MoveOn.org's site says that they are running these ads in Conaway's congressional district.

Good for them. I hope they run a kajillon of them at $60 per 30 second spot.

Only then noticing on the morning of November 5th that Conaway was (essentially) running unopposed.

This is their brains on Hope, I suppose.

Remember that Conaway was one of the supporters of the FutureGen boondoggle that turned into a public relations fiasco in Odessa. That mess then spawned the formation of an active anti-nuclear group over here. Conaway has lost my support.

FutureGEN was in the works long before Conaway even got elected to office in 2005. FutureGEN was born in 2003, and draft site selection documents were due in early 2006, so to withdraw support for your local Representative for supporting what was an ongoing local effort is a bit disingenuous.

As for the anti-nuclear group (coal to nuclear?) it has existed in West Texas since the early 90s with the advent of the "Tri-State Compact" to dispose of low level nuclear waste in Texas. First in Sierra Blanca, and then in Andrews, and now the HT3R....which is more the golden child of Sen. Hutchinson and UTPB.

Conaway is just standing on the issues of Agriculture and Energy, because those two things are the lifeblood of his District. Seems like a smart plan to me.

The anti-nuclear group mentioned, actually is new. It was formed after the announcement of the Andrews nuclear reactor. It is big, well financed, and is lead locally by the person who started the movement in America some 30 years ago.

As far as I can tell, the only thing this supposed group does is post anonymously to blogs.

Bob, you must have missed the meetings.

No Republican politician wants any solution to high gas prices. Their buddies, the oil companies, post record profits. They bring up "offshore drilling" as a red herring, so they can say that the Democrats don't want the gas prices to go down, when they know very well it won't help us at the pump. Still, like a magician misdirecting his audience, the politician works his magic on the unthinking public.

So I guess you still think it's beneath you to stop posting anonymously?

Actually, you are right about political prestidigitation, and you have fallen for it. Democrats like their anointed Obama, have openly said that they want high gasoline prices, high oil prices, not because they care who profits from it, but because they know two things, that high oil prices will level the playing field with their preferred higher cost energy sources, and that high oil prices will stir populism in the electorate, which more often than not leads to bigger and more intrusive government that the electorate believes in needs to survive, which is the ultimate end of everything the democratic party supports.

Now they would prefer that these high prices benefit them financially as well, through taxation and campaign donations, so the left is incensed that oil related companies, which are overwhelmingly non-union and therefore republican leaning, are profiting from high commodity prices.

What is most amazing is that the democratic jesters have fooled themselves in to truly believing that it is not in the countries best interest to fully develop and utilize our own abundant natural resources to secure a more stable future. We have immense petroleum resources just beyond our coastlines, we have the technology to tap them, safely. In ten years we will need those resources more than we need them now, which means we need to start developing them now.

Conaway is virtually unopposed. Democrats missed the deadline to get their candidate, Rev. Floyd Crider, on the ballot. He can be written in, but those are long odds for a win.