1. Mommabear :o) - June 11, 2010

   Karen, You got my e-mail and thank you for the discussion. )

   I fully support Connor! He’s awesome!

   You know I am concerned about which candidate for education has the most ‘common sense’ approaches and will rethink such, perhaps State politically motivated things, as the silly 7 pt system in our schools. It may keep our kids close to home and make the official look like they are tighting down the ship, but just isn’t competitive when comparing apples to oranges, when in competition for other ivy league schools and such up North. Strong principles rooted in our Constitution and a thinking that does not fight against school choice are one thing that I know Moffly is fine with, even though she will be focused on fixing the system of course. I know that Zais was a General and did a great deal of good for his school, I’m still learning more. Suffice it to say that I come from a military family too and we do most often stick together, yet I like them both. Still have my questions with both.

   Although I love Haley’s personality, I have my reservations about her knowledge on the issues and her gift for discernment. I don’t want any double minded people running our State. I have serious questions and concerns about affiliations there, just as another person has commented in another of your posts from today. I also want to make sure whoever gets in office will be able to beat Sheheen. It would be interesting if Barrett (who they say has a better chance of beating the Dem) also won the election. That would mean that we could potentially have every one of these races with a candidate that would have already made sacrifices in their lives, having served our Nation through our Armed Forces. Interesting.

   But there’s one thing I’m learning about politics. It’s that, whoever is in charge is the one making the decisions of who we will support, and that a stay at home mom like me is really hardly even a squeaky wheel.

   May God bless our America(ns).

2. Paul David Henson - June 11, 2010

   It was my greatest frustration in preparation for the Primary that there was no endorcements or report card info on the candidates by the Tea Party. I spent hours surfing web sites to garner information on the candidates. Even a list of candidates in the race with links to their websites would have been very helpful.

   Please consider an updated Primary page at the next election. One that at a minimum would have a list of candates and links to their websites. Even better would be a list of candates and their platform stand on major issues.

3. admin - June 11, 2010

   uhhhh…. please glance at the list running down the right side of this page. This has been up for months with all the races and all the candidates. With the exception of one candidate who does not have a website, you can click on any of their names and go straight to that candidate’s website.

4. Karen Martin - June 11, 2010

   In addition to listing all the candidates websites on our front page since February when we launched the Spartanburg Tea Party website, we’re provided continuous updates in our daily posts with links to the debates, the commercials the candidates ran, several recaps of the candidates stances on issues, financial information on where the candidates received their donations, endorsement information from various other organizations, we’ve invited many candidates to speak at our meetings and recapped those meetings, results of straw polls … I can’t think of a Tea Party website that provided more commentary and information on the races affecting the Upstate or our Statewide races. So unless you just began reading our website in the past week, Paul, you really should visit more often to keep up with the wealth of content we provided on the candidates in the past few months.

5. mommabear - June 11, 2010

   I agree with Paul David. I think it would be really nice to see a glance of the comparison issues and where they differ or not on some of the most important topics. Sort of like how WORD Radio has their chart of questions that the candidates answered. I found that, while it was of course never as great as getting to know all the people in the Party and the candidates themselves, to be very interesting. I would love to see everything layed out like that, side by side for us. Still important to get informed independently and even meet the candidates if possible to get a feel for how they will be operating and make decisions. Also, thanks for all you are doing with the website. God bless America(ns) )

6. RobertEdwardJohnson - June 15, 2010

   Dem Cross-over Produced Haley, Greene, and “Republicans for Obamacare”

   If you believe as I do that 14% of the “Republicans” voting in the SC GOP Primary were Democrats, it answers three questions: 1) Why did 14% of the “Republicans” in a right-wing orgy like the SC GOP Primary vote FOR Obamacare? 2) How did Alvin Greene become the Democrat Senate nominee? 3) How did Haley go from a pre-scandal mid-May Rasmussen 30% (with 22% undecided) to a 49% Primary share? A June 2 poll still had her at 31%.

   Assuming that the 22% undecided divided their votes in proportion to the four candidates’ standings in mid-May, 31 plus 14 is 45, or close to what Haley pulled. Shrewd Dems (with the emotional intelligence that GOP Asperger cases lack) realize that if numerous lengthy late night calls and Marchant’s semi-credible polygraph are “on the table” along with Bauer’s suggestion that Haley clear herself with a polygraph but Haley’s chosen not to do so, the candidate most likely to implode before November is Haley. The theory that Haley’s jump from 31 to 49 is all due to most of the 22 undecided going for Haley is not only contrived, but only answers the third question, not the other two. My theory answers all three. The shrewd cross-over Dems voted for Obamacare, left no one minding the store to stop unemployed felon Greene (if the 14% had voted in the Dem Primary it would have constituted a 33% increase in Dem voting!), and successfully gave it to Haley.

   On a sadder note, assuming that those Dems doing something as shrewd as crossing over into the GOP Primary were white, and assuming that the Democrats have now deteriorated into a vote-by-race algorithm, the approximately 60,000 Dems voting Republican would have easily given Vic Rawl the victory over Greene.

   Hey, Republicans did this in the Wisconsin 1972 Primary and put McGovern on the path over Scoop Jackson, Muskie, and HHH. Turnabout is fair play to produce a Sanford-with-ovaries – or a Sheheen victory when further evidence arises.

   Robert Edward Johnson
   Greenville
   214-205-0813
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