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NC GOP Establishment Suffers Blow in Runoff
shark-tank.com ^ | 7/16/14 | Bruce Carroll

Posted on 07/17/2014 5:29:26 AM PDT by cotton1706

It was supposed to be a slam dunk runoff election win for Phil Berger, Jr. in the NC-06 Congressional district last night. It didn’t turnout that way.

In a modern David v. Goliath tale fit for one of his sermons, former Baptist Minister Mark Walker handily beat Phil Berger Jr. in the GOP runoff in the 6th Congressional District last night.

Berger, the Rockingham County District Attorney, had a lot going for him: family connections, high level GOP endorsements, a lot more money than Walker and the help of a dedicated super PAC that attacked often and viciously on his behalf.

But in the end voters said it was what he did with those resources – waging a ceaselessly negative campaign, using over-the-top, scorched earth rhetoric against a politically inexperienced minister with deep ties to the community – that turned them off.

Throughout the campaign Berger shrugged off those criticisms, saying last week: ““A campaign for Congress is the big leagues. Anyone who can’t get their nose bloodied a little bit and suck it up doesn’t belong in politics. And anyone who is worried about that doesn’t understand what big-league politics is about.”

Berger is the son of NC Senate President Phil Berger, Sr., and was expected to walkway with this Congressional seat earlier in the year.

But NC grassroots conservatives aren’t happy these days. Establishment favorite, House Speaker Thom Tillis, beat grassroots conservative-preferred Dr. Greg Brannon in the U.S. Senate GOP Primary a few weeks ago. The Sixth Congressional runoff may be a warning sign that the GOP establishment shouldn’t take conservatives for granted in November.

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To: Din Maker

I agree, I don’t expect that of the average citizen. I DO expect it of leaders. There is a reason so many of them are sensitive when asked about his. That reason is that they know they took a pass on their opportunity (I’d say obligation) to be a part of the defense of their country.


21 posted on 07/17/2014 5:36:47 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Din Maker
If so, they have this new invention called “The Internet” so people can do a Google Search and find out where the candidates stand on issues; if they’re not too lazy.

Lol, or, if they aren't too lazy, people who start topics on FR about elections in one of the 435 US congressional districts could actually provide some information about the candidates and how they differed beyond generalities that can mean different things to diffferent people.

22 posted on 07/17/2014 7:18:30 PM PDT by Will88
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