Thanks, Eric for the great articles for Marlin Stutzman. We believe he represents the finest of Republicans preserving the Republic both now and for the future. When Hoosiers hear about who he is and why he’s doing what he’s doing, they love him! What was it about farmers and shopkeepers being in congress that struck a cord with so many? GoMarlin.com

place from which to exercise free speech, i.e. lobbying, towards DC)…and you know how I know Coats had a good senate record? I lived thru it and have seen VERY FEW examples of transgressions, especially given how many years he served, whereas pure as the driven snow Rubio down in Florida already thru whites and Arizonans under the racist/wanna round us all up bus. Coats is a known entity that only screwed up in 30 years a few more times than Rubio has.

But I too favor Stutzman, just don’t feel the need to trash Coats as an interloper for not retiring to South Bend after his first stint in DC. A man gotta eat…

The problems this Country has is due to BOTH parties and WE got to this slow slide to TYRANNY on the backs of “elite” Republicans. WE ALL know them, WE ALL have screamed about them, WE ALL have cussed under breaths about HAVING to support them when they have won the primaries and YET when they LOSE the primaries they run as D’s or I’s because they were NEVER Conservative like WE ARE!

This Country year after year says that 40% of US are Conservative and yet WE continue to get LIBERAL policies and or Republicans who want to “reach across the aisle”. Democrats DO NOT “reach across” the aisle, they slap the crap out of Republicans and do what in the hell they want to do and they have ALWAYS been that way.

I am sure Dan Coats is a fine man but he is also a product of DC, he will REACH ACROSS THE AISLE because that is what he believes to be a good Senator but those days are GONE! It is time for the Republicans to just say NO AND MEAN IT!

Here is all you need to know about Erick and his picks for the Congress…..Marco Rubio, Toomey and seriously folks those two guys are Conservatives like you and me and the Party decided they would rather have Charlie Crist, Specter, the question is who has been RIGHT, that’s is correct, Erick Erickson!

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is trying to carry water for Bennett in Utah by making the TEA Party Movement seem “extreme” you know WE Conservatives are making a difference

Erick was RIGHT about Bennett too

If not now when? 2010 is more then just a push to regain CONTROL of this Country it is a push to CONTROL the GOP because it has FAILED US mightily!

and I’m unemployed and $$ is EXTREMELY tight. But this is important!

Thanks for the alert, Erick.

If Erick were wrong, we’d be getting in response some excited, but polite, explanations for why other candidates were better.

Instead, we get anger. Anger because Erick is right and nobody can argue back.

which is Marlin Stutzman.

I’ve always been partial to Farmers, especially since my people have been Farmers here since 1631, Soldiers since 1776 and Hunter/Gatherers since the Ice Age if my Grandmother is correct.

Marlin is too young to be a Senator? He’s 34 years old with business experience.
The minimum requirement is 30 years of age and a citizen of the USA for at least 9 years.

A young man at 18 can join the Military and after training fight, be wounded or die for this country. IS that 18 year old too young?

As to anger…it is a reasonable reaction to the fact we have been carefully directed for decades into possible servitude with the loss of the Freedoms our Ancestors fought for generations ago.

We’ve been subjected to the camera lens carefully smeared with Vaseline to give a soft, comforting, pretty picture if we voted certain ways.

Though when the smear is removed, all that is left of the pretty picture is a scene of destruction.

So choose wisely when you place your vote.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

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I was a Dem up until last year, when I switched to Republican. Would have rather registered Independent, but I need to be able to vote in the Florida primary (i.e., vote against Crist, and for Rubio).

Understand this…I am a CONSERVATIVE…not Republican. My votes will reflect that. The party has done, frankly – crap – for years. Maybe my vote will help change that.

I’m supporting Stutzman. He’s young as Erick pointed out, and I also want someone who has not been in Washington. Even if I could ignore most of the liberal causes that Coats has lobbied for, I couldn’t ignore his pro cap and tax lobbying. There is no room for compromise on this completely phony issue. It’s purely a cash and power grab.

Only one person hung up on me.

I’ve spoke to four, one of whom is DEFINITELY voting for Stutzman (“I’ve been following him for a while now,” he said) and I left get-out-the-vote messages on seven voice mail systems.

It costs me zero to make these calls. (Originally, I assumed that I would be paying for the calls, which I considered my $$$ contribution along with my volunteer time contribution; now it’s only time that I’m contributing.)

You, too, can contribute time and/or money.

To contribute either, visit www.GoMarlin.com and look at the top right of the site.

I’m heading back to my calls now. It would be wonderful if some of you could join me later today or tomorrow.

The primary is on Tuesday.

Donated $20. Time for some new blood!!

Enough said!

Thanks for the nudge. I’ve meant to give a small amount for a month or so. Finally did it today.

Erik’s statements are correct. Many times Coats voting records were somewhat less than conservative. He’s a good guy, but not the one we need in DC. It is time for Republicans to strengthen the platform and oil its conservative planks. Marlin Stuzman has that platform with all of the planks in place and Hoosiers and conservatives all across our country are coming forward with support. We’ve been praying for Stutzmans to rise up and stop the runaway politics in DC. Indiana gets the original prototype in Marlin Stuzman!
The phone bank is so easy to use. Sit in an easy chair with your phone and computer and you’re good to campaign for him. Now it’s less than two days. The momentum is still with him. A few additional phone calls might be the extra push to get him past the primary. Some are still saying they’re undecided, but very happy to hear Marlin’s message. We just have to keep going…GoMarlin.com

Once again, Erick dares not mention him who shall not be named.

Funny.

Otto Von Bismarck has the attribution for his supposed aphorism “Politics is the Art of the Possible”. Well, perhaps–; if you were dealing with all of the burned out ends of Teutonic feudal states, old Hapsburgs, and various other tin-horn princelings. Not true here in America. EVERYTHING is possible here.

… And we’ve forgotten this. For a nation of people that think we can change the very weather we endure by switching a light-bulb or two, it is incoherent to think we CAN’T fundamentally alter the outcome of our elections by the work in which we engage, or the candidates we support.

Marlin Stutzman seems like the sort of man that would make a magnificent Senator. Like all men, though, we do not know more than a tithe of what lay in his heart, and things can always go haywire. But why go immediately to what might go wrong, rather than to what can ultimately be so grand?

Godspeed, Mr. Stutzman.

With stutzman the powerbelongs to the grassroots, but with coats the establishment that picked him will have the power.

We did get into the mess we are now in because of Republicans. They renigged on their own Contract with America all for the sake of the party – well, let me tell you, it was no party when the Dems took over because of lack of Republican Leadership. As you say, Erick, Marlin is most definitely the most likely candidate to “stand with conservatives even when that means standing up to Republican leaders.” Indiana needs Marlin Stutzman.

…to give and gone to everyone I know (and many I don’t know) to talk up the candidacy of the only true conservative in this race. I will continue that mission today, and tomorrow I’ll stroll across the street to my voting place. There, I’ll cast my one vote for Marlin Stutzman, hoping that it’ll be one of the first shots in a battle to save the Republican Party from itself. That is a battle we cannot afford to lose, as the consequences of a failure of true conservatives to take back the conservative movement from the Republicrats means that my children and grandchildren will live as slaves of the state.

It really IS that stark and simple.

I’m not sure where that claim comes from. But the latest poll (as with all previous polls) shows this to be a race between Coats and Hostettler. Coats has a slight edge, but Hostettler (who is the most conservative guy in the race) is within reach of him. Stutzman’s numbers have stagnated at 18 in every poll and not gone up despite his late funding surge. So it’s not true that undecideds are breaking Stutzman’s way. Right now, Stutzman trails Coats by so much that if every remaining undecided voter chose Stutzman, he’d still be behind Coats by more than the margin of error. If Stutzman does play a role, it will be as a spoiler, siphoning off enough conservative votes from Hostettler to give the election to Coats.

Hostettler doesn’t get much coverage here, probably for that reason. Those who don’t know much about him should read the diaries I and another user have written about him.
http://www.redstate.com/e_rowe/2010/05/03/hostettler-for-senate/

“For the past several months I have gotten the crap kicked out of me for supporting a guy too young to run for the Senate and too conservative to play well with others.”

I for one am sick to death of picking candidates based on their ability to play well with others….. especially when the others always seem to be liberals. We don’t need any more McCains, Snowes, Lugars, Grahams or any of their ilk.

Years ago I quit supporting any Republican organizations because they seem more interested in getting along with others rather that protecting and defending The Constitution. I support libertarian/conservative candidates in primary elections and I urge others to do so as well.

I don’t always agree with your particular choices Erick but Redstate is always one of the resources I use to make my choices. Thanks again and keep kup the good work.