Who wants to run for U.S. Senate now?
By JR Hoeft | Thursday, February 17th, 2011 | PoliticsSomeone is paying for a poll….
1) are you D, R, or independent?
2) in the upcoming GO senate primary who would you vote for?
a. George Allen
b. Jamie Radtke
c. Corey Stewart
d. Bob Marshall
3) are you very, moderately, not much, not at all staisfied with current candidates?
4) would you be interested having another candidate like a succesful businessman enter the race?
Successful businessman? Tim Donner? Bert Mizusawa?
Interesting that someone is doing their homework before taking the plunge – a very businesslike move.
George Allen and Jamie Radtke are the only announced candidates, although Bob Marshall, Corey Stewart, and E.W. Jackson are also likely to run.
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17 Responses to "Who wants to run for U.S. Senate now?"
Somewhere in Virginia, a fool and his money were just parted.
Brian,
Let’s be honest. We are all fools and we are all parted from our money. The issue is whether we go back to the future with George Allen (a fine governor and mediocre Senator) or go with someone new. I happen to feel that options B C and D aren’t sufficiently qualified for the Senate, though Radtke would make an appropriate candidate for a Congressional seat perhaps. I would prefer to go with someone fresh like Mizusawa but it doesn’t look like it’s in the cards. With Webb out, Allen has a better chance of skating through but it will be a slight negative for the Repubs in VA mid and longer term, IMHO.
V, my point is simply this – the Republican nominee for Senate in 2012 is going to be one of the two people who have already declared.
Whichever “respected businessman” with no experience who is floating this poll is wasting his time.
As much as I agree with Valentinus, that Allen was a mediocre, do-nothing Senator, I have to say that Brian is right. Making the leap from no elected office experience to the US Senate is just too much of a stretch.
I will go one step further and predict that if Radkte, Stewart, or Marshall are the Republican nominee, then they will go down in flames worse than Gilmore did. Unlike Allen they are unknown in most parts of the state and where they are well-known that is not particularly a positive.
“Making the leap from no elected office experience to the US Senate is just too much of a stretch.”
Tell that to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
How many senators with prior office experience helped Bush spend three trillion? All of em, Allen knew better too and won’t make the same mistakes again right?
Is Scott Taylor the mystery Man?
Riley,
Jamie Radtke is no Ron Johnson and Tim Kaine is no Russ Feingold.
I didn’t say it was impossible. I said it was too much of a stretch, especially in Virginia.
Call me weird, but I think experience matters.
Well, as far as MY experience with watching Allen in the Senate, I will go with Radtke. It is way early and Radtke has already been on TV, radio, the internet, and making multiple personal appearances. I think they have a handle on the “nobody knows her” thing.
Radtke may be an unknown, but Allen is a proven disappointment.
Tyler,
Hope not…and I like Scott.
I put the poll in the field to see about launching my DraftKirwin movement haven’t decided just yet.
Ben Tribbett is getting in as a Republican just so he can run against Kaine.
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Recent history provides an interesting perspective …
September 12, 2009 – Scott Brown announced for the Mass. senate seat.
January 19, 2010 (4 months later) – Scott Brown wins the seat 52% / 47%
Brown’s wife on his chances: “You just can’t win.” … “They’ve got strong Democrats, they’ve got multi-millionaires running, the state attorney general, and a congressman.” Brown writes that when he asked the NRSC for help, “they might as well have told him, ‘don’t let the door hit you on the way out.’”
If this relatively unknown Republican could win in a highly Democratic state – without party support – gaining traction between Thanksgiving & New Year’s (when few voters pay attention to politics) … then just about anything is possible.
Allen begins the race with 2 advantages:(1)funding, (2)name recognition. The right candidate, running the right campaign can easily equalize those advantages.
No clue who paid for this poll, but the senate primary is well over a year away; it’s much too early IMO to call the field closed. And given your weak crop of announced or likely to run candidates, I’m not at all surprised others might be testing the waters. Let’s hope so!
PS -– Run, Bert, RUN!!
Hmmmm…just a thought.
You know Donald Trump is reportedly buying the Klugge property out Charlottesville way.
Maybe he’s decided president isn’t an “entry level” job?
@Jay D
Since you mentioned it…..
http://www.facebook.com/#!/DraftBertforSenate
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