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Posted on 06/06/2014 12:24:07 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
A bushy-eyebrowed pizza deliverer from Durham, N.C., might keep Republicans from winning the Senate.
Sean Haugh isn't a household name and probably never will be. But he's a libertarian candidate for Senate in North Carolina, and his name is on the ballot, and recent polls shows he's doing, well, not terrible. They also show that he siphons off votes from the Republican nominee. So Democrat Kay Hagan, one of the Senate's most vulnerable incumbents, potentially stands to benefit a lot from Haugh's candidacy.
Haugh’s central goal is to get onstage for debates.
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Gosh there IS a way to keep libertarians off as well as anyone else that might clutter the ballot. Make it illegal for third parties to run. I mean after all, they’re just disruptive and prevent people from electing who they really want. Even if they didn’t vote for them.
But why stop there? Why don’t we just have one person on the ballot. Let the uniparty pick whomever they want and we would have a very orderly system of elections. And the end result wouldn’t be much different anyway.
There was a libertarian dog lying in a manger who could not eat grain but who nevertheless prevented the republican horse from being able to eat anything during election season, either.
Unfortunately, after the election, Democrat Pigs have no trouble.
The prospects for that happening are zilch.
I don’t know if North Carlina had runoffs for the general election in 1994 (I don’t think so), but they don’t now, only Georgia does, as we saw in 2008 with the Senate race.
There were no runoffs in Georgia in 1994 and even in Louisiana, with it’s idiotic system of an all-party “jungle primary” in November and a runoff in December, no runoffs were needed in ‘94. So I don’t know what you are remembering.
Anyway, I don’t think this clown will get anywhere near where a few polls have him now. But any little bit COULD hurt.
Note to all the Harry Reid supporters on this thread, Thom Tillis is a fine conservative and this losertarian’s main issue is slashing military spending in the name of ending war, sounds great.
A couple of days after Election Day in 1994, the only U.S. House race whose results still were unknown was the CT-02 race between incumbent RAT Sam Gehdenson (sp?) and Republican Edward Munster (no, not Herman and Lilly’s boy). It had a couple of recounts, and Gehdenson ended up being declared the winner by like 8 votes.
Gee, does the GOP’s attack on the Tea Party seem to be backfiring? They got their man Tillis and celebrated, “showing the conservative wing who is boss.” Now they can stick by their bland old man with no principles and wonder what is happening.
Personally, I don’t give a rat’s behind about the poor GOP candidates that are on the ropes. Boehner/McConnel/Rove attack the tea party and celebrated Tillis’ win, so FU GOP!
You obviously didn’t get the Romney is the same as Obama Memo. There are many FR Threads saying so, just look.
You are promoting the Levin Rule, Vote your Candidate in the Primary and Vote your Party’s Candidate in the General.
That will get you attacked as a RINO lover, or worse.
We all know Romney would have implemented Obamacare, put the Wise Latina and the other Lesbian Kagan on the Supreme Court and he would have traded TEN Terrorists for the Deserter simply because he is a one of those crazy Mormons.
Oh yeah, don’t forget that Romney hates America just as much as Obama does, really...
Water under the bridge or as the former Secretary of State said, “what difference does it make now?” Why I’ll bet Romney would have made her S.O.S. too just to be fair.
There are many mangers, and many dogs. The two-party system that we have evolved is painful to bear; too painful for Libertarians in particular.
Newsflash! Libertarians are often supported (that means selected and funded) as spoilers by the Democrats ... and as I personally have no doubt .... by the GOPe. The wreck of Cuccinelli is enough, IMNVHO, to condemn the Libertarians to Hell.
I am no fan of Levin, however his advice, viz fight like hell for the conservatives/and or Tea Party in the primaries, but for the winner of those primaries, the non-Democrat, in the election is what I follow.
If God should once again smile upon this Republic in the election of 2016, I shall fight for Levin's idea of a Constitutional Convention with the express purpose of ending popular election of Senators.
The test of my theory will be the Crooked SOB McConnell. If he wins in Kentucky (by no means a sure thing) and acknowledges the Tea Party and the Conservatives in his next term, it might help vindicate my POV.
If he continues his detestable caving in to the other party in exchange for a cut of the swag, and others are like him, well then, I say let's skip the effects of a Third Party, i.e., a century of Democrat hegemony, which is exactly what even mediocre Libertarian results will guarantee, and cut to the shooting war.
If Libertarian ideas are so hot, and have such appeal, why not run the Libertarian in the Republican Primary?
Real Libertarians and Real Tea Partiers .... for example .... seem to share a good bit of common ground.
LOL
No it wouldn’t. I’m a conservative, not a Paulite. The GOP has chosen to deliberately attack their conservative base. As a result, they can live with the results. In fact, didn’t the GOP come out in support of Cucinnelli’s opponent in VA?
Were I voting in Kentucky, I would definitely choose the whore who is less poxed. If some Lochinvar comes out of the west upon the Libertarian ticket, you can be sure the more poxed of the two whores shall win. Because the Libertarian Lochinvar will run with not only her blessing, but with the generous financial support of her party.
The Libertarians often say, "What's the difference? We get the same result, e.g., with a Bush as with a Clinton."
Of course, in this the Libertarians are quite obtuse. There may indeed may not be that many differences ... just very important ones. Can't have all you want in this game.
But when Baldacci was through delivering his brand of pizza to Maine, we were left with a case of governmental "indigestion" that will take decades to straighten out. Baldacci left , a horde of unruly "refugees" on welfare, punitive-to-business regulation, outrageous taxes, and a bloated bureaucracy; a huge new sexually ambiguous core of worthless civil servants that may never leave. (The bigguns in the lumberjack shirts and Doc Marten boots, left-leaning LGBTGs to a "man."
Best idea on this thread. Leave RINOs to the Tea Party and Conservatives.
Most are repugnant anything goes libertines. But none want our tax dollars to pay for it.
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