Posted on 06/14/2016 4:50:08 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Second Congressional District in Virginia. Tidewater area for the Virginia challenged.
135 of 180 precincts reporting: Pat Cardwell 2213 votes 6.83% J. Randy Forbes 13165 40.61% Scott W. Taylor 17,039 52.56%
Scott Taylor is in the House of Delegates, former SEAL and all around good troop. This is a relatively safe gop district, so he'll likely win the general.
Randy Forbes is a carpetbagger from western tidewater, 4th district. He doesn't live in the 2nd. His 4th district was redrawn and is now leaning rat. The incumbent in the 2nd decided to retire to let Forbes run for the seat. It didn't work and we just got something of a two-fer: two gop establishment tools gone.
Like I just posted, here in the 5th District [Virginia] we weren’t even allowed to vote for ‘our’ candidate. Some weird special local convention process.
I was there and I don't even live in the 5th CD - and of course can't vote there or at the convention.
You should go to the conventions! Can be fun with like-minded people.
<< Forbes voted with Pelosi and the democrats to ban incandescent light bulbs. >>
He DID??? Tragic and the kiss of death.
The same case can be made for keeping Cantor in the 7th CD instead of Dave Brat. With the loss of Cantor not only the 7th CD, but Virginia lost a ton of influence, money, and power when Dave beat Eric on June 10th, 2014. However I'll take Congressman Brat any day. That action by the voters of the 7th CD has changed history.
Taylor's win was a big loss for the GoPe. However, it was a win for the "Beach Boys." That's another growing problem in Virginia. But that's another story.
Giving up two Dem-supporting RINOs to gain one real conservative IS a win.
Rigell being replaced by Taylor sounds good. Conservative Randy Forbes being replaced by a Stalinist Black democrap thanks to lib judicial activism is horrendous, so no, you don't have a "two-fer".
It is NOT a win because Forbes is not a RINO in any sense of the word. He is much more conservative than Trump and his ratings are stellar, plus he truly is honorable. The House will be less conservative when he goes.
See post # 10.
You are assuming that Randy Forbes is NOT a Conservative.
From what I have seen in my own congressional district: We had a solid Conservative Congressman. Nancy Pelosi targeted him and 9 other Congressional Conservatives for defeat in 2010. She hand selected a man to run against him. He was re-elected in spite of her efforts.
On the next election cycle Pelosi supported the same man for the defeat of our Conservative Congressman, except this time she had gerrymandered the district so as to insure the defeat of our Conservative Congressman. Even so the election was close. The challenger had lost, but demanded a recount.
You can guess the rest.....after several recounts (sic) the Democrat edged out the Conservative, they quit counting, and the Democrat was declared the winner.
A challenge to the Democrat fell short last cycle and though there was some evidence with vote tampering no challenge to the results was filed.
This cycle the incumbent Democrat is being challenged by the very popular local sheriff. We’ll see how well the Democrats cheat against the top cop of the county.
Dan Lungren (R- Ca. 3rd) v. Omi Bera (D) 2010
Dan Lungren (R Ca.-7th) v. Omi Bera (D) 2012
Omi Bera (D Ca. 7th) v. Doug Osi (R) 2014
Omi Bera (D Ca. 7th) v. Jones (R.) TBD 2016
Well, you know CA has an “Independent” Redistricting Board which put in its plan in 2012. The problem is that it was worse than what a legislative Democrat gerrymander could come up with. They not only screwed Republicans en masse, but it also resulted in some senior Dems falling as well, though they were merely replaced with a new batch of ultra-Communist moonbats. CA is a disgrace and the delegation of 39 Dems to 14 R’s is ludicrously out of whack with the state’s voting preferences. 20 years ago, the delegation was tied 26-26.
Curiously, in FL, they have a voter-passed law (albeit unconstitutional) that demands the GOP majority draw more seats to favor the Dem minority (and the FL Supremes, a Democrat court, just upped the ante by stealing a couple more seats for the Dems for November, including redrawing the most historic GOP seat in FL in the Tampa Bay area, which has been GOP since 1954, for ex-Gov. Charlie “The Orange Menace” Crist, whom appointed some of those court members - can you say conflict of interest ?). FL should have a 19R-8D majority, instead they’ve gotten it up to 10 Dems (to 17R) and are trying to jack it up to 12 or 13D (to a bare 15 or 14R majority) for November.
Of course, the courts would never do that for the CA GOP to give them an additional 6-8 seats that would be more reflective of the federal voting percentage for President.
Scott Taylor seems like a good candidate, a former Navy Seal who clashed with his party’s establishment in the past.
I will check him out, thanks.
Forbes wasn’t all that effective. Nor was he all that conservative. The courts did us dirty by forcing the redrawing of the 4th, but by failing to stand for his seat, Forbes lost the election for our side. He had a chance in the 4th, but the carpetbagger thing did him in when he tried to run in the 2nd.
In District 4, Republicans have a credible candidate running, a county sheriff.
The House will be less conservative because Forbes didn’t run in his own district. He might have won in the 4th. But in true gop-e form, he decided to run to another district rather than fight. And he lost.
The folks in the 2nd resented having a carpetbagger and Forbes got blown out of the water despite outspending Scott Taylor by roughly 10 to 1.
This was a good victory. Notwithstanding the wailing by FR’s own Pearl Clutcher Caucus, we actually won one.
Banging pots and pans? Hardly.
Unfortunately we have tory pearl-clutchers such as yourself to tell us how we should always go for the “safe” win. And we end up with career losers like cantor, ryan, and rigell to screw us over at every turn as a result.
Sheriff Wade is a good candidate, but he has a real uphill battle. By abandoning the field, forbes probably handed the seat to the rats.
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