Cantor, Goodlatte and Griffith endorse Allen for U.S. Senate
By JR Hoeft | Monday, August 15th, 2011 | PoliticsMajority Leader Eric Cantor, and Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Morgan Griffith endorsed former U.S. Senator George Allen in his bid to win the GOP nomination for Senate in 2012 today.
In a joint press release, the congressmen said of Allen:
Virginians are going to play a crucial role in determining the control of the U.S. Senate and the direction of our country. In order for America to lead once again we need like-minded partners like George Allen in the U.S. Senate. Our country can’t afford to allow the Senate Democrats to continue to block the policies that will allow businesses to expand and create more jobs for Americans.
George Allen has a long track record of success implementing small government reforms that grow the economy and create jobs. He has been a longtime supporter of a Balanced Budget Amendment, introducing it in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. As Governor, he reduced the tax burden on Virginia families and businesses, fostered a pro-growth environment that helped create jobs, and left Virginia with a smaller, leaner government.
The hard working men and women of Virginia deserve a Senator who will fight for their values every day in Washington, not the failed policies of the Obama Administration. We are proud to stand with a great Virginia leader, George Allen, and we strongly support his campaign for U.S. Senate.
Allen said of the endorsement:
“Majority Leader Cantor and Congressmen Griffith and Goodlatte are fighting hard in Washington to stop the Senate Democrats’ job-crushing, big-spending agenda. By taking control of the U.S. Senate away from Harry Reid, we can finally start acting on the efforts by Leader Cantor and other Republicans in the House of Representatives to help create jobs and restore fiscal responsibility. I am excited that these leaders will be standing alongside us in our mission to bring Virginia voices to the U.S. Senate.”
It should be noted that this endorsement is not unexpected, but it certainly helps clarify why Allen leads his closest GOP competitor by 60 points.
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20 Responses to "Cantor, Goodlatte and Griffith endorse Allen for U.S. Senate"
Here is the deal, the way I see it. Eric Cantor did the Potomac two step pivot, again. He said he would not endorse/support anybody that didn’t back the Ryan plan. George Allen didn’t. George Allen has voted 4 times to increase the debt ceiling, and George Allen even endorsed Arlan Spector..I mean Jeesh, talk about the same old , same old,politicians working the system!
Not to mention his claims that he is a young gun? That Boehner/Cantor deal is a loser. They are still spendiong more money. The tea party is NOT about taxes. It is about the Constitution, Spending and Debt. What don’t these guys get?
Here is my take on this. Eric Cantor did the 2 step pivot, as usual, on this. He said he would not support anybody that did not support the Ryan plan. Allen didn’t. Allen also voted to raise the debt ceiling 4 times and he even endorsed Arlan Spector (bad judgement? or gaming the system?)
This is just DC politicians, ad naseum. This is the stuff that has to stop. Eric is no young gun anymore, he has proved that he does not “get” the tea party philosopy. We are all about the Constitution, Debt and Spending, not taxes and cronies! Allen is not the man for the job, again.
Im just wondering Amy who do you think should win the Senate primary.
@ Red Baron
Amy and I both have the guts to use our real names and both of us do think thatJamie Radtke should win the primary. Not that you didn’t already know all of that.
I think it is way to early to be endorsing for this particdular race. Especially given Allen’s know baggage and propensity for creating a gaffe from thin air. Additionally, you just alienate part of your core when you endorse so early. Later on, the disagreeing voter can at least acknowledge that you need to make a decision at some point. I’ paticularly disapointed with Griffith. To use stock market terms, Cantor’s support was probably already priced into the market.
Is anyone surprised?
Well Britt you must want to send Tim Kaine to the Senate.Radtke is broke she has no chance of winning the primary.Unless you and the Tea party want to put alot of money behind her she is toast.Even if she raised two million this month she still couldn’t win.The Tea party needs to realize a candidate who aligns his/herself with the Tea party CAN’T get indy votes and here in Va if you can’t pull some indy votes you can’t win.Why can’t the Tea party see this ?
@ Red Baron
Ah, the common sense is refreshing.
As of the last FEC filing, Radtke showed $45,000 in cash-on-hand and $83,000 of debt. Allen showed $1.65 million cash-on-hand and $0 of debt. Kaine showed $1.8 million cash-on-hand and $42,000 of debt.
Of the three, it’s pretty obvious one is not a credible campaign.
Once again, this is old money and corporate donor dollars talking and the will of the people being outbid. Lets see the donor lists, how many donors. How many individual donors below or above $200 does each candidate have?
George Allen can’t win! The Democrats will bludgeon him with his hypocrisey with all the spending he voted for. They will nail him with Freddie & Fannie. The fact that Dems are also to blame for the mortgage crisis will not deter them for blaming all problems on Allen, Bush, and the general GOP.
Bulls4!t on the indy votes. Radtke can get indy votes. You’re just trying to spin your guy Allen’s big govt & big spending ways as a positive for attracting RINOs. After Radtke wins the primary, the money will flow in.
What is really is refreshing is people acknowledging that George Allen was a part of the problem and then FIRING him in conservtive Virginia for ………a Democrat.
“Cantor, Goodlatte and Griffith endorse Allen for U.S. Senate”
Establishment RINOs endorse establishment RINO. There’s a shocker.
Never again will I vote for the lesser of two evils. I will vote for what I truly want, even if I have to write it in.
BTW, I still have my “Instruction to Voter” Republican Presidential Primary Pledge from the 2000 primary. The guy at the polling place handed it to me and boomed “Are you ready to sign the pledge?” I replied “nope, but I’m keeping this as a reminder of the day the republican party of Virginia prevented me from voting.”
It’s taped to the wall in my office. When you have to keep power through exclusion, you’re already finished.
Oh, the hypocrisy of the Republican Party…
Hmm, you actually can blame me for that Jamie. I was a member of the RPV State Central Committee at the time. Sorry. I voted for the primary because I thought it was more democratic and compromised for the pledge to appease those who were concerned that those who really weren’t Republican would participate (kinda the whole point, I thought, but, hey, it seemed logical).
Oh well, sorry you still hold a grudge. Didn’t seem that malicious when we made the decision. I just wanted it to be over with so that I could eat pizza.
I’m confused. Griffith is an “establishment RINO?”
I could’ve sworn he was a “Tea Party” freshman.
Do you think they’d mind wearing name tags so I could keep up?
How long until the primary vote for Radtke, Allen, etc ?
Anybody have the actual date in front of them ?
“I just wanted it to be over with so that I could eat pizza.”
LOL!!!
Britt you say after Radtke wins the primary the money will flow in.Do you really think the people she owes money to will wait for their money until after the primary ? Radtke is broke. How in hell do you think she will even last until the primary ? I agree we need to elect the most conservative candidate we can I understand that but what you and the Tea party don’t understand is some people don’t have the know how or ability to win elections.Radtke has some good ideas, im sure she is a fine person but she just doesn’t have what it takes to become a Senator.You can spin this any way you want but the fact is Radtke is done it’s over for her.Im sure her paid advisors are tell her she can win but the second they tell her the truth their checks stop.So do you really think these leaches are going to stop their very own paychecks.
J.R.
Just another brick in the wall. I truly viewed that event as an excellent indicator / the high water mark of the Republican Party in Virginia. Like I said above, when you have to use overtly forceful and controlling methods to keep power, your popular support is dying, your power is on the wane. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I know you don’t see it that way. I didn’t leave the republican party; the republican party left me.
I view fed dot gov in much the same way: desperate. Hence, bipartisan approval of the PATRIOT Act, ever-growing executive power, wars without end, wars without Congressional approval (or resistance), borrowing and voter bribery without end, Homeland Security, Fusion centers, the militarization / federalization of local police forces, the absolutely grotesque and obvious turning of a blind eye to Wall Street corruption (the only remaining reliable source of political money). And finally, SUPER CONGRESS. The surveillance and control state uber alles; liberty, Constitution, and will of the people be damned.
Who here believes SUPER CONGRESS will limit itself to budget matters? Who doesn’t imagine a few extras will be thrown in (either now, or later since the precedent has been established), control measures that otherwise couldn’t pass but will be rammed through in an all-or-nothing deficit-reduction bill? “How could you oppose deficit reduction?” The MSM pressure playbook is already written.
See? I DO understand how politics works. The way Congress demonstrably ignores its own laws and rules, they do anything they wanted.
Here’s another thing Jamie Radtke understands: there is a pie of political power, and when government’s share increases, your own share decreases. Unlike economics, political power is a zero-sum game. RPV may win this round of politics, but it obviously doesn’t understand economics, and even if it did it couldn’t prevent the coming economic hurricane. RPV will choose power, not liberty and free markets, even though the only viable solution, the only solution that results in actual growth, is to empower the free market. You guys will crow “See, we won!” if Allen gets elected, and if Perry gets elected, and the collapse will continue because no real changes will be made, no real growth will occur, and all because you don’t understand economics and because you believe politics has a right to control economics. Winning and power are more important than liberty and free markets.
No, I’m not ready to sign the pledge.
Yawn. Establishment endorsing establishment. RINO endorsing a RINO. The Tarp big spending guy backs the Medicare big spending guy. Morgan and Goodlatte show that they care more about appearance than principle. Sounds more like they are just circling the wagons. Let me guess, Warner will endorse Kaine. Yawn there too.
Tea Party endorsing more people who won’t pay their own bills but bitching about the USA taxing and spending lol
There’s still plenty of time to nominate someone other than George Allen. As to electability, his only appeal is the obvious name recognition, having already held the jobs of U.S Senator and Governor, even that may be a liability of sorts.
Really – what campaign manager worth his salt doesn’t know how to connect “Hand-picked DNC Chairman Kaine, and President Barack Obama” fourteen times a day? Given that template of utter disatisfaction with the current administration, *anyone* could beat Tim Kaine, it’s as simple as that. Nominating George Allen only shows we’re lazy, apathetic, and content with sending another self-serving elitist back to Washington.
The real changes necessary to put this great country back on the road to prosperity takes hard work. The sooner the Republicans figure this out, and stop taking the easy way out, the sooner we can start back the right direction and put a stop to the status quo that has put us in the sorry state we now find ourselves in.
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