NH-1: I heard Frank Guinta was fairly low-key and establishment, but he probably looks like Jesse Helms next to his RINO primary opponent. At least Guinta is solidly pro-life and pro-traditional marriage. No doubt the media will be touting the RINO, but we should win this primary fairly easily given Guinta’s name ID.
MA-6: It looks like Richard Tisei is unopposed in the primary, so we’re probably stuck with him. Of course, even if 2014 turns out to be a great year for the GOP,
I expect the RATs will sweep Mass. like they did last time, and this “electable” RINO will lose to the RAT again. If I was in Mass., I’d run a write-in campaign
against Tisei just so actual Republicans can cast a token protest vote.
CA-52: This might be a tricky one. Both Kirk Jorgensen and Fred Simon sound like pretty decent conservatives, hopefully primary voters will agree on one of them and they won’t split the vote so DeMaio squeaks by.
Overall, despite the fact the media would love having an openly gay Republican” in Congress just to rub it in our faces (didn’t we already have that with Jim Kolbe? Must not have been “groundbreaking” because he was “outed’ after being elected or something), I’d say the odds of it happening in 2014 are pretty slim. Even slimmer is the chance that ANY of these three “openly gay” candidates actually turn out to be good solid conservatives who only disagree with the GOP base on “one issue”.
But hey, all the “consevatives” who scream that EVERYONE over the age of 30 who is unmarried MUST be “secretly gay” and needs to come out and publicly showcase it (just as the left ALSO demands) can be proud that these three guys have taken their advice. Puke.
There is no “Republican primary” in CA-52; CA now has a “jungle primary,” so Republicans, Democrats, etc. all run on the same ballot, and the top-two finishers, irrespective of party (and even if one of them gets 50%+1 in the “primary”), will face each other one-on-one in November. Having two conservatives run for the seat with a jungle-primary format makes it even more difficult for one of them to get elected than it would if there was a GOP primary, since not only will the two split the conservative vote, but the gay RINO DeMaio (BTW, his name is pronounced in such way that his Chris Berman-style nickname would be “Cinco,” not “Hold”) will get votes from Democrats and “independents” and easily finish in the top-two along with the RAT Peters. We need to run a single conservative in the jungle primary, hope that he gets at least 34% to ensure that he makes the run-off, hope that Peters holds enough of the RAT vote to beat out DeMaio so that it’s a conservative Republican versus a liberal Democrat in the general, and then have the conservative Republican get a bog turnout and attract the lion’s share of moderate Republicans and independents to defeat Peters; I fear that, if DeMaio makes the runoff against a conservative Republican (either because Peters’ reelection implodes or because one or two other Democrats jump in), the general would see DeMaio will get the Democrat votes and enough independent and RINO votes to beat the conservative.
As for Frank Guinta, I heard that he voted for Boehner for Speaker, so he must be a GOPe RINO, and true Tea Partiers will support the pro-abortion, pro-same-sex-marriage homosexual because he’ll “shake things up in Washington.” /s//