Posted on 09/05/2014 5:56:39 AM PDT by cotton1706
“Why is this a close race?”
Two words: New Orleans
GO MANESS !
Much of Cruz’s harshest criticism comes from the very RINO’s you are asking us to support.
I think congress becomes more conservative by a GOP catastrophic fail that ousts the RINO establishment for good.
Given Landrieu's role in the Obamacare debacle, that'll be a tough sell - even for the purists. Her political head needs to be displayed on a pike for all to see.
Period.
My interview with Cassidy
Cassidy: “Landrieu Supports (Obama’s) Agenda 97% of the Time”
By Walter Abbott - 3/7/14
“Barak Obama’s agenda has been awful for the American Family… and Senator Landrieu supports that agenda 97% of the time,” Congressman Bill Cassidy (LA 06) told Lincoln Parish News Online (LPNO) in an interview earlier today in Ruston. That remark was in response to the question of why he is running for for the U. S. Senate, and against incumbent Mary Landrieu.
Cassidy said that agenda has hurt Americans because it has “taken (away) their choice of healthcare,” and is “hurting their ability to get a good job with good benefits.” He added, “If she wins, the Senate continues to be a rubber stamp for this agenda that’s hurting the American Family.”
Cassidy said he is best positioned in the state to beat her, and feels duty bound to try.
Said Cassidy, “I’ll give up my congressional seat – that’s the risk you take – the greater goal is I am not going to be passive as this president and this senator who supports him 97% of the time, I think does things which are incredibly harmful.”
Cassidy, 57, came to Louisiana from Illinois at ten months of age, when his father went to work in one of the petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge. He graduated from Baton Rouge’s Tara High School, and got his medical degree from Louisiana State University (LSU) Medical School.
He was first elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 2006, and won his Baton Rouge-based congressional seat in 2008.
Cassidy credits his love of the state and interest in politics from reading at an early age A. J. Liebling’s book, The Earl of Louisiana. That book chronicled Louisiana Governor Earl Long’s final years in Louisiana politics.
Asked why he entered politics later in life, Cassidy says he often counsels young people who want to be involved in politics to “have a life first.”
Said Cassidy, “People will respect you more, and your judgements will be sounder if you’ve actually had to live under the laws that others have passed, and you’ve actually had to make a living and make decisions.”
Landrieu has held public office continuously since 1979.
Cassidy acknowledged Landrieu’s support in the past from some in Louisiana’s business community because of government “earmarks.”
Said Cassidy, “Senator Landrieu is related to people by blood, marriage, and government contracts.”
But Cassidy thinks that since the earmark process has been significantly curtailed since 2010, her ability to garner support from that practice will be also diminished.
Qualifying for the Tuesday, November 4 election is August 20-22, Early voting will be from October 21 to October 28.
Ummmmmm, your “GOP catastrophic fail” means a greater lib/progressive take over and resulting destruction of the Constitution and our dear America. What a plan..........
“Much of Cruz’s harshest criticism comes from the very RINO’s you are asking us to support.”
Well, some of it does, yes, because the media is all too willing to broadcast from the rooftops any hint of intra-Republican strife. He still gets much more from the Left.
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“I think congress becomes more conservative by a GOP catastrophic fail that ousts the RINO establishment for good.”
Realistically, it isn’t going to happen that way. IMHO, the best solution is to change the Republican party from within, tempting though it is to form a third party. There would be disaster in the interim, if indeed it would succeed at all. A romantic idea, yes, but just impractical.
There is no excuse whatsoever for a Republican to ever attack someone promoting conservative principles. To do so displays either a lack of commitment to conservative ideas or a blind dedication to their seat of power. Either demands ouster; and when an ersatz conservative party fails to purge itself of such poison, then we should encourage the death of the phony party.
The few remaining conservative dems have more influence on the direction of our nation than does the “Me too” gop.
What we are faced with is a Vichy GOP. They are more eager to get along with their Nazi, errr dem overlords and retaining their cushy seats of privilege and power than they are interested in either the state of the union or conservative principles.
In France there were probably those who tried to change the Vichy puppets, but it was the Resistance, opposing both the Nazi’s and the Vichy, who did anything of value.
“In France there were probably those who tried to change the Vichy puppets, but it was the Resistance, opposing both the Nazi’s and the Vichy, who did anything of value.”
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I understand the analogy, but we aren’t in a shooting just yet. IMHO, we should exhaust the peaceful, lawful options first.
We are already in a metaphorical shooting.
We have tried for years to work from within the party - until finally our dream was realized, control of the house, senate and executive...only to watch the Vichy gop continue the policies of the dems they had just defeated...but on a slightly slower pace.
The last two presidential cycles proved that the e-gop has no understanding of the grassroots voter. It is a party too busy circling the drain to set a course.
Did you see this? Dem ‘working’ to look like an everyday citizen writing to newspapers... Odd how the ‘oh so intelligent’ people at newspapers never ‘catch’ these fake letter writers.../s
Activist Behind Sexist Letter To The Editor Goes Nuclear After Dem Campaign Cuts Him Loose
You’re probably right. Their goal was twofold: 1. get incumbents renominated and ride a republican tide to reelection, and 2. prevent conservatives from being nominated, thus only moderate or go-along types would be swept into the Senate by such a tide.
They also wanted to 3. destroy the prospect of primary challenges and dry up the Senate Conservatives Fund and other groups’ power in provoking such primary challenges. In this last, they failed. Their incumbents won by the skin of their teeth in some races and pitifully so in others, and all with overwhelming money and chicanery, which won’t last.
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