Posted on 03/10/2008 7:42:12 PM PDT by jdm
That would be Mark Pryor, first-term Democratic incumbent, running in a reliably red state.
[T]he Republicans inability to field any Senate candidate in a Southern state that twice favored Republican George W. Bush for president this decade is yet another blow for a party that lost six seats and its Senate majority in 2006, and is mainly playing defense against further Democratic gains this year.
Having missed the filing deadline, any Republican who might belatedly decide to run against Pryor would have to do so as a write-in candidate
Pryor becomes the first senator to draw no opponent from the other major party since 2006, when Indiana Republican Richard G. Lugar enjoyed a free ride in his campaign for a sixth term.
Be sure to take a moment to send an e-mail to the NRSC to thank them for the bang-up job they did here in making the Democrats work for their majority. Exit question: You-know-who got the last laugh after all, didnt he? Heart-ache.
Update (Ed): Beyond the disappointment of the storys subject matter, I have to marvel at the writing. Pryors the first Senator to run unopposed
since 2006? How many elections is that? Answer: none. When Lugar ran unopposed in 2006, did people write that he was the first since 2004?
Crap, that's funny!
Berry will probably remain until he retires. Ross isn’t a moonbat, so he’ll be tough to dislodge. But not challenging Pryor or Snyder (the latter of whom is way too liberal for his seat) is absolutely inexcusable.
I don’t care if he’s a Southern Baptist Joe Leiberman, you still run SOMEONE against him! He could get caught with a dead girl or live boy in bed. He could die. Anything could happen. But the GOP can’t take advantage of it if they don’t even have a candidate!
It’s crap like this that demonstrates why the party establishment isn’t interested in being the majority.
Arkansas is hardly a reliably red(Republican) state. Democrats have been surging there and the state GOP has been destroyed by the liberal Huckabee era.
Come one there’s not some state rep. who could run? The state party chairman should be fired, this is embarrassing.
When you’re the majority, people expect things of you, and the RINOs hate that.
This is just another reason to get off the high horse and get behind McCain to keep the socialists from running America into the ground.
Please don’t repeat this 2012.
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