Feda Morton’s campaign announced that she had received an endorsement from two Republican National Committee members, Morton Blackwell and Kathy Haden. Is this supposed to impress me? If I remember correctly Dede Scozzafava was endorsed by several well known national Republicans and we saw how conservative she was. State Senator Robert Hurt has been promoted by the NRCC and we know how he feels about raising taxes and parental rights.
If I were Feda I might want to distance myself from the national Republicans at least until after the GOP nominee is picked. If Ms Morton is truly a grassroots conservative as she claims to be then she would know what the grassroots thinks of national GOP endorsements. This makes me wonder as to whether Feda has lost touch with the people she came up from. Maybe she has been involved too long with the Republican Party and doesn’t really know what the people are thinking.
On another vein of thought how can these representatives of the GOP endorse one candidate when they have not met or spoken with the others? Are they truly looking out for the benefit of the party and the people it is supposed to represent or are they playing the usual game of pandering to friends and longtime associates? If they really care about where the party is headed they should be looking carefully at all the candidates and then at the appropriate time make their endorsement. This type of endorsement is why the Republican Party is in the trouble it now finds itself. They should at the least check out these other campaign sites before throwing their support behind a specific candidate Ken Boyd, Laurence Verga, Michael McPadden, Robert Hurt, Ron Ferrin, or better yet let the people decide and stay out of it.
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Blackwell and Terry are two of the RNC members who opposed Michael Steel, because they saw him as the RINO that he is.
They supported the true conservative Ken Blackwell, though it cost them in curb appeal to the moderate establishment leadership.
They have a long record of being two of the most vocal proponents of moving the party back to Reaganism and Constitutional principle.
As with any organization, there are always real and honest members, and Blackwell and Terry are two of them.
The NRCC and the RNC are two separate entities, and the NRCC that wants Robert Hurt was the one that wanted Scozzafava.
Blackwell and Terry strongly opposed Scozzafava though as RNC members they had no direct ability to influence the outcome.
No, their endorsement shows that Morton has the support of the conservative wing of the national leadership, and I think that is a good thing.
The battle lines are clearly drawn even at the national level and Morton is on the right side, as are Blackwell and Terry, as they are doing this in spite of the NRCC’s wishes.
I would be careful not to demagogue an endorsement such as this without all the facts at your disposal.
The main problem I have with this endorsement is that they back one person without even considering the rest of the field. If they were truly looking out for the district they would have interviewed the other candidates before making their decision. Right now to me it looks like someone endorsing a friend or associate. The least they could have done was make an attempt at an impartial decision as opposed to backing an old cohort without any consideration of the others.
Blueridgeguy what we need is a good debate.
IMHO- both of you are right and wrong. Feda got those endorsements because the two knew her and she had supported them in the past. Pure payback. Not a reason that the endorsements mean anything other than that. Should the two think they should be listened to in the fifth where neither has ventured in quite some time,probably not.
Have either of you really vetted Feda’s voting record on the School Board ? NO.
Boyer clearly has not vetted all the candidates,yet he has endorsed. Blue Ridge has not vetted all and he has endorsed. For Boyer to even mention the word demagogue is a joke as it is what he practices almost every time he posts.