Congressman Zach Wamp writes why the GOP was successful in Tennessee and bucked the trend nationally.
According to Wamp, and he's right, it wasn't because of McCain's coattails and it had nothing to do with Obama's race.
The winning approach for the Tennessee GOP was recruiting excellent candidates and articulating a consistent message. Standing on conservative principles with a positive platform, Tennessee Republicans have changed the status quo. This election basically rolled out the “good old boy” leadership of our state legislature, replacing it with fresh people. The message from the candidates was one that included limited government and low taxes, but took the position of funding education before all of the other priorities are decided upon. This pro-education message for primary, secondary and higher education funding levels, in addition to the social and values issues important to our voters brought about this stunning result.
Congressman Wamp is right, and incidently, I think he would be a great choice for Governor if he chose to run in 2010.
Thankfully, the TN GOP has a great list of potential candidates to lead this state that I could easily support.
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Here is another great story on Congressman Zach Wamp.
He is quoted in this story as saying if Bill Frist doesn't run for Governor, he will.
Either way, that's good news for Tennessee.
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