An Excellent Republican Candidate You May Not Know: Dan Bongino
September 24th, 2012 - 5:50 pm
So, even if Mitt Romney does not win — and at this point he can pull it out and become our next president — there are local races where good candidates have emerged, and where they can have the ability to reach people, change their way of thinking, and possibly even win. Dan Bongino is one of these candidates, and I hope that this column has served to introduce him to those who until now have not heard about him. And if you live in Maryland like I do, don’t despair. Get out there and do your part.
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“even if Mitt Romney does not win”
note to the faint hearted: mitt romney will win
There’s an old story about eggs, chickens, and counting exercises.
“IPAB boards set up to judge what Medicare will or will not cover….”
Actually, they’re set up to determine payment to providers.
From Wikipedia:
“The Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, is a fifteen-member United States Government agency created in 2010 by sections 3403 and 10320 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which has the explicit task of achieving specified savings in Medicare without affecting coverage or quality.”
The Romney/Ryan plan, on the other hand, is to turn Medicare into a voucher system – a scheme certain to diminish the quantity and quality of services offered.
“The Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, is a fifteen-member United States Government agency created in 2010 by sections 3403 and 10320 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which has the explicit task of achieving specified savings in Medicare without affecting coverage or quality.”
So let me get this straight: just because the goal of the IPAB is to save money in Medicare without affecting coverage or quality, you think that will actually happen exactly as intended? Are you as naive as you sound?
You’re putting your faith in WIKIPEDIA? Really? Give me fifteen minutes and I can make Wikipedia say that the IPAB’s main goal is to blow up the planet Alderaan and crush the Rebel Alliance.
absolutely.
check out wikipedia for Fast and Furious. When as I saw it…must have been done by “Media Matters”.
Huge omissions and spin.
Anytime you put price controls on a product you end up with shortages. Shortages of doctors willing to provide care to medicare patients at reduced rates, which make it a loss for the doctor. It will result in care being rationed, even if that is not the intention of the bill.
“The Romney/Ryan plan, on the other hand, is to turn Medicare into a voucher system – a scheme certain to diminish the quantity and quality of services offered.”
You state this as if it is true and yet the opposite is infinitely more likely. Vouchers let the free market work which enhances the quantity and quality of services offered. Government control perverts the process and results in waste, fraud, illogical decision-making and political favoritism. Please do some critical thinking instead of regurgitating these ideological talking points designed by big government to discredit freedom and the free markets.
Quoting Wikipedia automatically discredits you.
He should have resigned from the Secret Service.
This is the only president I would say that about, including Clinton and Carter. They weren’t trying to destroy the country. obama is.
He did resign from the Secret Service to run for Senate. He was fed up with what he saw and decided to do something about. In doing so he gave up his pension as well as all of his government benefits. The kicker is that almost immediately after Dan entered the race President Obama endorsed Cardin. You would think this is a race the President would have stayed out of.
He protected the most destructive man on the planet for 2+ years, until May 2011, but I’ll give him credit for finally resigning and giving up his penion benefits. A lot of people would not have done that.
You are wrong about Clinton and Carter.
Your kind of naiveté one of the reasons we now have an OBVIOUSLY Marxist President.
This is for comment #2…the fact you use Wiki as your main source pretty much waters down your argument. Wiki can and often is edited in order to present a particular slant. Given that this IPAB was created within the confines of the new health reform (Obamacare), naturally it will spin its creation in a positive light. The explanation on its face is ridiculous….”achieving specified savings in Medicare without affecting coverage or quality.” How is this achieved when you add 30 million people? And you do not screen for pre-existing conditions? There is no way a government run system can operate this effectively nor is there a government track record to suggest it will attempt to. Additionally, you mention “actually, they’re set up to determine payment to providers.” So does this mean before or after service has been provided? If it occurs after and its determined NOT to pay the full amount, did the provider now unwittingly provide some charity service because someone (not a medical professional) decided how much a service should cost?
Thanks Mr. Radosh- this guy’s got some serious spine.
Just imagine the ton of hurt headed his way. I mean, knowing what he knows?
JosephS:
2010- 47% of providers consider quitting.
2012- 83% of providers now consider quitting.
It’s like fuel in Alaska or generators in Katrina, or doctors in Canada-
the question isnt “what’s the price?”,but, “do you have any?”
I’m a medical provider. I’ll take this one step further. Apparently, there is a “pilot” program being initiated by the Obama administration to try to enlist patients in the effort to catch “medical errors.” Patients can call a hotline to report errors.
I took a look at some of the “errors” patients are going to be able to report: “My physician did not treat me in a culturally or racially sensitive manner.”
I got news for you. This becomes widespread, I’m done. I’m currently in prime, and I think I’m a good doc, and I get paid a lot for what I do. I’m in a tough business (oncology).
But if this sort of nonsense comes to pass, I’ll give it up and pursue my passion for making the best ribs ever (yes, they’re that good).
Is that what America wants? For the best of your MDs to simply hang up their spikes and call it a day? That is what Obama is going to do to you if he gets another 4 years.
Remember that.
There is another program to replace you with culturally and racially senstive providers.
Knowledge of oncology? not a requirement.
Not all of MD is blue. I was in Kent County a week ago and Romney signs greatly outnumbered little Obama signs. Of course, O’Malley is trying to redistrict away western MD’s Republican congressional seat by combining it with Montgomery County. Take away a bunch of the beltway imports and government workers, and I bet MD would be a swing state.
Also Ron,check out state legislator Neil Parrot.
There are some very good conservative candidates, and some very conservative areas in Maryland. The problem is almost half of the population is in Montgomery, Prince Georges, and Baltimore City which are very heavily Democratic and until Dan Bongino, Republicans have for the most part ignored these areas feeling they had no chance and should not waste the resources. Dan has spent significant time in these areas and received an excellent response. I am very excited about his chances.
Hey now, I’m one of those gov’t workers and it’s not us you need to worry about. Who do you think owns all those houses in Potomac? Media pundits, think tank “researchers” and other pilot fish of government. Civil service employees can barely afford Montgomery county and no new employees can. Maybe some appointees, but most civil service level live in NoVA or even West Virginia. A lot of civil service folk see the writing on the wall – something that can’t go on forever, won’t. There is a lot of dead wood that can be cut.
O’Malley’s gerrymandering is even making the state Democrats angry. He thinks it will win him favor at the national level and the WaPo is pimping him (at times) as a future presidential candidate. Hate to break it to them, but winning in MD as a Democrat isn’t exactly a real contest and he’s in for a rude awakening if he thinks the rest of the country is Maryland.
Unfortunately for Mr. Bongino there is a wealthy independent businessman in the race that will draw off votes, thus making the number 1 goal of beating tax/spender Cardin that much more difficult to achieve.
I understand that the 3rd party candidate will actually draw away votes from the Democrat, so the People’s Republik of Maryland may actually go our way.
I agree. His ads give the image of a bring home the bacon type politician, making promises that he could never keep as a U.S. Senator. At the same time accusing both the Republican and Democrat of being career politicians. There is only one career politician in this race.
Whatever happens Bongino is still a fantastic asset for America.
I went into debt to send a tad more support.
Boy they must hate him.
I live in Maryland, and as much as I like Dan and will vote for him, he has no chance to win a state-wide election.
Between the blacks and the government employees, the state is a lock for Democrats in every election.
I wish Dan luck, and maybe a miracle will happen, who knows?
I lived in Frederick county for several years which is a near north island of sanity near the democratic insanity of Montgomery county. From about Clarksburg north on 270 people tend to become more sane. You are correct though, Maryland has almost the highest percentile of Fed Govt workers (of which I am one)in the U.S., and Fed Govt types cast Dem votes like lemmings for sure.
I worked in Bethesda, yet dealt with the longish commute everyday vice living in Montgomery county.
I saw an interview (on Fox, I think) with Bongino and he is impressive. If I lived in Maryland he’d have my vote.
I wish him well, but as a former resident of the People’s Republic of Maryland, I know he has no chance. Republican Robert Ehrlich, one of the best (and most honest, and in Maryland, that’s saying a lot) governors of Maryland, lasted only one term – replaced by Democratic former Baltimore City Mayor Martin O’Malley. Bad things to say about O’Malley could take up pages, but at the very least, Maryland now has passed a “millionaire’s tax” in addition to many other taxes – oh and all major cities in the state have enormous crime rates. A typical Democratic run state. Best thing to do is vote with your feet, as I have and so many others are.
My wife and I watched the video on Dan’s website. He is an excellent speaker and you know he has read and perhaps watched many of Reagan’s speeches. His explanation of the “dynamic” impact of lowering tax rates to stimulate greater tax revenue was taken out of the Reagan hand book. Contrasting this with the stupid “static” tax meme of liberals that to get more revenue you tax people at a 70% rate and they actually pay it–NOT!
He is an engaging candidate and he will need to be at the top of his game to win in a a deeply blue water state like Maryland.
Welcome to the People’s Republic of Maryland, Mr. Radosh. I relocated here from a Midwest red state ten years ago. I concur with your positive reaction to Dan Bongino. He is an admirable person and possibly has a political future. Not however, I fear, as a statewide, or even congressional, candidate in Maryland. Here’s why:
(1) Annapolis is wholly controlled by Democrats. The most recent redistricting plan has made it all but impossible to elect more than one Republican congressman from Maryland. Roscoe Bartlett is almost certain to lose his seat this time around and my Rep, Andy Harris, has been gerrymandered out of Anne Arundel county and fenced into his Eastern Shore conservative ghetto.
(2) The Maryland GOP is an absolute shambles. They cannot be trusted to field good candidates. Their county level personnel are consumed with personal infighting. No sane person will retain their sanity trying to get anything done through the state party. In addition, they are financially irresponsible and no one that knows the history is willing to trust them with contributions. The national GOP will not invest in Maryland as it sees it as a losing cause. And they are probably right.
(3) The Independent candidate in the Senate race, Ron Sobhani, has run and lost at least twice in Republican primaries. He is not going to siphon votes from Cardin, and the latest polling I have seen has him running second and Bongino third. In addition to having personal wealth to put into the race, he is attracting more contributions than Bongino. This is a corollary of item (2) — the Maryland GOP will not back up promising candidates with the necessary money to run TV and radio ads statewide. DC and Baltimore are both expensive media markets. MD GOP doesn’t have the money and can’t get it, because they’re a bunch of ineffective amateurs.
I wish Dan Bongino all the best. But if he wants a career in politics he should move to Virginia, West Virginia, or Pennsylvania, where he might have a snowball’s chance in hell.
thanks for the recommendation. I will likely give him my vote, but since I’m not a Gimmedat, I will only be allowed to vote once. I’m sure it will take much more as Maryland is a hopelessly lost cause. We have gotten what we deserve.
So glad to see this piece at PJM. Bongino is incredibly impressive. He’s smart, articulate, passionate, conservative, confident, able to speak off the cuff in an extraordinarily focused way. He makes every word count. He’s a keeper. Supporting his campaign from afar with what few dollars I have. More power to him!
I enjoy listening to Dan Bonginos rhetoric more than I do others but fact is he has no real ideas to offer (not that any of the candidates do.) He would be a refreshing change over Sen Cardin but ultimately, only a Dem can win statewide in MD. Look at the registrar: almost 2:1 D over R and the indies vote nearly 2/3rds dem. Of course, now the indie candidate will siphon overwhelmingly from Bongino but let’s face it: Bongino was destined to lose anyway. Ehrlich couldnt win, Pipkin with his millions couldnt win and wargotz with his thousands couldnt win. Cardin will get 50-53% of the vote , sobhani will get 28-31% and bongino will be lucky to break 20% when everything is said and done. without 4-6 million and a reasonable moderate social stance in conjunction with a more reasonable registrar, no one but dems will win maryland statewide in the foreseeable future. For the record, I am a republican but also a realist.
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