Campaign ’24: The Pee Wee – for – Timmy trade
Word emerged this week that our littlest congressman would be calling it quits on the fun-and-games in Washington. (This came as quite a shock, I’m sure, to folks who read his reelection announcement at October’s end.)
Now, why would somebody like lil’ Patrick give up on a grift that has been soooooo berry berry good to him? There had been talk — recently confirmed – that Kevin McCarthy was calling it quits.
McHenry had long been a protégè of congressman Steve Scalise. Then, word leaked out that McHenry had apparently been working with McCarthy to sabotage the campaign of everyone – including Scalise – that had tried to replace McCarthy following his unceremonious ouster. Things were quite likely to be cold and unpleasant for lil’ Patrick going forward. (WORD IS that folks don’t appreciate the whole knives in their back kind of thing.)
Soon after McHenry’s retirement announcement, businessman Pat Harrigan announced he was abandoning his primary fight with Speaker Timmy in the 14th congressional district and jumping into the nearby and now-open 10th district.
Harrigan’s move removes the last bit of significant opposition to Timmy’s march on Washington. *The tubby little guy from Kings Mountain is taking his, um, “game” to the BIG LEAGUES, folks. *
It’s been more than amusing to watch the Raleigh Republicans fall all over themselves to make us believe Timmy IS a conservative. That AI-generated oft-yammering cartoon character “Dallas” has even been dispatched into that scrum.
Anything that could remotely be described as “conservative” that emerged from the General Assembly came about as a result of intense grassroots pressure on the honorables. Said pressure made the “honorables,” for once, more scared of the voters back home than they were of Timmy and his minions. An awful lot of stuff conservatives are now cheering would neeeeeeeeeever have happened if Speaker Timmy had his druthers.
NC Innovation – government partnering physically and financially with business – is NOT 
conservative. Cobbling a budget together in secret with a handful of like-minded operatives is neither transparent nor ethical nor conservative. Expanding Medicaid IS NOT conservative. When the tax burden on average North Carolinians is as high as it was when Democrats last controlled the General Assembly, nothing conservative has been going on.
Tim Moore is following the Thom Tillis template – run for a job in DC while serving as speaker. Hand out funds and favors while campaigning. Hey, it worked for one grifter. Why not another one?
Does Harrigan live in that district? A stupid move in my estimation, if not. People don’t like opportunistic political carpetbaggers, and it’s political malpractice to self-smear your own reputation, particularly if it looks like he cut a deal with the powers that be. Then again, 10th district voters have been sending a slimeball to DC for ages, so maybe he did himself no harm, other than to his self-respect.
I don’t know if Harrigan is risking the carpetbagger label or not, but if he’s running for D10, he’s still better than Jason Saine, grifter extraordinaire. Imagine THAT guy in Congress.
Is there anybody who will step up and challenge that liberal slimeball Timmy for Congress? He is totally unacceptable. If I lived in that district and the choice were Timmy and a Democrat, I would just not vote at all in that race. If there were a Libertarian or Constitution Party candidate where I could cast a protest vote, that is what I would do.
Waiting to the last minute to announce this was a huge disservice to the voters and to anyone else thinking of running.
Eric Levinson has announced and filed to run for Congress in NC 14. He is a native North Carolinian and a life-long Republican. Although I don’t live in the 14th CD, I will be supporting Judge Levinson for CD 14. Hopefully, other conservative Republicans will join me in supporting Judge Levinson in this race. https://www.levinsonfornc.com
Evelyn M. Poole-Kober
Lincoln County Republican
I’m in his district and if he’s unchallenged in the Primary, I’m voting for the Dem for the first time in my life.
At least with a Dem we know what we’re getting.
Judge Levinson is conservative and would be light years better than Moore.
https://www.levinsonfornc.com/
Amen.
RINOS SUPPORTING RINOS. NO SURPRISE!
we need to stop feeding the RINOS. No more voting for the less evil, because they are still evil. I am with Carol. If you vote for a Democrat you know what you are getting. RINOs keep changing as the wind blows!
It’s time for the 3rd parties to step it up. Too many times conservatives have no real choice paraded before them. Voting for the so called lesser of the evils is not a viable choice. Evil is evil.
Winning GOP primaries is the best way to elect conservatives, and needs to be our main objective. A third party divides the vote and lets Democrats into office. What we need is to change our election law to be like New York which allows cross endorsements. Conservative candidates can run in mulitple primaries – Republican Party, Conservative Party, Right to Life Party, Libertarian Party, etc. and if they end up the nominee of multiple parties, then all of those votes from each party are added together on general election night for a cumlulatiave total. Allowing cross endorsements can allow conservative third parties to have more influence on nominated conservatives in the Republican primary..
However, there are some races where a RINO is so darn bad one cannot in good conscience even hold their nose to vote for him or her. In those cases, many folks appreciate a third party candidate for whom to cast a protest vote. When Libertarians do well in NC, it is usually because there is a RINO on the GOP ticket who turns conservative stomachs.
I see that in the UK, the Conservative Party has turned left so bad under Sunak that the Reform Party, successor to the Brexit Party, is now back in double digits in the polls. If Farage gets back involved, it is likely to go much higher.
I’m pretty much in agreement. We need to be as smart and shrewd as humanly possible, because this game is stacked against us regular folks.