Is a Republican Superprimary for Senate in the offing?
Addressing the Connecticut Libertarian Party's convention in Bridgeport this past weekend, Ron Paul acolyte Peter Schiff - who has been the subject of a draft movement by national Paul supporters and has recently made more and more noise himself about possibly challenging Chris Dodd as either a third-party candidate or in a Republican primary - seems to be clearly saying that if he were to run, it would not be as a third-party candidate, but in a Republican Primary:
"The Republican Party is a complete mess right now. They don't know what they believe in or what they stand for. And they're not going to get re-elected....
"What we need is to move the Republican Party to the Libertarian wing, to the Ron Paul wing, because that's the only way we can win, the only way we can get Libertarian principles into government is to bring them in through that party. Because I don't think we've got enough time to try to get the Libertarian party in office, we need to just get Libertarian-minded people in office. And I think the way to do that now is through the Republican Party because I think the Republican Party is very vulnerable right now. And I think the best way, instead of fighting them, just take them over, and infiltrate the party and then influence the direction that it moves...
"I just think it's too important to waste your resources or your effort to trying to elect Libertarians. You'd be better off trying to find Libertarian candidates trying to run for office in the Republican party and support them..."
In related news, Schiff was also a guest of fellow CT teabagging enthusiast Glenn Beck's last week, thereby maintaining a perfect record for the Fox News Channel, who have somehow managed to score interviews with all four possible challengers to Chris Dodd (Rob Simmons on Hannity, Sam Caligiuri on Hannity, and Fox News Democrat Merrick Alpert just hours after his campaign launch), graciously allowing each one of them to go on at length attacking the senior Senator.
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