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The Medicine Man. GOP control of the Senate depends on Oklahoma Republican candidate Tom Coburn.
Salon ^
Posted on 09/13/2004 5:58:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Tom Coburn may be indispensable to the Republicans' effort to hold on to their majority in the U.S. Senate in November. "He is their best hope for keeping an Oklahoma seat Republican in the closely divided Senate," wrote conservative pundit Robert Novak.
Coburn was swept into Congress as a member of the Republican class of 1994 that gained control of the House for the first time in 40 years and installed Newt Gingrich as speaker. "He really drank the Kool-Aid with the class of '94; he was one of the real far-right guys," says Kenneth Hicks, a political science professor at Rogers State University in Claremore, Okla.
As far right as Coburn is on fiscal issues, he is even farther right on social issues. "I favor the death penalty for abortionists and other people who take life," he told the Associated Press in July.
"He's a principled, pompous member," said a senior Republican staffer turned lobbyist. "He's one of those '94 guys, and there were a certain percentage of them who were so anti-system that they don't want to play the game. And from a leadership perspective and a lobbyist perspective, we don't like those kind of people ... He's going to be a frickin' nightmare in the Senate [if he wins]."
Last week, he declared Oklahoma lagging in economic development because "you have a bunch of crapheads in Oklahoma City that have killed the vision of anybody wanting to invest in Oklahoma." His spokesperson could not explain who or what Coburn was talking about. What's more, Coburn proclaimed the Senate race a "battle of good vs. evil."
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To: rb22982
Danielle. Many people on the other thread said the same thing.
She's highly concentrate with Conservatism too!
To: dubyaismypresident
You and me both.
That'd be a Freepers dream...
To: ConservativeMan55
To: ConservativeMan55
The obligatory salon.com stock chart.
Today's close 13 cents. Down 5 cents or 27.78%
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posted on
09/13/2004 6:19:31 PM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(If "W" stands for wrong, what does the "F" in John F Kerry stand for?)
To: dubyaismypresident
LOL!
Almost as obligatory as Ann Coulter pics on an Ann Coulter thread!
To: ConservativeMan55
is Coburn still ahead out there?
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posted on
09/13/2004 6:20:16 PM PDT
by
DM1
To: DM1
Yes he is.
Carson dipped below 40 percent the other day.
Carson ran against a scandal ridden opponent in the primary, and still didn't do very well.
Coburn won independents or undecided voters 6 to 1 in his primary.
We aren't taking anything for granted though. We're gonna keep pushing until we get Coburn up in that 80 percent range.
To: ConservativeMan55
To: ConservativeMan55
LOL! Almost as obligatory as Ann Coulter pics on an Ann Coulter thread! You said it
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posted on
09/13/2004 6:24:05 PM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(If "W" stands for wrong, what does the "F" in John F Kerry stand for?)
To: ConservativeMan55
Whoooo Hoooo!!
Dr. Coburn is just great! I just happened to be surfing the TV and ran into a C-SPAN speech he was giving - this was months ago. I was mesmerized. He was such a good speaker. He was clear and easy to understand. This guy is what the Senate needs a lot more of.
I can tell you the dems of the Senate are gonna HATE this guy because he will not put up with their foolishness .. and I predict he will be in the well of the Senate taking the dems to task more than once.
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posted on
09/13/2004 6:24:18 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(Sen.Miller said, "Bush is a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel")
To: CyberAnt
More than once?
Hehehehehe!
He'll be doing it several times a day!!!!
To: dubyaismypresident
To: ConservativeMan55
To: ConservativeMan55
To: CyberAnt; teletech
To: ConservativeMan55
Tell him not to do it .. Arnold called the dems in California "girlie-men" and he never took it back .. even though the media tried to make him do it.
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posted on
09/13/2004 6:31:26 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(Sen.Miller said, "Bush is a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel")
To: Libertina
To: CyberAnt
He won't apologize. Trust me, lol.
In fact..if he finds out that they are urging him to apologize...he'll probably say it again!!!
To: ConservativeMan55
Coors is going to have a close race, but I always thought Coburn would win in OK. The fact that Coburn has won repeatedly in what is now the state's only Democrat district has to be a very good sign, just about neutralizing what should be Brad Carson's base.
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posted on
09/13/2004 6:33:02 PM PDT
by
GiveEmDubya
(Keep fighting like we're 10 points down!)
To: GiveEmDubya
Yep!
And better yet....Carson is attempting to make himself look like the Conservative in the race!
Carson is trying to act as if he's more Conservative than Tom Coburn!!
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