I don’t think he needs too much help to get over the finish line, and from what I understand, he’s got lots of organization on his side. Could use funds, but I think he’ll win in a walk.

Kelly’s team is very motivated and well organized, and with the news that Paton (his main competitor in the primary) has endorsed him, he will have organizational support to spare. What he really needs is money for ads and for campaign expenses. I give him even odds for winning even without more funding due to organization and his being a good candidate, but his campaign really could use some cash.

I know nothing about Gosar; hopefully, he’s all good.

I’m pretty sure that Quayle will help out in the funding department; it’s an ironclad rule that monetary largesse is the quickest way to ingratiate oneself with a group, and though I don’t think that Quayle has ideological aspirations, I don’t get the feeling that he’s joining the AZ caucus to be a follower.

Regardless, please fund Gosar and Kelly.

He’s got lots of money and name recognition. The D has neither. And won’t get either by election time.

Thomas is behind by 373 votes.

district near me. Most likely she will not win, but I feel like if we just walk away from all of these races that we don’t think we have a shot of winning than we are little by little giving away more and more of our country.

I also believe in forcing a debate in these districts. There may be some people that can be reached and those citiizens also vote for local races, governor etc. My congresswoman is a solid R – Dem legislature gerrymandered the district to get as many of us unpure souls in one district as possible.

I also like to contribute to worthy conservatives across the country when I can.

Never miss a chance to challenge the status quo and fight for conservatisim.

this is Grijalva, not just any old Dem. The guy makes no bones about being an authoritarian internationalist progressive, and we’re thus not going to get the votes of people who mistakenly believed him to be conservative, as is happening with other Dems around the country.

That said, Ruth McClung is the best possible candidate to go against him this election season, and she might just pull it off. I think it’s highly doubtful, though, and I would advise helping our other cash-strapped Republicans first.

We can and should win 3, 5 & 8 and with limited resources that’s where our money should go.

The district may be D+6 but in Raul’s case I think it’s more like D+20. Get the three we “should” get, control the reapportionment and get the new district and then go after Raul in ’12 if it’s winnable.

Again, let me add a caveat, it’s not my district so I’m perfectly happy to yield to aesthete or other “more local” opinions.

Hayworth (he says tongue-in-cheek) but Hayworth accomplished one thing in this race – he scared McCain enuf that Johnny Mac spent over $20 million of his stash on his race which means he wasn’t spending it to get other ‘establishment’ Republicans elected.

(I do find ironic humor in the fact that the author of McCain-Feingold who routinely decries the ‘corrupting influence’ of money in politics just raised and spent a buttload of it to win his seat; so…does this mean that Johnny is, de facto, corrupt?)

In addition, his need to run to the right to fend off JD meant he couldn’t play his usual ‘maverick’ role and play all nicey-nice w/the Dems and the MFM. Since we only had one vote to spare, this was ‘huge’. When Johnny goes back to being Maverick now that he’s been reelected, we’ll have more conservative Rs in the Senate and we won’t be hanging by a thread.

I know you two both view this race as having taken away funds from good conservative candidates in AZ CDs, but I also think in the grand scheme of things Johnny having to fight off JD was a net plus for the conservative movement as a whole.

Just my humble opinion.

Given that result, I doubt even a ‘becker energized for my favorite weatherman instead of discouraging those desiring a more conservative Senator on immigration, judges, energy policy, etc would have made a difference.

Sometimes a think a corollary to “one cant be a prophet in their own land” applies to politics, in that at least from atop Stone Mountain and other points north and east, JD seems the more reliable conservative vote, which seems to be the most important issue in saving America, rather than personality and parochial concerns just now. No amount of seniority-induced pork or other benefits from a McCain is as important as fixing the overall economy, and while McCain may well have learned some lessons re tax cuts and amnesty, I still have not heard a strong case for choosing Maverick over that jolly regular guy named Hayworth.