Posted on 07/07/2014 6:20:37 AM PDT by cotton1706
By all rights, the GOP should easily pick up the North Carolina Senate seat currently held by Kay Hagan. Except:
Most evenings, Sean Haugh is a pizza deliveryman.
But every other week or so, the Libertarian Party’s Senate nominee in North Carolina opens a few craft beers on the counter of the bar in his campaign manager’s basement. He takes deep gulps from a pint glass bearing an image of Austrian-school economist Murray Rothbard and expresses his Everyman frustrations with the current political system into a video camera.
So far, Haugh’s campaign barely exists anywhere but on YouTube. But it is doing surprisingly well in a high-stakes Senate contest in which candidates and outside groups have already spent more than $15 million.
Four polls lately put his support somewhere between 8 and 11 percent — not enough to suggest a realistic possibility of winning, but conceivably enough to affect the outcome of the race. The same surveys show the margin between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan and her GOP challenger, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, at six points or less.
When I see a candidate who claims to be for small government but whose candidacy will hand a Senate seat to someone who will vote for Harry Reid as Majority Leader, I see red. It’s time for people to denounce Haugh as the spoiler and egotist he is.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Name calling is the tactic of a progressive.
Do the initials...’kiss my a$$’ mean anything to you?
He didn’t get elected as a Libtardian, and that wasn’t House or Senate.
You are batting zero, even your straw men are striking out.
What is their purpose?
Well, I disagree 100% with “Easily” but it is a pickup opportunity. But some number pretty close to 45-49% want Hagen. Add to that that the GOPe is blowing it here and, well . . . this is a 50/50 pickup like the Senate.
Isn’t the real story in this race how bad the GOP-E candidate is doing against Hagen, who I thought was toast.
Got that right, Scott...
I think we’ve seen this movie before....
So basically if the GOPers had given up on prohibition 2.0 they would have won the election? They must really love the nanny state and jack boots if they are willing to lose elections over them.
Wow. Nice civil chat. Not.
Reason 843 why Republicans can suck my big ten inch.
(c'mon beagle, get your lips right up against it)
Same as my advice always is.
And if no-one matches that, leave that line blank.
/johnny
I’m not aware that Mrs. Love advocated any jack-booted enforcement of marijuana laws. She was just unwilling to sign on to a petition which would allow potheads to, among other things, cruise the highways and byways stoned as if it were some kind of inalienable right like the 2nd amendment.
Calling libertarians allies is a bigger mistake.
Libertarians are RUINING this country along with the Democrats!!!! Are the Democrats PAYING this creep to run?? PROBABLY!
Reason 844 why Conservatives reject Libertarians, they are crude and rude.
Washington State issued their first pot store license today, go there for a friendly chat.
Just like McAwful.
War on Women
Fund a libertarian to bleed R votes
Win with a Clintonian plurality.
Maybe the Koch Bros need to be sending laundered bucks to all the left wing whacko candidates in close races.
NC has a 40%+1 rule, which means Kay Hagan can win by splitting the nonliberal vote. She couldn't in a 50%+1 rule.
In the Indiana senate race in 2012 the libertarian got 5.7%.
“Obama Joe” Donnelly won with the fabled “Clintonian plurality”
I doubt that a petition was the only factor causing her to lose support of libertarians but rather her (percieved or real) support of the status quo. There is a pot addled basement dweller constituency for Libertarian candidates who care about such petitions but they are votes taken from the Dem candidate. Republicans are losing principled small government libertarians sick of nanny staters on the right as well as the left.
May I suggest swat-teaming a baby, or shooting someone's dog in the meantime.
Remember; nice people swallow.
I see that as a way of expressing your sentiments, but not as a way of gaining and exercising political power. If Hagan wins, we lose as she will vote for Reid as leader of the Democrats and may well be the seat that decides the control of the Senate. A vote for Haugh is the same as a blank ballot, neither candidate can win. A vote for Tillis could go either way. He could be a Hagan in trousers with an “R” by his or he could be like many politicians and ride along with the conservative wave.
Conservatives brought this dilemma upon themselves by letting whoever wanted to run go up against Tillis, giving him an unearned run. We have to learn how to cull the herd early so we don’t end up diluting our vote. We also need to learn how to win elections. I don’t see much evidence of that happening.
This isn't going to be turned around in one election.
/johnny
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