Posted on 05/11/2010 6:39:03 PM PDT by Al B.
(CNN) – A prominent conservative is issuing an ultimatum, essentially telling the candidate he supports to do better in the polls – or lose his support.
Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState.com, backs Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in the California Republican senate primary. DeVore is locked in a battle with former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and former Rep. Tom Campbell for the right to face Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November.
Speaking Tuesday with CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, Erickson – a CNN contributor - said he won't support DeVore much longer if the candidate does not improve his political standing.
"Look, if Chuck DeVore hasn't gone up in the polls within two weeks significantly, I'll be with Carly Fiorina because Tom Campbell is that bad," Erickson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
But the calculus amongst the ‘wise’ is that we must pick a RINO to beat boxer. Uhhhgg
“Pissant and many others are here to promote conservative values. We are not here to advance partisan interests.”
First, pissant is here to promote his Falcon Party of 67 members.
Secondly, we are conservatives first here on FR.
However, the GOP is the Party by which conservatives are elected.
In liberal states like Mass. and Ca., you are not going to get the ideal conservative. But you can get candidates that have primarily conservative beliefs.
Scott Brown is the prime example in Mass. That was and is a crucial Senate seat for we conservatives.
Reagan knew you had to build a coalition by electing Republicans in the Senate and House. Without that, it’s very hard to govern as a conservative.
So, though we are conservatives primarily, the reality is that the GOP is our conduit to the WhiteHouse and the Majority.
Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
By Michelle Malkin
The question isn’t why Sarah Palin is helping John McCain. The question is: What are you doing to stop him from cementing his Big Government Republican legacy?
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Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for The Right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight-message, consider this warning “a cry of defiance, and not of fear.” Conservatives have worked hard over the past year to rebuild after Big Government Republican John McCain’s defeat. But McCain isn’t going gently into that good night.
Red Flag Number One: A reader from Arizona informed me the day after the Bay State Bombshell that he had received a robo-call from Massachusetts GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown. “He basically wanted me to vote for John McCain in November,” the reader said in his description of the automated campaign call supporting the four-term Sen. McCain’s re-election bid. “No wonder [Brown] said he hadn’t had any sleep…he was busy recording phone messages!”
Red Flag Number Two: Also in the wake of the Massachusetts special election, the nation’s most popular conservative political figure, Sarah Palin, announced she would be campaigning for her former running mate in Arizona in March. Palin told Facebook followers that she’s going to “ride the tide with commonsense candidates” and help “heroes and statesmen” like McCain. Facing mounting conservative opposition in his home state and polls showing him virtually tied with possible GOP challenger and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, McCain welcomed the boost: “Sarah energized our nation and remains a leading voice in the Republican Party.”
Savor the irony: After a career spent bashing the right flank of the party, Sen. McCain is now clinging to its coattails to save his incumbent hide.
And pay attention to the hidden, more troubling irony: While he runs to the right to protect his seat, McCain’s political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans to secure his legacy.
In Florida, McCain’s Country First Political Action Committee is supporting the Senate bid of fellow illegal alien amnesty supporter and global warming alarmist, GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, whose crucial 2008 primary endorsement rescued McCain from disaster. Grass-roots conservatives support former GOP statehouse leader Marco Rubio – who is hitting Crist hard for lying to voters about his embrace of President Obama’s pork-laden, fraud-ridden stimulus package.
In Colorado, McCain and his meddlers infuriated the state party by anointing former lieutenant governor Jane Norton to challenge endangered Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet. She’s a milquetoast public official who has served on a lot of task forces and GOP clubs – and who happens to be the sister-in-law of big Beltway insider Charlie Black. An estimated 40 percent of her coffers are filled with out-of-state money (and much of that is flowing from the Beltway).
The mini-McCain of Colorado claims to oppose “special interests,” but has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from D.C. lobbyists at McCain’s behest – stifling the candidacy of strong conservative rivals led by grass-roots-supported Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, an amnesty opponent whose aggressive illegal immigration prosecutions have earned him the rage of the far Left and big business Right. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Buck and another GOP candidate Tom Wiens beating Bennet – despite the huge cash and crony advantage of front-runner and blank-slate Jane.
** In California, McCain’s PAC supports former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina – a celebrity name with deep pockets of her own, massive media exposure, and a checkered business record. Fiorina served as the economic adviser to McCain, who supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, the $25 billion auto bailout, a $300 billion mortgage bailout, and the first $85 billion AIG bailout. As GOP rival and grass-roots-supported Chuck DeVore’s camp notes, Fiorina has also vacillated publicly over the Obama stimulus. With taxpayer “friends” like this, who needs Democrats?
With all due respect to McCain’s past noble war service, it’s time to head to the pasture. As the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, he was wrong on the constitutionality of the free-speech-stifling McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations. He was wrong to side with the junk-science global warming activists in pushing onerous carbon caps on America. He was on the wrong side of every Chicken Little-driven bailout. He was wrong in opposing enhanced CIA interrogation methods that have saved countless American lives and averted jihadi plots. And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty.
Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Sarah Palin’s decision to campaign for McCain, whose entrenched incumbency and progressive views are anathema to the movement. At least she has an excuse: She’s caught between a loyalty rock and a partisan hard place. The conservative base has no such obligations – and it is imperative that they get in the game (as they did in Massachusetts) before it’s too late. The movement to restore limited government in Washington has come too far, against all odds, to succumb to McCain Regression Syndrome now.
Posted in: Immigration, John Kerry, Sarah Palin, Subprime crisis, Tea Party
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/22/conservatives-beware-of-mccain-regression-syndrome/
We ARE conservatives!!
We do not support this bullshit:
** In California, McCain’s PAC supports former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina – a celebrity name with deep pockets of her own, massive media exposure, and a checkered business record. Fiorina served as the economic adviser to McCain, who supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, the $25 billion auto bailout, a $300 billion mortgage bailout, and the first $85 billion AIG bailout. As GOP rival and grass-roots-supported Chuck DeVore’s camp notes, Fiorina has also vacillated publicly over the Obama stimulus. With taxpayer “friends” like this, who needs Democrats?
No, posting his crap, makes you the guy who is carrying his water.
Hey genius. This is the PRIMARY. This is the time to fight like hell for conservatives, not surrender to the same tired arguments of “we need the RINOS”.
And once again, I said time and again that if the GOP nominated Rudy McRomeny in 2008, we would get crushed. And remind me what happened again??
Yeah, like Arnold.
No thanks!! I’ll keep fighting the enemy in front rather than get stabbed in the back by a so-called friend.
Thank you for mentioning DeMint, a good conservative.
The problem is that DeMint endorsed and supported Myth Romney hot and heavy...and EARLY IN 08.
You are a hypocrite to call Palin a RINO, as you do, and then
turn around and go sniffin DeMint’s minty shorts.
I don’t hold that against DeMint, because it’s politics.
You hold it against Palin.
You’re a hypocrite.
Does that mean I’m like Michelle Malkin when I post her stuff, or Ann Coulter when I post hers? Or Mark Steyn? Rush? Or Sowell?
Just to bring out the “wild west” and into the modern age, Jim
And the big difference between me and you? I castigate Demint for that idiotic choice AND I don't pretend suddenly because of DeMint's illogic that Myth is anything other than a flip flopping worm. I guess I could have given him the Granrly treatment and pretended he was the best 'conservative' to beat Obama.
In a word. No. But you were delighted to spread Allahpundit's crap this time. I really have to drop this.. it is a cross thread post.
It just irritates me that you think tearing someone down is the way to prop up your loser.
I really haven't studied you well enough to know if you are a Paulite.
Anyway, have fun.. the world moves on and I am sure you will find something worthwhile to do with your time in the future.
Erick Erickson sounds like an idiot. How can he back Devore one day publicly after the Palin endorsement and now says he will flee him? He is a nut then because he is not a man of conviction.
Uh, you don’t need to “study” me. I’m 100% up front with my agenda and opinions and preferences.
You are avoiding the important part of the point pissant.
You still go ga ga over DeMint for President.
But you disqualify Palin for the same thing.
BFD, I’ve called out Palin for her stands on the issues when she is wrong, like the oil tax.
But she is still the best, most conservative candidate for the Presidency. She did no worse than DeMint in supporting RINO McCain. But at least it was good politics.
DeMint supporting Romney was cold, calculated political ambition.
Yet to you Palin is a RINO and DeMint is a real conservative.
You can’t escape that point.
that was two conservatives versus a RINO. Even then, you had dozens of fools here defending the gun grabbing RINO coats.
Only one conservative in the CA primary.
Sarah Palin is being used like a whore by McCain to build his political dynasty in the Senate. Apparently he wants to become the new Lion of the Senate now that Kennedy is gone. He’d love to be The GOP Lion surrounded by a herd of loyal RINOs and lapdogs.
I had no idea DeMint shared Palin’s call for amnesty, or TARP, or welfare for ‘special needs’ kids, or global warming regulations. But I could be wrong.
I just haven't been paying attention to that out of you. Always thought you were a straight shooter. But, you are really painting yourself as a fringe player so then it makes me wonder. That is all.
I noticed you replied with a non-reply. So much for being 100% upfront.
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