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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I could care less about the pledge of allegiance to be honest.
But being a global warming shill and bailout supporter with a serious case of Potomac fever is more than enough for me to want to chuck him from a safe seat.
He has 5 primary opponents according to poltics1.com.
That’s too many. Andy Harris was able to beat the RINO Gilchrest in a 3-way race but that can’t be counted to happen here. State Senator David Thomas appears to be the most prominent Inglis challenger.
“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!!!”
Inglis has got to go.
Anybody who supports the global hoax needs to go down.
His children told him that if he could NOT support that MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING was real that they would NOT support him in his last re-election bid. Funny thing, I never heard anyone say they voted for Inglis’ children!!
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