMO.
If it is clear that the Republicans will control the Senate regardless of who wins in Pennsylvania, then the race to me is not Specter vs. Hoeffel, but Specter vs some other judiciary committee Republican for the chairmanship. In that case, I will vote against Specter (and Hoeffel would get my vote).
If it is clear we would lose the Senate, then I would vote for Specter.
If it is unclear, I am not sure what I will do.
I don't know, yet. But, I do know that I won't be voting for a DemoRat.
Well let's see Toomey(the guy you support, I also) says he agrees more with Arlen Specter, yet you wish to see the election of a person who disagrees more with the guy you support(Toomey).It depends on how the question is asked. If you ask me who I think is a better choice for the Senate between Hoeffel and Specter, no brainer on the latter. But if you ask me who I think is a better choice for the Judiciary Committee chair, Specter or Hatch (or Sessions or Kyl or Grassley) it is also a no brainer in the other direction; I think if Toomey was being truthful he'd also say that he thinks compared to the others Specter is not the right man for the judiciary chair. He won't be asked that, and he won't say it on his own though.
And to me, the Judiciary chair is more important than a single Senate seat. It may not be to you. We all have our own judgments to make.
I am glad to see you say you support Toomey. If me deciding to go against his wishes is objectionable to you, then how did you ever support him in the first place since it went against the wishes of someone else you support (Bush, as do I)?
It's called a primary and that is what primaries are for. Toomey has stated that he will support Specter in the next and biggest battle, the general election.
But this is not just about a particular seat. It is also about a very important committee chairmanship, and that is one where there is no primary. It is also important enough to me that the general rule goes out the window.
Is my big picture perfect, no. But whose big picture or life is?
Hoeffel would be a bigger disaster than SpecterAnd this is the crux of why you and I are planning on voting in different directions.
I think we agree that Hoeffel will be a much worse Senator than Specter will.
I also think we agree that Specter will be a disaster as Judiciary committee chairman.
You see the damage from the first as being more than the damage from the second, and as such will vote Specter. I see the latter as more damaging than the former, and unless we are looking at Chairman Leahy, will vote against Specter.
At least that's my thinking for now. We'll see how the campaign plays out.
Correct, you have the dems Sarbanes and Mikulski who usually win with 70% of the vote.
You have a pretty good Governor in Ehrlich, although I am surmising he is not good enough to you given your, IMO, purist rhetoric.
Well, most real conservatives don't play the strategy, over ideology game. Toomey supporters will sit the fall out rather than support Sphincter. Better a Rat rejecting President Bush's judicial appointments than a Republican Judas like Specter.
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