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I’m with Chuck DeVore on this one. And with Ovide Lamontagne, Rand Paul, and others who are complaining. The NRSC, which has been screwing up races consistently since at least 1986, should not, repeat not, repeat NEVER EVER EVER, take sides in basic intraparty primaries. It should hold its fire, and its money, for the general election campaign against Democrats. (For that matter, that’s what the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, or whatever it’s called, should do as well, vs. Repubs.) But the ever-arrogant, ever-clueless, ever-counterproductive, ever-anti-conservative NRSC repeatedly shows favoritism, sometimes tacit and sometimes explicit and measurable, for moderate, establishment, milquetoast candidates supposedly supported by wealthy backers or by their own wealth. This is true for the staffers; it is true for the pompous senators chosen to chair the NRSC (in this case, John Cornyn), and it is true for the Senate Republican leadership that pressures the NRSC to behave as it does. And the amazing thing is, these paragons of conventional wisdom are always wrong. They always pick the wrong candidates, do the wrong things, promote the wrong strategies and tactics. They are a plague on Republicanism and on conservatism. They are a disaster. And they should cease and desist.
The rules should be this: No endorsements intra-party. No aid given to one candidate intra-party that is not given for all, unless there is an open, 90 percent vote of active GOP senators (this would be known as the David Duke Exception). No secret help that is not available to all. No fundraising lists given to one that are not given to all.
This goes the other way, too. No NRSC aid for conservatives ahead of moderates. This isn’t ideological (although the NRSC clearly is, the wrong way). It’s practical. It is a recognition that Washington doesn’t know best, that local Republicans are perfectly capable of choosing their own candidates, and that money and time and effort spent trying to beat other Republicans is money, time and efforts that won’t be spent beating Democrats.
If John Cornyn and his ilk and his aides can’t understand that, then may a pox fall on their houses.
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Pingback| 12.16.09 @ 5:12PM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : NRSC, jerks [spectator. links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Dixie Pixie| 12.16.09 @ 7:58PM
A Pox has fallen on the entire Republican Party.
They are out of power for the foreseeable future.
The question is can the NRSC pull out of their self imposed power-dive or will the Party crash and burn in 2010.
My guess is the NRSC believes the political tides have turned in their favor and no change is needed.
Lou| 12.16.09 @ 8:57PM
The current Republican party believes in government ownership of corporations and gov't bailouts, not Republican values. And they are obsessed with gay people for some reason. Last time I checked, someone being gay was protected by the Constitution. Apparently the current Republican party never heard of personal liberty.
I wish we could get out party back.
Paul Zummo | 12.16.09 @ 10:30PM
And they are obsessed with gay people for some reason. Last time I checked, someone being gay was protected by the Constitution.
And the winner for stupidest, most uninformed non sequiter of the year goes to Lou. Congrats.
Lou| 12.17.09 @ 12:08PM
I take it you are one of the "Republicans" who believe that the earth is 6000 years old.
Yosemeti Sam| 12.16.09 @ 11:57PM
GOP hierarchy should understand that
Rinos in Africa are to be protected and
not RINOs - the truly deserving of being on an endangered species list - in some zoo of a GOP 'tent'.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque| 12.17.09 @ 12:08AM
So the GOP establishment doesn't seem to have learned anything from their Crist blunder, huh?
Color me unsurprised.
Roger Ross| 12.17.09 @ 8:22AM
I look forward to receiving their fund raising missives, I always repack the envelop and include a short terse letter about how totally useless they are and I wouldn't donate a dime to their efforts and then drop in a comment like I send my money to Marko Rubio et al. It may do not good but I feel better for 5-10 minutes.
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Mr. DeVore Goes to Washington | Orange Juice links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Tim| 12.17.09 @ 11:44AM
Gah.
Bruce | 12.17.09 @ 12:16PM
The problem is not necessarily the GOP/NRSC - it's politicians in general - of either party. Understand this is about 2 things primarily - wealth and power.
Ask yourself WHY a person would spend millions of dollars (much of it personal) to gain a job that pays but $174k per year. Now ask yourself how is it that the majority of these mutts leave Congress as millionaires. Got the picture yet? What are their percs of office, besides a lifetime pension at full pay, lifetime medical care for free, free travel, free mail, access to military hospitals that our vets can't get into, and on and on. And not to forget that lifetime honoraria of being called "Senator" or "Congressman" - that's SO important to these types of people. Hey - they are mostly LAWYERS! We expect more?
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