Posted on 04/09/2010 3:12:48 PM PDT by Maelstorm
... As of Thursday afternoon, the most prominent Republican Senate candidates who had not signed the CFG pledge were Tom Campbell of California, Mike Castle of Delaware, Dan Coats and John Hostettler of Indiana, Charlie Crist of Florida, Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons of Connecticut, and Rob Portman of Ohio.
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No repeal....no vote period!
They want to take away our freedoms.
Portman, the Bush wunderkind?
wow, this party has a ways to go when it comes to fielding candidates that are in step with the wishes of the overwhelming majority of folks.
They would claim to be “nuanced” and thoughtful in their positions. They just want to tweak it a bit.
I am not sure I would sign a pledge from some organization if I was running for office. There are so many groups demanding candidates sign a pledge for different things that you might want to check the fine print. What good is signing the document — zero, zip, nada. Now you are going to say that Campbell is liberal for not signing?
Maybe you all should be cutting some people some slack instead of demanding they sign a pledge from an orgnization that is no different then if Free Republic demands they sign a pledge. I would be more then likely to sign one from here because of the number of grassroots people who post here.
BS. They are either for repealing HC or they are not. There could be no harm in signing a pledge to repeal the HC abomination and much harm in not signing it, as they are about to find out.
Well if the only choice is repeal with no alternative and these candidates are in moderate or lefty leaning states then I can see why they wouldn’t sign a purely repeal pledge. It’s politics.
Be like the Dems, pretend you are a “moderate” to get yourself elected, then ram your agenda (e.g. repeal) through afterward.
Is there anything more to the pledge than the following?
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I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state upon my election to the U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Senate, to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.
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It is by cutting slack that the GOP betrayed us and lost power the first time. I don’t want and we don’t have to settle or cut slack when this is such a very easy pledge to sign. Marco Rubio signed it, Chuck Devore signed it. These guys who will not sign haven’t shown such reluctance in the past such as with Tom Campbell’s support of the homosexual activism or Charlie Crists embrace of the stimulus spending bill. If they can’t speak up for us and stand their ground bravely when the American people are solidly behind repealing this horrible law then when will they make the hard decisions when giverment must be cut? We should expect more from these candidates especially since they are not the only option for us.
Campbell is so dangerous I’m giving Fiorina a second look. In a better state DeVore would win.
Connecticut voters it's time for Peter Schiff.
The pledge is well written and to the point. I would want my candidate to sign it it.
These guys are running in statewide races. Even Scott Brown has pledged repeal and Massachusetts isn’t known for conservatism. Also even the weanie liberal Mark Kirk signed on. What is it that the finace director for Gov Swartzenneger and Berkley professor , Tom Campbell, finds so problematic about supporting the repeal wholeheartedly. Obamacare isn’t supported in CA.
Tom Campbell of California, Mike Castle of Delaware, Dan Coats and John Hostettler of Indiana, Charlie Crist of Florida, Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons of Connecticut, and Rob Portman of Ohio must be voted out along with their Leftist comrads.
I agree. Fiorina could be my candidate if Devore folds.
DeVore can win and I believe we will see his numbers continue to rise. Polling shows DeVore can win in a head to head match up with Boxer.
I can make it simple. If you can’t support repeal, across the board, in bulk repeal, then you aren’t the guy I’m looking for.
We’ve got a cluster of communists on the loose in and around the White House and anything they do, if they’ve changed a lightbulb or repainted the parking lot, it needs to be re-done and taken back to status quo ante. Then we’ll go forward from there. Nothing they’ve done should stand. Whatever they’ve done, we lived without it for two hundred years and we’ll lose nothing and gain everything by flushing it down the drain.
Campbell isn’t liberal for not signing. He’s liberal because his stated policies are liberal.
Ain’t that something. Neither Coats or Hostetler will get my vote unless they change their minds and sign on. I knew I couldn’t trust either of them.
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