NRCC puts 36 candidates "On The Radar"

[pulp8721]

roll call.com/house-republicans-name-36-recruits-to-on-the-radar/

The National Republican Congressional Committee announced on Thursday 36 candidates who have achieved the committee’s “On the Radar” status.
This ranking is the first of three levels of the committee’s fundraising and infrastructure program. Earning this status means the NRCC “will help to provide candidates and their campaigns the tools they need to run successful, winning campaigns against their Democratic opponents,” according to an NRCC release.
The final level is “Young Gun” status.
“These 36 candidates all provide a stark contrast to their liberal opponents, whose support of ObamaCare and this Administration’s big-government, job-destroying agenda has taken a toll on the American people,” NRCC Chairman Greg Walden said in a statement.
Four of those rated are former members who lost re-election bids in 2012: former Reps. Robert Dold and Bobby Schilling of Illinois, Frank Guinta of New Hampshire and Nan Hayworth of New York.
Some of the other challengers are running in the same districts.

Arkansas 2: French Hill
Arkansas 4: Tommy Moll and Bruce Westerman
Arizona 1: Andy Tobin
Arizona 2: Martha McSally
Arizona 9: Wendy Rogers and Andrew Walter
California 3: Dan Logue
California 7: Doug Ose, Elizabeth Emken and Igor Birman
California 26: Tony Strickland
California 36: Brian Nestande
California 45: Pat Maciariello and Mimi Walters
California 52: Fred Simon and Carl DeMaio
Connecticut 4: Dan Debicella
Florida 26: Carlos Curbelo
Georgia 12: Rick Allen
Illinois 11: Darlene Senger
Illinois 12: Mike Bost
Massachusetts 6: Richard Tisei
Maine 2: Bruce Poliquin and Kevin Raye
Minnesota 8: Stewart Mills
North Carolina 7: David Rouzer
New Hampshire 2: Gary Lambert
New York 1: Lee Zeldin
New York 21: Elise Stefanik
West Virginia 3: Evan Jenkins
Utah 4: Mia Love

Bolded names are Liberty Candidates

 

[eduardo89]

How is Tisei a liberty candidate?

 

[pulp8721]

How is Tisei a liberty candidate?

Because he's on the list.

 

[compromise]

Tisei is a Robert Sarvis "libertarian". Liberal on social issues, moderate on fiscal issues. Smart3 generally favors these types.

Poliquin is pretty much a liberty candidate but he's not included on the list as there's a purer, less electable candidate in the same race.

 

[mz10]

Tisei is a Robert Sarvis "libertarian". Liberal on social issues, moderate on fiscal issues. Smart3 generally favors these types.

"Moderate" might be a little generous even. He's a definite Establishment type too - he'll be in Boehner's pocket if he gets in there.

Side note, I'm a big Andrew Walter fan. Might be a bias cause of his football background (he was a beast at Arizona State), but he's been saying all the right things, calling himself a "Rand Paul Republican," etc.

 

[Keith and stuff]

How is Tisei a liberty candidate?

It's all in the way you define it. They are all liberty candidates. None of them are liberty candidates, or depending on how you look at it, a certain number of them are liberty candidates. Reality be damned! Let's have fun.

You don't think a moderate from MA or a social con from UT is a liberty candidate? Oh come now, everyone's a liberty candidate. You just need to go to CO or WA and focus on this for awhile

 

[erowe1]

A list of candidates Shart3 supports is not a list of liberty candidates. It's a list of liberals that might accidentally occasionally have someone decent on it.

 

[eduardo89]

A list of candidates Shart3 supports is not a list of liberty candidates. It's a list of liberals that might accidentally occasionally have someone decent on it.

What do you expect from a guy who thinks abortion should be used as a crime fighting tactic?

 

[compromise]

A list of candidates Shart3 supports is not a list of liberty candidates. It's a list of liberals that might accidentally occasionally have someone decent on it.

I think his list is the best resource on the site right now and usually he accepts all the candidates people submit to him. He doesn't support most of the people on his list (mostly the conservatives). I also don't like it when he adds Democrats to his list.

 

[Anti-Neocon]

I think his list is the best resource on the site right now and usually he accepts all the candidates people submit to him. He doesn't support most of the people on his list (mostly the conservatives). I also don't like it when he adds Democrats to his list.

Why shouldn't he add Democrats to the list if they are mostly on our side?

This is "Liberty Forest", not "Republican Jungle".

 

[mz10]

Why shouldn't he add Democrats to the list if they are mostly on our side?

This is "Liberty Forest", not "Republican Jungle".

Pro-liberty Democrats who actually stand a chance of winning are a rare (if not extinct) bird. Once you get outside the backwoods of northern NH, good luck finding one.

Dennis Kucinich types are certainly better than your run-of-the-mill Democrat, but they are not on our side.

 

[compromise]

Pro-liberty Democrats who actually stand a chance of winning are a rare (if not extinct) bird. Once you get outside the backwoods of northern NH, good luck finding one.

Dennis Kucinich types are certainly better than your run-of-the-mill Democrat, but they are not on our side.

This.

Most votes held in the US Congress are on fiscal issues. Not only do the left-libertarians disagree with us on those issues, often they are our most vehement opposition through their advocacy of totally opposing policies that serve to push their party to the left. "Democrats mostly on our side" is an oxymoron. Progressives cannot ever be mostly on our side.

Sure, they're good on other issues, if war is the only issue you've concerned about. They're head and shoulders behind the establishment when it comes to the UN/world government and often also on foreign aid. They are almost always vehement supporters of the strictest forms of gun control. They favor drug legalization sure, but then they want taxpayers to fund the drug treatment.

 

[Keith and stuff]

Pro-liberty Democrats who actually stand a chance of winning are a rare (if not extinct) bird. Once you get outside the backwoods of northern NH, good luck finding one.

Dennis Kucinich types are certainly better than your run-of-the-mill Democrat, but they are not on our side.

Nice. And you are correct. Expect it's actually the most urban areas of NH as the 3 liberty state reps. in NH that are Democratic are 2 from the largest city of NH and 1 from the 2 largest city of NH. But yeah. pro-liberty Democrats win local races in northern NH.

 

[PaleoPaul]

How is Tisei a liberty candidate?

The guy's from Massachusetts. He's about as liberty as you'll get.

 

[mz10]

The guy's from Massachusetts. He's about as liberty as you'll get.

Rep. Leah Cole might beg to differ (as well as the countless other liberty activists in MA, myself included)

 

[Imperial]

Rep. Leah Cole might beg to differ (as well as the countless other liberty activists in MA, myself included)

She won an incredibly low-turnout special election in a three-way race that included a left-leaning independent. It is hardly comparable to a congressional race with presidential turnout and the Warren operation driving out Democrats to vote.

 

[mz10]

She won an incredibly low-turnout special election in a three-way race that included a left-leaning independent. It is hardly comparable to a congressional race with presidential turnout and the Warren operation driving out Democrats to vote.

You're right, we don't have any liberty candidates for the congressional races this year, mainly because the districts have been so hopelessly gerrymandered than any Democrat who is not a criminal (like Tierney) can waltz to victory. The gerrymandering makes the state look bluer than it is - take away greater Boston and Massachusetts is a decidedly purple state. We will have big gains at the State House this year, particularly in central Mass.

 

[erowe1]

I don't get the MA argument.

So let's say it's impossible to elect a good candidate in MA. If that's the case, then just take MA off the list.

 

[Imperial]

You're right, we don't have any liberty candidates for the congressional races this year, mainly because the districts have been so hopelessly gerrymandered than any Democrat who is not a criminal (like Tierney) can waltz to victory. The gerrymandering makes the state look bluer than it is - take away greater Boston and Massachusetts is a decidedly purple state. We will have big gains at the State House this year, particularly in central Mass.

Which is great, but from this perspective then it is not mutually exclusive for liberty folks to root for Tisei from the perspective that he is the next best thing to a liberty candidate.