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but this is good news anyway.
or we must throw him under the bus and let the repubs win another one. 
I have my own!
Not only is he inept, he's an inept, incompetent idiot. I suspect that somewhere in a small room off of his office he has an autographed picture of Louie Gohmert hanging on an altar.
Congressman Lamb is the perfect example of what Democrats must do to take control of Congress. He may not be the ideal candidate for more progressive party members, but he is the man to put that district back into Democratic control. THAT must be our #1 objective!
...but the same can be said about virtually every PA politician on either side of the aisle. He's still an awesome US Representative and a perfect Dem. candidate.
Lamb is not a shill for the NRA, unlike other elected officials in our state, so please cool it with the talk about "not an ideal candidate."
his comment in the last campaign about supporting Pelosi.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/pennsylvania-house-race-conor-lamb-nancy-pelosi/index.html
I believe this will qualify for allowing me to mention the possibility of him as "not an ideal candidate."
( and yes, I did support him with donations to his campaign )
...but he was running in a conservative district and he had to win conservative voters over.
My apologies if you are already aware of this, but his opponent Rick Saccone's TV ads last Jan-Feb-March were all criticizing Nancy Pelosi. His ads were (mostly) paid for by the RNC and they barely noticed who Saccone was running against. Apparently all they care about is unseating Pelosi. So the TV ads were really ridiculous here last winter (I live in Pittsburgh.)
I'm sure that Connor Lamb, now that he has won the special election and is on the way to winning in November, knows how to be a good party member when it's important to play along. We can't put too much importance on campaign rhetoric, is how I feel about it. He can support Nancy now, and it won't make a bit of difference.
. . .and she's not running for Congress in his district.
PA-12 is STILL an area that was won by IQ45 in 2016 (tons of MAGA signs everywhere - and still are!) and it will be important for Congressman Lamb to fight to the end - and present values that would mean something to his constituents.
Rothfus is bad - Lamb is good - but he has to be careful to keep his constituents contented with how he would represent them - and avoid being labeled as a "radical left winger" and all of the other nasty things the Tea Party would like to claim.
He ran his last campaign quite well - I have no doubt he will do so again this time.
Surely some DUer will come by to tell us why there's no point voting and we must punish the Democratic party and let the Repubs win this one.
Even if his opponent were only HALF as good as Connor Lamb, Rothfus would still deserve to lose. I believe Rothfus ran unopposed the last few times because of the nasty PA gerrymandering. But all that is over now!
Bring on the blue wave in Pennsylvania!
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It makes sense in some states for Democrats to be pro-gun and pro-RKBA. Not everyone needs to pick up an AR and start blasting down range, but all they have to say is, "no new Federal gun bans," for this issue to be a non-issue for some moderate voters.
