There’s no Republican more Republican than Rusty DePass.
And yet here he is — in a broadcast e-mail today — espousing the sabotage of the Republican primary runoffs next week. He’s inviting muggles in to vote. Tsk, tsk:
I hate to quote Richard Nixon, but, “Once more with feeling!”
The run-off primary is June 27 and my friend Mike Campbell, who received OVER 45% of the vote for Lieutenant Governor in the Republican primary on June 13, needs our help again to get the 50% +1 required by S. C. law. If you are voting in that primary, let me encourage you to give Mike every consideration. He is a fine young man who will represent the Republican party well. You may request an absentee ballot by phone (576-2240 in Richland County), which is a little cumbersome for obvious reasons, or vote in person at your local voter registration office as I did today.
The ONLY PEOPLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHO CANNOT VOTE IN THE REPUBLICAN
PRIMARY ON JUNE 27 ARE THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ON
JUNE 13. Even those who did not vote at all are eligible.
Thank you for letting me intrude on your e-mail to make this request and please excuse any duplications.
Of course, he’s not sabotaging anything. As I’ve said over and over, anyone and everyone should vote wherever they see the races that matter most to them. And that includes, of course, the legions who did not vote at all last week — most of whom are probably as unaligned as I. The only people who are disqualified are those who chose to waste their franchise voting in the Democratic primary last week, despite all my wise counsel to the contrary.
But to hear some Republicans talk about it, we’ve all been suggesting the subversion of the natural order — interparty dirty tricks, muddying the ideological gene pool, forcing dogs and cats to live together, letting women have the remote control, etc.
Horsefeathers. Rusty’s got it right.
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Brad, I agree with everything except letting women have the remote control.
“Once more, with feeling!” was Pat Nixon.
Brad’s lobbying to let women have the remote? He can call me a wimpy liberal. He can besmirch my name. He can taunt me with swift boat ads. He can even ogle my wife’s “pins.” Dare he try to sabotage my control over the remote and there will be hell to pay!
Off topic but Dr. Lovelace showed no class at all by not endorsing Sanford. That proves to me he really was a Democrat in Republican disguise, and his pronouncements seemed to confirm that. You can bet he will be voting for Moore in November, would that surprise anyone?
A defeated primary candidate has no moral obligation to endorse the guy who just beat him. Good god, if he thought his opponent – especially in the case where that opponent happens to be an incumbent – was fit to hold the office, he’d never choose to run in the first place, would he?
I applaud Doc Ock for having the courage of his convictions to say the same thing about his opponent after the election as he was saying before it, unlike treasurer candidates falling all over themselves to “endorse” a guy they’ve all been trashing for a couple of months. But that’s how I roll. That’s how Tim rolls.
LOL.
“That’s how I roll. That’s how ____ rolls.”
Destined to be a classic.
Tim sort of took the words out of my mouth there, Dave.
Why would we expect someone who ran against someone to suddenly turn about and say, “You know what? I support the OTHER guy! I don’t know what came over me, running against him…”
This is another one of those “partythink” things that I’m never going to get, I’m afraid.
Brad, Usually people who are in any political party share some common interests and objectives, otherwise they would not be in the same party to begin with. Yes, a primary can expose intra-party factions and varying positions, but in comparison to the policies and platforms of the opposing party, these are usually nominal. Occasionally a candidate like Oscar surfaces and the politically astute can see through the facade that is presented. To me, there never was much GOP in Oscar, except the “O”, maybe. No matter the intra-party fight, usually the loser will endorse the winner, although it is not an obligation. Rest assured Oscar will not run as a Republican in the future, that is my bet. He can join or found the “Republicans for Moore” group. Bottom line, one is either IN the party or OUT. If one is an independent, just be honest about it.
Having known Rusty since I was born, I am not suprised to see his Republican militancy appear here. I want him to know I look forward to voting for Mike Campbell on the 27th.
So Robert Barber can wail on him in the general election.
Robert Barber for Lt. Gov.
He has got more intelligence, integrity, and experience than Mike Campbell can shake a stick at.