Posted on 05/04/2010 12:05:25 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Two weeks after independent Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill attended the big tea party on Boston Common, he's getting hit with a seven-figure attack ad from the Republican Governors Association.
The RGA's strategy, as the Boston Globe points out, is to do what it did to Chris Daggett, the 2009 independent candidate for governor of New Jersey, and inform voters that Cahill is even worse than the Democratic incumbent, Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.). The problem is that Daggett ran generally to the left of now-Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.). Cahill is running to the right of the field in Massachusetts, gunning for fiscally conservative, pro-life voters who he's confident will be put off by Baker's pro-choice running mate, state Sen. Richard Tisei.
I'm told that Cahill has already shot a response ad that will go up this afternoon.
"We opposed ObamaCare and went to the tea party while the Republican did neither," said a source in Cahill's camp to me. "Now the RGA feels like they have to come in and kill us?"
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Is this another Scozzafavva moment?
The Republican RINO Establishment should have targets on the top of their shoes. Then they could run around congratulating each other over how good of shots they are.
The RATS are trashing Cahill as well, and brutally.
Tim Cahill may not be as conservative as I would like but he came out strong against Obamacare. He chose a pro-life conservative Republican as his running mate and he is not an activist on liberal social issues. What we have on the Republican side is the most liberal ticket in years. The co-sponsor of the transgendered rights bill(bathroom bill) is his running mate Richard Tisei.
http://conservatismrox.blogspot.com/2010/02/charlie-baker-is-no-scott-brown.html
Even though I am registered GOP, I can’t get too excited about them. This is a travesty.
Let them. I believe Cahill if he runs smart will win this. He is already running ahead of Baker.
Treacherous Mitt Romney:
Now that my Romneycare (funded 50% by US taxpayers) is national, ready to hurt
three hundred million, a little self examination is in order for you Republicans.
You may want to ask yourself if I had spent my time promoting
RomneyCare and Mitt Romney, could not I have garnered more support
of both Obama and Mitt Romney?
I’d never ever consider voting for a liberal Republican like Baker and especially not his liberal activist running mate. If you want to know why Republicans have failed so badly in the Northeast it is because they are sometimes even worse than the Democrats and that takes a lot of work.
Cahill is an opportunist and not a conservative. Only reason he went Indie is because the State Dems promised to DEMOLISH him in a primary against Deval. So he left the Dems. I heard him on the radio saying (and i am paraphrasing here)
“There is no difference between me and an R fiscally but since i am friends with many Dems in the statehouse i will get along better with them and am more ideologically with them socially”
Cahill is an opportunist and not a conservative. Only reason he went Indie is because the State Dems promised to DEMOLISH him in a primary against Deval. So he left the Dems. I heard him on the radio saying (and i am paraphrasing here)
“There is no difference between me and an R fiscally but since i am friends with many Dems in the statehouse i will get along better with them and am more ideologically with them socially”
The GOP needs to pull its head out of its hind-quarters and stop pandering to Liberals
Their reaction to the Arizona Law was so lame you thought Howard Dean wrote it. Now, they are pandering to another Liberal candidate
The GOP is gonna blow it in 2010 if they do not return to real conservative values.
How may millions are they spending in Fla to attack Crist?
Cahill is an opportunist and not a conservative. Only reason he went Indie is because the State Dems promised to DEMOLISH him in a primary against Deval. So he left the Dems. I heard him on the radio saying (and i am paraphrasing here)
“There is no difference between me and an R fiscally but since i am friends with many Dems in the statehouse i will get along better with them and am more ideologically with them” something to that effect
Baker is scared of Cahill since he just ran some hard ads against him. Think he ended up giving Cahill more exposure than hurting him.
And Baker’s running mate, well, what can you say about a Republican who wants gender neutral bathrooms or whatnot.
Sheesh.
This is surprising since the RGA has been far superior to the RNC ever since Sharpton’s buddy Steele took over.
If the GOP takes on the Tea Party movement, it’ll be suicide. The RINO’s gave us Obama. They should damn sure be walking softly.
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