Bill Flynn, Brannon Tea Party opponent, drops out

[aclove]

Bill Flynn is a Winston-Salem area radio host who got into the race last November. His supporters are some of the angriest, harshest Brannon critics there are, but Flynn was hampered with campaign debt left over from his failed attempt to primary Congressman Howard Coble in 2012. He announced today he is dropping out. No word on an endorsement from him, but it's a fair bet that his most vocal supporters will migrate to Harris rather than Brannon.

http://www.news-record.com/news/article_fc64b3f6-89c1-11e3-bc59-0017a43b2370.html

[Brett85]

That's not good, is it? The more candidates that are in the race, the better the chance to force a runoff.

[FSP-Rebel]

How could any tea partier have issues with Brannon:confused:

[aclove]

Flynn himself seemed pretty cordial with Brannon. His hard-core supporters, on the other hand, wear the label of Tea Party members, but in actuality they're closer to the old-style Pat Roberts Moral Majority types. They're incensed that Brannon was competing with Flynn for the support of social conservatives whose votes they feel they have a right to by virtue of their having been heavily involved with the effort to amend the NC State Constitution to ban gay marriage. They also have a chip on their shoulders because Brannon has publicly stated that he didn't vote for Romney because of his flip-flopping on abortion, and wrote in Ron Paul instead.

They've spent the last couple of days in full meltdown mode on social media screaming that Brannon is a secret Libertarian who wants to change the GOP and that he's fooled and co-opted the Tea Party groups that've endorsed him. This is a bunch of nonsense, of course, as Brannon is ardently pro-life and actually helped write draft language for the Women's Right to Know Act. He called the marriage amendment Amendment One in a couple of interviews and they went ballistic, claiming that only leftists call it Amendment One and that means he really secretly opposed it. It's f*ckin' clown shoes, but that's the kind of silliness we're up against.

As far as reducing the number of candidates, with Flynn gone there are still 6 declared. We may see some more drop as the filing deadline closes in; it seems likely that Flynn dropped out now because he wasn't going to be able to afford the filing fee with all the leftover debt he has.

[ctiger2]

How could any tea partier have issues with Brannon:confused:

They most likely don't understand the constitution and/or have collectivist leanings they haven't figured out insane yet.

[aclove]

For this particular group I'm talking about, it's extremely tribal/collectivist urges. They insist that anyone who's not a social conservative is by definition not a true Tea Party activist, and further, that anyone who didn't vote for the Republican nominee is a libertarian infiltrator, and therefore also not a Tea Party activist.

[Bastiat's The Law]

As far as reducing the number of candidates, with Flynn gone there are still 6 declared. We may see some more drop as the filing deadline closes in; it seems likely that Flynn dropped out now because he wasn't going to be able to afford the filing fee with all the leftover debt he has.

How much is the filing fee?

[Brian4Liberty]

As long as his supporters don't go to Tillis, it's still good.

[Bastiat's The Law]

As long as his supporters don't go to Tillis, it's still good.

Let's see if Brannon's numbers increase in the next polling.

[GunnyFreedom]

How much is the filing fee?


1% of annual salary. $174,000 * 0.01 = $1740

[GunnyFreedom]

Flynn himself seemed pretty cordial with Brannon. His hard-core supporters, on the other hand, wear the label of Tea Party members, but in actuality they're closer to the old-style Pat Roberts Moral Majority types. They're incensed that Brannon was competing with Flynn for the support of social conservatives whose votes they feel they have a right to by virtue of their having been heavily involved with the effort to amend the NC State Constitution to ban gay marriage. They also have a chip on their shoulders because Brannon has publicly stated that he didn't vote for Romney because of his flip-flopping on abortion, and wrote in Ron Paul instead.

They've spent the last couple of days in full meltdown mode on social media screaming that Brannon is a secret Libertarian who wants to change the GOP and that he's fooled and co-opted the Tea Party groups that've endorsed him. This is a bunch of nonsense, of course, as Brannon is ardently pro-life and actually helped write draft language for the Women's Right to Know Act. He called the marriage amendment Amendment One in a couple of interviews and they went ballistic, claiming that only leftists call it Amendment One and that means he really secretly opposed it. It's f*ckin' clown shoes, but that's the kind of silliness we're up against.

As far as reducing the number of candidates, with Flynn gone there are still 6 declared. We may see some more drop as the filing deadline closes in; it seems likely that Flynn dropped out now because he wasn't going to be able to afford the filing fee with all the leftover debt he has.

There's that whole "dog-whistle" thing again. That's how the left claims conservatives are 'racists' because we 'speak in code.' Yes, a bunch of Republicans have taken up leftist Alinsky like tactics. They want to harm Brannon but they can't do it by telling the truth, so they lie and claim he is speaking in some kind of code.

[GunnyFreedom]

For this particular group I'm talking about, it's extremely tribal/collectivist urges. They insist that anyone who's not a social conservative is by definition not a true Tea Party activist, and further, that anyone who didn't vote for the Republican nominee is a libertarian infiltrator, and therefore also not a Tea Party activist.

Ehh, it's not even that, really. It's more like "If those guys like him he must be bad. He doesn't LOOK bad, so we'll just imagine all the bad things he secretly believes." Not only is it not principled, it's not even cliquish except inasmuch as it's the anti-Constitutionalist/Liberty thing. If our people like him, he must be bad. It's childish in the extreme, and it arises from a heart filled with hate, which thing I am sure that Jesus Christ will take issue with.

[Bastiat's The Law]

1% of annual salary. $174,000 * 0.01 = $1740

Tidy sum. not cheap.