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NC-Sen: Liddy's Team Demoralized?

by: James L.

Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 10:19 PM EDT

Sounds like they've lost that fightin' spirit:

Former Raleigh Mayor Tom Fetzer and fellow Republican strategist Mark Stephens plan to seek new ventures after the November election, Fetzer said Tuesday.
"We don't want to do campaigns anymore," said Fetzer. "We're old men, and this is a young man's game."
Both men are 53 years old. Fetzer and Stephens are both veterans of a host of Republican campaigns in North Carolina and are currently consultants to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole's re-election effort. Fetzer served three terms as Raleigh's mayor in the 1990s.
Stephens was executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which helps orchestrate Republican senate races across the country, during the 2005-2006 election cycle, when Dole was the committee's chairwoman. Republicans lost their majority in the Senate in 2006.

After helping Liddy Dole fritter away the GOP's Senate majority two years ago and seeing Liddy's own numbers take a dive in recent weeks, I couldn't blame these gents for feeling a bit dispirited lately.

(H/T: John Rohrbach)

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NC-Sen: Liddy's Team Demoralized? | 11 comments

What a Bunch of Quitters

These guys make Robert Byrd look like Barack Obama!

53 years old is too old? Since when?

by: Don't Tase Me, Bro! @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 21:33:41 PM CDT

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Dole v. Hagan

Liddy and her team should have listened to me...I had NC as a Dem pick-up 2 months ago..that way they wouldn't have been surprised or "disheartened"...btw...Mrs. Dole back away for the table a little sooner...way to many lbs.

by: bklonsky @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 21:36:12 PM CDT

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As they should be demoralized

I'd be too if I went from shue-in to behind in the polls in a matter of several months. I think the Dole campaign just took things for granted when the supposedly top-tier dems ass passed on the race.

by: ChadInFL @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 21:37:37 PM CDT

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Again, I'm late to the party. Who was the top dem who died? n/t

by: nrimmer @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 22:06:24 PM CDT

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Passed on, I get it!

Yeah, the top Dems in NC might as well have died. They passed up the opportunity to run for the Senate, fighting each other for the Gov nomination and other state offices, wasting their precious time. Now they'll spend the rest of their lives going, 'Dang! If I'd run for Senator instead ... ' Much worse than a V8 moment.

I don't know what their problem was. Maybe they saw a black man was going to head the Democratic ticket and they thought, 'No way for Democrats to win.' If that was their old-fashioned thinking, we're all better off with someone else with a fresher attitude.

by: WoodyNYC @ Thu Sep 25, 2008 at 08:52:58 AM CDT

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I think they saw Richard Burr

as a nice, juicy target in 2010, and passed on running against Dole because of her 'star power'.

Besides, someone like Roy Cooper (Atty Gen) or Elaine Marshall (Sec of St) can run in 2010 without giving up their existing positions.

by: bear83 @ Thu Sep 25, 2008 at 09:14:02 AM CDT

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