GOP Has Eyes Fixed on Dodd (Chris: "People blame Barney Frank and me but...") Tea Parties mentioned!

I agree. Freepers are sitting here tearing their hair out over Specter and the Maine twins (and let's not forget what happened with Jeffords and Chafee), yet now we're willing to nominate a bunch of their clones in the Senate. When will conservatives learn? Having Rob Simmons type "Republicans" got us into this mess in the first place. I don't want Kirk, Simmons, etc., in the Senate, they're going to be constant backstabbing pains-in-the-@$$. I'd vote for Simmons over the likes of Dodd if I HAD to, but I sure as hell wouldn't be excited about it. Replacing Dodd with Dodd-lite isn't much of a victory for our side.

And I'm tired of hearing the old argument that "only RINOs" can win in so-called "blue states". That argument got us Arnold and it would have resulted in Senator Dickerson instead of Senator Fitzgerald if Illinois conservatives had bought into it back in 1998.

If Dodd is so damn "vulnerable", we might as well run a decent limited-government free market candidate against him while we have the chance.

Schiff for Senate. RINOs should only be acceptable as a LAST resort.

In December 2008, some fans of Schiff put up a website to encourage Schiff to challenge incumbent Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd.[26]

On January 23, 2009, yet another group of Schiff fans registered a domain, starting a new site with a new logo, to inspire Schiff for a possible run against Dodd. [27]

On February 21, 2009, a moneybomb raised over $20,000 for the grassroots movement.[28]

In May 2009, he said in one of his vlog that he was considering to run for senate.[29]

Looks like this thing still has legs. I just hope he doesn’t pull a Fred Thompson and wait until the 11th hour to announce he’s running. He needs to jump into the race pretty soon.

Yes. That delay killed Thompson’s chances.

It’s regrettable you have to start running so early (for POTUS especially) but the reality is that you do.

Moving all primaries to late summer would be a good idea. CT’s is a late one, in August. But Simmons is already running hard.

“RINOs should only be acceptable as a LAST resort.”

That statement is very accurate. Unfortuately, we’re at our last resort in many of these states. You may recall that in 2006 & 2008, the ‘Rats nominated a bunch of pro-life and pro-gun candidates in conseravtive districts. Those candidates won, yet their party is still promotes a secular entitlement state. By the same token, nominating moderate cacndidates in liberal constituancies will not make the GOP as a whole move to the left.

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