Posted on 06/01/2010 12:54:59 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
I totally agree. That's why I voted (in the primary) for "someone else". I'll vote for both encumbents in the general and both should win handily.
Listen to what everyone is saying before just posting crap if you know nothing about the race:
Bachus and Shelby are to rock-solid conservatives - they get so-so scores from the ACU etc. Their opponents are much more conservative even if they don’t have a chance in hell of winning.
The poster voted for the more conservative candidates. THAT IS WHAT HE IS SAYING!!!
I did the same thing, I voted for the most conservative candidate, I am not in Bacchus district but I did vote against Shelby. amd I voted for Roy Moore for Governor as Byrne (likely winner) is on the same par as those two, and Tim James while Conservative is somewhat of a froot loop.
You are almost a prophet! You foresaw the slamming I was about to receive...
UGH that should say ARE NOT rock-solid Conservatives — My Dyslexia got in the way
Very close to what I meant. Their opponents may or may not be more conservative, but getting some votes in the primary will encourage people who are much more conservative to run against these entrenched encumbents in the future.
And I will support B achus and Shelby in the general election.
“You are almost a prophet! You foresaw the slamming I was about to receive...”
Hmmmmm...I knew you were going to say that.
Candidate A in race X getting votes has no predictive qualities regarding any other candidate in any other race.
I understand the message you were trying to convey and the result you’re expecting that vote to yield, but there’s no cause/effect relationship there.
Your point is valid about pseudo-conservatives (broadly, if not specifically in these races), but you’re trying to affect an outcome that has no relation.
FOR STATE TREASURER
(Vote for One)
YOUNG BOOZER
GEORGE C. WALLACE, JR.
I have to tell you, between Ole George Wallace's son and a Young Boozer, I had to go with the politician with the more honest name!
Dang! You are good...
I'm not sure about that. If a Rep wins his primary this year by 80-20 against anyone, then any future opponent will be discouraged. If he wins against his generic opponent by 55-45, then an opponent will have more opportunity to raise money and build support. No one likes to throw money away on someone who will likely lose 80-20 in a primary.
That was a tossup for me. I think I went with Wallace.
This is something you’ve obviously given a lot of thought to, but the entire premise is built on your assumptions of what will/might happen.
Referring to earlier posts in this thread, the primary is not the time to experiment with election theories.
I support your conservative views, but I’d encourage you to vote for the most electable candidate in the general elections—absent other policy reasons, of course.
Hmmmm....Isn't that how we get RINOs? Should we vote for the most conservative person who is electable?
Is that how you chose a mate, select a babysitter, buy a car or house, suggest your daughter date... ??
Allow me to rephrase...don’t piss away your freaking vote like you did this time.
Zat make sense?
I’m out of this one. Take care and good luck.
I do the same thing.
I went with Byrne and Wallace and I voted for Ponder for Lt. Governor.
I’m sorry, but Hurricane Hank and PACT Kate are both unacceptable. I wish their way a way we could just bar them from the ticket and have the State Committee put in someone who won’t piss off large swaths of Alabama voters because neither of them deserves to be elected, especially not Kay who managed to royally screw up in a job that is really hard to royally screw up in.
The reason I voted for Wallace is because the likely Dem candidate is Charlie Grimsley I don’t think Boozer will be able to beat.
If Roy Moore and Tim James are in the runoff that increases the chances by several hundred percent that the next governor will be a Dem.
Byrne is our best chance against Sparks, especially since Sparks has the advantage of having the most popular position on the most important political position in the state, a strong rural and North Alabama identity politics think and his childhood friend who will go around every campaign stop in the state singing Mountain Music and Dixieland Delight to help get him elected.
Thx for the input. I enjoyed the debate.
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