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Please ignore scary Jack Kimball. Please. We'll have some UL approved Republican gubernatorial candidate to promote on our newsprint soon enough.
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But consider these factors: 1. Lynch is probably more popular with mainstream traditional Republicans than he is with the more liberal Democratic base. The motivation to charge uphill against a guy with 70% favorability is lacking. 2. Many of the people who identify themselves as strong Republicans are filled with rage and fearful of the changes just begun, whose positive impact is not yet realized for them. 3. Kimball effectively touches that literally reactionary nerve, he speaks for real numbers of people. He is very angry and that connects with much of the Republican base that is still there. No'm Sayn?
Kimball is running against John Lynch, who is the master at getting both sides to support him.
It is hard to imagine how Kimball thinks he will win over 50% plus 1 of the voters in 2010: the yellow T-shirt/ black helicopter crowd is about 5%-10% of the electorate. Kimball does seem like a real candidate with an actual agenda, however, unlike Kenney and whoever it was who ran against Lynch in 2006 (was it Coburn?) sitting state rep: running for re-election in 2012.
