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Christine O'Donnell should be sufficiently nutty for CfG support.

28, Unenrolled, MA-08

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by: Marcus @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 23:24:44 PM UTC

she's looking at Senate

if Castle runs for Senate...she would be good....

but I'm hoping to find someone to run in a house primary to get him to really get out of a race.  

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by: skywrnchsr509 @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 23:41:18 PM UTC

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There's always Mike Protack

And I mean always, because that looney will never get elected to anything - but Protack's not going to scare anyone out of a race. O'Donell, though is the biggest wingnut in the state. State Auditor Thomas Wagner would never run against Castle, ever. Senate Minority Whip Liane Sorenson is left of Castle. Former House Speaker Terry Spence was known to be a moderate. That leaves former Senator Charlie Copeland, a Du Pont heir - but he's also the strongest candidate in the GOP bench (which is very very thin).

This speculation is pointless, though. John Carney's running for the seat for the Democrats, which is more than enough to ensure Castle's retirement. I guarantee you Castle won't run for his House seat with Carney in the race. He might run for Senate, but then he'll have O'Donell in the primary. Now she won't scare him at all, but maybe some CfG money might - Castle scares easy. But Castle's chief constituency is every corporation and bank in the nation.

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by: X Stryker @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 05:57:31 AM UTC

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if your sure

I'll bow to your knowledge as a Delaware redsident and assume that Carney has gotten Castle out of the house race and into either the Senate or retirment.  

I guess our goal then should be to make sure that O'Donnell runs for the senate and that the CfG starts talking about her.  

I want Mike castle out of politics and out of our hair.  

The less money we have to spend on a Delaware senate race, the happier I'll be.  

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by: skywrnchsr509 @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 12:59:49 PM UTC

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CfG primaries work best in conservative districts

For example, MD-01, where voters think the district is safely Republican enough to vote for the conservative challenger. There are areas in New Jersey that are analogous to the conservative Baltimore County suburbs that supported Harris, mostly in NJ-05 and NJ-11, but some in the Ocean County part of NJ-04. I could see a CfG challenger from Ocean County run against Chris Smith because he's too moderate. Chris Smith is a legend to NJ Republicans, but he hasn't had a challenger from the right before, so you never know.

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by: duffman @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 01:55:07 AM UTC

Well, places with closed primaries and really conservative Republicans

The Club for Growth and the nature of New Mexico's closed primaries are pretty much what gave Steve Pearce the nomination (and pretty much guaranteed Tom Udall's victory in the fall).

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by: DGM @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 03:09:19 AM UTC

true enough points

I don't really expect the CfG to really be able defeat any of these guys in a primary....but they can cost them money and support from the right...people on that side who don't go vote is one less vote we need to win.  

The CfG can provide us with that

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by: skywrnchsr509 @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 03:15:38 AM UTC

Huh?

I thought the CfG was suppose to be a purely economic conservative group. Not some all-around right wing group. Sure this bill has some 'economic factors' in it but even staunch economic conservatives support this because they are also very pro-environment. IMO...if a bill, such as this one, is not purely about economics then the CfG should form no opinion on it. Just because you are for this bill it does not mean you are anti-fiscal conservative. As there is such a thing called the 'greater good'. And the CfG is showing themselves to be hypocritical. They were not against all that funding for the Iraq War, even though it was taxpayers' dollars. Nor are they against alot of funding for homeland security (and rightly, they should not have been). This just shows that the people in charge of the CfG have more than just an economic agenda. They are diehard all-around conservatives. Hence why you almost never, ever see them endorse a socially moderate Republican. And why almost all their venom is toward socially moderate Republican incumbents.  

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by: HarrisCountyBrian @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 21:16:37 PM UTC

The whole GOP argument against this bill

And doing anything about climate change in general is economic. Right the way back to Bush 1 and "the American way of life is not negotiable".

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by: conspiracy @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 18:12:44 PM UTC

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