WA-04: Doc Hastings retiring

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Safe R of course. The most republican part of Washington state.

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Roll Call plays Great Mentioner:


2012 Public Lands Commissioner Nominee Clint Didier (R-Connell)
Former WA Dept. of Agriculture Director Dan Newhouse (R-Sunnyside)
State Sen. Sharon Brown (R-Kennewick)
State Sen. Janea Holmquist Newbry (R-Moses Lake)
State Sen. Curtis King (R-Yakima)
State Rep. Bruce Chandler (R-Granger)
State Rep. Brad Klippert (R-Kennewick)
State Rep. Matt Manweller (R-Ellensburg) (Lives in the 8th District, but his seat covers a large portion of the 4th)
State Rep. David Taylor (R-Moxee)


Didier is a Tea Party type, Klippert and Brown are social conservatives, and Newbry and Newhouse are Chamber of Commerce/Farm Bureau types. The rest I'm not sure about.

I immediately become Newbry and Newhouse fan as least objectionable among Republicans mentioned. But may be there is someone better (but electable, i don't care about unelectable candidates)?

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I know that every Republican is electable in WA-04, and no Democrat - is. Hence (with my views) - i want to see as moderate as possible republican elected, and will root for him. It's very simple...

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I know that every Republican is electable in WA-04, and no Democrat - is. Hence (with my views) - i want to see as moderate as possible republican elected, and will root for him. It's very simple...

The most moderate Republican in the area is probably State Rep. Maureen Walsh, who lives just outside WA-04, in the Walla Walla suburbs. She gained fame for her viral speech in favor of marriage equality, and she's so moderate that most of her opponents have been other Republicans looking to kick her out. She'd have little chance in a primary, unless she somehow became the de facto D candidate.

Thanks! Then - second after her))

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I'd love for Maureen Walsh to run. I'm sure she'd have little chance of winning the primary, unfortunately. I'm also sure the Ds will put up a candidate. They actually got within a few points of taking out Hastings in 2006 and within 10 points in 2008.

These were wave years. 2014 - will not..

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It seems to me - too many "establishment conservatives". Can it lead to situation of 2 "tea partiers" in general?

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It seems to me - too many "establishment conservatives". Can it lead to situation of 2 "tea partiers" in general?

The Tea Party doesn't have a huge presence in Washington besides Didier (As I've said before, the Tea Party Wave never really hit the west coast). If another Tea Party guy gets into the race, it'll be an absolute nobody.

Good. I can live with "normal establishment conservative Republican" in THIS district.

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If I recall correct, Hastings was one of the ones that Hastert stacked the ethics committee with in order to shield Delay.

That sort of makes me long for an outsider here.

An outsider in such district is, usually, an extremely conservative outsider. You know - i am not a big fan of such political candidates (though almost the same i can say for "far left" as well)...

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If I recall correct, Hastings was one of the ones that Hastert stacked the ethics committee with in order to shield Delay.

That sort of makes me long for an outsider here.

An outsider in such district is, usually, an extremely conservative outsider. You know - i am not a big fan of such political candidates (though almost the same i can say for "far left" as well)...

That wasn't the case in LA-05 though, clearly.

I wouldn't call him moderate either. But, probably the best that you can get from such district

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If I recall correct, Hastings was one of the ones that Hastert stacked the ethics committee with in order to shield Delay.

That sort of makes me long for an outsider here.

An outsider in such district is, usually, an extremely conservative outsider. You know - i am not a big fan of such political candidates (though almost the same i can say for "far left" as well)...

That wasn't the case in LA-05 though, clearly.

I wouldn't call him moderate either. But, probably the best that you can get from such district

He was more moderate than the establishment guy though.

Yes. That happens. But - very rarely. I am at loss about second such case in the last years. Usually it's the way i formulated above - politics REALLY became much more polarized as of late. So much so, that there is a serious danger of having "2 nations", with absolutely no overlap, in one state

[smoltchanov]

If I recall correct, Hastings was one of the ones that Hastert stacked the ethics committee with in order to shield Delay.

That sort of makes me long for an outsider here.

An outsider in such district is, usually, an extremely conservative outsider. You know - i am not a big fan of such political candidates (though almost the same i can say for "far left" as well)...

That wasn't the case in LA-05 though, clearly.

I wouldn't call him moderate either. But, probably the best that you can get from such district

He was more moderate than the establishment guy though.

Yes. That happens. But - very rarely. I am at loss about second such case in the last years. Usually it's the way i formulated above - politics REALLY became much more polarized as of late. So much so, that there is a serious danger of having "2 nations", with absolutely no overlap, in one state

KS-02 2008 maybe and KS-03 2010 primaries in some ways count as such as well. MI 2010 Gubernatorial primary also.

Agree on MI-GOV-2010. Will look on Kansas. But Jenkins turned out to be much more conservative then i expected, and Yoder severely disappoints me too