RollCall.com has a list of ten political races to watch in 2016.  Barbara Comstock’s 10th district is one of those contests.Â
Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, One of Ten Races to Watch in 2016
written by Jeanine Martin
April 23, 2015
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Jeanine Martin
Also known as Lovettsville Lady, I am a Republican activist in the wilds of western Loudoun County.
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Comstock seems to want to ride the fence between the moderates and the conservatives on the republican side of the ranch. That is a very lonely place for a republican, and the democrats love it!
Unfortunately, what we really need is leaders that are courageous enough to remind folks that it will be a little painful to wean off the spending of the unearned dollar in order to head off the long-term effects of the present fiscal insanity. DHS was funded. She voted for it. But in doing so Comstock sent a signal that republican principles are exchangeable if she gets the constituent support; given the demographic quantity of government workers in her district. If it were a conservative, they’d have none of it. DHS should have been defunded–for weeks until the president backed off this executive amnesty nonesense. We all know that the critical functions would have remained open and still operate. The purpose of the differing branches of government is to BALANCE the powers (not just for everyone in congress or the courts to follow the White House ideas and interpretations).
She is riding the Frank Wolf coat tails. Moderates are going out of vogue and if she doesn’t start sending conservatives the right signals soon she will indeed have a hard time at a convention.
As a first term Republican House elected officeholder she has accomplished two major things; first her vote to fully fund the DHS and thereby support the current Obama administration’s unconstitutional immigration policies, something not one of her fellow Virginia House Republican colleagues concurred with nor did, and, second a propensity to burn a major load of bridges in the 10th District with her clueless pronouncements and chosen political allies. She just wasn’t ready or prepared for the job and could very well be a one and done regardless of redistricting.
Nah, she’ll be fine.
We’ll see
See my comment above. If Barbara continues down the path she’s on, she won’t be fine at a 10th district convention.
she will defeat anyone that runs against her.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. If the 10th district chooses a convention, which is likely because it’s Loudoun County, Barbara could be beaten.
Meh.