I think you’re mixing the Club For Growth up with the some groups more similar to the Chamber of Commerce, like Main Street Republicans. The Club for Growth heavily supported primary challeges to Rep. Joe Schwatz and Sens. Arlen Specter and Lincoln Chaffee.
Jones, it seems, has out-served his usefullness. He has forgotten who he is to represent, and he will pay a large price for his stupidity.
Wrong answer bub. When you are an elected representative, your constituency always comes first. Your conscience doesn't matter.
“Kucinich, long considered an anti-war bogeyman by the right”
LOL...make that “an anti-war buffoon.” Any RINO who appears with Kucinnich is committing political suicide and deserves to be dumped in the coming primary.
Wow, what a stunning admission from a US Representative! The people that put him in office comes second to his own personal feelings.
The comments that jump out at me are the constant jabs at his constituents “ of the the conviction that patriotism means supporting even unpopular wars runs as deep as the Atlantic Ocean. “
“Those are fighting words in an unabashedly pro-Bush district that gave the president 68 percent of the vote in 2004. Supporting the troops here means supporting their mission, regardless of national approval rates for the war’s handling”
Dont you understand that these are silly hillbilly rubes that will blindly follow Bush off the edge of a cliff, no matter HOW much the rest of the Nation is against it?
What passes for journalism these days is just offensive
RINO? Jones is one of the most conservative members of the House. His only sin is that he against world policing.
While I support the CFG generally, notably just as with pro-life and pro-second amendments coalitions whether a candidate they support is right on issues other then, in this case, economics isn’t a primary concern. As stated in this article they backed an opponent against the war elsewhere.
My Feeling is that this Congressman needs a challenger. Whether this guy is the right guy I don’t know. Where is he on the other issues? IF he’s correct on them, then I’d support him.
I have no attachment to incumbents anymore. Not when they turn and support positions that are repugnant, especially when they are out of sync with what voters thought they were getting originally. IF this challenger is right on more then economics and the war, if he’s right on social issues and immigration? Jones shuld be tossed to the curb. And CFG would be a powerful ally to help accomplish this.
I would like to hear from his constituents about the actual chance of getting rid of this guy before he does real damage.
Can he realistically be beaten?
For the first time in more than a decade, Jones faces a serious primary challenger in Onslow County Commissioner Joe McLaughlin, a former Army Ranger, and their race will test how opposition to the Iraq war plays out in conservative and pro-military America... Jones' politics have become increasingly at odds with a Republican Party that he believes has lost its moorings. Although he voted to authorize the war in Iraq, he has since become one of its most vociferous opponents. He was one of only two House Republicans to vote against expanding the scope of the administration's anti-terrorist surveillance program.
I voted for Jones in the last election.
That was the last time, forever...
Semper Fidelis,
fontman
CFG is a GREAT organization, maybe they can chalk up another RINO ‘scalp’. heh heh... :)