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Published on: 12/1/2007
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To bad Sam Nixon gets to bear the brunt.Of course, if the NLS prediction is accurate, he better get used to it.
Driving to work today I had the thought that the RPV would do well to find a place in the leadership for Samuel A. Nixon, GOP delegate from Chesterfield and old pal of your humble blogger…and voila!NLS claims sources claim that Terry Kilgore will take a new committee chairmanship and that Sam will become Chairman of the House Republican Caucus.
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Ben then goes on to attack Sam for not raising tons of money the last few cycles, and for being inexperienced:
"This is why the Republicans keep losing seats in the General Assembly.Sam knows nothing about running a modern campaign, about raising the kind of money needed or about what issues are really hot in all the swing legislative districts"
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Truth is that Sam Nixon may be exactly what the GOP needs.He is a principled conservative who can work with other people.He is very much one of those guys who sets goals and achieves them, and pays little mind to the naysayers.
I am not sure how being unopposed means he is incapable of exceling in the position he apparently will fill.Ben makes a lot of suppositions, but offers no facts to back them up.Of course, the posters who chimed in offer also no real evidence to back up their attacks.
So let me offer a few reasons why Sam Nixon is the right guy at the right time.
1. Safe seat, and has been unopposed.
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2. Sam is conservative, but not doctrinaire.He can work with and reason with people.I bet you he saves the GOP at least three seats in 2009 by doing what is necessary to avoid costly primaries that yield ideologue candidates.
3. Sam knows what he knows and what he doesn't.He doesn't have to be on the cutting edge of campaign technology to do his job.That is what you have pollsters, consultants, and technicians on staff.What he does have is the common sense to know what tactics make sense and what tactics are just stupid.
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Sam Nixon will leading the caucus in delegate elections in a year when the only other election is in New Jersey.
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I have known Sam Nixon for over 25 years, and I know hard he works.I find the cries of democratics deriding his potential selection as amusing.