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RandallFan
08-15-2014, 03:24 PM
http://dailyhaymaker.com/?p=8831


Thom Tillis is not so hot a commodity with Tea Party types in the Tar Heel State. One NCGOP establishment blogger is laying the blame NOT on the speaker’s campaign, but on former GOP primary candidate Greg Brannon: (http://www.thomasgoffe.com/political-commentary/is-greg-brannon-kay-hagans-kingmaker)
After Thom Tillis won the Republican primary in North Carolina’s race for the United States Senate, a couple of noteworthy things happened. Most heartening was that all of his primary opponents immediately offered him their endorsement and encouraged their supporters to do the same. This culminated in a group appearance at the North Carolina Republican Convention in Cherokee. Each of them offered their genuine and heartfelt word of support for Tillis. They appeared on stage together united in one purpose: to defeat Kay Hagan. I’ve attended some Republican events where some of those competing against Tillis in the primary have offered effusive praise for his candidacy and implored the audience to join them in working for a Republican victory. I applaud them for this. It must be hard to see your hopes dashed, but it speaks volumes about their character and vision for making America better for them to support their former opponent.

Missing from all this: Greg Brannon.

After election day, he has been the sole Republican candidate to take his ball and go home. If he truly thinks that Tillis is the wrong choice, he should consider whether Hagan is a worse choice. Then he should consider whether his actions will lead to Hagan winning. If he were to do this honestly, he would have to admit that his pique and righteous indignation will lead to a US Senate that is more distanced from his highly held principals than if Tillis were to win. In other words, Brannon is essentially working for Hagan.[...]

Really? And all this time I thought he was working for his Cary OB-GYN practice.http://dailyhaymaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Brannon_Family-300x210.jpg (http://dailyhaymaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Brannon_Family-300x210.jpg)


Brannon — as far as I can tell — has been hands-off about this race since the primary ended. He has his own Brady Bunch at home, and a thriving business to operate. I’m sure political campaigning now takes a distant third place in his life.

I am not aware of Brannon either trashing Tillis or praising Hagan. During the primary, Brannon was — at one point — running very competitively at the head of the pack with Tillis. Then Karl Rove’s money started pouring in, a Baptist preacher from Charlotte conveniently jumped in the race, and the Tillis machine ramped up a slander offensive against Brannon. They did the best they could to paint him as an extremist kook.



Rand made a good choice backing Brannon. Rand was with the 54% of NC Republicans who were anti-Tillis. Bad move by Gingrich to back 49%ers Lamar and Pat Roberts. Even Santorum and Donald Trump endorsed McDaniel in MS who got the majority of the Republican voters.

phill4paul
08-15-2014, 03:33 PM
Tillis won't be getting any support from me. None.

ctiger2
08-15-2014, 03:52 PM
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Occam's Banana
08-15-2014, 03:53 PM
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phill4paul
08-15-2014, 04:00 PM
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Noice.

Southron
08-15-2014, 04:45 PM
No chance he gets my vote. I'll throw away my vote to the Libertarian party I reckon.