Comments on: Florida caucuses, Ohio letters, Texas challengers, Virginia debates http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/01/21/florida-caucuses-ohio-letters-texas-challengers-virginia-debates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=florida-caucuses-ohio-letters-texas-challengers-virginia-debates Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Space Politics » What next for Hutchison? http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/01/21/florida-caucuses-ohio-letters-texas-challengers-virginia-debates/#comment-287513 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:54:07 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2988#comment-287513 […] Texas primaries contained few surprises, despite an usually large number of challengers for incumbents. Ralph Hall, the ranking member of the House Science and Technology Committee, […]

]]> By: Neil H. http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/01/21/florida-caucuses-ohio-letters-texas-challengers-virginia-debates/#comment-281030 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:56:22 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2988#comment-281030 It’s quite a pity that the deadline to register to run against Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Al) passed on the 1st of January:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Alabama,_2010

]]> By: Robert G. Oler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/01/21/florida-caucuses-ohio-letters-texas-challengers-virginia-debates/#comment-280991 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:52:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2988#comment-280991 The “good news” for most of the incumbents is that with a few (and there are some exceptions) most of their primary opponents are well to be kind “idiots”.

The lessons of the election in MA are likely to not be correctly interpreted by both the extreme left and right…Scott Brown hardly ever mentioned the social issues that the far right holds so dear…and on the left the powers that want to be cannot quite figure out why he got all the independent votes he got.

Indeed Brown hardly mentioned the words “tea party” and that was in MA…

The bad news for almost all of these incumbents is that if someone (to use Rich Kolker’s phrase) “bottles lightening” they are all very vunerable in terms of the currents of political movements. And we are in one nationally, the likes of which as I noted earlier people are having hard time figuring out.

And part of their vulnerability is NASA spending. It fits any and all definitions of “mindless government spending” for no real purpose. A smart insurgent candidate could pound Pete Olsen (TX 22) for instance on his almost mindless support for the status quo…

“Heh Pete, what did we get for the 11 billion on Ares?”

Scott Brown is in the mold, I dont know if he stays that way of McCain in 00…the one the GOP passed on for Bush the dull.

Robert G. Oler

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