Club for Growth targets nine Republicans for primary challenges
Tethered to the group’s congressional scorecard that was released this week, the site, www.PrimaryMyCongressman.com, goes live later Wednesday. It names people in districts where Mitt Romney notched more than 60 percent in the 2012 presidential race, but got a lifetime rating of below 70 percent from the Club.
For now, the members who will be on the website are Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Rep. Rick Crawford (R- Ark.), Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), Rep. Steve Palazzo (R-Miss.) , Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.), Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) and Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.). In the future, the Club will rotate in different members of Congress.
The site, Club officials say, is not a response to a recent effort by Karl Rove and the Crossroads groups to launch the Conservative Victory Project, a rebranded effort that officials said is aimed at picking conservative candidates who are also electable.
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Guess the citizens in the states where these r’s might get a challenge has to look very long/hard if they want to keep said r or make a change?
Boy this might get real nasty if different groups are trying to tell said states who they need/want to vote for?
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letget on February 27, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.)
They’ll be labelled gay-haters in 3, 2, 1.
Schadenfreude on February 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM
This is so delicious. I may have seconds. And dessert.
It also may serve to be informative to those states about who they actually elected vs who they thought they were electing.
I consider it a plus.
Can’t wait to see “Cantor. E” pop up on that sight.
BobMbx on February 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM
If these R’s are voting ‘go along to get along’, then they should be facing a primary candidate.
Mirimichi on February 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Before there’s cheering, everyone should know that Club for Growth supports amnesty for illegal aliens and “‘gay’ marriage”.
Lourdes on February 27, 2013 at 2:02 PM
This means:
Before there’s cheering, everyone should know that Club for Growth supports amnesty for illegal aliens and “‘gay’ marriage”.
Lourdes on February 27, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Lourdes on February 27, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Rove’s a “compassionate conservative” as, apparently, are most of those who populated the Bush Admin., certainly were as to the Rove selections for such.
“Compassionate conservative” means:
supports amnesty for illegal aliens and “‘gay’ marriage”.
Lourdes on February 27, 2013 at 2:05 PM
Eh, I support both. Right after every shred of the welfare state is disposed of and the idea of ever allowing them a come back is salted with a constitutional Amendment preventing them.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 2:09 PM
Ellmers is my representative. Hope she goes.
nobar on February 27, 2013 at 2:18 PM
What part of the state I got to live in to primary her?
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 2:19 PM
They need to add L. Ghamnesty.
Oil Can on February 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Greater Sanford area (and just checked, she isn’t my rep, by about 500 feet).
nobar on February 27, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Yeah long ways away from me. I cannot tell if I am in the 11 or 10th. I think 11th district… Not a permanent member of the state yet though. Still waiting to see if they get a permanent job here for me.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 2:29 PM
I think this is a good idea. I’d like to see the Voting record for each person they put on this list.
bluefox on February 27, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Karl Rove, call your office.
Ward Cleaver on February 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM
LOL, you mean Boehner’s shadow? I can’t stand that weasel.
Boehner/Cantor/McCarthy, the 3 musketeers.
I think that list is going to grow in length:-)
bluefox on February 27, 2013 at 2:58 PM
Hotairian values = “the idea of ever allowing them a come back is salted with a constitutional Amendment preventing them.”
Yeah! Our Constitution should be rewritten to discriminate against people and outlaw ideas.
Mmm...Burritos on February 27, 2013 at 2:58 PM
Core values and freedom never change. Freedom cannot exist whereupon personal responsibility does not exist. When the failures of one demands confiscation of the property of others, only the failures are “free”. The virtuous their slaves.
There is no constitutional basis for them now. There is no place in the constitution that allows payments from the government to individuals for things such as, but not limited to. unemployment, healthcare, housing assistance, welfare, medicare, social security and so forth. None at all. But since the “arbiters” of what the constitution means are in dereliction of their duties, I will not support loosened regulation against miscreants until they are brought back to the constitution and EXPLICITLY forbidden from going back outside it again.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 3:06 PM
I looked the Club for Growth scorecard, and I am not at all clear about the logic the Club used to target these congressmen. I want to hear some sensible reason that these particular congressmen are targeted. It doesn’t appear to have much to do with how their scores on their scorecard.
thuja on February 27, 2013 at 3:13 PM
gay = miscreant?
Honey, your prejudices are showing.
Mmm...Burritos on February 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM
Actually, everybody in Oklahoma who is paying the least bit of attention knows that Lucas is the most librul of the entire house and senate delegation. However, it is lup to his constituents to either return him or retire him, not club for growth, dhimocrapts, or the numbnums that are to the right of the paulistas that don’t live in his district. That is the way we are down here. CFG – big mistake.
Old Country Boy on February 27, 2013 at 3:36 PM
Fudge pounding another guy I consider as a bad activity. Spreading AIDS and every other disease rampantly I consider a bad activity. Feel free to argue that I do not have the freedom to my opinion and the ability to speak them, GO AHEAD! I will not be shamed from exposing degenerate behavior as degenerate behavior.
Gays who chose to remain abstinent and otherwise out of public purview are just fine and dandy with me. Those who do not, deserve my scorn and ridicule.
Prejudices? That would require that I have no information. As in I make my judgement in advance of having information. Is that the statement you are really looking for? Cause I can assure you, I have have plenty of information to make said judgement.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM
Like many thieves, sin loves a shadow, and when finally confronted has no qualms about attacking the virtuous.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 4:12 PM
I’m not in OK, but agree with you that the residents of his district should decide. That should be the way for all of the States.
There are many in Congress that don’t vote in the interest of our Country and the American People. I don’t have the time to search each one’s voting record and most don’t. We’ll see how Club for Growth proceeds with this. Nothing wrong with knowing their voting records. If we know any that have worse, we can suggest they add them:-)
bluefox on February 27, 2013 at 4:14 PM
So, you are ok with gays as long as they do not have sex and they get back in the closet. Wow. How nice of you to give them that much leeway, instead of simply stoning them to death. Your tolerance is much appreciated.
Irritable Pundit on February 27, 2013 at 4:25 PM
No problem, if nothing else, I am a totally reasonable person when it comes to personal choice that results PERSONAL CONSEQUENCE. We do not impose personal consequence in this nation. You only have freedom when people are personally responsible. When they are not, then their failures are a burden on everyone else.
Looking at the medicaid and medicare rolls, it seems that gay men are an extraordinarily huge burden on my labors. That burden is 100% on their choice of activities.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 4:35 PM
You win.
Mmm...Burritos on February 27, 2013 at 4:37 PM
Of course.
but you put up a good fight. I am sure you can pick any of a number of conciliatory prizes on your way out.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 4:41 PM
Hmmm, I actually changed my mind. You put up a progressive fight. It is only legitimate to split a paragraph the way you did, but the two sentences you used were in two different paragraphs, even separated by another paragraph.
It might have just been laziness on your part, but it does deduct points on style for you… You can only pick from the bottom row!
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 4:53 PM
What about people that smoke tobacco, drink alcohol and eat fried foods? It’s their personal choice to do so and we as a society pick up the tab for their resulting medical bills. Where’s your constitutional amendment banning those or will the Astonerii dictatorship only create laws mandating acceptable bedroom behavior among consenting adults? Are you aware that America has laws that prevent that kind rape from metastasizing.
Regardless, I nominate you for CPAC keynote speaker.
Mmm...Burritos on February 27, 2013 at 4:53 PM
If it were illegal right now in our current welfare state, I would work to keep them illegal. I am not looking to reduce what freedoms are already present, just limit those that I can and hope we eventually get a majority who wants to dismantle the welfare state.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 4:55 PM
…and abolish gays. Got it.
Mmm...Burritos on February 27, 2013 at 5:01 PM
Like theft, murder, rape, incest, jay walking and speeding, the goal is just to marginalize and minimize. Only the end of the world can abolish it.
astonerii on February 27, 2013 at 5:13 PM