We Can Start In Alaska
Written by Sam on May 17th, 2008
Erick Erickson at RedState is asking readers to donate $10 to Sean Parnell, the current Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, who is mounting a primary challenge to Congressman Don Young. Both Young and Senator Ted Stevens may as well have corruption tattooed on their foreheads and both have a poor showing in terms of favorable ratings. Republicans need to accept the very strong possibility that we may lose both of these seats this year in what should be a very safe state. If Young prevails I think that chance is good. If Parnell beats him I think we’ll hang on, much like the way the GOP held the Governor’s seat by choosing Palin over Murkowski. If you can give a little please do. I think it’s worth the investment. For such a conservative state we have such a poor delegation from there. It’s as good as place as any to start cleaning up the party.
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This is a great way to pump money into these races, ala the DKos model. Erick is right……We always complain about these guys, and since we are all rich republicans, we could easily make campaigns like this huge factors in the race.
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Hopefully RedState continues these methods so we finally get something comparable to the netroots.
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You’d better be nice to the Ron Paulers…they own the Alaska Party now.
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Every American, conservative or liberal, should watch this speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHPUMYYPUc
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ChemistryDave is still holding his breath for the WMD’s to show up in Iraq.
Let’s blow ‘em all up!!!
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Good one roger, you sound like a genius.
Did you miss the part of the speech about the crippling govt interference in americans lives? The pitiful state of public education? The decapitation of america’s energy policy by the environmental lobby? The effect of the anti-science lobby preventing improved crop yields and its effect on the world’s poorest people? Our failure to keep up in technological innovation and actively seek our rightful place atop the world stage?
Take your crap elsewhere, this discussion is above you.
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Actually, the real problem here is simple Economics 101, where we always tell students to look at incentives.
Gingrich runs a “think tank” that deals with these issues. Thus, the more serious that people think his his pet issues are, the more money he and his “think tank” earn. Had this kind of apocalyptic doom-and-gloom come from a person running a global warming insitute, you would have been all over the obvious bias. But, once again, you fail the basic test of being able to apply logic equally to things that you personally agree with and things that you disagree with.
Alarmists have been a dime a dozen since recorded history began, and a good first smell test is whether the alarmism is self-serving. Try not to lose too much sleep over Gingrich’s remarks — I have a sneaking suspicion that we’ll all make it through to tomorrow in one piece.