I don’t think a crudy former senator to run again is a good thing. When you leave, don’t come back. 1 time and your done. No second chances for a Senate seat.

Much as he irritates me, that seat won’t change hands until Dick Lugar decides its time for it to change hands.

He’s already got his 2012 site up, BTW: http://lugar2012.com/

And I’m sure it matters that I’m in the southern part of the state (Hostettler’s former district) while Stutzman is from up north….

….but I get the sense that Hostettler and Stutzman are splitting the “anti-establishment” vote.

I’m supporting Stutzman, based on what I’ve learned about him. I’ve kicked him a little cash and am encouraging those I know to vote for him.

But I hope I’m wrong about where things stand.

He has voted against authorizing Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/107/house/2/votes/455/

He has voted against United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/108/house/1/votes/432/

He has voted against United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/108/house/1/votes/436/

His values are more like those of Ron Paul than like Hoosiers.

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by getting INSIDE IT as precinct committeemen. ONLY precinct committeemen elect the leadership of the Party. For example, we got Michael Steele as our RNC Chairman because not enough conservatives are IN the voting ranks of the Party — in the 2008 election cycle, HALF the precinct committeeman slots were unfilled. HALF. And they were split about 50-50 nationwide between conservatives and RINOs. That ratio could go to 75-25 overnight if conservatives would flock into the Party in droves to occupy every vacant precinct committeeman slot. Imagine, a FULL-STRENGTH, SOLIDLY CONSERVATIVE Republican Party. We CAN make that happen. Will you help?

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It only takes a couple of hours a month to attend your local GOP committee meeting. It took me 45 minutes this year to get the 10 signatures one needs here in Arizona to get onto the ballot to become an elected precinct committeeman. Every state has a different system for becoming a PC — none are onerous.

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And what needs to change first is the attitudes of those that still play by the old rules that a candidate should not be supported unless they have name recognition, a big war chest and have proven that they can win, because they won something in the past.

If everyone followed that thought process, then we would never be seeing the likes of Rubio, Stutzman, Buck, DeVore and many others. The best candidates running now are seeing wind at their backs, national recognition and so many engaged conservatives are wrenching the party back from it’s suicidal ways, and their enablers.

So that might be more Coats supporters on that day. I really don’t think Polls are quite reliable, so I’m more confident that those that didn’t answer the phone, are Stutzman supporters.

You try to change the subject from the accuracy of the data to the person who created it.

Why is that, I wonder?

1) initial name ID has its advantages, and
2) Ellsworth is ALREADY behind Stutzman (with his limited name ID)!
The poll is not a reliable indicator of the strength of each potential campaign in October/November. Stutzman has much room to continue to rise from here, Coats is at his high water mark and would decline from here.

And I shall dismiss you as an idiot. An idiot who engages in strawman and ad hominem.

You are just one logical fallacy after another.

Not ACU. Not Stutzman. Just me and a few friends unconnected to any campaign. You can look up the roll call votes yourself so you can decide if it is or is not spin.

I’m just reporting. You decide.

We want the best guy to win. You have to be able to show why he is the best guy and part of that involves the record of the opposition.

He has a primary to win.

Coats, like Obama in 2008, seems to be asking us to believe he’ll vote entirely differently from his prior record.

Performance records are fair game in making judgment on whom to vote for.

If they aren’t, then how do you propose we run against Obama in 2012.

Seriously, you guys need to be less obvious.