Tomorrow, House Minority leader John Boehner is coming to Minnesota for Erik Paulsen (MN-03) and Brian Davis (MN-01). If we are to believe what we read in the Politico article, GOP ditches recruits to save incumbents, the visit may not mean much:
Darren White and Erik Paulsen were prized Republican recruits, House candidates poised to be the new face of the GOP on Capitol Hill.
But as the two head into the homestretch of their campaigns, GOP operatives say they’ll probably have to win — or lose — on their own. The money national Republicans earmarked for White in New Mexico and for Paulsen in Minnesota will likely go instead to protect GOP incumbents who once looked like locks for reelection.
GOP Reps. John B. Shadegg of Arizona, Lee Terry of Nebraska, Henry Brown Jr. of South Carolina and Dan Lungren of California are all fighting for their political lives, a reversal of fortunes that has caught even the most astute campaign observers by surprise.
The article compares their reversal of fortunes to that suffered by Gil Gutknecht and others in 2006. And so we offer up this shout-out to the NRCC recruits, in a classic live performance from Bob Marley ( the headline on the Google alert for the Politico article was Little love for cash-strapped GOP recruits). As Marley sings: "Where is the love to be found?":
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