Friday, April 21, 2006

Committment made to abide by endorsement

Andy reports that the four GOP 6th District congressional hopefuls have signed and/or are expected to sign a pledge to abide by the endorsement of the 6th CD convention on May 6th.

Andy has some interesting observations, in that the Bachmann campaign was pushing for this, since they feel that they have the delegates sewed up for the race anyway.

I've always said it ain't over til it's over, and the fat lady is far from ready to sing in this race. I have it on good authority, for instance, that more and more delegates are swinging the way of Jay Esmay, and that Esmay's campaign manager, Steven Messick, promises that the other candidates will be "quite surprised how the first vote goes" during the endorsement process.

Andy had another interesting observation:
No one in the race, save Jay Esmay, can say that they haven’t sent out attack pieces. No one can really say they haven’t thought about a primary. Heck when I did my interviews with them, they all, save Esmay, had little qualifying statements on the endorsement question. You may remember that Bachmann used the full 2 minutes to say yes. Krinkie said if the endorsement was done fairly. etc etc.
Personally, with respect to the electoral process, I'm a big believer in Ronald Reagan's "Speak no ill against a fellow Republican" rule. I believe that Esmay also takes this to heart. There'll be enough bashing to go around from the democrat side of things in the coming months; and consequently it would do no good for the GOP's chances in filling this seat if they have a "walking wounded" candidate coming out of a contentious primary season.

I have a firm belief that the best candidate will indeed win coming out of this convention, and that we need to throw 110% support to the candidate who is ultimately endorsed. Although my choice at this point is definitely Esmay, there are no slouches in this current field.

Any one of the four would do us proud in Washington.

****UPDATE****

Tony makes some poignant comments about why he supports Esmay here.


(Filed under
elections)