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Another Reason to Support Marlin Stutzman

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 28th, 2010 at 01:40 PM  | 

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The NRSC backed Arlen Specter and a year ago today Specter bolted.

The NRSC backed Charlie Crist and today Charlie Crist is bolting.

The NRSC is backing Dan Coats. Now, there is no way under the sun that Dan Coats would bolt the GOP. But can we trust the NRSC’s judgment that Coats is the best guy?

Marlin Stutzman filed his financial disclosure. Coats has not.

Marlin Stutzman has an A+ rating from the NRA. Coats does not.

Marlin Stutzman has lived in Indiana for the past ten years. Coats has not.

Marlin Stutzman has never lobbied for bailed out banks. Coats has.

There are huge undecideds in this race in Indiana. Give money to Marlin Stutzman. Get him through the primary.

Don’t let the NRSC keep picking the candidates. Conservatives need to choose. And conservatives need Marlin Stutzman.

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  • jaybo

    Now that Charlie Crist has pulled the old “Arlen Spector” move and consequently stabbed the senator in the back maybe he can now find the time to take the knife out of our backs.

    The only way that trust can be reestablished with us in The Senate is by changing the leadership of the senate republicans.

  • zollistar

    I live (and vote) in New York City AND I’m calling Indiana voters on behalf of Marlin Stutzman.

    Join me to get out the vote!

    For more information on donating money, time, or both to this campaign, visit: www.GoMarlin.com

  • jmell7

    we should go against everyone the NRSC has backed?

    Also, I’m a member of the NRA but they also gave an A+ rating to my liberal, pot smoking, Obama worshipping, Harry and Nancy drooling, Democratic Congressman!

  • RedBeard

    Either that, or I missed Erick’s call to “go against everyone the NRSC has backed.”

  • jmell7

    I thought the purpose of listing Specter, Christ, Bennet, Norton, etc… was NRSC baaadd… Erick’s choice ggoooooooddd.

    I guess I’ll have to be more discerning and not just go against NRSC backed candidates, but to check with Erick’s choice.

  • RedBeard

    1. The NRSC has made some truly bad decisions in regard to people like Specter and Crist. This cannot be denied.

    2. At no time has Erick, or anyone else on this site, stated that all NRSC picks are bad.

    3. If you want to take issue with Erick’s choices, I believe you can do that without spinning a straw man scenario.

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

    It’s clear you’re not actually here to be part of the community. You only post for Coats, and we all know you’ll never bother to show up again after the primary.

    You have no respect for us or our thoughts. You’re just here to push your guy and you do so in the most negative way possible. That’s how we know what you think of us.

    We end up judging Coats based on your comments. You make him look like a total slimeball.

    So congratulations with helping Stutzman, idiot.

  • jmell7

    I completely agree that the NRSC has made many bad decisions and I would never give them a dime.

    I’m just not sure what you’re reading. Because in almost every negative post against Coats, Erick makes the NRSC the boogeyman. And while I agree they are the boogeyman, I also know that even a blind dog finds a bone every now and then. And the comparisons to Crist and Specter just aren’t credible.

  • RedBeard

    This topic is about the NRSC’s judgement, or misjudgement, and not any sort of equivalency between Coats and the Deserting Duo of Crist and Specter. Different sorts of bad judgement.

  • jmell7

    If walking in lockstep with everyone means being part of “the community”, I guess I’m not.

    I began to comment after the tearing down of Coats. It’s no loss to me if Stutzman pulls a surprise and defeats Coats. But I’d rather see a candidate be built up instead of tearing down the likely nominee.

    And if I am helping Stutzman then great, he’s gonna need it come Tuesday.

  • randd

    Your endorsement of Marlin has meant so much. Your truth seeking journalism has opened up issues that would not have elsewhere been reported in as much detail. We’re backing Marlin all the way. He represents to us not only the best conservative repulican candidate for the senate, he also represents a new face or rebranding of the Republican Party. We need strong conservative republicans to protect our precious Republic. GoMarlin.com

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • Bill S
  • vital0gy

    That is unless Neil bans me if I vote for Coats next week. The bigger question is what will the FP position be if Coats somehow manages to pull this out?

  • zollistar

    It’s also why I no longer donate to the Republican leadership organizations. I donate money and time directly to the candidates.

  • jmell7

    I’ve been lurking here for years so won’t be going anywhere. And if Stutzman wins, great he is deserving.

    But Vitalogy makes a great point. After tearing Coats down what is the fall back position here for Erick and the rest if Coats wins. To turn around and say oh no he’s a great candidate lets rally around him to defeat Ellsworth? Kind of disingeuous no?

    That’s why I like DeMint’s position so much better. He’s supporting Stutzman but says publicly Coats is a great man, he just would like to see new blood. His fall back position is to wrap his arms around Coats and say where can I help now? I like that.

  • Bill S

    The rule here is: Conservative in the primary, Republican in the general. Neither Erick nor anyone else here will have any issue supporting Coats in the general, even if they strongly supported someone else. Care to check back on the primaries and general in 2008? This site vehemently opposed McCain in the primaries (with one notable exception). Yet Redstate endorsed McCain in the general.

    The “fallback” position is what it always is: support the Republican in the general election, as the GOP candidate will almost always be the most conservative.

  • RedBeard

    Why did I vote for John McCain? Not because I thought he would make a great president, that’s for sure. I campaigned for him and voted for him because the alternative was simply unacceptable.

    In point of fact, I haven’t actually been happy with my presidential vote since Reagan in 1984, but I have campaigned hard for every Republican since Reagan. There is no other path.

  • michiganwolverine

    Huckabee has posted his endorsement of Marlin Stutzman:

    http://www.huckpac.com/?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=3068

  • mbecker908

    I hope he coughs up some cash, but I’d rate Huckabee’s endorsement right up there with cancer.

  • jmell7

    As many Indianans have stated on this board and elsewhere, all the top 3 candidates are conservative. Between Coats, Hostetler, & Stutzman there is no McCain, Crist, or Specter.

    And yes, I am sure Redstate will endorse Coats in the general and after what has gone on here for the past few weeks it will be meaningless and shallow, unlike DeMint’s. I would not point out the fall back example as McCain because the fall back was… he lost.

  • curtnisly

    I am a Hoosier who has supported Marlin from the time he entered the Senate race. I believe he is an honest man with common sense. It is very gratifying to see conservatives from across the nation rallying to his support over the last few weeks. Thanks Erick for all you have done to bring awareness to this race.

    Let’s not change America; Let’s change Washington!

    GoMarlin.com

  • RedBeard

    Fall back positions that take us back to less-than-desirable candidates do often fail. There’s a lesson in that.

    Btw, it’s ok to call “Indianans” Hoosiers. Really, it is. ;-)

  • jmell7

    Don’t call us Hoosiers!

  • RedBeard

    Two different things. I can multitask. ;-)

  • atlasintel

    Huckabee is about as fiscally conservative as Gov Schwarzenegger is. He raised taxes in Arkansas and allowed state spending to increase under his watch. Plus, he commuted over 1000 sentences in Arkansas during his 10 year reign. Among them, he pardoned the felon that ended up slaying those 4 police officers in Washington state back in late November of 2009. Huck is such a phony and he likes to play fast and loose with the truth, regarding his political track record.

  • soljerblue

    I’m still embarrassed that Huckabee won the ’08 presidential primary in Alabama. I’d have much preferred Fred Thompson, and I voted for the guy. I’d just offer this thought on the outcome of an extraordinary political year. We shall certainly be disappointed in the results in some of these primaries, and probably in the general election as well. But if MoR Republicans are, in fact, elected, perhaps the message from conservatives in the primaries — the pressure brought to bear, and the new activism — will resonate with those elected enough for them to move to the right, and pay a lot more attention to the people, and to the Constitution. Now — OK — I suppose you could argue that’s foolish optimism, and maybe it is. But, I prefer that perspective than to possibly wake up November 3rd P’O'd because all my guys didn’t make it. Gotta stay motivated to fight another day.

  • soljerblue

    honest men with common sense, I’d like to offer up the cause of Tim James, running for governor of Alabama as a conservative, common sense Republican. He could use some help, and he does have Tea Party support across the state. His web site is here:

    http://www.timjames2010.com/home/

    Thanks

  • jpniner

    He didn’t have absolute power, so his choice was simple. Veto everything, let the State shut down and get run out of town OR, decide to Govern and try to thwart as much as politically possible of the Dems agenda.

    Really think R’s that actually Govern, not just some safe district representative blowhard, actually believe in and truly support every single thing they end up doing?

    Arkansas was/is a Solid Dem state on the State level, I think Huckabee was the first or 2nd GOP Gov since the Civil War.

  • vital0gy

    I’m a Boilermaker by choice, as well. I can’t claim the Hoosier bloodlines, as I’m from the smelly state to our west. I guess I was at least born a downstater, though.

  • RedBeard

    I spent a number of years living in the Chicago area. Actually, without the leftist political stench, Chicago is a good city, as cities go. But I’ll take living in the Indiana flatlands any day.

    My people homesteaded in Indiana in 1837, and the original log cabin is still there in Miami County. I own property in Indiana, and feel quite at home there, Even though I can’t vote in the state, I have the ties that give me a special reason to care about Indiana politics.

    Hoosier farmers galore in my family. Maybe that gives me a bit of a warm spot for Stutzman, just on that basis alone.

    On the other hand, I can’t throw stones at Coats for residing out of state, since I currently live in Florida. Mea culpa. ;-)

    Btw, downstate Illinois and Indiana have much in common. It’s only when we venture into Chicagoland or The Region of northwest Indiana that things get dicey. ;-)

  • mbecker908

    He never met a tax he didn’t like (and there’s video to prove that), he never met a problem bigger government couldn’t fix, and in ten years as Governor of AR he never met an issue worth fighting the legislature over.

    Oh, and he’s an absolute bald faced liar about his record and that’s on tape too. And then there’s the “stealing the furniture out of the Governor’s TripleWide” and his “wedding” presents.

    And let’s not forget that he was the Governor for 10 years, LtGov before that and the Republican Party in the state was in worse shape after he left office than before he went in.

    He’s a piece of political crap.

  • aesthete

    What, exactly, did Huck repeal or prevent from happening in his 10+ years as Governor? I can name several bills that he supported enthusiastically that detracted from AR freedoms, taxes that he supported, and bills that increased government. I can’t think of a single one which removed government from the lives of individuals. Plus, he was absolutely incompetent as a law and order governor.

  • Richard Mullins

    So why I think that Mike Huckabee would break a trend. Really, the guy didn’t try to build up Republican majority and didn’t seem to turn things. In fact, I think he was a Democrat plant posing as a Republican. I really mean it. The guy needs to convince me otherwise but it’s not happening.