Posted on 08/08/2009 6:45:52 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
There are some Republican-oriented congressional districts where bucking the party line on high-profile issues is a smart political play. South Carolina’s 4th District, however, is not one of them.
For that reason, Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) finds himself in a battle to win his own party’s nomination for reelection.
In the deeply conservative, church-filled 4th — home to Bob Jones University and an outspoken and politically active evangelical base — Inglis’ apostasy on issues ranging from climate change to Iraq to the Pledge of Allegiance has already earned him four primary opponents and the prospect of more to come.
Inglis has criticized elements within his own party that argue that climate change is a myth and he supports efforts to contain global warming. One of only 17 House Republicans who supported the Democratic resolution opposing the military surge in Iraq, Inglis has also come out against offshore oil drilling and warrantless surveillance.
His role on the House Judiciary Committee is also proving troublesome. In 2006, he was the deciding vote in preventing from reaching the House floor legislation designed to ensure constitutional protection of the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
To his detractors, Inglis has changed dramatically from his first stint representing the district. Inglis served in the House with little fanfare for three terms in the 1990s before making an unsuccessful run for the Senate against former Democratic Sen. Fritz Hollings. After that, Inglis returned to his law firm for several years before running again for his old House seat in 2004, when Republican Jim DeMint ran for the Senate.
Critics of Inglis believe he’s become a different congressman in his second tour in office.
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Good riddance!
“In the deeply conservative, church-filled 4th”
They make it sound like that is a bad thing.
Inglis campaigned on term limits during the 1990s. On his 2nd tour of Congressional duty, Inglis refused to make a term limit pledge. He called it “unilateral disarmament” of a district for community investments. Inglis missed out on the perks of DC.
Get rid of the douche bag.
Sounds like you’re not the biggest fan....
Mole.
Protesters disrupt town-hall healthcare talks(”..revolution in our country..”)
The Estacada News / Reuters | August 8, 2009 | Matthew Bigg and Nick Carey
Posted on 08/08/2009 6:25:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311682/posts
To them it is.
I’m sure Inglis and the party establishment have set up four challengers so that Inglis can win the primary next year.
To beat this RINO you need to unite behind one candidate.
The insiders always throw in third and fourth candidates to split the conservative vote.
Throw the bum out
He was on the ‘global warming tour.’ I’m sure that will make him popular with the folks back home.
Buh-bye, Bob.
Sounds like Lindsey Graham.
These guys spend too much time in Washington and stop thinking like those that sent them there.
I hope Rep Inglis loses...
I think that’s exactly right. We need to hold a pre-primary then unite behind the winner. If Inglis wins the primary, we need to vote for whatever Democrat runs against him. I’m sure we can defeat the Democrat in 2012. I’d much rather have a scared Democrat than an indifferent Republican. We, conservative voters, have become too predictable, too easy to manage with a bit of polling and the right words at the right time.
For those who don’t know, Inglis voted against the surge and for TARP. He’s only represents his district on votes that don’t matter.
Anybody who supports the global hoax needs to go down. DRILL NOW.
Bob Inglis is a joke and we in his district will be glad to get rid of him. Did you know that at a town hall just the other day, Inglis asked the crowd if they believed we needed health care reform, and when he got a negative response he told the nay sayers to stop listening to conservative talk radio, quit watching FOX news, and stop believing what Glenn Beck has to say!!! Could not believe it!! Still stepping on my lip from the massive jaw drop! Way to reach out to the voters Inglis!!
I do hope that Inglis either retires or loses.
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