Why are people not marching in the streets?

[ewagner]

44. Okay...

One strategy (where there can be cross-over primaries) is to make sure the Repub candidate is the biggest idiot we can find. Aiken and that Dude from Indiana come to mind...if there isn't any cross over voting allowed in that state, then do what Claire McKaskill did and ACTIVELY campaign for the biggest tea-party-er we can find to run against. In in sense, we can choose the easiest candidate to run our candidate against. Risk: the idiot might get elected anyway.


Another: Put together a coalition of disaffected Repubs who are sick and tired of the extreme elements of the party and run a compromise candidate (liberal Republican/Conservative Democrat) who can muster enough votes to overcome the tea party candidate...problem is that in order to get moderate repubs to vote for such a candidate he/she might have to have the "sacred R" behind the name and that means they would have to caucus with the Rs but not necessarily vote with them exclusively. The trick would be to elect that person who owe allegiance to the coalition and not the party and would have to depend on that same coalition for re-election.

I'm not fond of the second scenario but in some districts that's all that might be available to us...do you have any other strategies that might work?