Sadly, Sen. John “Amnesty” McCain will be roaming the Senate for 6 more years.  J.D. Hayworth was done in by two things: a $21 million war chest and an open primary with many Democrats running over to vote for McCain, ala Operation Chaos.  Thank you to J.D. for putting up a good fight til the end.

Now, the most interesting battle that we have been tracking is the Alaska dog fight between RINO #6, Lisa Murkowski, possibly losing to the Sarah Palin endorsed, Tea Party favorite Joe Miller.  Mr. Miller is enjoying a 1,668 vote lead as of this morning, with plenty of absentee ballots yet to be counted.  We are watching and will announce if our RINO is down for the count!

Also, thanks to everyone that participated in our LIVE Chat.  We received great feedback on how to make that better, and we plan to have an updated chat set up for the Sept. Primary!

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Note: the Candidates listed are just the Repubs, if you would like a full list of candidates running please see the sources links.

Alaska

Governor

Gerald L. Heikes
Merica Hlatcu
Sam Little
Sean R. Parnell
Ralph E. Samuels
Bill Walker

Lt. Governor

Edward A. Burke Jr.
Bob Lupo
Jay Ramras
Mead Treadwell

Congress

U.S. Senate

Joseph Miller
Lisa Murkowski

House of Representatives At-Large

John Cox
Sheldon Fisher
Donald Young

Sources: State Offices at votesmart.org, Congressional Offices at votesmart.org

Arizona

Governor

Janice Kay Brewer
Matthew Jette
Buz Mills

Attorney General

Andrew P. Thomas
Thomas C. Horne

Secretary of State

Ken R. Bennett

Corporation Commissioner

Gary L. Pierce
Barry Wong
Brenda Burns

Congress

U.S. Senate

Jim Deakin
John Hayworth
John McCain

House of Representative by District

U.S. House 1 Bradley Beauchamp
U.S. House 1 Russell Bowers
U.S. House 1 Paul Gosar
U.S. House 1 Sydney Hay
U.S. House 1 Joe Jaraczewski
U.S. House 1 Jon Jensen
U.S. House 1 Steve Mehta
U.S. House 1 Thomas Zaleski
U.S. House 2 Charles Black
U.S. House 2 Trent Franks
U.S. House 3 Bob Branch
U.S. House 3 Sam Crump
U.S. House 3 Pamela Gorman
U.S. House 3 LeAnn Hull
U.S. House 3 Steven Moak
U.S. House 3 Paulina Morris
U.S. House 3 Vernon Parker
U.S. House 3 Ben Quayle
U.S. House 3 Jim Waring
U.S. House 3 Ed Winkler
U.S. House 4 Janet Contreras
U.S. House 4 Joe Penalosa
U.S. House 5 Susan Bitter Smith
U.S. House 5 Lee Gentry
U.S. House 5 Chris Salvino
U.S. House 5 David Schweikert
U.S. House 5 Mark Spinks
U.S. House 5 Jim Ward
U.S. House 6 Jeff Flake
U.S. House 6 Jeff Smith
U.S. House 7 Christoper Flowers
U.S. House 7 Ruth McClung
U.S. House 7 Terry Myers
U.S. House 7 Joseph Sweeney
U.S. House 7 Robert Wilson
U.S. House 8 Andy Goss
U.S. House 8 Jesse Kelly
U.S. House 8 Brian Miller
U.S. House 8 Jonathan Paton
U.S. House 8 Jay Quick

Sources: State Offices at votesmart.org, National Offices at votesmart.org

Florida

Governor

Mike McCalister
Bill McCollum
Rick Scott

Attorney General

Holly Benson
Pam Bondi
Jeff D. Kottkamp

Congress

U.S. Senate

William Escoffery, III
William Kogut
Marco Rubio

House of Representatives by District

U.S. House 1 Jeff Miller
U.S. House 2 Charles Hendry
U.S. House 2 Ron McNeil
U.S. House 2 Barbara Olschner
U.S. House 2 David Scholl
U.S. House 2 Steve Southerland
U.S. House 3 Dean Black
U.S. House 3 Chris Nwasike
U.S. House 3 Michael Yost
U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw
U.S. House 5 Richard Nugent
U.S. House 5 Jason Sager
U.S. House 6 Donald Browning
U.S. House 6 Clifford Stearns
U.S. House 7 John Mica
U.S. House 8 Ross Bieling
U.S. House 8 Daniel Fanelli
U.S. House 8 Kurt Kelly
U.S. House 8 William Long
U.S. House 8 Bruce O’Donoghue
U.S. House 8 Patricia Sullivan
U.S. House 8 Daniel Webster
U.S. House 9 Gus Bilirakis
U.S. House 10 C. W. Bill Young
U.S. House 11 Eddie Adams
U.S. House 11 Tony Buntyn
U.S. House 11 Thomas Castellano
U.S. House 11 Mike Prendergast
U.S. House 12 John Lindsey
U.S. House 12 Dennis Ross
U.S. House 13 Don Baldauf
U.S. House 13 Vern Buchanan
U.S. House 14 Connie Mack
U.S. House 15 Bill Posey
U.S. House 16 Tom Rooney
U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
U.S. House 19 Joseph Budd
U.S. House 20 Karen Harrington
U.S. House 20 Robert Lowry
U.S. House 20 Donna Milo
U.S. House 21 Mario Diaz-Balart

Sources: State Offices at votesmart.org, National Offices at votesmart.org

Vermont

Governor

Brian Dubie

Lt. Governor

Phillip B. Scott
Mark Snelling

Attorney General

Aaron M. Toscano

Secretary of State

Jason Gibbs
Chris Roy

Congress

U.S. Senate Len Britton

U.S. House At-Large Paul Beaudry
U.S. House At-Large John Mitchell
U.S. House At-Large Keith Stern

Sources: State Offices at votesmart.org, National Offices at votesmart.org

Oklahoma Run-off

U.S. House Representative

District 2
Daniel Edmonds
Charles Thompson

District 5
Kevin Calvey
James Lankford

Insurance Commissioner

John Doak
John P. Crawford

State Senator

District 44
Ralph Shortey
James Davenport

State Representative

District 27
Josh Cockroft
Richard Bennett

District 100
Elise Hall
David Looby

Source [PDF]: ok.gov

Wikipedia entry for TARP

House of Representatives
Bono Mack, Mary CA-45
Calvert, Ken CA-44
Campbell, John CA-48
Ehlers, Vernon MI-3
Ferguson, Michael NJ-7
Fossella, Vito NY-13
Herger, Walter CA-2
King, Peter NY-3
LaHood, Ray IL-18
Lewis, Jerry CA-41
McCrery, James LA-4
Peterson, John PA-5
Pickering, Charles MS-3
Radanovich, George CA-19
Ramstad, James MN-3
Regula, Ralph OH-16
Ryan, Paul WI
Saxton, H. NJ-3
Walsh, James NY-25
Wamp, Zach TN-3
Wilson, Heather NM-1

Source: govtrack.us

Senate
Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thune (R-SD)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

Source: senate.gov

Tomorrow, we will list the Republicans that voted for Obama’s Stimulus that has turned out to be nothing more than a slush fund for the Democrat Party.

Then, next week, RINOList.org will take a look at the forecast for TARP at the time of the vote and then at the current circumstance two years after.  Stay Tuned Rinohunters!

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update: Rep. Paul Ryan was missing from the list.  Thanks to Oynx, an observant Freeper, for the correction.

Repealing this is not the answer in my opinion, because if you just repeal and you do nothing, we will not have addressed health care reform.

The Tea Party in Alaska backs Murkowski’s Conservative 2010 Primary Opponent Joe Miller. On August 24th, Alaska should vote for Joe Miller, a true Conservative backed by Conservatives.  I can see another retired RINO from my window!

Note: I can’t take credit for the biting sarcasm that is “Sen. Lindable Grahible” from muppitized Michael Steele.  Check out the video from Monday’s post at about minute 4.

There is a consideration behind Graham’s comments that is regretable for an American born into freedom.  It comes from a wing of the Republican elite that sees the illegal immigrant population as future voters.  They pander at every opportunity to the different social organizations like La Raza.  This pandering attitude is a recipe for disaster.  With the exception of Canada, our hemisphere is dominated by soft Socialist countries, all still Third World, that enable these organizations.  Our ideas are better and stronger than those of Socialist regimes in our world, because they are not bound to a social or ethinic class.  By pandering to the political and emotional sensibilities of people who do not know nor care about the American heritage, these RINOs are dooming our country to cease to exist as a beacon of liberty for the world.  Not all Latin Americans believe in Socialism, not all Latin Americans want to be taken care of by the government, and not all Latin Americans want to give the American franchise to illegal immigrants.   The great secret of our American Experiment is that it is the inner yearning of all people.  It is an idea that ignores experience or richness of history.  All people can enjoy it in their own country if they are exposed to its granduer and if their leaders give to them the engine of freedom.  Our young experiment cannot be allowed to be influenced by someone’s physical makeup or past history.  When we give the power to dispense justice, we must give it to people that will interpret the law, not empathize with either party.  If we allow such influence on our court, our experiment will fail.