I only know of Tedisco by a few television appearances and a few articles I have read about his campaign. That being said, he doesn’t strike me as the second coming of Reagan. It looked to me like his campaign made some missteps that should have been fatal, especially how he handled the stimulus issue. Despite those handicaps he may have won, or finished a very close second. That should tell us something about our countries evolving assesment of the current administration and Congress, especially when we see how this district has voted in the last several elections decidedly for the Democrat candidate.
Republicans need to start speaking with one voice and sounding like MP Daniel Hannan. The “stimulus”, the 3.6 trillion dollar budget, huge deficits, high unemployment and coming inflation will not wear well with an electorate that remembers prosperity. Conservatives celebrate Cong. Ryan’s alternative budget. Republicans vote against him. That’s why I resigned from the RNC two years ago, it had become Democrat lite and was advancing an agenda I was ashamed of.
Tedisco is representative of what’s wrong with Republicans and he may have won anyway. That should cause some Democrat anxiety.
