Posted on 12/31/2015 11:01:56 AM PST by fifedom
Citing, among other things, Burr's Washingtonian impulses to raise the debt ceiling nine times, to call Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)'s stand against Obama Care a dumb idea, to fund President Obama's executive amnesty - Brannon made it clear that his opponent "is a Washington insider who is backed by special interest SuperPACs and Karl Rove."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Just think about those words alone.....
Burr needs to be Cantorized.
While we’re talking North Carolina, Renee Elmers needs to be Cantorized as well. She has been voting against the citizens and the rule of law also.
Every one of the weasels who work for The Cheap Labor Express instead of the citizens needs to be Cantorized.
Club for Growth is not on our side, they are on board The Cheap Labor Express. They will back Burr.
Club for Growth are just a bunch of old liberal Rockefeller Republicans in a new disguise.
Wish we had someone to primary Toomey in PA!
Club for Growth is not on our side, they are on board The Cheap Labor Express. They will back Burr.
My point is not that I support Club for Growth but that Brannon needs to raise money so he gets the interest of donors. There is a fund raising reporting deadline today. I contributed and I live in CA.
He also voted to homosexualize the military.
Brannon is a political newbie who almost made it his first timeout. I’ll be happy to back him this time as well, as he talks the talk and from what I see he walks the walk...
This is idiocy.
Burr had an 88% ACU rating.
Here are his positions:
Fiscal/monetary/financial
Burr voted against the financial reform bill Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank). In the June 26 debate, he stated: “I fear we’re headed down a path that will be too overburdensome, too duplicative, it will raise the cost of credit ... The balance that we’ve got to have is more focus on the products that we didn’t regulate ... more so than government playing a bigger role with a stronger hand”.
In fall 2008, during that year’s financial crisis, Burr described his response to problems in the U.S. financial system: “On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, ‘Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take. And I want you to go tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday.’ I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash.”[26] This statement attracted attention from the national press when an April 2009 story in the News and Observer made it more widely known.[27] In late April, Burr told WFAE, a public radio station in North Carolina, “Absolutely I’d do it [again].” He said that “The exact situation we were faced with was a freeze bank to bank. And as I stated, my attempt was to make sure my wife had enough cash at home to make it through the next week.” Burr also said that “It was not an attempt to run a bank,” and “Nor was it a bank that was even considered then or now to be in trouble.”[28]
Burr is a signatory of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge”.[29]
In 2013, Burr criticized some of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, who were filibustering the passage of the fiscal year 2014 federal budget in an effort to defund the Affordable Care Act. In a tweet, he called their strategy “the height of hypocrisy”.[30]
Gun rights
Burr supports Second Amendment gun rights and voted against the 2013 legislation which would have extended background checks to internet and gun show weapons purchases.[31] He has sponsored legislation to stop the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from adding the names of veterans to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) if the department has assigned a financial fiduciary to take care of their finances due to mental incompetence, unless a judge or magistrate deems them to be a danger. Persons added to the NICS system are barred from purchasing or owning a firearm in the United States.[32]
Social issues
Burr’s personal belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman, however, he believes that the law should be left to the states.[41]
Senator Burr is a vocal opponent of President Obama’s healthcare reform bill, claiming that the President’s health care proposal ignored the demands of the American people and will result in a Government takeover of individual healthcare decisions, increased taxes, and rationed care.[58] Critics note that he was ranked second[59] for senators to receive contributions to their campaign committees and leadership PACs between January and September from health and accident insurers and ranked first for funding from pharmaceuticals companies.[59] Burr voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009,[60] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.[61]
So, let’s take a pro-2d Amendment, anti-Obama-Care Senator with an 88% Conservative voting record, replace him in the General with some unknown, so a Dem can be elected in the General Election?????
We eat our young.
So, bottom line, with someone like Burr, I am all for a primary challenge, if there is a more solid conservative who might also win the general. But the problem with his type is not that he voted with McConnell. It's that McConnell is leading the Republican majority. He and his band of progressives must be voted out. Will Burr join that effort if he gets support from a newly elected Republican President? Perhaps that should be a campaign issue.
This is idiocy.
Here is Burr’s profile from Conservative Review
http://www.conservativereview.com/members/richard-burr/
1. His most prominent issue is healthcare policy. He was criticized by conservatives for being the most ardent opponent of defunding Obamacare, even resorting to publicly cheering for the effort to fail.
2. Burr has a history of supporting federal interventions into education. He also has a history of voting against vouchers and school choice initiatives.
3. He has regularly parted ways with conservatives by supporting subsidies for trade, agriculture, and energy, as well as corporate welfare, such as the Ex-Im Bank. Burr was the lead sponsor of the “NatGas†subsidy bill, vehemently opposed by conservatives.
4. He has even voted against several balanced budget proposals. Burr voted for the “fiscal cliff†tax increases and is a strong supporter of the internet sales tax. He was also part of a bipartisan group of senators willing to raise taxes in order to close the budget deficit.
5. With regards to social issues, Burr is weaker than most Republicans. He has consistently voted for taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research and was one of only a few Republicans to vote to repeal the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. Burr also supports amnesty for illegal immigrants,
A thought,
As much as a want strong Conservatives, please remember that about 98% of votes are strictly Party Line votes.
To lose an 88% Conservative to someone who is effectively unknown statewide, is to probably hand the seat to the Dems in the 2016 General.
We will never get everything we want, but 88 Birds in Hand are better than 100 in Bush.
Live long and prosper.
I don't know Burr well enough to say if this is his situation, but people in NC might and I am merely suggesting that they don't spend a lot of effort taking him out if he will vote with Trump/Cruz next year. If he will obstruct them, as McConnell will, fine, raise the funds and divert them to the primary instead of using them in another race.
The ACU did not give him an 88% approval rating because he was wrong on too many issues!
Please remember President Reagan’s caution that someone who disagrees with him 20% of the time was not a 20% enemy; they were his 80% friend.
In this case, it’s 88%.
The bigger problem however is the recently history of nominating supposedly conservative candidates who were so inept as politicians that they lost the General we should have won easily. Maryland, Nevada, etc.
Nominating this new doctor would again replace a friend with a candidate unknown to voters, and probably lose us the General.
Let’s be glad we have the 88%
The bigger problem however is the recently history of nominating supposedly conservative candidates who were so inept as politicians that they lost the General we should have won easily. Maryland, Nevada, etc.
The ACU rating is easy to fool. The votes that really matter are the procedural ones like stopping or supporting filibusters. The ACU does not take those into account.
Even in your blurb, you state that Burr gets huge funding from Big Pharma. The man is a total sellout and represents everything that is wrong with the GOP.
I agree 100%! I am from NC and what you don't want to do is substitute a 100% liberal Democrat for an 88% conservative like Burr! Burr is the incumbent Senator that the Dems are most confident of being able to defeat, so why would you do something that makes that easier to do? I like Brannon and voted for him in the primary that current Senator Tom Tillis won, but I don't agree with weakening an incumbent Republican Senator because he is not perfect - especially in a year that the numbers favor the Democrats!
Burr is the incumbent Senator that the Dems are most confident of being able to defeat, so why would you do something that makes that easier to do?
A question: Do you think Juan McCain should be primaried in Arizona?
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/247654-dems-bullish-on-north-carolina-senate.
All I know is that I do NOT want another Democrat representing me in the US Senate!
Now, John McCain I do have an opinion about. He has done a lot of damage to the Republican party and DOES deserve to be primaried. I just do not feel the same way about Richard Burr.
You know nothing about me, yet you doubt my credibility? I have lived in NC all of my 65 years on this earth and I could care less about Mark Kirk in Illinois.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/247654-dems-bullish-on-north-carolina-senate.
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