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Nussle-Vander Plaats ticket — smart move with possible downside
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Feb 21, 2006 12:35pm |
| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Feb 21, 2006 12:35pm |
| Description | Jim Nussle and Bob Vander Plaats have decided to drop their rivalry and join forces in the 2006 Republican race for governor, GOP insiders were saying Monday.
On Wednesday, Vander Plaats is scheduled to formally end his bid for governor against Nussle and become his running mate for lieutenant governor.
It’s a politically smart move and one that avoids a potentially divisive and expensive primary between the two. It will enable the party to concentrate its full energies on winning back the Terrace Hill Governor’s Mansion in the November election. Democrats, by contrast, will be forced to burn up their resources attacking each other because they still have a primary.
There is one political downside to this for Nussle: He will lose media attention and momentum as the spotlight now turns to that Democratic contest. While the winner of that primary is likely to emerge scuffed up and broke, at least he’ll have the energy and name recognition a primary victory will give him. |
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