California Conservative

According to Sherman Frederick’s column, Harry Reid better hoep Nevadans don’t start asking that question because he doesn’t have a good reply:

But today I want to square up once and for all on the bogus “r-u-stupid” argument advanced by the Reid camp.

When Reid supporters play the stupid card I tell them, “OK, I’ll drink the Kool-Aid…if you can tell me exactly how his ‘power’ has benefited Nevadans.”

The answer always is pregnant silence.

That’s because Reid’s power so far has done more for Reid personally than it has for Nevadans as a whole. He’s got a big office. He can pick up the phone and ask Nancy Pelosi and Chris Dodd for directions. But he can’t honestly say his power has made a difference in the lives of Nevadans. He’s delivered to Nevada about what any senator should deliver through the screwy Washington patronage system. As for using his power to make important changes in, say, a broader job base for Nevadans, Reid’s been ho-hum at best.

Reid’s record is “ho-hum at best” because he’s ho-hum at best. There isn’t anything memorable (in a positive sense) that he’s done that I can think of. In fact, the only things that Sen. Reid is famous for is declaring that the Iraq war was lost and declaring that he’d engineered the defeat of the Patriot Act.

He’s done nothing to make Nevada more business-friendly. He’s bought into the job-killing cap-and-trade legislation that threatens America’s prosperity. He’s done next-to-nothing in terms of a libertarian agenda. In fact, he’s voted for a number of things that libertarians should be appalled at.

If Republicans recruit a solid candidate (they won’t even need a great candidate) between now and December, 2009, they’ll stand a good shot at defeating Dingy Harry.

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