One Year Away - Thoughts on the Seventh
Obey Out was privvy to the speeches given by the Seventh District Republican candidates for Congress last weekend. And, we checked out the subsequent blog posting (Reid had the only one online as of this post).
Jeff Tyberg gave good speeches. We agree with him on most of the issues. We are glad that he is willing to serve if elected. We think it's admirable that anyone would put their name on the line to run for office.
The Go Nick Go post said something that we at Obey Out find compelling at this point. "Nick won't need on the job training when he goes to Washington to fight for Wisconsin." That is an important message for a Republican nominee to take up against Dave Obey in the fall, because Dave Obey will be able to play the incumbent, experience card. We need someone who can call his bluff and make a case that his incumbency isn't doing enough for Wisconsin.
Obey Out believes we should send someone up against Obey who can go toe to toe with him on the issues and someone who can make the case to the people that they can be effective from Day 1 when they get to office.
When you listen to Nick Reid talk, you hear this. You hear that he knows the issues. You hear that he knows the process.
No offense to Tyberg or Robinson, who spoke last weekend, but the moderate voters who will swing an election if it's close, need something to hang their hat on, to put their trust in, when they go in the voting booth. Only Reid thus far has demonstrated that he can take the BIG "I know how Washington works, I can get things done" advantage away from Obey.
We're still waiting to be 100% convinced here at Obey Out before we make an endorsement, because we want to endorse the candidate who is best prepared to knock Obey out of office, but those are out thoughts on this election which is one year from today after hearing from the candidates this weekend.
Jeff Tyberg gave good speeches. We agree with him on most of the issues. We are glad that he is willing to serve if elected. We think it's admirable that anyone would put their name on the line to run for office.
The Go Nick Go post said something that we at Obey Out find compelling at this point. "Nick won't need on the job training when he goes to Washington to fight for Wisconsin." That is an important message for a Republican nominee to take up against Dave Obey in the fall, because Dave Obey will be able to play the incumbent, experience card. We need someone who can call his bluff and make a case that his incumbency isn't doing enough for Wisconsin.
Obey Out believes we should send someone up against Obey who can go toe to toe with him on the issues and someone who can make the case to the people that they can be effective from Day 1 when they get to office.
When you listen to Nick Reid talk, you hear this. You hear that he knows the issues. You hear that he knows the process.
No offense to Tyberg or Robinson, who spoke last weekend, but the moderate voters who will swing an election if it's close, need something to hang their hat on, to put their trust in, when they go in the voting booth. Only Reid thus far has demonstrated that he can take the BIG "I know how Washington works, I can get things done" advantage away from Obey.
We're still waiting to be 100% convinced here at Obey Out before we make an endorsement, because we want to endorse the candidate who is best prepared to knock Obey out of office, but those are out thoughts on this election which is one year from today after hearing from the candidates this weekend.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 11:01 AM
8 Comments:
Good thoughts. We do need a candidate with a legitimate shot at winning next November. I'm definitely going to dig into the candidates, but it sounds like you think Reid is the guy.
We have not made an endorsement yet, but we do believe that Reid is off to a better start.
maybe obeyout2006 is...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Nick Reid
Not Nick Reid, Beth Reid or any of the 5 generations of Reids from Northwest Wisconsin.
Maybe anonymous is .......................... Tyberg. Maybe not, but let's be careful throwing accusations around.
you all are playing a huge game. is it fun? its like a bunch of children playing "house"
what a strange game it is you all are playing.
you cant win on such false premise that you all seem to be engaged in.
how strange. i just cant get over it. i mean, many of the postings on here are somewhat intelligent...then we get comments like this. "Good thoughts. We do need a candidate with a legitimate shot at winning next November. I'm definitely going to dig into the candidates, but it sounds like you think Reid is the guy."
really?
what false premise, what children, and what strange game?
this is politics, this is hardball, and those of us involved in it are committed to taking Obey down.
if Obey doesn't think we know what we're doing out here, that's fine.
This site is so being run by Nick Reid. How pathetic.
Bob,
Thanks for your comments. We started out with a really favorable impression of Reid, you're right.
A couple things:
First, after a couple e-mail exchanges with Tyberg and a little soul searching, we hope we have made it clearer through our posts that our first commitment is to beating Obey. Tyberg and Robinson have a chance to win our support just like Reid.
However, you're wrong about saying we never linked to Tyberg. We have always had his website linked to this one. If you notice, we also added Robinson's site once it was up. We will continue to link to interesting items on all candidates sites. If we don't agree with them though, we will be honest about our opinion.
Obey Out
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