Liz Pike: mainstreamer or conservative?

Earlier this morning, I was aked the following question here:

Brent says Liz Pike is a mainstream Republican.

Anna Miller says Liz Pike is a conservative Republican.

Who is right?

Here is my response:

Interesting question.

I was pondering that yesterday as I was digesting Boger's efforts generally to throw the county GOP under the political bus and his efforts to toss Pike under there specifically.

At this point, it all points to what I refer to as the lifeboat syndrome.

Brent, in the role of Eeyor from Winnie the Pooh, is now bobbing along in a political lifeboat in the middle of an ocean by himself. And how horrific is that?

So, he wants someone else out there in the metaphorical boat with him.

In this instance, Pike claims to be conservative and has established her conservative cred enough for me... and I was one of the early doubters.

But Liz is unique in that she had the guts to face me directly, something only Liz and Joe Tanner have done directly, and she has worked to address those concerns I may have had to the point that I now endorse and support her.

Further, there's a good chance that she's going to like being a state rep. If she is anything other then what she's claimed to be, that could be a short-lived gig.

So, in direct answer to the question, you have unsuccessful candidate and former Republican Brent Boger making a judgment that it seems he knows little about, versus the assurances of Liz Pike, who appears to be everything that Boger is not and never will be.

So, which is it?

I believe that Pike has become a more defined conservative. Pike knows she's not operating in a vaccum... and to label Pike as anything BUT conservative makes as much sense as labeling Boger as anything but a leftist toady.

This is the 1-8. If Pike, who will be under the microscope even blinks in any way that could be confused with Boger's more democrat tendencies, then conservatives will line up to get a shot at her in 14.

Boger is over in elective politics... or, likely any other kind, since his effort to damage those who have the temerity to disagree with his democrat view on the way out will never, ever be forgotten... or forgiven.

It was just a few short months ago that Boger was chomping at the bit to get the appointment for the vacant House seat from the party he now so thoroughly despises.

And that speaks for itself.