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Published Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008 | 7:40 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008 | 7:41 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- It was only a matter of time before one of the often-mentioned Nevada Republicans announced they might try to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Tonight Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki became the first to publicly say so, unofficially launching the 2010 race for U.S. Senate that has been quietly unfolding since the day after the election, if not sooner.
Krolicki tells the Associated Press (via Jon Ralston and a mess of Google alerts) he’s “taking this possibility seriously,” and will decide by early next year.
Republicans nationally have made no secret of their desire to topple Reid, much the way they did then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat, in 2004.
In some circles, the concept has become a verb -- as in Republicans hope to “Daschle” Reid.
Will Krolicki become the one to run or just an early name testing the field?
In the AP story, Krolicki makes a call for party unity in the top-of-ticket races after a brutal 2008 for Republicans in Nevada. (Read: Skip the primary fight to save resources for the general.)
Time is ticking in the race to collect many millions to challenge the Reid, a four-term senator and now among the most powerful Democrats in Washington. Will other hopefuls step forward?
Ralston mused just last week, the day after the election, in fact, about who might challenge Reid. You can read his odds here
I wouldn't be surprised if the Dummocrats also have a bull's eye on Boss Reid for supporting Iraq, the bailout, and about all of W's other programs. If he loses re-election in Jan as SML he might as well not bother running.
Of course...the Boss does totally own the NevaDUH Dummocratic Party outright. But that may not be near enough.
Harry Reid has not done a good job as Senate leader. Unfortunately, who do we have to replace him? Krohlicki! Can't we do better?
I don't care if its a democrat or a republican or an independent or a member of the green party as long as they are competent. At this point, I'll just roll the dice.
Vote out every single incumbent, and keep doing it, until we find someone who is competent. The must be at least one!
CronlyVoddy, what is the basis for your message that Krolicki is not a competent challenger for Reid?
Harry Reid is an embarrassment to this state and this country.
Hey, these comments are mostly an embarassment to this wonderful desert state. Harry is ok. Almost all politicians are bad because no matter what you do about half of the people won't like it. I do vote against all incumbents but that doesn't mean voting either blue or red. Besides I word my crayons out and had to grow up. Maybe if everyone else put away their crayons and pretended to be adults we could move forward.
When I read some of these comments, the picture of Ted the Unabomber comes into mind: dangerously paranoid single men unmoored from mainstream society. What a sad, embarassing indictment of the Sun's online readership; I expect stupid trolls' comments on the RJ's site, but not the Sun.
I wonder why Boss Reid said almost daily he was "neutral" in the Dem Prezz race when his Searchlight Leadership PAC donated to "Hillary Clinton for President" on 6/25/08? http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expendde...
I'll stand corrected if you can find a donation for Obama. http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expend.p...
Otherwise we can just assume Boss Reid is a liar and was backstabbing and trying to undermine Obama.