Posted on 07/26/2020 5:29:38 PM PDT by RandFan
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — At first, the cheers for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz were louder than those for the man he came to stump for Friday morning, but that changed.
Cruz, R-Texas, came to Knoxville in support of Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Dr. Manny Sethi and a crowd of nearly 200 people crammed inside a dining room of the Southern Rail Station to hear from the two as Sethi attempts to go toe-to-toe with Bill Hagerty, the former U.S. ambassador to Japan.
The race has both tightened and gotten uglier in recent weeks ahead of the August 6 Election Day. Both candidates have slammed airwaves with attack ads, aimed at outdoing the other’s Republican, small government, against the liberals, Washington outsider-styled message.
Cruz, the popular libertarian who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2016, said Hagerty’s team has gone negative because they’re scared and that Sethi should take it as a compliment.
“I told him, ‘Listen, these ads, you ought to take as a compliment,’” Cruz said. “They’re running those ads for the same reason the government of China went after me (China recently sanctioned Cruz). Because they’re scared. The Washington swamp always tells you who they’re scared of.”
Sethi acknowledged this and told his supporters to stand strong over the next few weeks, saying Hagerty would “throw the kitchen sink” at them in trying to win.
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You sound like a never Trumper. Trump gets blasted if he does or does not.
We get it. You’re backing Hagerty because he’s White, not because he’s the best candidate.
Dr. Sethi was born in America, that makes him an American type. His parents weren’t border-jumpers.
You want to vote for the guy who gave big $$ to Willard the Rat and Manbearpig, and is a sleazy establishment Bushbot hack — all because he’s White.
Your logic and reasoning is unsound, sir.
“Hagerty maxed out giving contributions to Sen. McCain in mid-June,2016 when Trump and McCain were at the peak of their feud says the National Pulse.”
That is unforgiveable. Hagerty now MUST be defeated. President Trump should’ve been warned this guy is a Derp Stater. He’ll do nothing but seek to undermine him in the Senate and work with Demonrat Derp Stater Willard the Rat.
Looks like you ‘get it’. I am voting Sethi
We voted yesterday — for Sethi. Kind of held my nose. I don’t like either of them much, but Hagerty creeps me out. I know Trump ha endorsed him, but Trump’s record of choosing good people has a lot to be desired. I trust Rand Paul and Ted Cruz over Trump when it comes to vetting candidates.
As far as Sethi’s Campaign Manager goes, I’ve learned over the years that campaign managers are basically whores going with the highest bidder. They work for one guy one year and two or four years later they’re working for who they opposed before.
I look at it this way... If Sethi proves to be what he claims to be, it will be a nice, refreshing change after so many years of wishy-washy losers. If he turns out to be a fraud and a liar, we’ll get rid of him in 6 years.
Hagerty, on the other hand, given his bad record (if he was giving money to the treasonous McQueeg as late as 2016, this is an ominous sign in addition to everything else. How this guy got through to Trump shows his vetting system is broken. The President has been way too generous with people that would (and have) backstabbed him), if he gets in the Senate, with his deep pockets, we’ll be stuck with this RINO until (at least) 2039. If we don’t have strong Conservatives in the Senate to make real change back to sanity, we’re going to be a third world war-torn $hithole by then.
Two votes for Sethi today. from my wife and I.
NEVER TRUMPERS, RINOS FROM RNC ELITE RETIRED ARE CONTROLLING THESE THINGS, TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE TIME.
What’s the deal with this asshole George Flinn? I hope he doesn’t have a chance, he sure spent a lot of money.
Relatively wealthy perpetual office-seeker from Shelby County over the past 2 decades. He did win a County Commissioner position back in 2006.
He felt he should’ve won the Congressional nomination in the 8th district in 2016. He lost to David Kustoff by 4% and never stopped running, and had a grudge match against him in 2018, and lost by 16% (though his margin increased from 23% in ‘16 to 40% in ‘18).
He ran in the 9th as well in 2012, but only got 24% against the execrable Cohen. If the district wasn’t so nutty and dysfunctional, Flinn would be a good fit there. He also ran for the Senate in the 2014 primary against an unpopular Lamar! (who was held to 49.65% of the vote), but just like with the present race, he only got a paltry 5% of the vote, as the race was between Lamar! and State Rep. Joe Carr. I expect Flinn will probably score between 5-10%, if that.
My concern is how many votes will he take away from Sethi. It wouldn’t be good if Hagerty wins by a narrow plurality because of him.
We’ll see, but I doubt he’s having much of an impact. All that money he spent in 2014 got him 5%. Lamar! is lucky we didn’t have a runoff that year or Joe Carr would’ve beaten him. Carr hardly had any money, but had a grassroots effort going that was growing by the day. Sethi has apparently a decent amount of money and grassroots.
White? You are the southerner. I was born 56 miles from Montreal. You assumed Omaha was all insurance. Try Union Pacific, Warren Buffet, Simons (Omaha Steaks) etc. Your profile makes you appear very young. BTW you ever serve in the military? When? Two of our best NCO’s in SF running cross border OPS were Black SFC’s.
So you were either born in Canada, NY or VT.
I have both northern and southern heritage. I would’ve been born in NYC had my parents remained there. I’ve had family serving in the military back to the Revolution.
You asked an out-of-the blue question about why you liked Omaha on the state message board. How in the hell would anyone discern what you were getting at if you didn’t tell us ? I answered your question on the message board about military service, and it wasn’t the first time.
If my profile page, which I haven’t altered in quite some time, makes me appear young, I thank you for the compliment. I still am, relatively.
What all this has to do with your racist attacks on Dr. Sethi, and similarly bizarre attacks on Sen. Cruz, I have no idea. But I’d like to think you’re a better person than that. Why don’t you listen to everyone else on the TN board ? Nobody else here supports the RINO fraud Hagerty. Screaming “3rd World Trash” or implying Sethi is actually a member of the Mohammadan Death Cult is really below the belt, sir.
I stated Omaha was much more friendly then Nashville/middle TN. You replied insurance with a ? mark. I relied the above. As to State or Country I was born. Upstate NY across from Burlington, VT. Samuel De Champlain’s statue was in Plattsburgh, NY. Every person in my family were DAR or CAR. Now, your ideas /conclusions are not even sane.
For those of us who have fought for it-
Freedom has a special flavor that the protected will never know. That includes YOU.
You asked an out-of-the-blue question that nobody could discern, short of being clairvoyant. You could’ve stated what you liked about Omaha straight out. It was just an odd question to throw out. I happened to be the first person to reply to it, otherwise someone else would’ve and certainly would’ve been baffled by it.
“Now, your ideas /conclusions are not even sane.”
What does this remark even mean ? How about specifying what on earth you’re talking about. How about specific points ?
“For those of us who have fought for it-
Freedom has a special flavor that the protected will never know. That includes YOU.”
Insulting, to say the least. You don’t know me or what I’ve had to deal with. My health never permitted me to serve. I’ve been having to fight leftists for most of my life, beginning with my own family, and I had no one to back me up, save God. I thank you for YOUR service, sir, but don’t presume that is the only battlefield in life.
FDR wrote that.
FDR wrote what ?
Yes. Add This.“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
I kept that for 9 years.
That’s not FDR. That’s Theodore Roosevelt.
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