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02-28-2010, 10:37 AM
Cap'n Ed sez:
Paul decries challenge in “my own primary”
posted at 11:15 am on February 28, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Scott Brown likely won his special election to the US Senate through his retort to David Gergen in the final debate that he was running for “the people’s seat” in Massachusetts, not “Ted Kennedy’s seat,” when Gergen challenged his opposition to ObamaCare. Conservatives cheered the populist message Brown sent to Democrats in one of the most liberal states in the country. What will they make of Ron Paul’s statement about “attack dogs” coming after him in “my own primary”?
<quote from Politico.com:>
Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-oriented Republican whose 2008 presidential run provided kindling for the Tea Party movement, suddenly finds himself dealing with the blowback: a handful of Tea Party-inspired candidates are seeking to dislodge him in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary. …
In a January email alert titled “They’ve Turned Their Attack Dogs Loose On Me!”, Paul warns that both parties are “doing everything they can to make sure I am defeated.”
“These candidates include three Republicans in my own primary on March 2,” he wrote, “and they will stop at nothing to tear down and destroy all we have worked for.”
It’s not your primary, Rep. Paul. It’s the Texas Republican Primary, and it belongs to the voters who use it to hold their elected officials accountable. That smacks of the same arrogance that led Democrats to reserve one of their Senate seats for the Kennedys or their approved, hand-picked successor in Massachusetts.
h ttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/28/paul-decries-challenge-in-my-own-primary/
I know establishment Republicans and beltway libertarians have been throwing everything they can lay hands on, including the kitchen sink, at Ron Paul to break his momentum coming out of CPAC, but this is actually starting to get sad. I feel sorry for these people, I really do.
Paul decries challenge in “my own primary”
posted at 11:15 am on February 28, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Scott Brown likely won his special election to the US Senate through his retort to David Gergen in the final debate that he was running for “the people’s seat” in Massachusetts, not “Ted Kennedy’s seat,” when Gergen challenged his opposition to ObamaCare. Conservatives cheered the populist message Brown sent to Democrats in one of the most liberal states in the country. What will they make of Ron Paul’s statement about “attack dogs” coming after him in “my own primary”?
<quote from Politico.com:>
Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-oriented Republican whose 2008 presidential run provided kindling for the Tea Party movement, suddenly finds himself dealing with the blowback: a handful of Tea Party-inspired candidates are seeking to dislodge him in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary. …
In a January email alert titled “They’ve Turned Their Attack Dogs Loose On Me!”, Paul warns that both parties are “doing everything they can to make sure I am defeated.”
“These candidates include three Republicans in my own primary on March 2,” he wrote, “and they will stop at nothing to tear down and destroy all we have worked for.”
It’s not your primary, Rep. Paul. It’s the Texas Republican Primary, and it belongs to the voters who use it to hold their elected officials accountable. That smacks of the same arrogance that led Democrats to reserve one of their Senate seats for the Kennedys or their approved, hand-picked successor in Massachusetts.
h ttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/28/paul-decries-challenge-in-my-own-primary/
I know establishment Republicans and beltway libertarians have been throwing everything they can lay hands on, including the kitchen sink, at Ron Paul to break his momentum coming out of CPAC, but this is actually starting to get sad. I feel sorry for these people, I really do.