Bruce’s Backing Band
December 17th, 2009 at 06:31am Geraldine
With it becoming increasingly clear that both Terry Branstad and Jim Gibbons are Bruce Rastetter’s boys in the GOP Primaries for Governor and in the 3rd District (and both receiving the requisite support from Bruce’s little buddy, Nick Ryan), the question is how religious conservatives react to Gibbons and Branstad receiving the support of Iowa’s big business GOP establishment. It’s clear that the people backing Gibbons and Branstad are not real social conservatives and that issues like gay marriage are secondary to implementing goofy tax programs.
This offers opportunities for opponents of both Gibbons and Branstad as George W. Bush Republicans enthralled with big business and government spending rather than committed to limited government and moral values. Clearly if Branstad or Gibbons have to pick between Wells Fargo and constitutional amendment to define marriage, they’re picking the former.
In Branstad’s race, he’s clearly become the most moderate candidate and this offers another line of attack for his opponents, besides painting him as a retread or a hypocrite. For Gibbons, it allows Dave Funk in particular, to eat into his support and gives Brad Zaun, as the only candidate running with any political experience an added advantage.
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7 Comments Add your own
1. tim m | December 17th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Gibbons, with his incredibly bad plan to add to the deficit as his first shot out of the gate, looks inept as far as ideas. No other conservative in the race wants to add to the burden of our children and grandchildren as Gibbons does. Not only that, in the Adel paper, Gibbons rails against TARP, yet when with Wells Fargo, didn’t say a word when they got the funds. Hypocrite is right.
2. tim m | December 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Gibbons latest press release one week after his proposed $625 billion dollars addition to the deficit, strangely is critical of Boswell for raising the debt ceiling $300 billion dollars.
What could be stranger than calling Boswell’s spending reckless and out of control when Gibbons’ own campaign proposed only a week earlier to raise the debt limit by over double what Boswell did?
Gibbons is flip flopping like a dying seal.
3. tim m | December 21st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
with the bankruptcy of much of the Rastetter empire announced today, it seems it is a little too late for him to be buying and running candidates like Gibbons who would support massive new spending and huge ethanol government subsidies……
4. daGOPman | December 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
tim m, let’s use some links here. This stuff is pretty interesting.
5. tim m | December 24th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Today’s announcement of the hiring of Brian Chatwin is seen as throwing in the towel of the past leadership of the Gibbons campaign by some of those named above. The leadership of the Gibbons campaign so far has been a complete train wreck, noting the lack of a full website up by Gibbons to date, Gibbons falling well behind his rivals on the social technology and facebook sites, as well as the widely panned first proposal by the Gibbons campaign to raise the federal deficit $625 billion dollars, while every one of his rivals are looking to reduce it.
The choices involved in management of the Gibbons campaign so far has been nothing but completely inept, and even supporters of the Gibbons campaign are noticing.
6. Amega Products | February 22nd, 2010 at 11:56 pm
I think that’s a pretty bad move for Gibbons.
7. Thomas Hanson | February 26th, 2010 at 12:17 am
Rick Olson is a racist.
He also joined up with the Right Wing Fascist to support the NRA bill.
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