Posted on 02/18/2014 10:14:07 AM PST by Din Maker
Meg Whitman
Stockman is going to be the one that makes the runoff if Cornyn is held below 50%.
I know that Cruz won an “open” seat, but David Dewhurst was like an incumbent. He was Lt. Gov. He was an entrenched, well-funded, Establishment Texas RINO.
Stockman is going to be the one that makes the runoff if Cornyn is held below 50%.
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I know that, and he will be our “Todd Aikin”. I’ll be money on it.
Say what you will about Stockman’s loose cannon, but his voting record tells me what I need to know.
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Yeah; when he shows up to vote and is not sleeping off a drunk.
Todd Akin was an excellent Congressman and Conservative, but his sole mistake was an ill-advised comment that violated the Clayton Williams rule (since up until that point, he led McCaskill in the polls by a wide margin). I doubt Stockman will make THAT mistake.
Do you really think that Texas is less likely that Tenn?
Congressman Todd Akin was doing OK until big mouth Willard started stirring up things for him and had the Conservatives eating one of their own..
not because Todd had done anything above a misunderstood statement that really didn’t hurt him that much in the polls till Willard intervened..
but because Todd is a Conservative (which Willard is not and never has been)
and Todd is pro-life (and which Willard is not and never has been)
and Willard was looking out as usual for Old Number One, yeah Willard..(and let the rest of the Republicans and the country go to you-know-where for all Willard could care...)
what Todd Akin said didn’t effect Willard but Willard like any other normal or garden variety Liberal knows that the good offence in a campaign is a crisis and if theres none make one and Willard also knows that sympathy is good for the polls..
so Willard latched a slight comment by Congressman Akin and made it into an international incident by screaming a crying like the girl he is..
Sandra Fluke and Wendy Davis on their worse PMS days could not have causes such a fuss...
and Willard got his crisis and Willard got his sympathy and Willard managed to claw himself into being the “spokesman” and “leader” and “statesman” for the GOP at that moment...
and the shame of it was the Conservatives mostly all fell in line behind him..if that’s possible since Willard is a “lead-from-behind kind of Liberal..
Willard of course got lots of free PR and he wailed on camera on cue and had almost everyone kissing his booboo and agreeing Congressman Akin was the most evil threat to freedom since 9/11..
But every time Willard claimed to speak for me he was lying...(When Willard speaks the thinking’s been done doesn’t work for free Americans)
I didn’t think the same hysterical opportunist liberal way Willard does and although Willard claimed to have a consensus “ALL of the country agree” etc Willard was a cowardly Obama-style liar as usual ...
Needless to say Willard got rid of a real Conservative in MO and did what he set out to do...the GOP didn’t get the Senate..
The enemy of the Conservatives and the Republicans in that instance was Willard Mitt Romney, not William Todd Akin..
Willard caused a crisis where there was none and should never have been one if Willard hadn’t opened his big Liberal trap and caused one..
Willard has done nothing good for the Republicans but beat up on them but the Republicans keep acting like an abused wife..
I want Cornball to lose in the primary.
I’m ok with a Dem winning the general, if that is the price we pay.
I think we are better off without the Dick Lugar’s of the world in the Senate.
No doubt, but, dang, be adult in your ads and attacks. It was childless and tasteless. Why do an Ad that you know the Press will use to distract from the issues? It makes Stovall look juvenile.
I wouldn't call it his sole mistake. Akin had a lot of quotes for McCaskill to call upon - against Social Security, against Medicare, against the minimum wage. As it happened he managed to do himself in before McCaskill had to haul the other quotes out. Akin was a disaster waiting to happen from the moment he got the nomination. That's why McCaskill was so glad to run against him.
I want Cornball to lose in the primary.
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So do I, but that won’t happen if Stockman is in the run-off.
Right, if conservatives fold every time the left gets a point we’re never going to accomplish anything. Nobody’s perfect but we only have to worry about conservative imperfection since the libs are slippier than that turtle in a mud slide when we try to make LEGITIMATE charges stick to them.
Biggest mistake conservatives can make is to acknowledge their drivel, ignore it and move on.
Todd Akin was Claire mcCackle’s choice for an opponent.
In fact, McCackle’s campaign spent more on ads favoring Akin’s candidacy than Akin did.
He was a moron not to figure this out.
My fear is the power and money backing Cornyn that he will still pull this out in the long run, but it could be a bloody battle in the meantime.
Id rather Cornyn lose the runoff and Dems take the seat than Cornyn stay in. RINOs need to learn painful lessons if this nation is to be turned around.
How would those other quotes be “mistakes ?” He’s a Conservative in his votes, not just a talker who turns around and votes for the liberal establishment. It was one thing and one thing only that did in Akin (and same thing for Mourdock in Indiana), and he should’ve been sophisticated enough to know to avoid the topic or state that he is pro-life and keep reiterating the point. If Akin was a “disaster waiting to happen”, he certainly would not have enjoyed a long and successful career in the House. McCaskill took an enormous risk in trying to get Akin to be her opponent, and it just as easily could’ve blown up in her face. The same thing happened a decade ago when backing a certain Kenyan with a name that sounds like terrorists for an Illinois Senate seat (with the thinking that an initially well-regarded Chicago Republican would take him down), and we see how that turned out.
Our opponent knows us better than we know ourselves. She knew our knees would buckle and our bowels become incontinent if they made fun of us. She knew we would switch sides and join in making fun of Aiken rather than be the objects of derision. She knew that if she could throw Aiken of his pace for just an instant, he would never again be a threat to abortion, that we would ship him off to the glue-factory ourselves. She knew we’re cowards.
And how many Establishment candidates (non-incumbent) won in 2012 Senate elections? If we keep on electing “moderate” Republicans like Corker, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Collins, Murkowski, Hatch, Ayotte, Heller, Hoeven, Flake, and Kirk we will no longer have anything approaching a conservative party. Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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