The R's need to attack.
They are still unwilling to focus on the truth that most people are reluctant to vote THEIR congressman out of office without a good reason. When the GOP campaigned on the "Contract with America" in 1994, they offered voters a reason to vote for them. "We hate Bush" is not a reason for people in many GOP districts, nor is Mark Foley. The reason it took the GOP so long to take the House in 1994 was because incumbency is so safe and the Contract with America was years in the making before it worked. What the media won't realize is that not all 'Rat districts are safe either as evidenced by the Murtha race.
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So Stu's been watching the "news"?
Hey Stu, WE DID NOT ELECT THE "NEWS" TO RUN THIS COUNTRY.
Come Hell or High Water, I know I'm
voting straight Republican, regardless
of WHAT the Dems do to besmirch my party!
After looking at the news for the past 10 days or so,.......... Who is writing the news stewie ?
MSM baloney.
The Ds could take all 435 seats in the House. It is possible since all seats are up for election. Don Young will keep his seat, that's one certainty. So 434 seats. Can Don Young, the fourth most powerful Representative in DC combat 434 Ds? YES! One against 434 sounds like steep odds, but that doesn't take the power of Don Young into account.
Despite the Foley matter, I stand by my prediction of Republicans down 7 in the House, and down two in the Senate unless Steele pulls it out against Cardin in Maryland. It is now fairly clear that one of the Republican losses will be here in my District, NC 11th. A 16-year incumbent Congressman (who doesn't belong in Congress) is going to be beaten by Heath Shuler, an inexperienced empty suit who used to play football.
Like Tip O'Neill used to say, "all politics are local." This year, at least most politics will be local at the margins among the voters, which is all that counts on election day.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article: "Sex, Politics, and Hypocrisy"
Please see my most recent statement on running for Congress, here.
It ain't over until it's over.
No fat lady has yet gotten up to sing. There is still the small incidental event of actually having an election, doncha see.
The Dem'crats tripped the flag about three weeks too soon on this Foley deal, so there was time to deconstruct the genesis and the play in the media. The whole story is falling apart.
Since they have essentially wasted this opportunity, the Dem'crats may still have yet another one waiting to drop in the first days of November. But badly timed "news" releases have the unfortunate effect of resulting in diminishing returns. No matter how timely or seemingly plausible the next release is, it will undergo far greater scrutiny, and have far less impact, than the "Foleygate" scare had, beginning from the first hours of its announcement.
The early release of this Foley story was most likely a direct result of the Chris Wallace interview on Fox, when the fit hit the "Shan". That was truly an uncontrolled moment that went badly for the "Shan" (previously known as the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001). The Foley story release was an effort to distract the public from the really bad performance by the "Shan".
Not just a has-been. He is, and forever shall be, a "never-was".
There just don't seem to be any smash-mouth fighters on the Republican side.
Rothenberg blew the 2000 and 2002 House control races and is not respected by the Right. I will by days ends give links to Stuies screw ups from Past elections.
Without their key constituencies of necro-Americans, felon-Americans, non-Americans, fictional-Americans, and multi-Americans, the Democrats would win many fewer elections.
Here's praying GW finds his VETO pen because he will have to use it OFTEN in the next two years.
Still waiting for Rove and the Republican October surprise.
Remember how we were dying in late October '04 waiting for Bush to get serious and make his move?
The big coons walk late in this game.
Meanwhile, I'm voting straight ticket Republican and against Sexual McCarthyism.
This is an understatement, but Like a poster said earlier on this thread - the GOP needs to attack.
If the GOP stakes out a defensive position instead of an offensive one, then I fear that the GOP is doomed on Nov 7.There is enough time left so that the Repubs ought to be able to go on the attack and keep both the House and Senate. This won't be for the weak spitited - and I must admit that I have been cought up in the cycle of doom and dispair - but the more optimistic we all can remain and if we can take the fight to the enemy....then I believe that we can send the DUnnies, once again, down the drain of dispair....and that is a wonderful sight to behold
There is no way is hell the democrats are going to take back anything.
Agreed.
The gloves need to come off. THis "new tone in Washington" crap is for the birds.
Although my posting on this thread may expose hypocracy in my next sentence, I'll say it anyway.
I don't really care who wins. Both clouds have silver linings.
Probably the biggest silver lining if the dems win is that they will be in charge when our economy collapses. That's actually a pretty good reason to vote democrat when you think about it.