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RINOs, RINOs, Everywhere
Pajamas Media ^ | Jan 30. 2010 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 02/01/2010 6:29:42 PM PST by JSDude1

Although (snipped)...

Hidebound country club go-along-get-along Republican Party establishments are indeed making a mess of things. In state after state, they are doing everything in their power to pretend that the tea party phenomenon, arguably the most important grassroots movement in decades, either doesn’t exist or must be stopped. They are also reflexively supporting problematic candidates whose most important features are their name recognition and the size of either their personal bank accounts or their campaign war chests. Substantive issue positions dealing with what the country must do to stop Barack Obama, his apparatchiks, and the Democrat-controlled Congress from bankrupting us and closing down what for now remains the land of opportunity are coming in a distant third.

In California, Carly Fiorina is the GOP establishment’s fave to go up against Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer. Her accomplishments as a businesswoman consist of decimating Lucent and nearly ruining HP while walking away with $42 million for her troubles. One thing Fiorina rarely troubled with is actually voting in elections. Her campaign tells us: “She voted in six of 14 elections in California since 2000. She lived in New Jersey for the previous 10 years but never voted.” In the Golden State governor’s race, they like squishy moderate and Mitt Romney pal Meg Whitman, who also “regularly skipped elections in California and several other states where she lived and worked.” Are they trying to lose on purpose out there?

In Illinois, the Republican Party apparatus is clearing the field in its U.S. Senate primary for Congressman Mark Kirk, who voted for the monstrosity of cap and trade, and whom Democrats will likely “expose as a liar and adulterer in the general election.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Illinois; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: conservative; republican; rino; teaparty

1 posted on 02/01/2010 6:29:43 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1
The country clubbers are supposed to run the mechanics of the party so that we get candidates, we get money, and campaigns are run.

Quite frankly the most successful Republican party model over the years has been to keep the country clubbers ISOLATED from issues and public policy development.

The Democrats do it quite a bit different. There they give first place on the electoral ticket to those who've worked longest in the party machinery. That gets you the type of canidate who puts party first, country last, and raising money kind of in between there.

Not sure I can go along with ideas that would make the Republican party more like the Democrats ~ in fact, I'm just puked in the wastebasket beside my computer thinking about it.

2 posted on 02/01/2010 6:34:48 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: JSDude1

IL is interesting and contradictory. Kirk is polling far ahead of the others. He is more liberal than Scott Brown but the big difference is that he represents the status quo establishment while Scott had the image of anti-status quo.

The governor’s race is just the opposite. The 1 openly moderate candidate dropped out because he couldn’t get 1% in the poll. In prior years there was a solid 25% liberal R primary vote and a solid 38% establishment R primary vote for governor.

The 5 surviving candidates are 3 establishment go-along-to-get-along corrupt bipartisan combine members (Ryan, McKenna, Dillard) and 1 establishment conservative (Brady) and 2 anti-establishment, anti-corruption, extreme conservatives (Proft, Anciewski). They and Mr Undecided were polling 16% each and all in the margin of error.

Whoever has the ground game to get out their voters wins, it looks like.


3 posted on 02/01/2010 6:48:35 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: JSDude1

I don’t care if a RINO wins in RINO country. Kirk is running for OBAMA’s seat! Do you think Rush could win there. I care when the RNC backs a RINO over a conservative in the primary, like Crist of Rubio...
It’s not news or even interesting that Kirk is a Rino running in Chicago.


4 posted on 02/01/2010 6:58:26 PM PST by Robbin (If Sarah isnÂ’t welcome, IÂ’m not welcome, itÂ’s just that simpleÂ…)
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To: Robbin

Like Brown, Kirk has a good chance to win in a solid blue state. The symbolism of winning Obama’s seat would be enormous.


5 posted on 02/01/2010 7:05:18 PM PST by zebrahead
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To: Robbin

Exactly right you are.

The RNC pulled that last November in NJ, backing Christie over Lonegan. No more contributions to the RNC for me, and I love telling them why when they call for more cash. Praying that Rubio takes this in FLA.


6 posted on 02/01/2010 7:17:10 PM PST by adc (Rush '12All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently oppos)
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To: JSDude1

RNC likes minority status? They get a split of the loot with no blame.


7 posted on 02/01/2010 7:17:28 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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To: Robbin

Kirk is the NRSC man in the primary, and he is ~NOT~ Conservative!


8 posted on 02/02/2010 10:29:13 AM PST by JSDude1 (www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
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Just two weeks ago, the situation was at least tolerable. Though what I have been calling ORPINO (the Ohio Republican Party in Name Only) was backing a residency-challenged candidate for secretary of state (more on that in a bit), it at least had the sense not to get in the way of proven fiscal conservative John Kasich’s outsider-framed effort. On January 14, Kasich selected current state auditor and rising star Mary Taylor as his running mate. This move justifiably led ORPINO chair Kevin DeWine to declare Kasich-Taylor “as strong a gubernatorial ticket as you will see on any ballot in any state.”

Then Kevin DeWine proceeded to complete his ruination of most of the rest of the ticket in the name of money and nepotism.

Until he decided he wanted to be Ohio’s next attorney general, Kevin’s relative, former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine, was last seen being repudiated twice by Buckeye State voters in a 17-month span in 2005-2006. First, despite spending $1 million, his son Pat finished a distant fourth in a June 2005 GOP primary race to fill an open congressional seat. That thrashing was accurately seen as a proxy repudiation of Mike over his participation in the Gang of 14 and other conservative-betraying votes. After yet another vote in November 2005 to stop drilling for oil in Alaska and a 2006 GOP primary where two completely underfunded challengers blockaded by ORPINO nonetheless took 28% of the vote, Mike DeWine lost his U.S. Senate reelection race against far-left Cleveland-area Congressman Sherrod Brown by a stunning 12 points.

Second-cousin Kevin and the ORPINO gang decided that this awful track record justified clearing the AG field for Mike, even though DeWine’s primary opponent Dave Yost had already racked up a 5-0 record in December and January GOP county endorsement meetings and had earned an intense level of tea party and other grassroots enthusiasm.

Nobody seems to want to own up to what Kevin and ORPINO did next, but all of a sudden early this week Yost, whose campaign slogan was “A Prosecutor, Not a Politician,” decided that he wanted to run for state auditor instead. Not coincidentally, ORPINO was also unhappy with the not-beholden CPA who had just started his own auditor campaign after Kasich selected Taylor.

So let’s review:

•At the top of the ticket, the party now has two formerly bulletproof candidates who stood around while their party apparatus rigged two down-ticket races. Their slogan is “A New Way, a New Day.” Really?
•In the secretary of state race, the party is running Jon Husted, a guy who currently represents a state senate district he admits to not living in and owns an empty house in the district he admits to not living in, while claiming that his SOS campaign headquarters is that empty house. He is supposed to convince voters that he’ll be the state’s steadfast enforcer of election laws in a state where ACORN ran wild in 2008. Uh huh.
•Attorney general candidate and Second Amendment skeptic Mike DeWine, four years removed from public office with no prosecutorial experience in almost three decades, is supposedly going to unseat a Second Amendment-supporting Democratic incumbent. Riiiiight.
•Now auditor candidate Dave Yost thinks we’ll all forget his betrayal of his supporters and that voters will be jazzed about a lawyer running for head bean-counter. Don’t count on it, bud.
•The only uncompromised candidate remaining is treasurer candidate Josh Mandel. The grassroots pray nightly that ORPINO leaves him alone.
Tea partiers who should be the Republican Party’s best friends in a state that has been horribly mismanaged during the past three years under Democratic Governor Ted Strickland are justifiably exasperated to the point where I understand that there is serious thought being given to going the third-party route in certain of the down-ticket races. I suspect that similar third-party moves are under consideration in other states and in higher-profile races. ORPINO and its compadres in other states will only have themselves to blame if this comes about.


11 posted on 02/03/2010 1:16:51 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave (To anger a Conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a Liberal, tell him the truth.)
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I emailed my County Chairman and advised him to pass on to the Ohio GOP that I will actively campaign against Mike DeWine. No way, no how do we need that weasel back in office. He does not represent me.


12 posted on 02/03/2010 10:38:36 AM PST by Ghengis
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To: Las Vegas Dave
We must clone Josh Mandel!
14 posted on 02/03/2010 7:01:59 PM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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