Travis Hankins, Mike Sodrel and Todd Young debate
I had the privilege of watching Travis Hankins and Mike Sodrel and two others debate in Indiana Saturday night.
You may remember from this blog's heyday in 2006 I named Sodrel to the official RINO list:
http://screpublican.blogspot.com/2006/05/official-list-of-rino-house-members.html
Mike was rattled early but fared better as time wore on and he deflected attacks from a GOP establishment candidate from the "Lugar" wing of the party. Mike obviously looked a little nervous and almost scared as he awaited all the potential attacks from his opponents. Attacks he knew were coming because he obviously knew he was guilty.
Candidate Todd Young attacked Sodrel from the right but the attacks gained little traction as the messenger lacked any credibility to defend conservatism. Sodrel is a huge porkster, voted to send federal dollars to planned parenthood, supported the socialization of prescription medicine, supported Universal mandatory health insurance, voted against the Contract with America renewed, and he was rated by Citizens against Government waste to have the same ranking as Barack Obama in 2006.
Usually Freshman Congressman wait until their second term to sell out to big government but Mike Sodrel sold out after ONE YEAR. He did not even wait until his second term.
Anyway, the attacks did not gain traction and Sodrel looked Congressional compared to the liberal Young. Although Sodrel faired better than Young, a Young supporter non-the-less stated afterward how he hated Sodrel's arrogance (driving to the debate in a Semi Truck while busing in and paying for atleast 30 people to attend has that effect I guess).
Travis Hankins won the debate and dominated the competition as he always does. While he did not win this debate by the huge landslide expected, he nonetheless won comfortably.
Hankins was the only candidate to offer any substance on any issue as everyone else just offered rhetoric. Hankins received the most applause and had the most supporters in the room. Even the non partisan moderator was overheard saying Hankins won! Which is obvious to anyone with any objectivity.
While Hankins needs to do better in the future and certainly a better job managing expectations; a win is a win! Hankins won by any fair definition.
You may remember from this blog's heyday in 2006 I named Sodrel to the official RINO list:
http://screpublican.blogspot.com/2006/05/official-list-of-rino-house-members.html
Mike was rattled early but fared better as time wore on and he deflected attacks from a GOP establishment candidate from the "Lugar" wing of the party. Mike obviously looked a little nervous and almost scared as he awaited all the potential attacks from his opponents. Attacks he knew were coming because he obviously knew he was guilty.
Candidate Todd Young attacked Sodrel from the right but the attacks gained little traction as the messenger lacked any credibility to defend conservatism. Sodrel is a huge porkster, voted to send federal dollars to planned parenthood, supported the socialization of prescription medicine, supported Universal mandatory health insurance, voted against the Contract with America renewed, and he was rated by Citizens against Government waste to have the same ranking as Barack Obama in 2006.
Usually Freshman Congressman wait until their second term to sell out to big government but Mike Sodrel sold out after ONE YEAR. He did not even wait until his second term.
Anyway, the attacks did not gain traction and Sodrel looked Congressional compared to the liberal Young. Although Sodrel faired better than Young, a Young supporter non-the-less stated afterward how he hated Sodrel's arrogance (driving to the debate in a Semi Truck while busing in and paying for atleast 30 people to attend has that effect I guess).
Travis Hankins won the debate and dominated the competition as he always does. While he did not win this debate by the huge landslide expected, he nonetheless won comfortably.
Hankins was the only candidate to offer any substance on any issue as everyone else just offered rhetoric. Hankins received the most applause and had the most supporters in the room. Even the non partisan moderator was overheard saying Hankins won! Which is obvious to anyone with any objectivity.
While Hankins needs to do better in the future and certainly a better job managing expectations; a win is a win! Hankins won by any fair definition.
posted by SCGOP at 5:30 PM
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