Can we find a real conservative in WV?

[supermario21]

That could be the man we're looking for. A former mayor, state senator and fiscally conservative.

Does he have statewide name recognition? Or a war chest full of money. Furthermore, when is he up for reelection? I don't know if he would want to risk his own seat to run for US Senate. Seems like a great candidate. I'd support him. It's just going to take a lot of money to overthrow Moore-Capito. I'd rather spend that money against Lindsey and for Miller in Alaska, two more sure-fire states.

 

[CaptLouAlbano]

Does he have statewide name recognition? Or a war chest full of money. Furthermore, when is he up for reelection? I don't know if he would want to risk his own seat to run for US Senate. Seems like a great candidate. I'd support him. It's just going to take a lot of money to overthrow Moore-Capito. I'd rather spend that money against Lindsey and for Miller in Alaska, two more sure-fire states.

He is up for reelection in 2014. That's all I have on him.

 

[mz10]

Does he have statewide name recognition? Or a war chest full of money. Furthermore, when is he up for reelection? I don't know if he would want to risk his own seat to run for US Senate. Seems like a great candidate. I'd support him. It's just going to take a lot of money to overthrow Moore-Capito. I'd rather spend that money against Lindsey and for Miller in Alaska, two more sure-fire states.

I question whether Miller really is as sure-fire as some people are assuming, his name is tarnished in a lot of people's minds.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

I question whether Miller really is as sure-fire as some people are assuming, his name is tarnished in a lot of people's minds.

In my mind, he's an easy lock for the nomination and then Senator by default. IIRC, the GOP establishment bent over backwards doing rolling donuts to cater to Murkowski's write-in campaign after the grassroots told the state party in the primary to get bent with their insider pick. Likely many dems switched teams to deny Miller the victory by writing in Lisa. Plus, with the injection of many liberty favorable delegates into the state party apparatus plus the new chair and co-chair, I don't see how we could lose.

 

[DrHendricks]

GOP needs 6 pickups

Already Favored

South Dakota (Rounds vs. Johnson could retire/another Dem)
West Virginia (Moore Capito vs ???)
Alaska (Treadwell or Miller vs Begich)-Miller is king but Treadwell seems ok as well

I know that Republicans here in South Dakota are not excited at all about RINO Rounds running for Senate. In his two terms here as governor, he took our immense budget surplus and ran us into a huge deficit. 7 of his 8 years in office, his budget proposal ran a deficit (Most of them set the record for the largest deficits in state history). He took 300 million in federal stimulus money and stuffed it in the state general fund to mask his insane spending. I know we all have someone we think of as the definition of establishment, and for me, he is. He was constantly making ridiculous no-bid contracts with big corporations. We added 1500 state jobs over his tenure. I look forward to a real conservative challenging him in the primary.

 

[itshappening]

I question whether Miller really is as sure-fire as some people are assuming, his name is tarnished in a lot of people's minds.

I don't see why Miller is tarnished.

Things should be leaning heavily to the GOP in 2014 and so he should be favorite to pick the seat up. He has state-wide name recognition from last time.

That's why we need to get conservatives into the right spots to take advantage of swing to the right.

A conservative can absolutely win in WV, it's an open seat so no incumbent and should be leaning GOP. It's very winnable for a conservative even an unknown one as they will be facing an unknown Democrat.

 

[itshappening]

Does he have statewide name recognition? Or a war chest full of money. Furthermore, when is he up for reelection? I don't know if he would want to risk his own seat to run for US Senate. Seems like a great candidate. I'd support him. It's just going to take a lot of money to overthrow Moore-Capito. I'd rather spend that money against Lindsey and for Miller in Alaska, two more sure-fire states.

It doesn't matter about name reconigiton when the Democrat your facing is likely to just as much unknown. In this race it's going to come down to whether the conservative is competent and the national swing i.e people will vote GOP because the economy sucks and as long as we have a competent, electable conservative he should be favored to win it.

Also WV is a small state so money goes a long way.

This is a prime pick up opportunity if we can find the right candidate.

 

[MountaineerBill]

North Dakota has no seat up in 14, that's why I went to SD. Rove was also in more competitive races. Karl Rove money would have gotten Massie, Cruz, etc all elected regardless. Don't forget, Rove's primary money always is given in favor of the establishment candidate, regardless of ideology. I'm just saying, WV isn't particularly libertarian. John Raese was at least a fiscal one and got blown out twice, mostly taking heat because he wanted to dismantle programs like social security, etc.

Checking in from WV. Haven't been on RPFs in a while. I heard a rumor that Raese didn't really even want to run last time, but the Republicans didn't have anyone else to run. Shutting down things like SS in WV...WV has an increasingly aging population. Like many older folks, unfortunately, their fiscal conservatism suddenly stops at SS and Medicare.

West Virginia loves their pork.

Hard to argue with this one, too. We're near the top of the federal money-in vs. money-out rankings.

 

[MountaineerBill]

It doesn't matter about name reconigiton when the Democrat your facing is likely to just as much unknown. In this race it's going to come down to whether the conservative is competent and the national swing i.e people will vote GOP because the economy sucks and as long as we have a competent, electable conservative he should be favored to win it.

Also WV is a small state so money goes a long way.

This is a prime pick up opportunity if we can find the right candidate.

I appreciate your optimism! I'm still awaiting a liberty-oriented person to emerge to challenge Capito in the primary.

 

[itshappening]

Checking in from WV. Haven't been on RPFs in a while. I heard a rumor that Raese didn't really even want to run last time, but the Republicans didn't have anyone else to run. Shutting down things like SS in WV...WV has an increasingly aging population. Like many older folks, unfortunately, their fiscal conservatism suddenly stops at SS and Medicare.



Hard to argue with this one, too. We're near the top of the federal money-in vs. money-out rankings.

So is KY and they elected the most libertarian senator since Taft.

You just need to find an electable conservative and he will win because the GOP is favored big time there in 2014.

 

[itshappening]

I appreciate your optimism! I'm still awaiting a liberty-oriented person to emerge to challenge Capito in the primary.

There must be a decent conservative that can step forward. They will have the money if they can prove themselves in the primary because the outside groups will not want to see Capito the big spender elected.

Find someone please!

 

[supermario21]

With regards to Medicare and SS, it takes a special kind of libertarian conservative to win on that. Remember Rand actually intellectually talks about the topic and proposes solutions to keep the program strong. People buy his argument because he is a doctor and has great knowledge on fiscal policy. John Raese was essentially a rich guy just saying let's do away with it. It comes down to message, too.

 

[itshappening]

With regards to Medicare and SS, it takes a special kind of libertarian conservative to win on that. Remember Rand actually intellectually talks about the topic and proposes solutions to keep the program strong. People buy his argument because he is a doctor and has great knowledge on fiscal policy. John Raese was essentially a rich guy just saying let's do away with it. It comes down to message, too.

Rand has never said he would do away with SS, such a position is a losing one.

He has said he would "fix" it through reforms which means raising the retirement age and means testing it.