Posted on 08/08/2014 5:18:11 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
Patriots, it is frustrating and painful when a good" man of the people" candidate like Joe Carr loses to a lying Washington machine "betrayer of the people" like Lamar Alexander. The fact that Lamar Alexander voted for Obama's agenda 62% of the time is all you need to know about him.
My Conservative Campaign Committee team and I were boots on the ground in Tennessee, driving all over the state participating in rallies and other events for Joe Carr. We felt the pulse of the people and there was excitement and enthusiasm for Joe.
At one of the Joe Carr rallies we attended, a local Carr supporter bent my ear big time, expressing his frustration with the fact that Carr did not run tons of radio ads much earlier in the campaign; missing an opportunity to win over early voters.
I tried to explain to the frustrated Joe Carr fan that his campaign simply did not have funds to run tons of radio ads. Lamar Alexander's war-chest was $7 million dollars provided by DC power brokers. Grassroots efforts raised $1.3 million for Joe Carr.
But there were several bright spots. Joe Carr received 41% of the vote. Carr would have probably won if we had enough money to really get his message out to Tennessee voters. Thanks to the efforts of Rep. Joe Carr, Tennessee enacted the toughest illegal immigration laws in the country. Carr was eager to get to DC to help Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and our conservative troops on the front-line in the battle to stop Obama's fundamental transformation of our great nation.
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We haven't thrown very many of these establishment jerks out, but we're getting closer all the time.
I’m sorry. The only thing that matters is winning. Ask Al Gore. There is no silver lining to losing in politics. We need to win. We, the Tea Party, needs to win asap.
The bad news is that Lamar will remain his RINO, GOPe self for the next 5 years.
“The bad news is that Lamar will remain his RINO, GOPe self for the next 5 years.”
Alexander will be even worse, since he knows this will be his last time around.
“I’m sorry. The only thing that matters is winning. Ask Al Gore. There is no silver lining to losing in politics. We need to win. We, the Tea Party, needs to win asap.”
It has been typical for several decades for these guys to go to D.C. and stay in office till they die. Meanwhile, these fossils would hardly ever be seriously challenged in their primaries. That is changing. Not fast enough for me, but a state representative, not known outside his area, with little money, doing as well as Carr did against an “institution” like Plaid is cause for hope. I agree with Marcus.
Lloyd Marcus is a light.............
“Lloyd Marcus is a light.............”
I don’t know what the finish to that sentence is supposed to be, since I don’t really know anything about Marcus except that he wrote this piece for Am. Thinker and was active in helping BeatLamar toward the end of Carr’s campaign.
Second place still hurts. And it’s still second place. Nevertheless, perhaps we are making progress.
Another bright spot: Carr beat Alexander in Alexander’s home county of Blount. As a resident of Blount County, I take some personal delight in that. I think that I had the first Carr yard sign in the county. I think that they were the only ones for quite awhile. (I had two, actually.) I went to the campaign’s grand opening in Murfreesboro and got them (along with a bumper sticker). I live along a road with a fairly large amount of traffic. I also used pounded away on Facebook and other avenues. Hopefully it made a difference.
I’ll try harder next time. (Thinking about buying billboard space next time.)
“Another bright spot: Carr beat Alexander in Alexander’s home county of Blount.”
I wasn’t aware of that. That’s fantastic. It must also really stick in Alexander’s craw. Way to go, Murrville/Alcoa.
“As a resident of Blount County, I take some personal delight in that. I think that I had the first Carr yard sign in the county. I think that they were the only ones for quite awhile. (I had two, actually.) I went to the campaign’s grand opening in Murfreesboro and got them (along with a bumper sticker). I live along a road with a fairly large amount of traffic. I also used pounded away on Facebook and other avenues. Hopefully it made a difference.”
Sounds like it made a real difference. Way to go, EOHH!
If it had been Alexander against Carr and Carr only, Carr would have won by more than 10,000 votes.
Thanks!
“If it had been Alexander against Carr and Carr only, Carr would have won by more than 10,000 votes.”
I think you may be right about that.
Local radio station added them up and more votes were against Alexander than for. Don’t remember the exact number.
The lesson in all the primaries is that you have to have an organization and have money to communicate to voters. Regular Americans, the working taxpayers of America, don’t have representation in Washington but they can get representation by doing a few simple things:
First, get an organization. Tea Party this-and-that is not sufficiently organized to accomplish step two.
Step two is to get money. You do this by pulling money from big and small donors. You use social media for the small donors and you use professional fundraisers to get the big donors. The donors won’t contribute unless you show you can win. To do that, you have to either show how your organization will win (and that your organization will help that donor) or how you can defeat other party’s candidates. Make it clear that spending money on other parties is wasted money. You can do that by pulling votes from other candidates—you do this by pulling votes from Republicans and Dems, too, if you can communicate to them. There are lots of people looking for a fresh change, but you can’t beat well-funded and organized incumbents without money and organization.
You start with a good organization. Not a hero candidate and not with a good platform. Not even with good economic proposals. You start with a good organization.
Alexander received 330,383; the other candidates totaled 335,007. So if Joe had gotten every single one of those, he would have won by about 4,600, 50.3% to Alexander’s 49.7%.
Actually, I think if the campaign had lasted one more week Joe might have closed the gap. My impression was that the last 3 weeks is when he really began closing in on Ole’ Plaid.
I should have looked it up. Still more against than for.
There are rumors that he will retire after a couple of years.
He is a FReeper
Alexander didn’t even win by a landslide. That should worry him unless he thinks he’ll get Democrat votes in the general.
No way. He is one of those politicians who will have to die in or be kicked out of office.
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