Rick Santorum: the Comeback
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By Mark Kilmer Posted in Archived — Comments (10) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The Senate Republican Conference right now might stand a real chance of losing its leader, and the Senate its no. 3 Republican, if Pennsylvania State Treasurer Bob Casey, junior holds on to his lead and defeats Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania). I don't like taking chances like this.
We know Rick for his staunch defenses of the Iraq war, the war on terror, conservative policies, and above all, the right of unborn infants to life. Casey Junior has a fill-in-the-blanks character and mentality, being probably whatever his minders want him to be. He is running solely on his father's name – the late, sainted Governor Bob Casey, senior – and we can only imagine what he will be when his minders are such as Ted Kennedy, Chuckie Schumer, and Dick Durbin.
The Real Clear Politics average has Casey up by 9.5% heading into the final two weeks of the campaign. Last week, I spoke to Chris Lilik of the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania (YCOP) and he told me of his campaign to put radio ads up in key markets to take this race for Senator Santorum. His goal is to raise $10,000 A.S.A.P. to keep these ads on the air, and we can help out by visiting the YCOP Voter Fund page, where we can contribute to this effort and listen to the latest ads.
This effort is being undertaken by Chris Lilik and the YCOP Voter Fund and is not affiliated with Rick's campaign.
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I used their 9.5% because they took the Rasmussen poll, the AMC poll, the Reuters/Zogby poll, and the Mason-Dixon poll and averaged those results. Of course, each of those polls has a sample size of much smaller than 1,000 LV, so I personally put little if any stock in them, but the RCP average is the best thing we have going for "something to talk about." That is essentially what these political polls are.
RCP just reports these results.
I'll grant readily enough that RCP's center-center-right, but they aren't dKos with a better sense of PR. A reasonable perusal of their blog alone would put the lie to that particular bit of libel.
And there's a much simpler reason why nobody talks about Libertarian Party candidates: it's because they don't win national elections.
Moe
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
Really, so Libertarians don't win national elections? That's curious. Ron Paul, the former Libertarian Party Presidential candidate was elected to Congress in 1996, and has been re-elected 4 times since. He is a Lifetime member of the Libertarian Party, and is identifed by the Houston-area press as a "Libertarian." (I live in Ron's District).
Latest poll numbers have Libertarian Bob Smithers around 20% for the TX CD-22 seat, while the Republican is at 11%. Yet, liberal-biased RCP refuses to even list Smither.
And the very latest Georgia polls have the Libertarian candidate for Governor now at 9%, which most pundits agree will cause a run-off.
Oh, and the Seattle Times just endorsed the Libertarian candidate for US Senate.
Nah, those Libertarians don't matter in elections. Better just to ignore them, right?
Eric Dondero
www.mainstreamlibertarian.com
You point to ONE Libertarian (who runs on the R line) to use that as proof of Libertarian viability?
Come on... so does that mean socialists are a strong and growing element, too, since Bernie Sanders wins as one?
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
Nothing personal, but until you guys stop running people like Libertarian Smurf, you're going to be a marginal part of the political process.
Moe
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
And the very latest Georgia polls have the Libertarian candidate for Governor now at 9%, which most pundits agree will cause a run-off.
The power of hope over reality. Sonny's gonna run away with a multi-digit win on this one, unless the run-off of which you speak is for second place.
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Even those who learn from history are surrounded by those doomed to repeat it.
While I hope the Senator will be returning to his seat in the Senate, and rising to the post of Asst. Leader (currently held by soon-to-be leader Mitch McConnell) - I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a back up.
Rick Santorum is one hell of a spokesman for conservatism and knows how to campaign hard. With Howard Dean leading the DNC, I think that, if Santorum loses, he should replace Ken Mehlman at the head of the RNC for the run on the big prize in 2008. I think Rick would be as phenom in that post, and it would keep him in the public eye for a future comeback in the elective office area.
In referance to your comment I posted this at about 2 AM. I posted it first! ;)
I don't think Santorum has enough to do it this time around. There are just too many anti-Santorum people out there right now. While Casey is a dolt, Santorum sets society back about 50 years. No matter who wins this race, America loses.
I wouldn't go around quoting RCP as a credible source for polls and opinion. They are one of the most biased anti-conservative, and certain anti-libertarian sources on the blogosphere. They're DailyKos posing as "fair and balaced." Just like talking heads David Gergen and William Schneider, the "moderate reasonable voices" on CNN. Yeah right, moderate and reasonable in comparison to Hugo Chavez maybe.
Check out RCP's daily headlines to the left. They regularly skew their headlines anti-GOP, but when you click on and look deeply into the results, it's much more balanced.
Their leftwing bias is subtle but effective.
And look at how they List TX CD-22 as the Number One pick up for the Democrats. Yeah, I guess so, if you completely ignore the Libertarian Bob Smither in the race, as RCP does. RCP wouldn't mention a Libertarian candidate if they smacked them in the face.
Eric Dondero
www.mainstreamlibertarian.com