Posted on 05/04/2010 6:51:54 PM PDT by pissant
INDIANAPOLIS -- Former Sen. Dan Coats surged back four other Republican Senate hopefuls to clinch the party's nomination Tuesday night.
GOP leaders had high hopes that Coats, a senator for about eight years in the 1990s, would be a shoo-in for the nomination. National Republicans have backed him since he launched his campaign in February, shortly before Democrat Evan Bayh made his surprise announcement that he wouldn't seek a third term.
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
Well, we did always can to get a conservative in but now we have a RINO; let make sure that these RINO will hold the line when they are in office.
Let’s hope and pray that he doesn’t join the Lindsay Graham wing of the party.
He’s another damned RINO reeking with the stink of Washington’s K Street.
And one of them global warming believing types, if I’m not mistaken.
I read that the NRA is going to endorse his dem opponent, and with good reason. If I lived in his district, I wouldn’t support him either.
Any person that supported the ‘94 gun ban is UNFIT for any office!
What proof do you have Coats is RINO? Or are you just parroting what you have heard on this thread?
Ok, the article is just ambiguous enough to not know how to feel about him (not being from Indiana.)
Please get your facts straight BEFORE you post on the message board, not after. Thank you.
“Shortly before” Bayh’s announcement time-wise, but, he wasn’t running if Bayh was staying.
OK. You guys put up a good fight. Now it is time to get behind the nominee. Let’s not have any circular firing squads this year...
Would it have been better if somebody else had won the primary? Probably... But they didn’t. And now you all have a choice.
He’s a lot better than Lugar, but I voted for Stutzman.
What does Coats stand for? I hear alot of people say Coats is anti-gun and an algore like climate nut. What does his voting hsitory say?
It looks a few relatively unknown candidates verses a name the voters heard before won. A lesson to be learned in the next primaries.
In the general we to dump the Rats.
Stop Obama and the crazyass congress in November!
From what I saw if you combined Hostetler and Stutzman’s percentages you wind up with 52% versus Coats 40%. I don’t know if that means anything.
Agreed. Looks like he voted for the Brady Bill and the “assault weapons” ban. Another Democrat running as GOP.
I stood behind Palin last election and held my nose to vote for McRINO. I won’t so that again.
You got that right....conservatives have a nasty habit of forming a circular firing squad.
Personally I will take even a RINO over a slimy-liberal socialist democRAT who will rubber stamp Alisnsky disciple president Zero.
Get behind Coats for now (he will be better than any rat). But start working on having Stutzman get rid of Lugar.
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