Will conservatives support Shelley Moore Capito’s West Virginia run?
West Virginia Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s Senate candidacy is already creating an unsettling sense of déjà vu for Republicans. …
Not even three weeks since the election, Capito’s challenge to Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller is already shaping up as test case of whether Republicans can overcome deep fissures within the party and produce palatable general-election candidates who aren’t fatally wounded by bruising primary battles. …
“Congresswoman Capito has a long record of support of bailouts, pork and bigger government,” Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in a statement. “She voted to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for massive expansions of government-run health insurance, giveaways to Big Labor, and repeatedly voted to continue funding for wasteful earmarks like an Exploratorium in San Francisco and an aquarium in South Carolina. That’s not the formula for GOP success in U.S. Senate races.” …
Capito is unquestionably a moderate: She supports abortion rights, has voted to extend unemployment benefits and is in favor of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. In 2008, she ran a television ad that touted her willingness to break from her party by voting against tax breaks for oil companies and twice supporting an override of President George W. Bush’s veto of the SCHIP bill.
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If you knew anything about Indiana politics (or RINO politics), you’d know that one of the major reasons for the Repub loss was the Lugar clan staying home and (in some cases) voting for the Dem.
The Entitled hate to lose.
Libs/Progs in the Repub party are sore losers and wait for the chance to pounce, they were given one.
There was a huge piling on by the Lib R’s in Indiana (and across the nation for that matter) and the Dems/Lib R’s were able to defeat their true foe, the Conservative.
As for the rest of your examples, I can play the same game of loss to loss, highlighting your liberal Repub buddies’ excess defeats. But, it looks like you are a headline reading meme’ following left of center “Repub”. So, I won’t bother.
tonotisto on November 27, 2012 at 6:14 PM
She’s all yours … as is the GOP. I’m done with that party. They can run all the leftist RINOs they want. Enjoy it. You folks will probably have as much success as you did with Romney. Good job, there.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on November 27, 2012 at 6:29 PM
And Olympia Snowe won’t allow Obamacare to get out of committee either, lol.
xblade on November 27, 2012 at 6:40 PM
Now, she will vote for Democrat ideas. She will drag every piece of legislation to the wrong 20 yard line and that is when we start negotiating to get “bipartisan” support.
No thanks.
Let it Burn and let the Democrats take the blame.
Either that, or pick conservatives, with solid conservative records and back grounds and fix it. I will actively work against any others.
astonerii on November 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM
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