Posted on 10/04/2014 11:23:19 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Who is the Republican wnd who is the Rat?
How the hell did this happen? SD is one of those Senate seats everyone has called “a given” for the GOP this year. And the GOP candidate is polling at 35 percent? Geesh!
Since the SD Senate seat was supposedly a “lock” for the GOP, I’ve not followed this race at all. I had to do a Google Search to find out which candidate was the Republican.
Spell check is your friend.
Unfortunately the coronation came a little early. The republican should never have been vetted to begin with based on issues at hand and previous service as Governor.
He won the primary, in a five way race with two conservatives each with 18 and 17 percent between them with Annette Bosworth, and Jason Ravensborg taking another ten percent. So at the end of the primary forty five percent of Republican voters rejected the mainstream candidate. That is a helluva way to insure victory in the General.
But then along comes the EB-5 scandal, and the suicide of one of Mike Rounds cabinet members involved in the failure of Northern Beef Packers, a busted example of the previous Governor Rounds economic development and the smell of blood in the water for the democrats.
The Party just couldn’t get involved with one of the two conservatives running in the primary could they, not when they had the ideal mainstreamer with the cash and the name recognition of a two term former Governor. Understandable.
Now the only conservative republican in the General forced to run as an independent, is Gordon Howie who is a Ted Cruz kind of guy, and polling last lacking any mainstream party support now going to the candidate with a huge scandal hanging over him.
Larry Pressler running on fixing what ails Congress, is a Republican mainstreamer gone hard left, as an I can work across the aisle to fix what is wrong with Washington. Dismissing the fact that Harry Reid and rules are running the Senate. Pressler’s idea involves running for one term only so he doesn’t have to campaign for cash during his term, and wielding the extra power he will have as an independent. At least that is how present Independents tell it.
UGH!
She is a Doll.
I can’t wait to see how many races the Nazi wing costs the GOP. I don’t think they’d know what to hate if they actually won.
There is much more to be said, but it would be helpful to know what the Nazi wing of the GOP means.
Nazi’s were Socialists, which is left wing in anyone’s political scale. If you are talking the Tea Party, they are far from left wingers, and certainly not Socialists, so the distinction is important. Mainstreamers, aren’t necessarily Nazi’s either in my book but I’m willing to listen, and labels matter.
One of the very important points regarding the SD Senate race would be the poor vetting of the coronation candidate who is stuck with a large scandal involving multi-millions of state tax dollars misspent, and lost, in the failed beef packing plant closure not to mention suicide of an aid deeply involved in the scandal who’s indictment was pending right before the suicide. To top it off the Attorney General is refusing to release the results of the investigation into the suicide.
I have no idea how this will all play out but only one of four possible scenarios bodes well for the future IMHO. No one wants the democrat, unless of course you are one, and the Republican turned democrat apparently doesn’t understand that Harry Reid is the problem that nothing is able to be accomplished in the Senate. Voting for scandal is a risk in itself so there are nothing but questions, questions, questions.
Nazi as in only accepting those who you consider to be as pure as you. Now Brownback and Robertson aren’t conservative enough??? You’ve got to be shitting me. The right wing movement has taken on an almost dangerous tone.
Leftist polling group. SurveyUSA has Rounds up by 16 points.
Pressler is a RINO turned phony independent. Running ads touting he can work with both sides, but Republicans have been running ads comparing Pressler to Weiland. They both want to keep Obamacare as is and they are both for higher taxes. That’s not helping Weiland. Pressler has more name recognition in this state than Weiland and I think Pressler is siphoning support off of Weiland. EB-5 is a federal work program, which Democrats have supported until Mike Rounds threw his hat in to the ring. Info here: http://www.sdreadytowork.com/EB5.aspx
Basically South Dakota was planning to become a pilot state for the program when Rounds was governor. He thought it would create jobs. That was a decade ago and he’s against the program.
Right. Attorney General Marty Jackley was appointed to his position by Rounds in 2009. She voluntarily turned herself in, but not before making a statement that she was a victim of a witch hunt by Rounds and called the arrest warrant an intimidation tactic by Jackley.
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