If this pans out:
NRSC Vice-Chairman Orrin Hatch said today that he doesn’t believe former Congressman Pat Toomey has a chance to beat newly turned Democrat Arlen Specter in next year’s Senate race in Pennsylvania. Hatch even suggested that the NRSC may seek to recruit a candidate to run against Toomey.
“I don’t think there is anybody in the world who believes he can get elected senator there,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, the vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Asked if the NRSC would back Toomey, Hatch said, “I don’t think so” and that the party should look for “someone who can win there.”
The Chairman of the NRSC, Texas Senator John Cornyn, has yet to endorse Toomey and said today that he wasn’t sure that Toomey would be the “only candidate” or the “strongest candidate” either. In fact, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham suggested a name today that has been thrown around in political circles since Specter’s defection – Tom Ridge. The reluctance of the NRSC to get on board Toomey’s campaign, especially in the wake of Specter’s defection, is troubling. What kind of Republican party does the GOP leadership in Washington want to have?
Senator Hatch, no one will believe Toomey is going to win if you cut him off at the knees before he’s even got a chance to get started. This is what I’m on about – the people vs the powerful. I’m sorry to say that Senator Hatch has got an attack of “poweritis”…in what could be some residual “my distinguished colleague” affection for Senator Specter, Hatch appears to be trying to ensure that the GOP pick someone who “can win” and that means “can’t be differentiated from Specter” and that means “Specter wins”. Senator Hatch – just who in heck are you to be deciding for the PA GOP who can win there? Let the PA GOP decide the candidate and then, dammit, get out there and fight like heck for him – that is the job of the NRSC.
To all our GOP Senators: We don’t want you to get along with your Democrat opponents. Did you catch that? They are your opponents. For those a little slow up on the uptake, this means they don’t want our side to win – your Democrat opponents in the Senate are really, really keen on having the Democrats win, and they are not too concerned about just how its done. When one of your dear friends on the other side of the aisle offers you some advice, do the dratted opposite, ok? Trust me – you know, a fellow Republican – on this; any advice offered by a Democrat to a Republican is not advice designed to advance the cause of the Republican party.
All we want for you is to fight for us – for justice, mercy, patriotism, love of our fellow men and women. We don’t want you to fight for increased funding for some bull*** federal program most of us have never heard of and will never avail ourselves of. If you can’t grasp this concept, then just follow Specter into the Democrat party. Its cool, ok? If you don’t want to fight for us, then fight for whomever it is you wish…but don’t ask for our support and then fight against us.
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