Apparantly, the Dem ran to the right of the Republican, which is an easy thing to do these days. And the Dem came out strong against illegal immigration.
Apparantly, the Dem ran to the right of the Republican, which is an easy thing to do these days. And the Dem came out strong against illegal immigration.
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The same phenomenon in 2006 - Dems ran to the Right.
Once in office, they all turned toward their radical, left-wing whip-crackers for instructions, i.e., the DhimmiCrat Party talking points.
It’s the ONLY hope they have to gain elected office in an America that is more conservative at its core than some people want to believe.
It’s LONG past time to ramp things up and get a spine, Republicans.
I think we are reaping what we sowed. We sent republicans to congress with clear guidance to stop the spending, earmarks, corruption, and illegal immigration and they gave us the proverbial finger, told us they know better, and refused to do any of it.
Now they crammed a RINO candidate down our throat, voted against energy independence, voted for a porkfest and for earmarks and then are shocked, yes shocked, to find themselves losing elections.
I will be amazed if we win a third of congress this time. I hope, despearately, that the RINO’s and useless are culled and not the few good folk we have, but I am not sanguine that will happen.
The clearer the message the voters send, the more befudled and stuborn the elected leadership gets.
I am doubtless a dangerous radical turned harmless old crank.
I have long yearned for someone to come along and form a coalition from the centers of both parties. That would crowd the wacko socialists and the anti-abortion/school-prayer people off the bed. I think it would be good for the country even though that center-right coalition would probably not embrace many of the very rightist issues that I myself hold so dear. We need public policies that are logical approaches to realistic objectives that are in the national interest.
In view of the divisions in the Democrat Party, does anyone else see this election as a chance to permanently fracture the coalition that FDR put together?
Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Democrats. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they’ve been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don’t go around peeing on the furniture and such.
And now, R+freaking 10, and the Republicans lost by about six points. If that is a sign of things to come, the Democrats could be looking at mind-bogglingly huge pick ups in the House, especially in blue states with widespread soft Republican districts. Take Michigan, where districts 6 through 11, all held by Republicans, have voting indexes of R+2, R+2, R+2, R+0, R+4 and R+1, respectively. With its huge money advantage, solid candidates in many districts in which the Dems were previously content to provide passive resistance, and the examples of the previous special elections—especially last night’s win in Mississippi—Democrats could be looking at picking up some 20 to 30 seats in the House.
Before you go screaming about getting hopes up, that is a conservative estimate, ace. I looked at all the congressional districts currently held by Republicans that have a Partisan Voting Index of R+5 or less, including seats held by Republicans in Democratic districts. (Chris Shays springs immediately to mind.) There are 65 such seats. I put certain seats in the gimme column (AZ-01, for example, in which disgraced Rick Renzi will allow for an easy Democratic takeover) and others I dismissed out of hand (AL-03, for example, which, despite an R+3 rating, is never going Democratic).
The Republican Brand is suffering because voters don’t know what it is—too many years have gone by with most Americans hearing only one set of facts and one side of the argument. The fact that McCain was nominated by Republicans should have woken up the grass roots to the fact that their is a fatally serious break-down in communication within the base. Despite the internet’s promise for the future, its reach does not even go far enough now to constitute a means of internal communication within the party. The MSM lobbied for McCain (and against his much better foes), successfully steering the nomination process. If we cannot communicate effectively amongst ourselves, we cannot hope to persuade the general electorate. This symptom will not change until the cause is fixed. Conservatives and Republicans must make better use of alternative media, now and before the FEC & FCC are given more oversight over political speech.
I think we are reaping what we sowed. We sent republicans to congress with clear guidance to stop the spending, earmarks, corruption, and illegal immigration and they gave us the proverbial finger, told us they know better, and refused to do any of it.
Now they crammed a RINO candidate down our throat, voted against energy independence, voted for a porkfest and for earmarks and then are shocked, yes shocked, to find themselves losing elections.
I will be amazed if we win a third of congress this time. I hope, despearately, that the RINO’s and useless are culled and not the few good folk we have, but I am not sanguine that will happen.
The clearer the message the voters send, the more befudled and stuborn the elected leadership gets.
I see it as Davis promoted:
Make the Bush tax cuts permanent
Defend our values.
Advocating policies that strengthen our economy by focusing on lower taxes
This is the same tired line dragged out since 2000, there is nothing new there.
Childers take:
JOB CREATION & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- We face tough times. We face challenges to small businesses and struggles to create jobs. We need a congressman who understands tough times, has started businesses, and created jobs.
CARE FOR SENIORS- Travis Childers is deeply committed to improving the lives of our senior citizens. .... Travis will fight to protect Social Security , oppose privatization, and expand in-home care programs for seniors.
ACCESS TO QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE- Travis Childers will fight to improve the quality of healthcare, while lowering costs for working families.
Let me think....they are both full of crap but at least the Democrat is full of NEW crap.
JOB CREATION & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- We face tough times. We face challenges to small businesses and struggles to create jobs. We need a congressman who understands tough times, has started businesses, and created jobs.
CARE FOR SENIORS- Travis Childers is deeply committed to improving the lives of our senior citizens. .... Travis will fight to protect Social Security , oppose privatization, and expand in-home care programs for seniors.
ACCESS TO QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE- Travis Childers will fight to improve the quality of healthcare, while lowering costs for working families.
Let me think....they are both full of crap but at least the Democrat is full of NEW crap.
The Republican message is stale and old.
Look at the pot calling the kettle black. The Democrat’s message is as old and stale as your Republican characterization: I’m from the government and I’m here to give you everything, paid for by other people.
The Republican’s method works, when implemented. The Democrat’s succeeds only in growing the government while promising utopia and delivering little, but it does “create” more government jobs, thereby sucking more gimme-gartners onto the government-union plantation.
COFFEEVILLE, Miss. — Democrats scored a remarkable upset victory on Tuesday in a special Congressional election in this conservative Southern district, sending a clear signal of national problems ahead for Republicans in the fall.
The Democrat, Travis Childers, a local courthouse official, pulled together a coalition of blacks, who turned out heavily, and old-line “yellow dog” Democrats, to beat his Republican opponent, Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, a Memphis suburb. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, the vote was 54 percent for Mr. Childers to 46 percent for Mr. Davis.
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Merle Black, a Southern politics expert at Emory University, called a Democratic victory potentially “a huge upset, and an indication of a terrible year ahead for the Republicans.” He added, “In theory, this should be an easy win for them.”
Mimicking a strategy that proved successful in 2006, Democrats ran staunch conservatives in both this and the Louisiana race, forcing their Republican opponents to attack national party figures as surrogates.
Mr. Davis had been hoping for a large turnout in his home of DeSoto County, where roughly 15 percent of the district’s voters live, and which is solidly Republican and mostly white.
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Both Mississippi candidates depicted themselves as down-the-line conservatives on social issues, and there was little difference between them on abortion and gun rights: staunchly against the first, and for the second.
If Democrats get elected by running as conservatives, this creates a dilemma. If they turn around and vote as liberals, then they risk alienating the people who voted for them and getting booted out of office come next election. On the other hand, if they stick to their guns and vote conservative, then they are Democrats in name only, and might as well be counted as Republicans for practical purposes. Moreover, by voting conservative they alienate their party’s base, which makes fundraising difficult and lowers turnout amongst party activists when they run for reelection, making it hard to retain their seat. In other words, if Democrats extend their majority this way, it will be just as unstable as the Republican majority was four years ago.
Apparantly, the Dem ran to the right of the Republican, which is an easy thing to do these days. And the Dem came out strong against illegal immigration.
Carl Rove said it best on FOX “you run a bad candidate and you get predictable results”.
Look at the pot calling the kettle black. The Democrat’s message is as old and stale as your Republican characterization: I’m from the government and I’m here to give you everything, paid for by other people.
The Republican’s method works, when implemented. The Democrat’s succeeds only in growing the government while promising utopia and delivering little, but it does “create” more government jobs, thereby sucking more gimme-gartners onto the government-union plantation.
I disagree, the democrat program works very well for what it was designed to do, keeping democrats n political power and keeping alll the goodies flowing to the democrat base. The democrat program has not changed since FDR, take money from the other party and buy votes with it while growing government. Simple.
