Time to Pull a "DeLay" on the DINOs

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Wednesday March 16, 2005 · 11:51 AM PST

2005/03/16 · 11:51

As you all know, Tom DeLay has two methods to keep the House GOP Caucus in line: 1) Promises of evangelist cash to the campaigns of those who "behave", and 2) primary opponents for those who do not.

I don't know if we can command the cash DeLay does, but we sure can run primary opponents.

Let me explain (after the jump):

With the Kos Dozen, we've already found that we can take relative unknowns and use them to cause normally-uncontested or weakly-contested Republicans to actually have to spend money and time defending their seats. Richard Morrison went from being an unknown to coming within five points of taking out Tom DeLay himself!

Bear in mind that the Kos Dozen races were the primary and general election races, so the costs for those are substantially more than we'd incur for just running primary challengers. In fact, with a subtle working of the local media, each primary challenger could create much publicity -- and seriously embarrass the incumbent, perhaps enough to make him/her "get religion" and rediscover his/her principles.

And that's the worst-case scenario. In the best-case scenario, the challenger wins. (Which is why we have to be careful who we pick as challengers -- we want to make sure that they can win a general election in their area!)

I suggest we turn to DFA for possible candidates, unless you have good candidates of your own.

So, whaddya all think?

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