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By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 23rd, 2009 at 09:29 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

No thanks.

It’s not that I don’t want the GOP in charge, it’s just I’ve never seen running against a personality to be an effective approach. God knows Jim Marshall would be toast in GA-08 if running against Nancy Pelosi were a winning strategy.

And perhaps we don’t need to make it about incumbent personalities, but actual, factual, challengers to Democrat incumbents.

Oh, and, unless it was intended to be a soft launch, this is the proverbial impact.

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  • redneck_hippie

    Dan Proft just announced on WLS AM he is running for governor:

    http://proft2010.com/

    During his announcement, Dan stated his mission to allow the issues to be debated. This is the best news I’ve heard since Levin’s book made the bestseller #1 spot.

  • Brian Hibbert

    Basically the telephone version of the web site.

    Erick, this isn’t about winning votes. It’s a tactic for generating funds. Go after the Republican faithful with a message of “defeat Nancy” and you might shake loose a few more dollars. “I know you’ve already given, but this is a special drive to defeat Nancy.”

    I don’t know how well it worked, but it didn’t get any more out of me. Though “I’m tapped out for now, and I’ve already given to the NRCC and some specific candidates.” didn’t seem to slow them down.

    If they try this as a campaign theme, it’s not going to work.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    We’re better off if the base can still entertain ideas of Cantor for Speaker, I think.

  • Brian Hibbert

    All of them are good men who would be a VAST improvement over the current administration.

  • Return to Revolution

    It may well be a money raising tactic but I’ve already decided that any $ I send out will go to individual candidates.

  • IJB

    …It’s the ‘subtext’ of the campaign, just not the whole ‘text’.

    In general, running against Gingrich or Delay did not really work for Dems, so there’s no reason to think that making this ‘All About Nancy’ will work for the GOP.

    But if “San Fran Nan” is part of the tapestry (see also: Frank, Murtha, etc.) the NRCC can weave about a ‘corrupt & out-of-control Congress’, I think it’ll bear fruit…

  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    He’d do us all a lot more good if he’d resign his post to work on this campaign full-time and let Mike Pence become the minority leader.

  • noufa

    …because it’s not a very (small D) democratic way to campaign. We want to reduce Nancy Pelosi’s power. But not with procedural gimmicks. And that matters because we’re talking about the people’s House.

    If the shoe were on the other foot, I wouldn’t worry about a hard-nose conservative Speaker galvanizing the Democrats in swing states. Perhaps because conservatives are right & liberals are wrong? Still, Democrats have yet to pay political price for lining up behind Pelosi.

  • redtillimdead

    Cantor would become minority leader.

  • Aaron Gardner