Posted on 04/13/2009 7:11:38 AM PDT by MestaMachine
April 13, 2009
From Pat Toomey:
It's time for me to say goodbye to you and all the other wonderful members of the Club for Growth. I'm leaving as president of the Club for Growth today, and will soon take on a new challenge.
While I am very excited about the future of the Club, and my own future, I also know I am going to miss the Club very much.
These last several years that I have served as your Club's president have been among the most enjoyable and satisfying years of my adult life. I've had a wonderful team of talented and dedicated colleagues to work with every day. I've had a terrifically helpful and supportive Board of Directors to help guide the Club. And most of all, I've had the privilege of joining forces with a great band of American patriots--you and all of us who make up the Club for Growth.
The two things I love the most about the folks who choose to be members of the Club for Growth are these: First, they fully appreciate the fact that individual freedom is the indispensible principle that has made our nation the greatest that history has ever known; and second, they love our great country so much that they are willing to contribute their personal savings to the cause of defending that freedom. Your generous support of the Club for Growth has helped make it possible for us to carry out our mission of defending economic freedom and our free enterprise system. It has been an honor to help do so, and I have enjoyed every minute I have been with the Club.
And because of your support we've won many great battles over the years. We've been on the front lines helping to enact major tax cuts and to expand free trade. We've helped block tax increases and cap and trade legislation. Through our PAC we've helped win scores of congressional races--enabling like-minded, free-market patriots to defeat RINOs and liberal Democrats in the House and Senate--in open seats and against incumbents. We've grown our Club's membership roster and we've turned our PAC into the biggest source of independent expenditures in congressional races on the right in America. And the Club for Growth is just warming up.
But it is time for me to move on. As hard as it is for me to leave, another mission is calling me. As you know, our country has elected the most liberal federal government in its history. This administration, together with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, are bent on driving a hard-left liberal agenda of high taxes, the redistribution of income, government control of private industry, and the collectivization of responsibility. In short, they are determined to undermine the American character and turn us into a European-style welfare state. With 41 Republican senators, we should be able to use the filibuster to stop them in their tracks. But several of those Republicans support that liberal agenda. One of them is Arlen Specter. I personally believe that it is time for him to go. And that job falls on me. Very soon, I intend to announce my candidacy for the United States Senate in a Republican primary challenge against Arlen Specter.
I've loved my role in advancing the cause of freedom from within a powerful organization, operating outside of government. But with all that this government is doing and trying to do to undermine our free enterprise system, I feel compelled to fight from the inside once again where I believe I can help stop the worst that they would do, help defend our free enterprise system, and help restore and advance the freedoms that have already been compromised.
This would be FANTASTIC...
Fantastic indeed!!! Been waiting a long time for this.
I may be one of the last holdouts on this... but now, I’d rather have a Dem than Spector... NOT the case with all RINOs, but in his case, absolutely...
Can’t wait for the announcement. :-)
You will almost certainly get your wish...no Toomey won’t be elected, a Democrat will...the 60th vote...of course we may lose Ohio and Missouri as well.
Like to see Toomey beat spector like a bass drum.
Nonsense! Toomey has an excellent chance of winning in both the primary and general next year.
Defeatists like you are the problem with the conservative movement today. Instead of whining, hit the ground and help us win.
Thank goodness. Wish every state had a Pat Toomey-like economic conservative.
It’s not enough for just Pennsy to cut it’s take from the government. I want to stop paying for every other state’s wish list.
Where do I send my check?
Absolutely! He came so close last time--and that with a sitting President and the state's other Senator campaigning against him. That was the first time I was really mad at Bush--and I must say, I was really disappointed in Santorum. A good man on many counts, but his support for Spectre was wrong.
I think the backlash against Zero is growing. His numbers will go up a little with the hostage rescue, but their trend is downward. I really think Toomey could pull it off this time and definitely win in the general. Sort of like Sen Thune from South Dakota. He lost his first race, but ran again and won by defeating Daschle.
That being said, I will never vote for Specter again because he might be "the lesser of two evils". I've done that too many times in the past and will not be scared into doing it again in 2010.
Toomey is from outside the beltway as far a I’m concerned although he did serve as a Congressman.
His small business background sure beats the Philadelphia lawyer background of Specter.
Toomey could win this state just because he is running from outside the beltway and could blast the “bailouts” with ease.
It won’t be easy, but the Dems look like they want to have Specter at this point because no serious high profile Democrat candidate has appeared on the radar screen.
I am a realist. I look at the electorate in PA. I do not believe Toomey can be elected as he is far more conservative then PA...look at 2008. Despite, the fact McCain and Palin lived in the state, it was not even close. Nope, if Toomey is the candidate, unless a miracle happens, we get the 60th Dem in 2010. Now if Obama lets the autos fail, we may have a chance in Ohio...maybe.
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