Over on The American Conservative's Post-Right blog, Jack Ross writes:
Daily Kos, among others, is now reporting that Joe Wilson’s South Carolina district is possibly in play next year. It occurred to me long ago that after his disappointing run for the Senate that Bob Conley could very well get himself elected to the House in his Myrtle Beach-based district.
Of course, Daily Kos will have none of it, having angrily written off Conley in 2008 for things that they were somehow willing to overlook two years earlier in their embrace of Jim Webb. At one point they even had the temerity to run a poll showing Lindsey Graham’s much-earned weaknesses but lamented the lack of a “real Democrat” who could make a real race of it. But Conley did exactly as well in his race as did the Democrats in Georgia and Mississippi who were being talked up in the final days.
Conley! Conley! Conley!
Well, let's see the movement get its act together this time. Wilson claims to be against illegal immigration but backed Grahamnesty against Conley. A bit of work, and this one should be not just easy, but rather a lot of fun.
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Conley was a Republican but left the party due to frustration over immigration, trade, and the Iraq War. It is not clear why Democrats should support him, especially considering that on these three issues the current Democrat position is identical to the Republicans'.
ReplyDeleteHe won the Senatorial primary last year, and did creditably well against a very well-known incumbent, not least considering that both the conservative movement and the Democratic Party machine pretended that he didn't exist.
ReplyDeleteDemocratic voters agree with him about trade, immigration, war, and the eroision of constitutional rights under Bush. Republican voters don't agree with him on the first, third and fourth of those, and the GOP will tolerate no one with his views on the second.