I've asked this one before, but now that we're getting to the closing weeks: which Republican Senate (or House) candidate(s) in a competitive race are you rooting for the most? Or: which Democratic Senate (or House) candidate(s) in a competitive race are you rooting against the most?
Hands down rooting for Scott Brown against Elizabeth Warren.
ReplyDeleteNot a conservative, but I'd echo MarySue here on the importance of Scott Brown's battle. Not only is it hugely useful and important to have Republicans in the Northeast, not only is it important from a competitive point of view to defeat Warren as an important leader of the Dems' liberal wing, but Brown is an important symbol of ideological diversity within the Republican party. It's good for the Rs not to become too monolithic.
ReplyDeleteWhile I appreciate Scott Brown's ideological diversity, the direction his campaign has taken makes me a little uneasy, I would think there has to be a more genuine way to run his campaign than the constant harping on her background as a professor or the whole Native-American thing (which, while legitimate, has hardly been treated as anything more than an expedient tactic)
ReplyDeleteI'm rooting for Linda McMahon and Ted Cruz hands down (though, at least in Cruz's case, I think the election should go smoothly). At least when it comes to Senate candidates, there are a lot of Republicans that I'll have trouble reconciling with as a moderate.
Integrity. That is what Elizabeth Warren is lacking. The Native American Indian claims when indeed she is not shows a lack there of. If she were a Republican, these false claims would be top and center. When Scott Brown brings these up he is criticized?
ReplyDeleteScott Brown for senate - All the way.
I am rooting strongly for Richard Mourdock in the Indiana Senate race, because if Mourdock loses to Democrat Joe Donnelly in Republican-leaning Indiana, the open borders Republicans who supported Richard Lugar over Mourdock in the primary will be crowing that "you immigration restrictionists can sometimes beat our guys in the primary, but then you lose the general election even in Republican leaning constituencies like Indiana". A Mourdock win would give us another strong immigration restrictionist in the US Senate, and enhance the lesson for Republican members of Congress who consider supporting amnesty that doing so risks a primary defeat, like that of Richard Lugar in 2012 and Robert Bennett of Utah in 2010.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely understand the logic there Anon, but do you have any concerns about how this could damage the Republican Party's appeal in the future? If firm opposition to CIR becomes a litmus test for Republicans, the party will find it increasingly difficult to win majorities in a lot of states. I understand this is a dealbreaker for some, but I think a lot of factions within the party would be okay with a "Lets squish a little on this issue so that we can retain our national viability in order to enact all the other parts of our agenda" approach. Or they soon will come around to that approach.
DeleteBy letting in high-earning, highly educated immigrants, and keeping out the unskilled and semi-skilled sneaking in over the Mexican border, we raise our country's per capita GDP and hold down the cost of the welfare state. With a steeply progressive income tax and increasingly generous subsidies to the low income, including Obamacare and the higher food stamp subsidies included in the 2009 stimulus and still law today, every below average earning American is a financial liability and every high-earning American is a financial asset to our country. I would like to see us adopt an immigration policy similar to that of Canada, with a point system giving credit to scarce skills in demand in the US economy, as well as capital brought into the country.
DeleteAs far as the politics, a mostly black and brown America will not be an economically libertarian America, so holding down the size of the future Hispanic electorate is good for long run Republican prospects. I think there is real hope for increased Republican support among Asian-Americans, who have higher average earnings than non-Hispanic whites, but I think the bulk of the Hispanic population will always lean to the left politically, given their below average incomes and levels of education.
Rooting for Sean Bielat in MA.
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