Agreed; I very much thank Gov. Gibbons for holding the line on taxes - However he is radioactive politically, and given his negatives even if he were to somehow win a split GOP primary he has little to no chance of holding the Governorship.
Fortunately, I think that Brian Sandoval becomes the odds on favorite, especially with Rory Reid having his father as an albatross around his neck.
Despite Gov. Gibbons’ stratospheric negatives, Sen. Ensign’s disgraceful affair, no GOP party organization to speak of, and the ACORN-funded surge in Democratic voters, 2010 is looking better and better. Obama’s dropping poll numbers, Sen. Reid’s dangerously high negative ratings, and an atmosphere becoming more and more conducive nationally for the GOP and it now looks like we have a good chance of holding the Governership AND potentially knocking off our abrasive, out-of-touch liberal Senator. Let’s hope things continue moving in our direction...
We’d have to nominate someone absolutely toxic in order to lose against Reid (and one wonders if the national party will step in at some point, even Zero, and tell him he needs to step aside - they may do that with Dodd in CT, who also ties or trails his opponents).
Re: Gibbons, I’m not entirely sure Rory Reid will even get the Dem nod, he is getting the same fallout from his dad (that, and the fact he wouldn’t even be able to hold a job without his father’s influence). I saw polling data that had him trailing Mayor Oscar Goodman, but it isn’t clear if Goodman will officially run as a Democrat. Politics1 says he may enter as an Independent. If Reid gets the nomination, Goodman runs Indy, and Judge Sandoval gets the GOP nod, it’s conceivable it could end up with Sandoval getting, say, 55%, Goodman with 30% and Rory Reid with 15%. The big question is whether that would be enough to put the NV Senate back in GOP hands after we lost it last year on the strength of their taking out our Clark County members (the House likely out of the question).