Posted on 07/22/2008 5:56:54 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Great post! I, too, get tired of the wishful thinking that passes for analysis around here. There is no reason to think November won’t be a downticket slaughter the likes of which the Republicans haven’t seen in a long time, if ever. That’s the unvarnished, objective truth based on ALL the signs currently out there. If conservatives won’t speak the truth even when it hurts, who will?
You’ve done GOTV. Do you think Obama’s really going to get out the youth vote? I don’t think he’ll have any trouble with the black vote. I think they’ll crawl over broken glass for him, and I’ve heard there’s a huge effort to get people registered in minority neighborhoods in swing states. I’m concerned that a lot of the black vote and a lot of the youth vote isn’t pollable (only on cells, won’t answer polls, etc.) so IF, big if, Obama can get out the youth vote in swing states, the Pubbies may never see the tsunami coming in November.
That is good news. I’m hopeful the Ritter administration’s stumbles and some general craziness during the DNC will help too.
Many did. That is why he won the primary. He was no true conservative like his dad however. No Espanol notwithstanding.
“...making Coors look like some wealthy dilettante who thought his name entitled him to high office.”
Irony appreciated. :)
He's going to increase it. It won't be like the black vote, which will be huge. But 2% here and 2% there and the close races start dropping like flies.
BillyBoy. The reason Coors got nominated was simple. Bush hated Bob Schaffer because Bob wouldn't support NCLB, after the president had let Teddy Kennedy have is way with it. And, Bob wouldn't support the prescription drug medication entitlement, even tho an R president had proposed it.
The reason Gov. Owens reversed his endorsement of Schaffer was because he got an angry call from the White House telling him there was no position for anyone in the next Bush white house for a governor that supported Bob Schaffer. (that has nothing to do with why Owens didn't get a second term appointment--that's another story altogether). The president made the same calls to the Trailhead folks. I know this straight from the horses mouth--that's how it went down.
Coors got all the R money before the primary and the nomination because the President was pretty sure Pete would go along to get along with the President on issues where the President drifted left.
Maybe the President was wrong. As to what Coors said, talk is talk and its cheap. I'm sure Pete intended what he said when he said it. He's a good man whom I would be proud to call friend. But if orders had come down from the White House for Seantor Coors to jump when the amnesty bill came up its my opinion Pete would have followed his President. Doesn't make him a bad man. It just means that loyalty to his party is more important that loyalty to conservative principles.
By way of contrast, Bob Schaffer acted conservative when it hurt Bob Schaffer. He was willing to defy his own president when his own president was making terrible mistakes. We need someone like that in the Senate, especially if John McCain gets elected.
Comparing these two men as conservatives is comparing one good man's talk to another good man's action. It's meaningless.
Bob Schaffer will be one of the great Senators ever, if he gets elected.
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