[Coop]

Anyone who says Murtha cannot be beaten is simply not familiar with this race. Will it be easy? No.

Help Diana Irey send this disgraceful EX-Marine into retirement.

http://www.irey.com

[Always Right]

Anyone who says Murtha cannot be beaten is simply not familiar with this race.

Maybe not, but I have been to Johnstown and I know most people there rely on pork from Murtha. If anything might trip up Murtha it will be the scandal involving his brother's $20 million lobbying efforts on defense contracts that John Murtha has oversight of. That is a dirty setup.

[Coop]

I remember a while back AuH2ORepublican did a breakdown of voting data, which resulted in a 51-49% Kerry advantage in the 12th district. Now we have a second analysis with slightly different numbers (even more favorable to Irey's chances). I'd say the "unbeatable" tag on Murtha can be put to rest.

Murtha does have a substantial fundraising advantage. However, he just helped out Diana Irey considerably with his idiotic comments.

Take a stand against Murtha and for our troops. Support his opponent, whether through donations of time/money, signing up for her campaign E-mails, distributing her URL and key information, or simply bumping these threads. Thank you.

[Lexington Green]

Will PA continue to elect this wartime traitor?

[Sisku Hanne]

Besides Murtha's toxic case of foot-in-mouth disease, there is another factor working against him. This week PA citizens have risen up in large numbers against their legislators and shown many incumbents the door. They are sick to death of being treated like serfs by these corrupt overlords. Granted, it was not surprising that Republicans, traditionally people who hold principle over politics, outsed far more of their incumbents than did the plantation Dems. BUT....2 of the 3 Dem incumbents that were ousted came from Allegheny county. Why? Because western state Dems are "yellow-dogs", not "plantation slaves" like Philly Dems. It explains why they are more likely to vote for a Rep if corruption or national security is an issue. They are waking up to the reality that their party is incapable of keeping our country safe, and will sell them down the river for power.

I hope Irey's team is agressive in exposing the corruption of Murtha in addition to his treasonous behavior. Who wants a politician that gambles the lives of our sons and daughters in his partisan games? Murtha will feel the backlash of the PA electorate, but there is still much hard work ahead. It won't be easy, but it can be done.

[AuH2ORepublican]

The more heavily Republican parts of Westmoreland and Washington Counties are in PA-04 and PA-18, respectively, and the PA-12 also includes a Democrat-leaning portion of suburban Allegheny County, so President Bush actually got around 48% in the PA-12, not 53%. Still, it is a race that we can win.

[Jabba the Nutt]

"...gerrymandering was carried about by a Republican controlled legislature, and the results are generally agreed to have favored Republicans."

I don't know specifically about the PA-12 District, but gerrymandering does not in general work only to benefit one party. It works by concentrating Dem or Rep voters into districts. It helps incumbents.

To me, creating voting districts is a top political reform priority. The situation today, especially for the US House of Representatives, is that the politicians get to elect their voters and voters get screwed.

[Allegra]

Darn! When I saw the headline, I was hoping it was about PHYSICALLY beating Jack Murtha.

[Kuksool]

Borders! Borders! Borders!

Does Irey support deporting all 12 million illegals out of here and putting land mines on the border? The Tancredo Fan Club on FR demands it :)

[new yorker 77]

Coop,

That district is shaped like a bacteria.

How did Bush perform in the 12th District?

The detestable pro-terrorist libs like Murtha may have gerrymandered that district to be an easy re-election locality for this UN-AMERICAN self-serving pig that is Murtha.

[Just A Nobody]

Bump!

Irey for Congress
600 Park Avenue
Monongahela, PA 15063
www.IREY.com

[Ditto]

This Pennsylvania district is rural, and if it has been following national trends at all, is solidly for strong enforcement of the borders against illegal immigration.

That's a thesis, but Western PA is one of those places that has had little or no impact from the Mexican invasion. There are very few around here, to the point that it was only this Spring that I began seeing Mexicans working on landscaping crews.

I did a project a while ago looking at Census figures, and the Pittsburgh Metro area had less than 1% "Hispanic" population. In Murtha's district which takes in the Eastern and Southern fringes of the Pittsburgh MSA, Mexicans are probably an even rarer sight.

The people in that district are socially very conservative but there is a very high percentage who are what I call "genetic" Democrats who think their grand pap would come back from the grave with his UMW friends to get them if they voted Republican.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Normally any reference to a Marine as an "EX", would illicite a response.

But with that treasonous a$$hats recent behavior, I don't even want to acknowledge he ever WAS a Marine.

Therefore I'll remain silent.

[Beagle8U]

Murtha is a skum bag. Any military records he has should be purged.

Whatever he did in the past has been canceled out by his current acts of treason.

No military man, with an ounce of honor, would say and do what he has in a time of war.

If he is now insane I could give him a break if he would resign his seat, and go into a mental institution for treatment.

[Buffettfan]

Any republican running against Murtha should be running on the mantra of cleaning up the "culture of treason" when referring to democrats.

[trooprally]

Freema - Thanks for the ping.

Coop - We had a jogger who was accosted by the moonbats several weeks ago. He works for a military contractor and didn't want his name or face shown, and he didn't want to press charges, because his company is in Murtha's district. He didn't want his company to loss any funding. So Murtha's influence goes beyond PA.

With Steele running for the vacated Senate seat in MD and Ehrlich running for re-election, not sure how far our budget will go.

Hope all the Republicans win. We need to cancel out not only the Demorats vote, but also the Rino's vote.

[Mr] T