The American Spectator

Brett| 2.15.10 @ 1:02PM

I don't think too many Alabama voters have fond memories of Fob James. He is for the most part forgotten. If Tim James thinks he can ride daddy's name to the Governor's mansion, he should have a talk with Jim Folsom Jr and George Wallace Jr. (I'm aware the Folsom Jr briefly served as Governor after Guy Hunt was removed from office.)

Conservative Bob| 2.15.10 @ 2:36PM

I am trying to be open minded in considering the Gov race but am having difficulty getting past the idea that we should ever consider the offspring of people who have held an office before.
Name recognition?
Are we to believe that leadership and the other attributes are somehow genetic, and only reside within a few family trees?
In looking around the country and across history I think the number of times this has worked against our interests is far exceeded by the number of times it has not.
Let us think in terms of citizen legislator, members of the public at large that serve their communities for a short time and afterward return to the communities they came from.
We must at every level seek to illuminate any vestige of a political or governing class or politics as the family business.
We may occasionally miss out on a truly inspired leader, but more frequently we will forgo mediocrity and corruption and governance as entitlement.

Red Phillips| 2.15.10 @ 2:43PM

I'll just restate what I wrote in reply to the front page article. Whatever the merits or faults of the Riley tax plan, Roy Moore is CLEARLY the best candidate from a conservative standpoint. If we can get the States' Rights candidates of Moore in Alabama, Ray McBerry in Georgia, and Debra Medina in Texas elected, we might just have a foot in the door of turning back some Federal encroachments.

I've heard go0d things about James, but the election of James would be just another conservative victory. The election of Moore would be a conservative political earthquake. The left would go bonkers apart from whatever good governing I'm sure Moore would do. I’m surprised RSM doesn't recognize the potential a Moore victory has.

Dai Alanye| 2.15.10 @ 3:20PM

I have severe doubts about the publicity-seeking Moore, but anyone who backs Debra Medina can only be a Paulist. The woman is a 9/11 Truthist, for Heaven's sake.

Red Phillips| 2.15.10 @ 3:36PM

I very enthusiastically supported Ron Paul, but ultimately I am a paleoconservative, not a paleolibertarian. Does that still make me a "Paulist?"

"The woman is a 9/11 Truthist"

Well, first of all, no she isn't. I am not a "Truther," but even if she was I would sure vote for a Truther who was a good States' Rights Constitutionalist conservative before I would vote for a "mainstream" "conservative" who wouldn't know authentic conservatism if it jumped up and slapped him.

Joan Laszczak| 2.16.10 @ 9:26AM

Fob James may have cut the budget to the bone, but unfortunately he seems to be a complete buffoon when it came to anything else...besides allowing (again) Paul Hubbard - AEA - to de facto run this state...if Byrne can cut the legs out from under this monster in Alabama, again, he's got my vote. Vote for Tim James - more of the same? When pigs fly.

matthew s. harrison| 2.16.10 @ 10:33AM

Name recognition in politics is always detrimental, for example: Hillary, Richard Daley, Kennedy after Kennedy......
Lets hope that no family members who share the following names go into politics: Emmanuel, Obama, Pelosi, Reid(if his son wins then Nevadans get what they deserve), Gore(his cocaine and vicodin dealing/addicted son would be a good torch carrier of the AGW fraud.