wamp vs haslam

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I'd rather not have a two-time college drop out/former drug addict running the state where my grandmother lives. Just Saying.
 
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tigervol9802 said:
The Tea Party itself doesn't worry me, but some of the fringe of it does. I'm about 80-90% on board with their ideas. I'm just afraid of what it might become if certain voices become the loudest.
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Some of the candidates can get a little too socially conservative for my taste, but in general it seems to look better than the GOP. What do you think of Bachmann and Angle? I might've been sold on the Tea Party until those two came along. They honestly terrify me.
 
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Sounds like his time in politics is done. Hard to get elected when you can't finish college.
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
Some of the candidates can get a little too socially conservative for my taste, but in general it seems to look better than the GOP. What do you think of Bachmann and Angle? I might've been sold on the Tea Party until those two came along. They honestly terrify me.
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I truthfully don't know enough about either to comment on my opinion other than scanning through issues there were only a couple that really raised my eyebrows, but then again I'm a pretty social conservative.
 
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Heebs said:
Sounds like his time in politics is done. Hard to get elected when you can't finish college.
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He would have gotten re-elected to the House.

He actually wanted to run for Governor 4 years ago, but he decided too late. He may have gotten the nomination, but he wouldn't have beat Bredesen. This go round he was determined to run for Gov. I think it would have been interesting to hear the convos he had with the state party.

Anyway, it was a beating.
 
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Didn't someone quote him as saying he will now begin traveling? Wasn't the Middle East mentioned? Wonder if that means he's a closet Muslim? (let's see what response this provokes)
 
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Heebs said:
Sounds like his time in politics is done. Hard to get elected when you don't have billions of your own money to fund your campaign like your opponent.
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Edited to reflect reality.
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Yeah, and his recent comments don't reflect what a loser he actually is either.

Also his track record is simply stupendous.
 
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VolFan32 said:
Haslam won by nearly 20%. I don't money had everything to do with that.
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Maybe not the only reason, but I absolutely believe it played some role. The candidate I supported for Congress was ahead by over 20 points in the polls until her opponent spent hundreds of thousands of his own money flooding the airwaves with attack ads based on complete lies, and she ended up losing.
 
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SGMVols said:
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I believe I read somewhere Haslam had over 12,000 donors. A lot of powerful people in the party were behind him. There are several influential GOP donors in the Chattanooga area that backed Haslam over Wamp.

Wamp can throw out all of the excuses he wants, but he pretty much has come off looking like a total idiot over the last month of the campaign to a lot of people.
 
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I honestly think Wamp was dead in the water before this really began. He voted for some things that did not sit well with folks at all here, and those choices cost him the nomination. I seriously think it serves him right. No longer can you say "Jesus loves me this I know," then run to Washington to join your fellows in the ruling class to waist our money as you see fit.

We all complain about RINO's but honestly I think the ones who jump on the social issues the loudest can be the worst offenders.

I honestly think Ramsy was best just based off the weekly appearances he made on a local radio show. Once his campaign started I couldn't help but go :blink: because it just felt like a bunch or rednecks with money putting together ads. Unfortunately, I believe that sentiment rang across the state and I had to go with Haslam just because I absolutely thought Wamp would have completely been another Sunquidst, and wanted to make sure he lost.
 
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SGMVols said:
Maybe not the only reason, but I absolutely believe it played some role. The candidate I supported for Congress was ahead by over 20 points in the polls until her opponent spent hundreds of thousands of his own money flooding the airwaves with attack ads based on complete lies, and she ended up losing.
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I'm not trying to say that it played no role at all. I just think Wamp wasn't that likeable from the get-go. Especially when he started all the attack adds and started acting like a middle school girl.
 
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