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Rebiblican Candidate Watch UPDATE: January 8, 2010

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Rebiblican Candidate Watch UPDATE: January 8, 2010

Rebiblican candidates are sprouting up like mushrooms in the Northwest rainy season.

It is time! 2010 is starting with a race to congress and beyond! We must all start paying attention immediately. Those of you that have gmail accounts I would like to ask that you set up “Google Alerts” for your local and state elections. One of the best ‘alert’ phrases you can use would be “[county/state/congress] run for re-election”.

As you receive these alerts create a folder in which to save them. Then make a list of candidates in your surrounding area. If this sounds foreign or challenging I will be happy to answer your questions and create step-by-step instructions for creating alerts. It is very easy to do and yields valuable information that comes to you!

Here are three candidates that came into my email today…

#1

GOP casting wide net in effort to recruit 2010 hopefuls

By Paul Kane and Chris Cillizza
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 8, 2010

The Republican road to redemption may well begin in Frog Jump, Tenn., where a gospel-singing farmer with no political experience is running for Congress.

Without any staff, Stephen Fincher raised $300,000 in September and delighted GOP leaders, who believed they had finally found a credible challenger to Rep. John Tanner (D). Then things took an even better turn for the party: On Dec. 1, Tanner announced he would not run for reelection in 2010. Two weeks later, Fincher, 37, visited Washington for the first time in his life, to get together with GOP leaders eager to meet the newcomer who helped push a 21-year incumbent into retirement.

For a beleaguered Republican Party, Fincher’s candidacy is part of a recruiting renaissance following back-to-back elections during which the national political environment was tilted badly against it. In races for the House and Senate, Republicans have found credible candidates that range from intriguing first-timers such as Fincher to ambitious politicians such as California state Assemblyman Van Tran, who took a pass on previous entreaties to challenge Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) but is ready now…[read entire article here]

Here is another one…

#2

Bradley Byrne says ‘every word’ of Bible is true

The Huntsville Times by Lee Roop

January 07, 2010, 6:01AM

HUNTSVILLE, AL -  “I believe the Bible is true,” Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne said here Wednesday. “Every word of it.”

Byrne’s testimony came as he tried to clarify an earlier statement seized on by his opponents for the GOP nomination.

Byrne had been quoted in theMobile Press-Register in November as saying, “I believe there are parts of the Bible that are meant to be literally true and parts that are not.”

That quote has followed him, including to his appearance at a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in New Hope, where Byrne came to announce his first big endorsement this year, from the Alabama Retail Association.

When notice of the press conference was posted on al.com Wednesday morning, several posters said things similar to this:

“Just got a call from a person at my Church letting me know about this,” said uafan1198. “My family will not be shopping at Ragland Piggly Wiggly stores anymore or anything else they own…. I don’t shop at places that think it is OK to stand next to people who don’t believe the Bible is all true.”[...]

The litmus test for Bible-Belt GOP loyalty is stringent! You had best believe that JC Himself dotted every ‘i’ and crossed every ‘t’ or you are toast as a conservative candidate!

And over in Massachussetts…it is a battle too close for comfort already with an older version of Levi Johnston, Rep. Scott Brown (who posed provocatively or Cosmopolitan in the 1980s – sans hockey stick) and Attorney General Martha Coakley who has been endorsed by the Kennedy clan to replace recently deceased Senator Ted Kennedy. This election will be held January 19th, 2010 and begins the season.

Just the fact that the Teabaggers and the likes of Laura “Unleashed” Ingraham endorse and support him gives me the heeby-geebies! That aside – he is an ardent pro-lifer, family values kinda guy and anti-gay rights promoter.

#3 State Rep. Scott Brown (R) Massachusetts

“If Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown pulls out a surprise win against favorite liberal Democrat Martha Coakley for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Ted Kennedy, Americans across the country will cheer. The bluest of blue states, Massachusetts has been run into the ground by Democrats for generations. The political left–funded by trial lawyers and unions–is as much entrenched in New England today as it is in California and the Pacific Northwest. Coakley should be leading by double-digits but a new poll shows Brown only 9 points behind the frontrunner. Sen. Brown has served this country in uniform, and is a genuine conservative.” ~ Laura Unleashed (a very interesting self-titled column on Laura Ingraham’s site – ICK!)

They are starting to pile up and we have to keep track of them. Do I have any takers out there who can make the time to track the latest new candidates and compile a list? I need all of you to help me with this task so that we can put together the most complete source of of vacant seats, existing and potential candidates. From there we will be able to develop a Voters Guide with a Stealth Candidate Watch.

Remember, even though many of the Stealth Dominonist Candidates are going to be running as Republicans…not all republicans are Rebiblican. We have to be equally as watchful of candidates running on any other ticket. The reason I refer to them as stealth is for that very reason. They will nestle in to what ever party will assure their success.

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