Plans to bring back gold standard.Once
Are you Kidding?
Of course the above is nonsense!
Check your calendars folks, it's April!
Election Day is 7 months away.
A little early to be reading the tea leaves don't you think?
Consider the following:
Only 7% of self-funding candidates win.
In April of 1984 Reagan was behind.
Of the 143 or so current candidates for Connecticut Governor, only one built a successful national high-tech business from scratch.
One candidate has already spent in excess of 2.4 million and for that expense currently leads according to Rasmussen Reports by up to 7 points.
The only true self-made-man in the race however, having spent less than $150,000 thus far, trails by but a few points.
Isn't it Linda McMahon that is putting $50 million towards her campaign? Whats a couple of million when you have that?!
ReplyDeleteWow....someone seems to have a personal problem with Ambassador Foley. Thats fine, but at least be honest with your criticism. Mr. Foley is contributing to his campaign but is not self funding. He has a robust fundraising effort which is why he has surpassed by far all of the other candidates in this race in total contributions. Its fine to support other candidates, that is what America is all about, but being intellectually dishonest about them...thats what the liberals do.
ReplyDelete>> Foley is contributing to his campaign but is not self funding.
ReplyDeleteHe will in fact exceed the win threshold of 60% where the odds of victory in the general election drop to a mere 7%
>> He has a robust fundraising effort which is why he has surpassed by far all of the other candidates in this race in total contributions.
While the others are left with a cap of 100 that's not too hard to do.
Talk about "intellectually dishonest"!!
How many town committees have endorsed Foley without his first making a substantial personal "donation" to them?
The reality is, until the LG renounces the CEP he can not credibly travel the state and claim that spending cuts are necessary. He is willing to take $4.25 million off the top.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Ambassador self funding, you must know that he raised more money during his time in the senate race than he contributed to his campaign. You should have no reason to believe that the same will not be true in this race. While I have not decided who I support, I am not inclined to support candidates who believe that tax payer dollars should fund political campaigns. Especially in this economy.
Should the Republican Party fail, so will the nation and with it liberty.
ReplyDeleteThere's no where left to escape to; we're it.
The US is the only chance for liberty left on the planet as everywhere else has gone totally Socialist and we're headed there fast.
Should the GOP fail to expand our base our nation will in fact fail.
>>I am not inclined to support candidates who believe that tax payer dollars should fund political campaigns. Especially in this economy.
Nor does Fedele's current involvement imply agreement.
He found himself in the race after Rell informed him less than 25 minutes before the rest of us of her decision to not run; *and* quickly found himself in the ring with a zillionaire who after not doing well in one race decided to try another and dumped over 2 million in right away.
The Democrats have been painting the GOP as a bunch of rich country club member, racists for decades.
The Greenwich Country Club didn't allow Blacks even as guests until recently (assuming they in fact do now).
We have an opportunity to run an Italian immigrant who became a self made man, in the state with the highest (19%) population of citizens of Italian descent where neither party has ever run an Italian male for Governor.
Of the 700,000 citizens of Italian descent, half are registered with a party. Of that 70% are Democrats.
We could do the Republican party well by eroding that percentage.
Or
We can run a perfectly decent fellow who looks like he came out of central casting as the perfect Democratic image of the mythical Republican stereotype.
We can expand our base - or blow it.
Have it your way -
Our children and grandchildren will live a country we wouldn't recognize.
A clever response that in no way attempts to address the original question. How can you credibly travel the state and call for spending cuts while at the same time trying to take over $4 million for your own political campaign?
ReplyDeleteMy guess is the ACR has no answer to that question. My other guess would be that if the ACR could have been associated with a candidate who was overwhelmingly qualified to be the governor and also personally wealthy, then the ACR would be singing a different toon.
I would be more inclined to support Tom Foley, Oz Griebel, or even Tom Marsh, all candidates who renounced public financing on principal from the start, over a LT Governor who wants tax payer dollars to advance his own poitical ambitions, and who took months to come up with a plan for the state, even though he is currently in office as the LG.
So much for those "unique qualifications".
>>I would be more inclined to support Tom Foley, Oz Griebel, or even Tom Marsh,
ReplyDeleteKnock yourself out.
The job as I see it for every member of State Central is to build the party.
To that end I've worked to expand the base, reasoning it's more important to promote and elect those that think like I do than look like I do. (A pasty white WASP)
Among Marsh's advisers is legendary scumbag and Weicker architect, Tom D'Amore; which alone is more than enough reason to avoid taking that candidacy seriously.
Oz refuses to take further revenue (ie: more taxes) off the table and is I believe, functionally a Democrat.
A good speaker but entirely humorless, Griebel never smiles at all, which is unnerving.
(Rumor has it that Griebel is in actuality an animatronic device created by some of the people that did the Hall of Presidents at Epcot Center. (In fact former Disney tech guru Richard Theiss has been seen in CT.)
Further - No photograph exists of "Griebel" drinking a cup of coffee or any other liquid; which considering the devastating effects moisture has on electronics makes sense.
That, in concert with his tendency to stand near power outlets as if recharging has led many to consider the theory as plausible.)
I will not elaborate; however some of Foley's internal campaign choices are less than informed as well.