I couldn’t agree more.
We should encourage Senator Cornyn to go full ahead with his plans as his passe attitude towards the party base will only result in increased support for Ken Buck.
To say I’m disappointed in Cornyn is an understatement. To say I’m surprised though would be untruthful. These guys running the GOP just don’t get that they serve at our pleasure and that power is not their birth-right.
We need more Bucks, Rubios, Lees and Pauls, less Grahams, McCains, Bennetts and maybe even Cornyns.
We don’t need to let up. We need to work hard, give when we can and keep the word out there that government OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people will not perish from the face of the Earth.
God Bless all these candidates who are battling the establishment. They all deserve to win.

Country club, blue-blood GOP establishment politics at their finest. The good Senator from AZ ought to spend his time doing fundraisers to help his nearly bankrupt state defend itself against Holder’s law suit on illegal immigration. Cornyn picked Charlie Crist, too, and as it turns out, ol’ Charlie’s going to be the best friend BHO has seen in a long, long time. Plus, isn’t there a contentious senate primary in AZ that maybe Mr. Cornyn could spend his time on? If he’s worried about Ken Buck, what happens if JD Hayworth goes to Washington? GOP establishment insiders continue to cling bitterly to their ideals that they, and they alone, know best in choosing candidates. Afterall, they’ve presided over the elections of Pelosi/Reid/Obama. What could go wrong in ’10 and ’12?

Y’all do not need the NRSC. Do a couple of blogs and raise tens of millions of dollars for the candidates you endorsed.

Time to get going, now the work begins. How about you start with Angle’s race. She is going to need about another 24 million dollars to win. Let see how far your all powerful endorsement gets you on this race.

So you think you can back hand the so called establishment and then demand that they do your will??? GROW UP!! Welcome to reality.

…rather than letting voters decide and then throwing their support in the general.

Instead the NRSC is throwing their weight around in the primary, and then failing to support (or even) attack the nominee if they voters chose a different candidate than the NRSC’s preferred choice.

This is completely backwards and indicates a monarchist mindset – which is going to take a grassroot rebellion to take back the party aware from these folks who don’t believe in representative democracy.

…no need to get any panties in a bundy over it if EE doesn’t necessarily wanna get out his pom-poms about her…it’s quite understandable.

of my “Obama’s gonna get it anyway fund” in the primaries. I figure the “Party Apparatus” will have to get behind the GOP candidates whether they’re particularly enamored with them or not (cf. Toomey and Rubio).

So, I’m donating my entire stash during the primaries in races where there is a true-blooded conservative running against an ‘establishment’ conservative when it’s convenient wannabe.

Thus, this post prompted a $100 donation to Buck who I’ve added to the list of Mike Lee, Tim Scott, Graves, Dan Benishek, DeVore, Stutzman, Rubio (before Crist bolted) Haley, etc. Haven’t won ‘em all but I figure it’s the only way to either send a message to the “Establishment” and/or just outright replace them.

Any “contract’ for moving forward should include a requirement for new leadership in the House, Senate and party organizations including the NRSC and NRCC.

— AMEN!

Or do you really believe that a seated RINO senator who is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has no power over the NRSC?

Tell me, what colour is the sky in your world?

Mew

When we get to open the can of whup-a$$ on Cornyn, Steele, et al.

Mew

But, they won’t.

the crickets chirp by and large here at redstate. A golden opportunity to send a RINO packing to his long overdue retirement, but no, everyone wants to be neutral and trash the clearly conservative alternative…no matter McCain would, if re-elected, be serving in the Senate into his 80s.

Fortunately their primary is still a couple months away, so there is time to sway the neutrals. Who do you think is more likely to cast their secret ballot to change up the Senate leadership in January? McCain? or Hayworth?

I actually feel much more strongly than that.

The key is to put in the most conservative Senator that we can from any given in state.

Taking out Bennett makes sense because Utah is 100% of the time going to put in a Republican. Paul makes sense in Kentucky because of the same thing.

Would I (who personally loathe Carly Fiorina) LOVE to see Fiorina and Kirk join the US Senate… YOU BET I WOULD.

They are the most conservative of candidates that we are EVER going to get from those states. I love the Maine sisters too for the same reason.

Now, in Georgia, we could use a good candidate ( Erick? ) for Senate to go against our current GOPers thenext time they run. Both are big governement guys and both would have a very good chance of being replaced by a Republican if they could be beaten in a primary.

But this cycle is NOT the cycle to sacrifice seats. We must have a chance to filibuster in the Senate.

This has gone from surreal to absurd.

They’ve done the same thing here in Johnson County, KS. They try to get the most Left-wing nominated. If they win, Conservatives are expected to support them, but if the conservative wins the primary, the “moderates” all jump to the Democrat.

You’re completely wrong about DeVore. First, much of California hates Boxer. Elmer Fudd could garner a strong percentage against her. DeVore doesn’t have the name recognition of Fiorina, but if he had won the nomination, there is still a very good chance he could have taken the Senate seat. I will agree that Fiorina has even a better chance than DeVore would have had, but even though CA is pretty liberal, it’s not nearly as liberal as you make it out to be. A lot of them are beginning to see the light. (I use ‘them’ only because I have been a Californian who was never blinded in the first place, but I’ve lived here in CA for 27 years now, having been properly born and raised in a very conservative town in Ohio before graduating from college and then moving west.) I don’t think anyone could unseat Feinstein right now, but Boxer is extremely vulnerable, and would be to any (R).

Yes, rock-throwing at Fiorina is to be ceased. But I haven’t seen anything worse than a little nose-holding in her direction. My guess is that’s still allowed, especially if done by providing a constrast in conservative versus RINO.