Big-Time Nevada Republican Endorses Reid
EmailABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: The emerging Republican efforts to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., have suffered a blow. Sig Rogich, one of the most influential players in Republican politics in Nevada, has endorsed Reid’s reelection bid. “Nevada needs to understand at this perilous time in our state’s history, why would you ever think about getting rid of the majority leader of the U.S. Senate?” Rogich told Jon Ralston, on his Nevada TV program. Republicans would love to defeat Reid, like they did then-Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004, but haven’t had much luck finding a top-tier candidate. Rogich’s backing for Reid is going to make it even harder to knock him off. “This will come as a deep disappointment to Republicans in Washington, who despise Reid because of his brutal attacks on former President George W. Bush and parliamentary maneuvering that successfully stymied much of the Republican agenda after 2004,” J. Patrick Coolican writes in the Las Vegas Sun.
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Me thinks Sig Rogich is hearing and seeing whats going on to people on the ground , Any smart man would see that the Democrat policies do benefit his state and the citizens.
Afterall he did witness what his state went true the past 8 years under President Bush, So he would know whats needed for his state.. and what the NEW policies can do .
Posted by: helen | February 26, 2009, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
Good for Rogich and Reid. I hope the Rethugs efforts to unseat Reid fail dismally!!
Posted by: geecee | February 26, 2009, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
I wasn’t aware that Republicans were even allowed to have individual opinions. They do seem to be marching in lock-step all the time. So this is truly eye-opening. Not only is this Republican capable of independent thought and a sense of priorities–he even has integrity.
I’m impressed, but the GOP will correct this problem.
Posted by: Ken | February 26, 2009, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Dang, that’s a lousy run of luck the GOP is having….BAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAAA.
Posted by: Clint | February 26, 2009, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm
This is outrageous….we just elected a new president and you are talking about election 2013…..you better live each day one day at a time….you may not be here in 2013. President Obama is doing a FANTASTIC job and he will probably be voted in again after his 4 year term….get over it….deal with it because you will have a very long waited.
Posted by: Pauline | February 26, 2009, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
I’m waiting for the fist fight that’s gonna break out on the floor of the Senate between Jim Bunning, John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell. Jim Bunning may just wipe the floor with both those clowns for coming out against him in the Ky Senate race. My money is on Bunning, cause McConnell and Cornyn are a couple of “go behind your back” wussies.
Posted by: Josh | February 26, 2009, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
Pauline wrote: “President Obama doing a FANTASTIC job and he will probably be voted in again after his 4 year term..”
He sure is doing a fantastic job Pauline. Now, we need to give him some more help in 2010 by electing more Dems and Independents.
Posted by: Trent | February 26, 2009, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
Smart Republicans know their Party is out of step w/ America. Until the clowns who run the Republican Party learn to put the interests of the nation before their petty, partisan, provincial, and parochial interests, they will merely be a regional party representing the citizens of the Bible Belt. With folks like Steele, Palin, Jindal as the “best and brightest” the Republican Party has to offer, they can’t reasonable expect Americans to take them seriously.
Posted by: Sammy | February 26, 2009, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
Smart Republicans know their Party is out of step w/ America. Until the clowns who run the Republican Party learn to put the interests of the nation before their petty, partisan, provincial, and parochial interests, they will merely be a regional party representing the citizens of the Bible Belt. With folks like Steele, Palin, Jindal as the “best and brightest” the Republican Party has to offer, they can’t reasonably expect Americans to take them seriously.
Posted by: Sammy | February 26, 2009, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
Smart move!
Posted by: irma | February 26, 2009, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
America now has a sound Conservative party — the party of Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and the very decent Baruch Obama.
There’s one Socialist in the Senate, none in the House. but for some weird reason the Party of David Duke has roughly 28 senators.
Time for some realignments. Decent Republicans, of whom there are enough to fill maybe one phone booth per state, should form a Whig Party. The David Duke Party is entitled to maybe one Senator — maybe some diddy-bop woman from Alaska.
And Democrats of the Democratic persuasion should maybe take over the Democratic Party.
Posted by: DLJ | February 27, 2009, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm
Wow. Well, we shall see if Harry Reid is reelected in 2010? It’s just my opinion, but I think that the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency will be a huge boost for Republicans. People will begin to see Obama as an old-style liberal in the mold of Lyndon Johnson and George McGovern. Nevada is much more conservative.
Posted by: Michael Ray Thompson | March 4, 2009, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm