Vote Bacon, Fischer!
US Senator Pete Ricketts, Congressmen Mike Flood and Adrian Smith are easy for me to defend. They score well on economics with Club for Growth (https://www.clubforgrowth.org/).
But what of Congressman Don Bacon and US Senator Deb Fischer? I have issues with both candidates, but they are worthy of voting for a different reasons
Iran is attacking Israel and Russia is in Ukraine. The US border with Mexico is a catastrophe. In times like this we need people who understand and have military experience and support free countries like Israel.
At the same time, Nebraska as an agricultural state, is well represented by Bacon and Fischer. Also, both candidates are pro-life.
Bacon is on the House Armed Services Committee. He has military experience. He is also on the House Agriculture Committee (https://bacon.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses.htm) He and Fischer support Israel.
Meanwhile, Fischer is on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee (https://www.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/committee-assignments).
Tony Vargas claims support for Israel, but supports the unworkable Two-State solution fantasy (https://www.perplexity.ai/search/nebraska-congressional-candida-4YxMtbQ3TPyLhL14KAYT6A#0). He also has no military experience ( https://www.perplexity.ai/search/nebraska-congressional-candida-4YxMtbQ3TPyLhL14KAYT6A#1).
And what of Dan Osborn? He wants to codify Roe v Wade and has taken no stance on Israel
(https://osbornforsenate.com/meet-dan/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osborn and https://www.perplexity.ai/search/dan-osborn-is-a-nebraska-candi-VYRH4LVuR4Wm_rn6SAFHcw#1). His campaign appears to be running mostly as at template campaign. Without support of a political party, he appears to lack the rails to get where he wants to go. He is hardly the worse candidate, but there is no telling how he will vote in the US Senate when push comes to shove. Political parties have immense power at the Federal level.
So, vote Bacon! Vote Fischer! You don’t have to be enthusiastic about it, but they are the better choice.
Hard to disagree with much here, as usual. I very much agree on Fischer. She has taken the seat for granted since almost falling into it in 2012 as her two primary opponents took each other out (letting her skate by unattacked until the last weekend) and she benefitted from a late stage endorsement from Palin - but she has been stirred and this is a six-year appointment and one of only 33 or 34 seats up this cycle - in a very consequential body that Osborn is well beneath. Im confident Deb will win, but she needs our votes. I am torn on Bacon. He is one of 438 seats (odds that tipping point of house control comes down to NE-2 are small), and a two-year appointment, and our state delegation will remain Republican controlled. I truly believe Vargas could be ousted in two years - and Omaha deserves far better than Bacon, and I think we can get it (I don’t accept that the GOP needs this mediocre Ukraine / Military Industrial Complex First politician archetype in order to win a 50-50 district). Bacon is singularly unimpressive. I would never go as far as to vote for Vargas, but thinking about writing you or someone else in as a protest vote to be honest.
Voting for Davos Deb is really distasteful. However Osborne is running a Nebraska version of Harris. Just speak in memes with no specifics. He supports common sense gun control - whatever that is. I've asked him a month or so ago what that meant - he has yet to answer. He in the past bragged about that Kelloggs contract he negotiated - uh Kelloggs is shuttering that plant. He can blame who or what ever but until he looks in the mirror and sees the idiot staring back he will miss the mark on why that plant is being shut down. Since I'm in the 1st I don't get to vote for Don the Con, but again the Democrats put up a flaming Marxist so what choice is there? Vargas like all Democrats running for office and nearly all rand and file have a human ownership gene that takes precedence over freedom