Lacy Lafferty will be the GOP Nominee for Governor

Filed in National by on August 16, 2016

How do I know this? Look at the Sussex County GOP Headquarters. What’s missing?

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  1. Dem19703 says:
    August 16, 2016 at 8:51 am

    Integrity? Common sense? Empathy for the middle class? So many possibilities…

  2. Jason330 says:
    August 16, 2016 at 8:51 am

    Dem19703 beat me to it.

  3. cassandra_m says:
    August 16, 2016 at 9:09 am

    The Sorry We’re Closed sign is a choice commentary, tho.

  4. El Somnambulo says:
    August 16, 2016 at 9:22 am

    The Lacey Lafferty Campaign Theme Song?:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EslXq-O2moM

  5. Brian says:
    August 16, 2016 at 9:37 am

    |What’s missing?| A legitimate candidate’s name.

  6. Delaware Dem says:
    August 16, 2016 at 10:26 am

    The answer is any sign for Colin Bonini. We are sure he is running, right?

  7. anonymous says:
    August 16, 2016 at 10:38 am

    The answer depends on whether Bonini is a “legitimate candidate.” In previous years, he’d be the joke candidate.

    Using past election results in Sussex County GOP primaries is dicey at best; how many of the old coots who voted for Christine O’Donnell six years ago are still alive and still in SuxCo? And who has replaced them?

    But FWIW, Republican turnout for that primary — goosed by O’Donnell’s high visibility, no doubt — was 32%. With every looney toon in Sussex voting, she only bested Castle by 3,000 votes.

    Lafferty doesn’t have O’Donnell’s visibility, and she also lacks O’Donnell’s charisma. She’s a downstate Rose Izzo. Her appeal is mainly to dead-enders who are still backing the Sheriff of Nuttingham. Her only chance is a low-turnout primary, which she might get.

  8. Dave says:
    August 16, 2016 at 10:42 am

    There are two possible answers.

    1. Bonini believes that any association with the Sussex County GOP is a death knell.
    2. The SC GOP membership is Lafferty and vice versa. They are both whack jobs. Who else would they support?

  9. Dem19703 says:
    August 16, 2016 at 11:13 am

    @anonymous, Good point. Every other statewide election Bonini has either run in, or threatened to run in, he WAS the Lafferty of that race. Now he is somehow the standard-bearer for the “moderate” right. That is hysterical.

  10. anonymous says:
    August 16, 2016 at 11:49 am

    @Dave: Don’t forget “all of the above.”

    @703: That’s how far to the right a party can go when they toss out all the moderates. Ask Eric Cantor.

  11. chris says:
    August 16, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    Bonini needs Sussex votes….its growing population down there…hes in TROUBLE …. funny how someone got to the right of Colin in this state!!

  12. SussexAnon says:
    August 16, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    Fun fact: When the blinds are open, there is a life size cutout of Donald Trump in the window.

  13. loritool5000 says:
    August 16, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    Why even run ?

  14. SussexWatcher says:
    August 16, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    I think Lafferty will get at least 40 percent, probably more, and possibly win. New Castle County Republicans have no motivation to turn out in great numbers, ceding the primary to Sussex and Kent.

  15. mediawatch says:
    August 16, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    The only New Castle County Republicans with a motivation to vote have already switched parties to vote for Purzycki.

  16. anonymous says:
    August 17, 2016 at 8:52 am

    @SW: What’s the motivation for downstate Republicans? Are there local races down there that will drive turnout?

    @MW: About 1,100 people switched to vote for Purzycki.

  17. Jason330 says:
    August 17, 2016 at 8:56 am

    “Fun fact: When the blinds are open, there is a life size cutout of Donald Trump in the window.”

    Lol.

    Must. Have. Picture.

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