A message in the email bag from the Sodrel campaign:
A message from our good friend Mike Pence
I am pleased and honored to be in the Ninth Congressional District this Saturday with my good friend Mike Sodrel. I would be honored if you join us for a very important announcement at 10:45am at the Clark County GOP Headquarters in Jeffersonville (2946 E. 10th Street B5 behind the Jeffersonville License Branch).
Please also join us at 12:00pm noon afterward at The Grand in New Albany (138 East Market Street) for a luncheon. Please see the link below to RSVP or you may call the Sodrel office to RSVP for the luncheon event, the office number is 812-282-2002.
We are at a crucial time in our nation’s history. We need strong conservative leaders in Washington, D.C. House Republicans are fighting hard to keep our liberty intact and we need Mike Sodrel’s help.
Mike shares our conservative values and understands that we are engaged in the biggest fight for freedom and liberty that our country has seen in a long time. We need someone who can hit the ground running in the battle to preserve our Constitutional rights and conservative principles. Mike Sodrel has proven his ability to win the 9th District Congressional seat.
This year when Republicans will do well nationally, Sodrel will win again!
I need your help to stop the Obama-Pelosi-Reid one-party rule of our federal government. I need your help to elect Mike Sodrel back to Congress. Will you please join us on Saturday so I can talk to you about electing my good friend and patriot, Mike Sodrel?
The future of our country is at stake in this election.
Sincerely,
Congressman Mike Pence
Seriously? I guess Congressman Pence has changed his mind since 5 Months Ago…
http://teaparty.hoosieraccess.com/2010/02/09/mike-pence-mike-sodrel-walked-away-from-commitment-to-fiscal-discipline/
Maybe Mike Pence (from personal experience) knows things about Mike Sodrel’s record, character, principles, and beliefs that aren’t reflected in a rating? Maybe Mike Pence views Sodrel’s record, character, principles, and beliefs as the most favorable among the candidates?
Then who was Congressman Pence talking about when he said Republicans lost their way? Who was it, if not Sodrel, that was voting for all of those pork laden Bush budgets and appropriations bills? Pence is endorsing Dan Burton, Dan Coats, and Mike Sodrel… all his former pals. It clearly has nothing to do with voting records.
So Mike Pence is wrong and you’re right?
I would like the Congressman’s answer to that question. Perhaps Congressman Pence [rated a “Tax Payer Hero” by the Citizens Against Government Waste] can answer which Republicans other than Mike Sodrel [rated "Unfriendly to the Taxpayer" by the Citizens Against Government Waste] he was talking about when he said that Republicans “walked away from commitment to fiscal discipline” in 2006.
I’m interested to hear how this endorsement, which you are hailing, is different from the endorsements from statewide officeholders, which you derided.
The only difference I can see is the candidate being endorsed.
Would you characterize Mike Pence as being an Indy establishment insider?
He certainly is an insider and part of the establishment (not always a bad thing, mind you). But his office is in D.C. rather than Indy.
Either way, he’s not part of the 9th District.
Would you say that Mike Pence has a better or worse perspective on the kind of representation we need in Congress than, say, certain statewide elected officials who (to be blunt) made endorsements as a favor to the family of the candidate’s wife?
I’d say he has a great perspective. And all of our statewide electeds of great perspectives too. That’s why everyone is entitled to make an endorsement. The voter can take into consideration some, all, or none of those opinions.
Sorry. I just don’t put Todd Rokita or Tim Berry in the same category as Mike Pence.
Pence didn’t make this endorsement in an empty field (as the statewide elected officials did seven months ago when nobody else was running). Mike Pence certainly didn’t have to make an endorsement of anyone at all, but he did. And that says something; Pence probably knows Mike Sodrel better than any of those statewide elected officials knows Todd Young.
Pence has made some mistakes recently, namely the Coats endorsement, I think it has more to do with who he knows from his days in Washington. Can’t really meet all these new guys when you’re in Washington the bulk of the time.
I am disappointed in Representative Pence’s decision to endorse Sodrel. Pence has always been a leader and returning fiscal discipline to Washington, but supporting Sodrel shows me he cares more about his cornies than he does about changing the Republican party.
I also love how those who bashed other candidates for receiving endorsements of office holders outside the 9th, are praising the Pence endorsement as some sort of magic bullet justification for Hill-Sodrel 5.
As a Hankins supporter I do have to say that Pence’s endorsement of Sodrel is significantly more important than all the other insiders endorsement for Young combined x50.
As Scott points out all the other insiders endorsed Young simply on a insiders-establishment sheep style coronation of sorts…while Pence endorsed his personal friend…both are forms of corruption (if you believe putting party, careerism or personal friendships above principles is a form of corruption or in some of the cases if you believe not being conservative(or having any principles) in the first place leads to corruption)…but at least Pence and Sodrel are REAL friends and not some political fake friends.
Pence also represents counties that are also in the ninth. Pence has a following among grassroots conservatives.
One thing should be clear and that is Mike Pence is a career politician and not a Statesman. He just happens to be a very conservative politician. Everyone knows that the Mike Pence of 2010 is way more establishment and liberal than the Mike Pence of 2003 and it will only get worse.
Mike Pence see himself as a future President but he did not have the courage to make a run for it in 08 when it was wide open because he did not want to run as an inexperienced party outsider CONSERVATIVE grassroots leader.
You see although he is the best we have in Washington Mike Pence is not really a grassroots conservative. He is really not one of “us”. He is a careerist and he thinks the establishment is the way to go. This explains the Coats over Hostettler endorsment more than the Sodrel plug.
Mike Pence KNOWS in his heart that Hostettler would be a far better Senator than Coats but Pence wants to please the right wing of the GOP establishment in hopes that they will lift him up.It will never happen…Mike Pence has a little Ronald Reagan on one shoulder talking to him and a little McCain and Lugar on the other shoulder screaming at him constantly…
Mike Pence is about politics and NOT knocking on doors for the cause.Pence is stuck between two worlds (in fact most “conservatives” in politics are). In the end neither side will trust him…and in fact they do not now.
As for Sodrel he is far more conservative than the Lugar Republican Todd Young, who is not conservative on any issue.
mikerains, your last sentence is wrong. Sodrel is a big government, east coast Republican. After finally winning an election against Baron Hill, he did nothing in Congress but spend, spend, spend. Sodrel is a Charlie Crist Republican.
These conversations make me long for the days of smoke filled rooms where the party decisions were made out of the light of day and we wouldn’t eat our own in public.
Yeah, I can’t figure that one, because Pence came to Washington after Coats went to Germany to be ambassador (and Pence served six years with John Hostettler).
That’s sort of a rather broad statement, isn’t it? What precludes Mike Pence from knowing from his friendship that Sodrel’s principles are in line with his?
You can’t be serious. Mike Pence is an establishment liberal?
Ooh, low blow.
You’ve got to be kidding. Charlie Crist is a social and fiscal liberal and is (even today) in favor of the “stimulus.” Mike Sodrel is certainly no social liberal and he’s definitely not Obama’s sidekick. And an east-coast Republican? The guy is a truck driver that now owns his own company. He’s a far cry from some country club blue blood (unlike a certain other candidate).
“What precludes Mike Pence from knowing from his friendship that Sodrel’s principles are in line with his?”
To be frank I have been asked not to bash Sodrel and frankly I would rather talk about Young because he is the more liberal of the two by far…but since you asked
Pence knows where Sodrel stands because as chair of the RSC Pence was trying to save his party and his country by implementing some bare minimum reforms…and Mike Sodrel opposed Pence’s RSC efforts every major step of the way…(two quick examples are Pence’s CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: RENEWED which Sodrel voted against and the Flake amendments which Sodrel voted against all but one.I could give more examples but I will stop.)
The point IS Pence knows where Sodrel stands and he is ok with that.
Sodrel does have conservative political positions on LIFE,IMMIGRATION, ENERGY, and property taxes, which is more than Young can say.
I did not say Pence is an establishment liberal. I said he is a very conservative politician. What I did say is that he is MORE establishment now than in 2003, and he is more liberal now than he was in say 2003.
(He voted PRESENT on Christmas and Christianity about a year ago for crying out loud)
Young has solidly conservative positions on life, immigration, and energy. To me that is pretty clear from anyone who has actually talked to him or researched his background at all. It seems that those who say Young is not a conservative are just Sodrel loyalists that will say anything to help their man out.
As for Sodrel being a blue collar truck driver- the man is a multimillionaire Christ Republican. Spend, spend, and spend some more. I don’t begrudge a guy for creating a successful business, but lets not pretend he’s Joe Six Pack.
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