NC-Sen: Burr Looking Vunerable .... But Dems Could Hand Him The Seat By Nominating Heath Shuler

[FLAprogressive]

From DownwithTyranny:

"I'm not going to say Heath Shuler is the worst member of the Democratic House caucus; but I will say that there isn't anyone worse than this reactionary Know Nothing from western North Carolina. When Rahm Emanuel invented him Shuler wasn't especially a Democrat or a Republican-- just a self-serving Know Nothing being courted by Tennessee Republicans and North Carolina Democrats. He claims he likes North Carolina more than Tennessee... so he wound up a Democrat-- and one of the two worst of Rahm Emanuel's pro-war/pro-corporate/anti-choice recruits from 2006, the other being registration-switcher/serial adulterer, now defeated Tim Mahoney from Florida, like Shuler, a Democrat in name only who delighted in crossing the aisle on core issues and voting with the GOP .....

..... He is the Democrats version of the bigoted, anti-immigrant loon Tom Tancredo and, in fact, they worked on a xenophobic bill together. Last week I met with one of the candidates running for chair of North Carolina's Democratic Party. He told me that Shuler is pushing himself forward for Burr's seat. Yesterday Public Policy Polling released a new survey accessing Shuler's chances to unseat Burr...

... {Shuler} acknowledges that most of the country and all of the responsible elected officials are more concerned with fixing the nation's economy than in stirring up hatred against Hispanics, his own specialty. I don’t think it would have mattered who won the election, McCain or Obama," Shuler told the interviewer. "They both have different views on immigration than the people of our district.”

Shuler's DC roommates don't. He lives with a bunch of radical right, lunatic fringe, neo-Confederate obstructionists-- Jim DeMint (R-SC), Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Zach Wamp (R-TN)."

READ MORE: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/01/burr-looking-very-vulnerable-in-2010.html

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Shuler's one of the worst homophobes in congress and hopefully NC Dems tell him to fuck off if he runs for senate. He was a terrible quarterback and is an even worse congressman.

[blm]

1. Shul has Bill Clinton in his corner, too. I hope progressive Dems keep Shuler AWAY from nomination.

At this point, the progressive wing of the Dem party has the edge in NC.

[LynneSin]

2. Heath Shuler is a good representative for Western North Carolina

There are a few districts out there that are pretty much unwinnable by democrats unless the democrat in question is a very moderate one. Heath's district reminds me a bit of PA-10, a very republican stronghold that became winnable in 2006 because the incumbent republican was caught beating his mistress. Don Sherwood, the ultra-conservative republican, thought that perhaps his constituents would forgive him of this transgression but these voters are also Christians and not keen on adultering women beaters. Democrats ran a moderate with Chris Carney and not only did he easily win the seat but he held on to it (but but a closer margin) in 2008. We democrats should be able to hold on to districts like PA-10 and Heath's district in Western North Carolina by running these moderate dems.

But to have Heath run as senator? HELL NO!!! And I'd say the same thing if Chris Carney were to run for senate in Pennsylvania too.

[mmonk]

3. If he is the establishment pick, I'm willing to run for the office.