After all, Liberals say the most dumb ass things!

He’s a fresh change from the status quo.

For that matter, so is Boehner.

boehner is a career politician only concerned with keeping up the appearance of doing something so he can stay in office. boehner is a smooth ted stevens. His buddies on the other side of the isle are more important to him than conservative citizens or even this country. boehner is part of the self annointed political elite that are destroying America.

Lungren ran for Governor but was too conservative to build a large enough constituency…

Hardly. He may have conservative enough on a few hot-button issues to scare off the moderates, but he was a flaming liberal on bilingual education (he openly opposed Prop 227, the Unz initiative that passed handily despite his help) and was positively awful on guns. Others have noted he has a B rating from the NRA nowadays. Good for him. Back then he had an F. I do remember getting a letter from the NRA (or possibly CRPA) a few weeks before the election trying to explain why one F-rated candidate was worse than the other, and we should all hold our noses and vote for Lungren rather than skip the election entirely. That’s a hell of a way to fire up the base.

How is he on gun control, Civil Rights, and government spending?

sharrukin on November 15, 2008 at 1:33 PM

He gets a ‘B’ from the NRA, he supports a modified version of shamnesty (if that is what you mean by civil rights) and, from what I’ve seen, he’s not very frugal when it comes to government spending. I will give him credit for supporting clean coal technology, though. And, hey, there’s always his legislation to outlaw the use of semi-submersible vessels in drug smuggling operations.

Re above comment, do you have a source showing his support for gun control? Because all I have found is his rightful support of protecting gun manufacturers.

He’s a very very beta-male and just the guy to pick to lead the party in a suicide pact.

While he’s better than the typical California Democrat, most people would replace him with a real Republican in a heart beat.

For you who think he “can’t be any worse” HE IS!!!

The idea that this moron wants a “leadership role” shows that the Reps have no clue.

Welcome to the People’s Republic of the America.

Seriously. Lungren can’t be any worse than Boehner. I figure that since Lungren supported the bailout and lost 0 elections while Boehner did so and lost 2, that it’s advantage Lungren.

I still cannot get over Juan McCain rushing back to D.C., Mr. No Earmarks, Mr. “Stand up with me and figtht,” and voting for that cr@ppiest of cr@p sandwiches filled with cr@p.

It was hard to look at him after that cr@p.

Let’s roll.

Lungren was a bigtime Washington lobbyist in between his first stint in Congress and his election as AG.

I would also heartily support Thad McCotter as a third choice if he would run. He’s the closest thing we have to another Newt right now. But I would rather stick with Boehner than Lungren.

The guy who needs to go is Tom Cole at the NRCC. He did a horrible job. You don’t need a longtime membere to do that job, just someone with energy and organizing talent.

But Republicans in the House may be looking for change after a tough election …

No, they are not. Boehner will win.

Whatever happened to Shadegg? And WTF Pence when are you going to step up to 3rd or 4th rank position to get some name recognition, or is your plan to just die were you are?