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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.
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With everything that is going on in this country today why in the hell do people continue to vote for complete morons like Coats?
That’s really the biggest problem. He could be great now, but gone in 6 years because of his age. So then we have to do another open seat election.
Then again he could kick the bucket and Daniels could appoint a conservative.
I think that was Rep. Dan Burton.
He’ll be Mccain’s standin.
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Ellsworth voted for cap and tax and later voted for health care. NRA is stupid and does not deserve another dime of my money if they endorse this far left lap dog. Serious, I will never give them another red dime. Ellsworth is as left as they come.
Coats is very soft-headed, and liberal.
Indiana has not had a conservative senator in my lifetime.
That's “Hoosier.” If you're going to imply that we're stupid, please at least spell our name right.
The NRA did endorse Harry Reid in 2004. The NRA wants to show they’re bi-partisan. Meanwhile, the Dem candidate in the IN-08 is heavily courting the Tea Parties.
Trust me, Ellsworth is a true blue liberal. Not sure if the poster was pulling the NRA endorsement statement out of his fourth point of contact, but if not, like I said, I am done with the NRA. I am originally from IN and I still follow politics there, so I know all about Ellsworth.
The NRA is a 2ND AMENDMENT interest group. Not a republican, or even a conservative interest group. If a candidate is better on firearms ownership, they WILL support that candidate, regardless of party or ideology. If someone flat out sucks when it comes to supporting the 2nd Amendment, even though they are running against a liberal democrat, I'm inclined to stay home. This isn't on the fringe of the 'gun issue' either.
If someone supported the '94 gun ban, they are no better than Al Gore to people who vote 2A. If Coats had a half a brain, he would repudiate his prior votes, and swear to never vote that way again. That MIGHT make up for his past sins.
Wrong, Coats is way to the right of Lugar.
Lugar is a moderate like Lindsey.
He won't be 80 until he has won this election and been reelected in 2016 and 2022.
As far as I remember, Harriet Myers was selected by your hero George W. Bush, not Dan Coats.
Lugar is scared of guns too?
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I recall the moaning on here last year when Christie won the GOP gubernatorial nomination in NJ. He’s turned out far better than anyone could have imagined.
Former Sen. Dan Coats wants to pass through the revolving door again, leaving his plush job at a K Street lobbying firm to challenge two-term Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., for the Senate seat Coats held for a decade before he cashed out.
Democrats have been quick to attack Coats as a lobbyist who has done the bidding of the fattest fat cats. But, ironically, the policies Coats advanced on behalf of his corporate clients are the same bailouts, regulations, and overspending that President Obama has championed in the name of "change." And Coats' biggest clients -- Google and the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America -- have been intimate Obama allies.
Coats represented Bank of America in the third quarter of 2008, when the collapsing bank begged for and received tens of billions of bailout dollars -- a bailout that was passed with Obama's blessing and that enflamed the populist anger that led to the tea-party rebellion of 2009.
For Coats, that was just the beginning. Acting on behalf of Cerberus Capital Management, the hedge fund that owned Chrysler, he lobbied to expand the Wall Street bailout to Detroit, according to the October 2008 lobbying report filed by Coats' employer, King & Spalding. Presidents Bush and Obama agreed with Coats and Cerberus, and taxpayers soon bailed out Chrysler.
Coats also was on the side of domestic manufacturers who convinced Obama this year to impose tariffs on steel tubing from China. Coats represented the Ad Hoc Coalition for Fair Pipe Imports from China, the group of steel-pipe manufacturers who sued Chinese pipe manufacturers in the World Trade Organization. In January, that group struck gold when Obama announced tariffs on steel pipe from China -- consumers and other manufacturers lost with Obama's big-government action, while labor unions and Coats' clients won.
Another Coats client was billionaire private-equity mogul Julian Robertson. But Coats wasn't lobbying on the taxation of private equity managers or regulation of the finance industry. He was lobbying for the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill that would restrict energy use in the name of limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Robertson was invested in Chinese biofuels and in nuclear power, both of which would benefit from a cap-and-trade scheme, such as the one included in Lieberman-Warner and in the current Waxman-Markey climate bill, that would constrain the use of fossil fuels like coal.
Coats' other clients include a lineup of subsidy sucklers and regulatory robber barons, many of which spent 2009 at President Obama's side, fighting for the Democrats' "reform" agenda. For instance, Google is one of the president's closest allies -- Fortune magazine, for instance, carried a story last October headlined "Obama & Google (A Love Story)," with the thesis, "In Google, the $22-billion-a-year online-advertising Goliath, Obama appears to have found a corporate kindred spirit." Google is also a Coats client. Lobbying filings show Coats has lobbied on Google's behalf for "Openness and competition in the online services market," which presumably means he worked for Google's coveted "net neutrality" regulation -- effectively price controls on networks, to the benefit of Google and other content giants.
Democrats have attacked Coats for representing drug makers Amgen and the Medicines Company as well as PhRMA, the biggest spender of all single-industry lobby groups over the past decade. But it's the GOP and its conservative base that should be upset about this dossier -- PhRMA was an early and enthusiastic backer of Obama's health care "reform," which would have profited the industry. And MDCO's priority for which they hired Coats -- a tailor-made five-year extension of MDCO's monopoly on one drug, Angiomax -- was slipped into the final reform bill by Democrats just before Scott Brown's election torpedoed it.
Populist anger is burning over bailouts, overspending, government growth, and the closed-door Washington collusion between the wealthy and the powerful. This anger has Democrats worried. But if Republicans nominate Coats, a Beltway insider specializing in corporate welfare, the Tea Party might be tarring and feathering the GOP as well.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Timothy_Carney/Dan-Coats-lobbyist-for-fat-cats-plots-Senate-return-83993132.html
It will take conservatives who are willing to become squeaky wheels in their local republican parties.
A lost opportunity for sure.
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