Kerry Bentivolio - New Campaign Ad

Peace&Freedom said:
I thought the primary was for (through party error) an open seat, in a GOP leaning district. If that's not the case, it's not really winnable (in the eventual election). The ideal winning formula for liberty candidates, at minimum is 1) an open seat race, 2) run in the primary the district leans towards, 3) get a good candidate, and 4) raise the serious money (about $500k and up for Congress, $2 million and up for Senate) needed to win over the course of the campaign. If you doubt the numbers on point 4), go to opensecrets.org and check its data on congressional races over the last few cycles. There's no case where any candidate won the election, without raising at least $400,000 for the House seat, or $2 million for Senate.
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Thomas Massie's race cost about 800k. 400k will be just enough to be competitive, might need double that to get in the winners circle.
 
Bastiat's The Law said:
Thomas Massie's race cost about 800k. 400k will be just enough to be competitive, might need double that to get in the winners circle.
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yeah, well it's different everywhere you go. you can't do diddly squat in NY with 500K. Then again in some rural around in the midwest you could have commercials running 24/7 with 500K.
 
Bastiat's The Law said:
Here, here! It's time to transition and get our troops into Congress!
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Agreed!

We have Massie and Bentivolio who should both win, but Bentivolio does need to raise money still. It would be great to see more postings of news articles, polling data, and activity for all races going on, so we could all put our national movement behind to help out. The last thing the establishment republicans want, is for the Revolution to focus on individual races around the country, increasing our power in congress. They know they can't beat us, when we fundraise nationally, backed up by support locally.
 
Bastiat's The Law said:
Thomas Massie's race cost about 800k. 400k will be just enough to be competitive, might need double that to get in the winners circle.
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Exactly, I just wanted to show what the minimum 'reality' numbers are for people thinking raising $100,000 or so was enough to seriously contest. And it's agreed those numbers need to go WAY up in order to contest in a bigger media market like NY, FL et al.
 
It might not be much exciting for some of you, but this is a very good ad vis a vis the production values. Focused on fiscal buzzwords, a pic of the man in uniform (I wrote some time ago they should put those in the site too) and a child with God and Family popping out.

On the other hand:
Across the country, in Michigan, former state Sen. Nancy Cassis (R), a write-in candidate, criticized her 11th district primary opponent, teacher Kerry Bentivolio, for “favoring the elimination of border controls.”
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http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_1...ue-Alive-for-November-215670-1.html?pos=opolh

This is false, by the way. (Although Bentivolio said in some interview that he favors eliminating the Border Patrol and the CBP... better to just mention a wide reform of the Dep. of Homeland Security and a revamp of the federal border services). His campaign should hit Cassis for being desperate and spreading lies.

Is the Dem candidate - the Indian doctor, not the LaRouchie - holding any public meetings? If so, maybe one of you who lives in the district could go to one and make some questions to push him to the left, just in case. Like ask him a loaded question that makes him come in support of a single payer system - he probably supports it but isn't going to say it in his site. Or some sort of controversial statement.
 
DeMintConservative said:
As for Kurt Bills, he's DOA barring a live girl/dead boy situation. It's an opportunity to build some name recognition.
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That is why they wanted it for the other guy Kurt beat at convention. But I think Kurt has a better chance because he could get some of the left if he is good on civil liberties. Didn't his opponent vote for NDAA or the Patriot Act or something? I thought I saw that somewhere.
 
sailingaway said:
That is why they wanted it for the other guy Kurt beat at convention. But I think Kurt has a better chance because he could get some of the left if he is good on civil liberties. Didn't his opponent vote for NDAA or the Patriot Act or something? I thought I saw that somewhere.
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His name is Pete Hegseth and as far as I know he's never held office so he didn't vote for NDAA or the Patriot Act. However, he was head of a group called "Vets for Freedom" that supports foreign intervention and just about every other neocon policy position so I'm sure he would vote for the NDAA, Patriot Act and even worse policies were he elected to the Senate.

I just looked up the group "Vets for Freedom" and saw that Joseph Lieberman and Lindsay Graham were at one time honorary board members. :eek:
 
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Pisces said:
His name is Pete Hegseth and as far as I know he's never held office so he didn't vote for NDAA or the Patriot Act. However, he was head of a group called "Vets for Freedom" that supports foreign intervention and just about every other neocon policy position so I'm sure he would vote for the NDAA, Patriot Act and even worse policies were he elected to the Senate.

I just looked up the group "Vets for Freedom" and saw that Joseph Lieberman and Lindsay Graham were at one time honorary board members. :eek:
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No, I meant the Dem he'll be running against in the general assuming we help him to beat this new GOP guy who just opposes him because he likes Ron Paul.
 
trey4sports said:
yeah, well it's different everywhere you go. you can't do diddly squat in NY with 500K. Then again in some rural around in the midwest you could have commercials running 24/7 with 500K.
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I hope we're smart enough to steer clear of democratic strongholds, which also tend to be extremely costly media markets.
 
Pisces said:
His name is Pete Hegseth and as far as I know he's never held office so he didn't vote for NDAA or the Patriot Act. However, he was head of a group called "Vets for Freedom" that supports foreign intervention and just about every other neocon policy position so I'm sure he would vote for the NDAA, Patriot Act and even worse policies were he elected to the Senate.

I just looked up the group "Vets for Freedom" and saw that Joseph Lieberman and Lindsay Graham were at one time honorary board members. :eek:
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I think he was talking about the democratic lady he'll be facing in the general, but great job beating back the neocon Hegseth.
 
I sorry but if I didnt know any better.. This looks like any other "neo-Con" ad ... Horrible IMHO
 
mstrmac1 said:
I sorry but if I didnt know any better.. This looks like any other "neo-Con" ad ... Horrible IMHO
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I didn't like it, but hey...we've been spoiled by Ron/Rand/Massie ads for a while now. Political ads are usually bad in my opinion.
 
Bastiat's The Law said:
I hope we're smart enough to steer clear of democratic strongholds, which also tend to be extremely costly media markets.
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We should be smart enough to run Ron Paul Democrats in Democratic strongholds, where an open seat emerges. In either case we'll have to raise serious bucks for the right candidate. We need to remember that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the leadership of the two major parties, so stop trying to directly 'takeover' either, just leverage the opportunities that come along in either a D or R district, and concentrate on getting the inside track by winning the primary of the majority party.
 
Peace&Freedom said:
We should be smart enough to run Ron Paul Democrats in Democratic strongholds, where an open seat emerges. In either case we'll have to raise serious bucks for the right candidate. We need to remember that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the leadership of the two major parties, so stop trying to directly 'takeover' either, just leverage the opportunities that come along in either a D or R district, and concentrate on getting the inside track by winning the primary of the majority party.
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We should be strategically funding those seats that present the best opportunity of winning with the best candidate. We couldn't even fund a great candidate like Massie, who had the stars align to make for a winnable race (Open seat, Ultra republican district)...Hell if it wasn't for that Super PAC pouring in 500k the race might have been much closer or possibly a loss for the liberty movement and "Our military is a global security force" (Alecia Webb Edgington) would've won it for the neocons. We need to be smarter in the future and not throw finite funds around willy-nilly to candidates running against incumbents in secure districts who will clobber them in the general.
 
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