Posted on 01/08/2009 9:37:55 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Some of us from teamsarah contacted various reps from our state about running against McCaskill. JoaAnn wrote back thanking me for my kind letter & then guaranteed me when the new session started she would be working hard for her constituents. I thought at the time it was the usual no answer reply. However, since she did not actually rule it out perhaps she would be open to this opportunity. I think Rod Jetton would then stand a good chance at filling her position. Steelman would also be an excellent choice. Either way Mo. Republicans have a tough road ahead and better make some decisions soon.
“The Dems learned in this last election that if they lose any close elections just call for a recount, sit back, be patient and you will win on the second or third recount.”
There should be a federal law whereby any state, district ot polling location having more votes than registered voters will be disallowed for that and the next election!!!!
Isn’t there more than that? I thought roughly a third of the seats are up every 2 years.
Harry “Negro-Free Senate” Reid is already having charges trumped up against his main potential GOP candidate in 2010, Brian Krolicki, the Lt Governor. I’m thinking it may be better to run Congressman Dean Heller against him, the only Republican to survive this past Novermber in a NV federal race.
North Dakota is more problematic. The GOP hasn’t run a first-tier candidate for office there in decades. We last won a Senate seat there in 1980 (and House seat in 1978, both with the same person). Dorgan and Conrad have been in continuous office for 40 years and 28 years respectively (and Conrad was Dorgan’s assistant for 7 years before that). We dominate the state offices, but NONE of them have stepped forward to run. Both the Dakotas should have an all-GOP delegation, but haven’t since 1955 (!).
Heath Shuler.
You know you’re a screwup when you fail in Washington twice.
Or sixteenth recount... Let’s see if Coleman has the balls to sue from now until 2010 to overturn that obscenity. That seat was stolen as sure as the sun rises in the east.
True, though I feel like nearly all of the rest of the country outside my state lost their collective minds. My state promptly reacted against the False Messiah as though he was McGovern Part Deux, the way the country SHOULD’VE reacted. It just seems to be getting worse with each passing election and we have fewer and fewer areas we can contest that 10 or 20 years ago were handily winnable or competitive.
I suspect, sadly, that international events..the War on terror..will have a HUGE effect on the 2010 elections..suppose there’s a successful major terrorist strike against Israel, or inside the US...as I fear...well...being a Dem running for office won’t be a good thing...
Based on opinion polls and his fund raising record. I’m unaware of any possible challengers to Reid.
You forgot that Salazar (CO) will be replaced by his brother, whom I heard is a weaker candidate.
There are more coming up for election, this is just a list I've started. If you have additions, please post.
Oh, I actually think Caroline is such an inarticulate flake that King might manage an upset. But I know the Dems aren’t going to let a vulnerable candidate stand in ‘10 (and there’s no love lost between Anj and the Kennedys).
But Mike Castle in Delaware ? He’s a fossil and will be 71 in 2010. Worse, he’s moved so far to the left, I don’t know why he hasn’t officially switched parties. He ain’t that far from Linc Chafeeland. Delaware shouldn’t even be a state anymore. Just merge it with Maryland.
Yes, Emerson is not conservative enough, but she is a Pubbie and at this point we need as many as we can get! However, I’d gladly campaign for Steelman.
I don’t have a problem with Sam Graves. I just don’t know if he’s interested in it. As some cited, he beat ex-KC Mayor Kay Barnes, but that was one of the most ludicrously overhyped races in the cycle that the Dems thought they could win, but he blasted her 59-37%, just a slight bit down from his over-60s he usually scored in his 3 prior races (but she was his most serious challenger since Steve Danner when the seat came open in 2000).
Nope. He was a chicken who didn’t want to face Nixon.
It says Ron Gladney on Wikipedia. Married since 2000.
You forgot Ted Kaufman
Except for the time she spent in 2008 on her knees for Obama.
I forgot Emerson is going to be 60 next year, so 62 in 2012 when that race comes around (McCaskill is 3 years younger), and hence no spring chicken. Her window of opportunity to run statewide seems to be closing as a result. Of course, as another poster stated, she seems to have gone native in DC with some of her voting habits, and is, alas, part of the problem it seems. We keep running pro-pork Republicans, it’s very hard to make an argument against Democrats who are exactly the same. We truly blew it when we ran Congress.
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