But we were talking about this on another thread, I don't believe this guy was the better candidate.
C. Edmund Wright:I think this Clawson guy had given money to Stabenow of Michigan in the not so distant past… ..I hope to be wrong, but I think this may be a case where the TP folks glomed onto a guy simply because he had never held office before. I mean, that’s a good thing, but sometimes TP folks jump too quick.
You said it.
Curt Clawson definitely donated to the ultraliberal Democrat Senator Stabenow’s 2012 reelection campaign (see below, from OpenSecrets.org’s donor lookup; it’s definitely the same Curtis Clawson, since he was CEO of Hayes Lemmerz International at the time of such donations).
And even worse in the eyes of the “Tea Party” purists who eschew anyone who has an actual record in politics, the only $200+ federal political contributions that Clawson has made since the late 1990s apart from his recent donation to the “Dangerously Incompetent” Stabenow were to ... wait for it ... Mitch McConnell and to the McConnell-controlled Republican Party of Kentucky! If those self-proclaimed “Tea Party leaders” are to be consistent, they should demand that Clawson drop out of the race and permit the GOP to nominate a candidate who is not “a stooge for the GOPe” like Clawson obviously must be—I mean, what is more “establishment” than donating to Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign? At least Clawson donaled to ultraliberal Democrat Stabenow, so I guess that proves he’s no Republican. Whew! Close one for the Tea Party Express—they almost endorsed a conservative Republican by mistake, but Clawson’s Stabenow donation will save its reputation.
Here are Clawson’s federal political donations. Read ‘em and weep:
CLAWSON, CURTIS
NORTHVILLE,MI 48167 HAYES LEMMERZ INTERNATIONAL 12/31/13 $4,800 Republican Party of Kentucky (R)
CLAWSON, CURTIS
NORTHVILLE,MI 48167 HAYES LEMMERZ INTERNATIONAL 12/31/13 $2,600 McConnell, Mitch (R)
CLAWSON, CURTIS
NORTHVILLE,MI 48167 HAYES LEMMERZ INTERNATIONAL 12/31/13 $2,600 McConnell, Mitch (R)
CLAWSON, CURTIS J
NORTHVILLE,MI 48167 HAYES LEMMERZ INTERNATIONAL 5/20/09 $1,000 Stabenow, Debbie (D)
“...This is a safe house seat, no need to worry about the rat. ...”
Maybe that particular seat, but I think from now on, we should move forward under the assumption that NO seat is safe, and fight accordingly.
We thought the WH was safe from a clown like this, and look what we got.
We’ve underestimated these people too much. They have a fraud machine par excellence, a huge bag of dirty tricks, a smear machine beyond compare, they have ready and willing accomplices within OUR party, and they have spineless, gutless chumps (Boehner, et al) who they can count on to do - NOTHING - to stop them.
So, no seat is safe until we actually have a REAL Tea Party conservative sitting in it.
Just my 02.