Comments on: Bauer Reportedly Set On Fourth District Challenge

By: Anony Mouse

Anony Mouse — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:16:42 +0000

Pandy is wrong – Andre survived re-election on dumb luck and the short memory span of SC voters. To break it down: he survived the primary because Republicans’ default position is to ‘vote incumbent’. He beat Barber because the majority of SC voters pull the “R” lever to vote a 100% Republican slate.

Actually, what is amazing is that SC conservative voters have not caught on enough to ask the following question:

Where are Andre Bauer’s lovely wife and children, those oh-so-necessary props of Republican candidates? What’s that you say – Andre is not married? Never has been? Hmmm.

(For that matter, where are Lindsay Graham’s lovely wife and children?)

It would have served the mean, nasty little Bauer right if Barber had stooped to Andre’s level and asked him the question during their debate. The deer-in-the-headlights look on Andre’s face would have been answer enough to the simple question: why aren’t you married? But Democrats never do that.

Maybe one of Andre’s or Lindsay’s primary opponents will do it …

By: ntsb

ntsb — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:39:07 +0000

NTSB Factual Report: Bauerâ€™s plane left Columbia Owens Field at approx. 4:00pm landed in Blacksburg at(5:00pm)1700 then at(6:30pm) 1830,took off from Blacksburg at 1830(6:30pm). WLTX(Video Clip) reports that he was attending a friends funeral. The NTSB report states that he coordinated transportation to a friends house. In either event, it appears he was on the ground for an hour and a half turnaround.

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By: Pandy

Pandy — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:01:30 +0000

Previous to the Robt Barber/Andre Bauer race, Barber had held office in Charleston, and had already run for congress in the same district, so he was hardly an unknown…and Barber was also a quality candidate.
In 2006, Andre had two quality candidates in the GOP primary, then Barber in the general election, an airplane crash that almost killed him, and the republican Governor of the State working against himâ€¦and he still won. And did I mention he was outspent 3 to 1 by his opponents? Yesâ€¦nearly 3 to 1 against him and he still won!

I donâ€™t have a clue what Bauer will be doing in the futureâ€¦but I am amused that folks canâ€™t see his ability to connect with the voters. He is one of the few republicans out there that will stand with the average Joeâ€¦ and they remember him for it.

By: GVL GOP

GVL GOP — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:35:15 +0000

Bob seems vulnerable but Andre is not the one to beat him. Yeah, he’s the hardest working yadayadayada….but people in GSP know Andre ain’t from around here.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:50:19 +0000

The bottom line is that Andre Bauer wouldn’t have a prayer in the 1st District where people know him. Robert Barber got 60% in Charleston County while the county was giving 60% to GOP ticket leader Mark Sanford. Andre would have been defeated in his re-election but for Baptists in the upstate who apparently knew very little of him other than his party affiliation. Bauer’s ONLY shot at higher office is in the upstate.