RNC heading for cliff: Refuse to back Tea Party candidate that won Repub. Primary

Posted by Clyde Middleton on Mar 7 2010 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

A taste of the RNC logic:

National Republican Party fundraisers aren’t putting much stock in Joe Walsh’s campaign to unseat incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean in the suburban 8th District [Illinois], a spokesman said Thursday.
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“We’re really focused on the seats where we see the clearest paths to victory,” [National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Tom] Erickson said. “It’s no secret these are the most competitive (races).”

The RNC will find a reason at every turn to favor their candidate over a Tea-Party candidate. To whom should they be listening – their entrenched bureaucracy or the voters? We know what the intra-WDC folks say – and it is reproduced, in part, below. Let’s look at the voters:

And, now, let’s read how the RNC will create their own demise:

National Republican Party fundraisers aren’t putting much stock in Joe Walsh’s campaign to unseat incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean in the suburban 8th District [Illinois], a spokesman said Thursday.
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“We’re really focused on the seats where we see the clearest paths to victory,” [National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Tom] Erickson said. “It’s no secret these are the most competitive (races).”

The Walsh-vs.-Bean matchup doesn’t make the cut. Walsh wasn’t the GOP group’s choice to face the three-term incumbent, Erickson said.

“In the primary, we had really liked Dirk Beveridge or Maria Rodriguez,” Erickson said, referring to two of the five candidates Walsh defeated Feb. 2. “Those are the two candidates who we thought really had the potential to make this a very competitive race.”

The Walsh camp isn’t concerned about Erickson’s ranking of the state’s races, campaign spokeswoman Whitney Schlosser said.

“Joe Walsh is not part of the establishment and, unfortunately, some elements of the GOP establishment are still a bit tone deaf when it comes to independent, conservative reform candidates,” Schlosser said in an e-mail. “It helps explain why they didn’t see Walsh’s primary victory coming.”

A nine-point thumping in a crowded field isn’t good enough for the RNC.

The fallacy of their logic is that they are telling us – “Yes, this race, but, no, not this candidate.” The dem incumbent in Illinois 8 either is or is not vulnerable. The opposition candidate rarely makes her vulnerable – she does it herself. The opposition candidate merely exposes those vulnerabilities, exacerbates them, and makes them winning issues. He or she then runs on their own merits to bring home the electoral victory.

So we are reminded by the RNC: Dede Scozafavva was good enough; Joe Walsh – who beat their favored candidate fair and square – is not.

We conservatives do not want a 3d party, but you all in the RNC are making it more and more difficult to try to work out our differences.

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