http://www.azconservative.org/Letters.htm

our Independent candidate writes:

“The rants by this poster [David Diego Martinez de Lopez] seem to be the exact reason why the GOP could very possibly not control any of the Legislative or Executive powers by next years end”

Then Derek expounds on his beliefs on failed policies using alternative energies. He doesn’t believe in domestic oil exploration, production or oil infrastructure improvement, nuclear energy, coal of which we have an abundant supply, shale oil of which we have a 500 year supply, or repealing the gas tax. In a time of high gas prices, increasing energy demand, precarious energy suppliers, why is Derek wedded to ideas that don’t work?

But hey I am not running for Congress Derek is. As to Josh’s accusations, who is this Josh? Is this “Josh” Derek? Well we don’t know do we?

I might have a lot of flaws and people need to weigh comments offered from the character of the sources. This is true. But whatever my flaws, at least I am loyal and I believe we can win.

Maybe “Josh”, you and I can get together sometime. Famous Sams on Fry is a good place. Derek lives not to far from there. He likes to drink light beer. Me, I prefer scotch.

Your comments about Mr. Brently are most harsh. I am so glad to see civility go out the window. I do not know James Brently but unlike us, he is using his full name to attach to his comments. I guess it is people like you who committ character assasination that make people like you not use your full name in your posts.

GET A LIFE……

*Josh, thanks for commenting. We will let James tell us who he is when he is ready.

You are just angry that he is going to sink Tim Bee and his campaign .

By the way, this independent finds plenty to criticize in the two party system.

Also, Derek isn’t running against Tim Bee, he is running, like Tim Bee, against Gabby Giffords.

Neither will beat her though. For Derek, it will raise his name recognition and probably put him in a nice place for future public service.

For Tim Bee, a loss is much much more critical. A loss means, essentially, the end of his political career. Losing to Gabby Giffords will not win him points, will disappoint a LOT of people, and will brand him a loser. Any future as a Governor or state-wide is also sunk. While he claims a S. Arizona person could not win the Gov. nomination because of Maricopa, just look at the track record of those who have run in Maricopa as of late…he has better name rec. and a better record by far than Munsil, Salmon, and Goldwater…etc. etc.

However, A LOSS would sink him with Maricopa GOPers forever. The mantra will be “You couldn’t even win a district that was built for you….how can you win statewide.”

However his candidacy makes me question his judgment and his commitment to conservative values.

First, let’s be frank. Derek is not running as a conservative or even as a libertarian. He is running as an Independent. When you pin him down on his values on the environment you discover, he is a liberal. That is what CD 8 doesn’t need is another nuanced liberal.

Secondly, Derek wants Republicans to vote for him, but he doesn’t want to pay his dues. Derek told me that the Party snubbed him when he announced his ambitions to run. Instead of proving the party wrong and running in the primary, Derek is running this destructive campaign for revenge.

Derek is quick to criticize the Republican Party which authored most of the beliefs he espoused. Derek wants to run against George W. Bush. But news flash Derek, Bush isn’t running for CD 8, Gabby and maybe Tim is.

Further, Derek then conjures up ghosts of Christmas past with vague references to scandal and indictments. But Derek won’t tell you that most of the Abramoff crowd got voted out last cycle. Therefore, Derek, buddy your campaign is a year too late.

On the issue of scandal, let’s clear the air. Derek might not remember this, but to say this Administration or our Party is filled with scandal and criminal activity belies 8 years of Bill Clinton. From Bimbo-gate, to Chinese Missile programs, FBI files to the failure to put a cap in the biggest threat to human progress since Adolf Hitler, the Crooked crowd from Arkansas makes fake scandals of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay look like Sunday morning.

Oh yeah, Derek is very reluctant to criticize Tim Bee. Because he can’t. I asked Derek why is running against Tim Bee, a man we all admire. He told me that he thought Tim Bee did not want the job. Then he had a meeting with Tim Bee’s campaign in early October. It was clear that Tim Bee was still somberly weighing a run against the well heeled Gabby but that Tim was not being coerced. Derek would not back down and would not back out even though I told him he had no chance of winning.

For Derek to make the centerpiece of his campaign an attack on the two party system – a tradition that has served this nation for over two hundred years is not just the heights of naiveté but egoism on a Napoleonic scale.

Good luck Derek.

Maybe he doesn’t want to be a Republican any more. Has is ever occurred to the establishment within the party that people actually believe in what the party stands for and then get disappointed when elected officials from the party stray from the stated values of the party?

For the record I have nothing to do with Derek being or not being in the race. I am just reporting on developments in CD-8.

Otherwise yes, he is Gabby’s best friend.

He might even stand for truthfulness. Can you imagine? The “I cannot recall” administration can’t even pronounce the word.

Derek occurs like a local Ron Paul.

For six years, our currency should have read, “In Oil we Trust” and the pledge should have said, “One Nation, under Oil, with limitless profits for its producers, and justice for none.”

The backlash begins.

Without question Tidball hurts Bee more than Giffords, just as Paul will hurt the GOP presidential nominee if he stays in the race as a Libertarian or Independent.

Paul is not going to get the GOP nod.

More seriously, Tidball sounds pretty impressive, not someone a person can just write off as some kind of crazy independent that no one would want to vote for.