On Texas its technically not an open seat yet and second I doubt you see any endorsements here.

I believe the NRSC and NRCC should endorse candidate just like the Dem counterparts have done. I realize its unpopular on this site but I am not a fan of these bitter and cost draining primaries which only benefit the inclumbent senators. A lot of these states have such late primaries too which really hurt us and have cost us so many seats the past several cycles.

When it comes down to blue state like CA (sadly it is blue state) I prefer to have someone who can make it a race. Chuck Devore does not stand a chance against Boxer; I doubt Fiorina does either but at least she can make Boxer sweat a bit and keep it a race which helps our congressional office holders in state with turnout and hopefully helps us keep the Governor mansion.

I realize a lot disagree with above because they rather have their principles be held firmly but I am willing to bend them when we can look in long term.

But you bet your bottom dollar that Fiorinia’s people will be fighting for it to stay open out in Indian Wells.

I might get a chance to go out there for a day, in fact. Am looking into it.

McCain….yawn.
Palin….rockstar.

Shwarzenegger….sinking ship.
Jindal…..rising star.

Specter….traitor.
Toomey…hope.

Republican party…..doesn’t get it.
Tea Party…sweeping the country.

Dumb idea…“Hey, I know. Let’s move to the left”
Good idea “Let’s do something that people might actually like…like running a conservative”

Jesmer is a loser with a record similar to Nicole Wallace and her sidekick husband and Steve Schmidt.

If any of the fratboy GOP senators gave a rat’s about their country, they’d start ditching Jesmers and shaming them from politics. The last time I said something like this on RS, I was told that I wasn’t DC-savvy. And you know what, I’m election-winning savvy, which is something the DC Republicans haven’t been in the past two cycles.

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and the huge amount of taxes paid by this industry and the number of employed in this industry. The anger of that community is underestimated, I can’t believe no one sees this. If I were DeVore I would sieze on this because today with communities 40% unemployed there is NO LOVE for Boxer or the party she represents.

regardless of who the nominee is so that likely had something to do with the non-mention, though I would liked Cornyn to atleast highlight Williams candidacy. As for Florida, the non-mention is a good thing as maybe he got the point we dont like the NRSC being Crist cheerleaders.

If Devore wins the GOP primary, does anyone really think he’ll be able to beat Barbara Boxer?

She’ll play the feminist card.

The California media will starve Devore of the exposure he needs to break through in the state. They’ll shield Boxer enough that Devore’s jabs at her won’t get through. I seriously doubt that Redstate can do much to change that.

Hey…I’m hope I’m wrong. But I don’t think I am.

I hope Castle runs for Senate in DE its best we can do there. Love to have Biden’s old seat and Obama’s.

It looks like the NRSC definitely backed off of supporting Jane Norton here, yet another fiscally-moderate Republican candidate. I was hoping they’d learned their lesson, but apparently not.

(And will be for the foreseeable future…)

I thought everyone knew this, So Jesmer is simpatico with the group who did everything they could to get Obama elected (under the guise of running the “McCain Campaign”), Why do any of them still have jobs? It makes no difference to them that our country has been lost over the past 20 years, that they have played a big part in it actively and passively. They must think their vile behavior during the last election has no consequences. Where would they get that idea? They should all be forced to retire from public life in shame.

Sadly the Republican party is no longer the party of Reagan. Todays Republican party has abandoned fiscal conservatism like the plague.

Why this is I can’t fathom.

I will state to everyone - In some districts and states our conservative ideals and principles are alive and being embraced by those wishing to run for a seat in congress or for the Senate. Sadly the National Republican leadership regards being a moderate more palatable then conservative. Fools all who believe this.

With this in mind we must continue to work hard to bring back conservatsim to the party, or, we will have to form a conservative party. Unfortunately this country is not ready for a third party and a third party candidate would only severly hinder our chances to regain control of America starting in 2010.

So where we can, we must support the Republican candidate that most embraces fiscal conservatism and who can win an election. Then, that person will realize that “We the People” elected him/her and that they work for us. And if they want to keep their job, they’ll listen to “The People” who elected them. Whoa unto them who forgets this again.

While we do all this we must begin to change the party form the inside. Its the only way.

While it would be great if Boxer was removed from her Senate seat, and it is always a possibility, we can’t stress over Madam Senator. Likethe great Generals who cam before us, we must pick our place to fight so that in the long run we win the battles and then we win the war.

Our regaining control of our country and to a lesser extent our party will take time. We must be patient where we have to be and go for the throat in those states and districts where we can win!

“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” - THOMAS JEFFERSON

It seems Senator Cornyn doesn’t have to run for re-election for another four-five years, so he seems an obvious choice to lead the NRSC. In the last year, he effectively drove Arlen Specter out of the Republican party, losing the Party any chance at a filibuster, and ensuring that he became the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee. (Note to die-hard Conservatives: it is hard enough to elect Republicans in Northern States: from Jim Jeffords [lost the Majority] to Arlen Specter [lost the filibuster] to Olympia Snowe [probably the next foot target ... obviating any chance to stop national health insurance] no compromise on policy is the most effective way to defeat any good.)

But he must be a wise guy (Senator), because he took /a href=”http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00024852&type=I”>$62,847 from JP Morgan before the recent financial collapse.

Specter (”the traitor”) actually spent over two years working on tort reform for the asbestos industries, but Cornyn (who had not worked on the problem) voted down a compromise in the Judiciary Committee … maybe the top contributing industry to his re-election campaign ($1,339,208 from lawyers/law firms) had nothing to do with it, but “Haynes and Boone’s appellate lawyers work and play well with others, particularly trial lawyers.” : Haynes & Boone contributed $40,915 to Cornyn’s campaign.

I am a prejudiced Republican: While I contributed significant (to me) amounts to GW Bush’ Campaigns, other Republicans, and even John Thune (who won, far out of my State … good riddance to Tom Daschle), My Senator Cornyn cost me (personally) over $100,000 … compared to a little over ten times as many sheckels as he earned for the the Trial Lawyers: about $4 billion!

I now tell every NRSC, NRCC, and other Republican money-gathering machine (of which I have been a member in good standing for years) that “my Republicans [epithet deleted: "took advantage of"] me, so I have no money to give.”

I have no love for the Democrats, but I would caution RedStaters that undermining Republicans (even if “unacceptable”) is the road to ruin. Christ should win in Florida (he is popular among The Voters), Fiorina might make it in California, despite opposition by Republicans that are politicians first. Corzine will only lose if Republicans continue to shoot themselves in the foot. Even Kennedy’s seat might be won by a Republican, if the Democrats destroy themselves in the fray.

I suppose the principled stand on “values at any cost” makes sense … as long as no one minds the cost of losing any influence … when the “values” impinge upon decisions in which “the Government” has no real interest (think about it), it might be best to elect officials that kinda-sorta agree with you instead of those opposed to everything else you stand for.

Its up to California to change California.

If they want to keep Madam Boxer and the rest of the clowns that led them to bankruptcy and ruin, then, God help them all.

to their candidates and NOT to the NRSC! They are literally infested with liberal RINO’s trying to keep the status quo and refusing to recognize the fundamental CHANGE that is occurring on the RIGHT and for that they are indeed FAILURES!

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Just noticing that most of the noise opposing Democrat proposals comes not from seated Republicans. Senator Cornyn is a member of the political elite, rarely speaking out in difference of the “Washington D.C. mindset”. Sadly in charge, the good Senator needs to be a follower of a new generation conservative leaders that can be effective in protecting the intent of what the founding fathers of America envisioned.

To be fair, it was not an endorsement. Cornyn and the NRSC have always been very clear in how they endorse. This is not it. But, equally fair, we see where this is headed — an endorsement.

You can paint a pile of turds whit…and it’s still a pile of turds…The distinction that the NRSC hasn’t “officially” endorsed Fiorina doesn’t mean they haven’t clandestinely and underhandedly provided aid and encouragement.

Seriously…if the NRSC recruited her…have they not endorsed her? does it really matter whether they call it an endorsement or not? Isn’t convincing someone to run while writing positive press releases and mentioning her at ever turn, at every fundraiser and meeting of power brokers in the party a tacit if not official endorsement?

Conservatives need to stop falling for the Moderate/Liberal game of using narrow definitions to describe their actions in an effort to deflect criticism from us of the consequences of their actions.

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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Because I think Chuck DeVore is hopeless, but I too remain relatively unconvinced that she’s a true-red conservative.

You know the ol’ Sage from South Central, Larry Elder, was thinking about joining the race. Why can’t he? He’s defintely no conservative, he’s a firebrand libertarian. But he’d be a reasonably high profile libertarian Republican in the Senate and could help us bring more libertarians back into the party.

Plus, libertarians in the federal government aren’t usually that bad as they tend to agree in giving states more autonomy, thus while they may push for less federal regulation on things like drugs and marriage, they’re generally supportive of leaving the states alone. And while they’re usually pro-choice (as is Elder) they’re usually anti-Roe vs. Wade, as it infringes on a state’s right to make law in regards to abortion.

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”

John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

I worked in Tallahassee with the Legislature and other branches of Government. Charlie Crist was a State Senator, the Attorney General, Commissioner of Education, and now the Governor. I know him to some extent.
He is a nice person but is always running for the next office. The perception by the Republicans and Democrats is that he is a moderate. Unlike JEB he will listen to all sides and not antagonize or penalize those who dare to say anything that is not JEB’s line.
I believe that he got elected because he was able to be a populist and shed the label of The Imperial Office of the Governor which JEB created.
Now to his ideology, he is not a true conservative. Florida Trend Magazine once ran an article about him as The Man is an Empty Suit.
Unless defeated in the primary, I would predict that he will win in the general election.

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”

Thomas Jefferson, 1774

who push the “conservatives can’t win” mantra. Polling shows conservatives outnumber the Left in every state. Who represents us? The Democraps have been hijacked by the Bolshevics. Then the Republicans come in with a “me too” center left candidate. Often–especially in the Northern states–more than half the electorate has no candidate. Why do you think voter participation is so low? How many times have you heard people say “It doesn’t matter who wins. Nothing changes. They’re all crooks. Both parties are just as bad.”

The Republicans have been successful when they ran as a choice, not an echo. A huge pool of Americans are out there. We should run to represent them, not the government.` The voters are crying to be offered a platform of limited constitutional government. At least 20% of Democrats are conservative. Talk to some about policies–not party. It’s surprising how often they agree government is too intrusive and taxes and regulations should be reduced. When you say Republicans are the party of small government, they immediately say the Democrats are the party of the little guy and throw out the name of some damned RINO who has raised taxes or voted for some huge spending increase.

We should never apologize to the Marxist media; always stand for small government and freedom.. Our agenda should be freedom and our policy should be liberty. Represent the people, not the government. As Rush says “works every time it’s tried”.