REGARDLESS OF PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS, CONSERVATIVES WON
The
number of races in which credible conservative candidates challenged moderate,
establishment-backed candidates in Nevada this year was unprecedented. And regardless of whether or not the
conservative candidate chalked up more votes at the ballot box, conservatives won. Big time.
Consider
the GOP primary contest between moderate Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson
and conservative challenger Carl Bunce.
Roberson’s
voting record was one of the absolute worst in 2013. He not only voted to extend the $620 million
worth of “sunset” tax hikes, he proposed his own new $600 million tax on the
state’s mining industry. Not to mention
his votes in favor of implementing ObamaCare, increasing spending and growing
government.
Yet
if you read any of his campaign material, you’d think this guy was the second
coming of Ronald Reagan. Thank goodness there
are no “truth in political labeling” laws in Nevada!
Indeed,
despite having pushed for over a BILLION dollars worth of tax hikes last year,
here’s what Sen. Roberson had the stones to put up on his campaign website:
“(I) stopped Democrats in the Nevada
Legislature from imposing a ‘Family Fun Tax’ on Nevada’s working families. The ‘Family
Fun Tax’ would have created new taxes on movie tickets, bowling, golf and other
family activities.”
No
he didn’t. That bill never even came up
for a vote. To say he stopped the Family
Fun Tax is like me saying I stopped a train from running through my back yard
yesterday simply because no train ran through my back yard yesterday.
The main
point is, in GOP primary race after GOP primary race, candidates such as Sen.
Roberson, with moderate voting records similar to Sen. Roberson’s, didn’t run
on their actual moderate voting records.
Instead, they all ran as conservatives.
Every one of them.
“Conservative”
Sen. Ben Kieckhefer. “Conservative” Sen.
Mark Hutchison. “Conservative” Assemblyman
Cresent Hardy. “Conservative” Assemblyman
Lynn Stewart. “Conservative” Assemblyman
Pat Hickey.
So
how can anyone make the claim that you have to be a moderate to win races when
all of these guys are running as fire-breathing, card-carrying conservatives? And if the response is they’re only running as
conservatives in the primary and will then revert to their true selves and run
as moderates in the general election, what’s that make them?
Political
snake-oil salesmen, that’s what.
Indeed,
if these “pretend” conservatives pull off the scam and win re-nomination, it
will only be because they vastly outspent their “real” conservative opponents
and fooled enough low-information voters.
Some victory.
But
mark my words, after the scare many of these guys got this year by way of
serious primary challenges, they’re gonna think twice before voting like
Democrats again in 2015. And that, my
friends, is a win for limited-government conservatism in Nevada. A big one.
FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR…TONIGHT!
If
you’re in the Las Vegas area tonight, please join us as we honor the 2014
Conservative of the Year recipients at our monthly First Friday Happy
Hour. And the winners are…
- Conservative of the Year: Carl Bunce
- Conservative Rising Star: Leo Bletnitsky
- Conservative Organization of the Year: Virgin Valley Tea Party
- Courage under Fire Award: Assemblyman Jim Wheeler
- Reagan Legacy Award: Sue Lowden
You
can read more details about why this year’s recipients were chosen by clicking here
Tonight
from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at Stoney’s Rockin’
Country nightclub in the Town Square Mall on the south end of the Strip.
See you there!
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