Charlie Brown Draws Primary Opponent! Mike Holmes takes shots at Placer GOP Committee
Posted by Aaron Park on March 03, 2008 at 12:06 PM
In this weekend’s Jim Ruffalo column, it is replete with Ruffalo taking cheap shots at the Placer County GOP Central Committee… including Mike Holmes announcing his candidacy with a near-endorsement from Ruffalo.
In the process of announcing his candidacy – Holmes denounces NeoCons (must be us Doolittle / McClintock / Rico Oller CRA-types), and talks about how we need to return to the big tent. (that would be the same high-tax/big government big tent that caused us to lose our butts in 2006)
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No place like Holmes: City councilman Mike Holmes, who left the Fourth Congressional race just at the right time, says he’s not through with politics.
He told the Meddlers that he was running for a seat on the Placer County Republican Central Committee, which to my way of thinking is somewhat akin to volunteering to test hand grenades in a closet.
Holmes said the current status of the county GOP usually results in not enough candidates for the central committee’s available seats. (Cheap shot number one)
“So then we wind up with just enough people volunteering so that there’s no election, or worse, where there are not enough candidates, and the central committee winds up appointing their friends,” he said. (oh those right-wingers… they probably have Bible studies, too!)
“What I’m trying to suggest is that we get enough people to run so that there’s a real election. Without a vote, central committee members don’t have that gravity of having been voted in by their peers,” Holmes added. (Cheap shot number three – we never keep people from filing, in fact, both times I was elected to the committee I was on the ballot Mike… check your facts)
With that in mind, he’s tossed his hat into the ring, and is actively recruiting other would-be candidates to file before the March 7 deadline. (There you have it, proof of what we blogged a few weeks ago)
Of course, there could be some problems, such as the current entrenched leaders yelling and screaming that Holmes’ efforts might amount to a takeover by Progressives (and we all know how close we’ll come to the Apocalypse should that happen). (Cheap shot number 4)
“I hope this doesn’t get construed as a battle between RINOS (so-called Republicans In Name Only) versus the Neocons,” Holmes said, adding that it’s time the local GOP organization returned to Ronald Reagan’s Big Tent idea. (Cheap shot number 5, memo to Mike Holmes, us CRA-types are real conservatives, not Neo Cons)
No doubt Reagan, whose famed 11th Commandment insisted that “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican,” probably wouldn’t have liked the idea of a central committee endorsing one party member over another in a primary. (no doubt Reagan would have something to say to Mike Holmes as well for running against Doolittle twice and for taking cheap shots at 27 fellow Republicans on the Committee)
- Charlie Brown has a primary opponent!!!
In the same column, read about Coloniel Klink’s primary opponent! Now Coloniel Klink will know how John Doolittle felt when Mike Holmes ran against him in 2006.
Unlike Holmes who refused to endorse or support Doolittle after losing – adding fuel to the speculation that his run was a coordinated strategy against Doolittle – I am sure this opponent is independent of the Dem machine.
How sweet it is, I hope this new guy gets some traction to make Charlie Brown spend his money.
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I love the way people who talk about the need for a “Big Tent” are so quick to throw out conservatives, libertarians, neo-cons, taxpayer advocates, and anyone besides the RINOs who are tearing down the foundations of the Republican Party. Is the tent big enough for traditional Republicans, too?
For the record, we have rarely had uncontested races for Central Committee in the last 15 years. I am not sure who gave Mike Holmes that impression, but it shows that he is completely out of touch with the Central Committee.
As long as Mike Holmes stays in his bubble in Auburn I’m ok with it. I don’t have any need to be in that town anyway. That guy scares me.
Did anyone notice that every time Mike Holmes runs for public office he gives the same reason?
It seems like the only thing Mike Holmes stands for is competitive elections.
He should pass a law…
Holmes obviously doesn’t know political history or what it takes to run a political campaign. Reagan was of course for political primary endorsements, how else would he have run and won the GOP primary in 1980? And Reagan backed Goldwater in 1964 IN THE PRIMARY but maybe Holmes doesn’t count that since he wouldn’t agree with Goldwater’s views, either then or now. Nor does Holmes believe in freedom of expression. I wonder if Holmes supports the 19th Amendment to the Constitution?
It’s also a solid fundamental right of freedom to have that ability to select among a list of candidates. Does Holmes just want us to accept and back any candidate he seems fit? Does he know better than the voter? Wow, if so he ought to get on Hillary’s campaign since her brand of government is to tell the American People who to vote for and what heath care they ought to have because she too believes government knows best. Is Holmes supporting a dictatorship here? It sure sounds that way.
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