Posted on 11/10/2006 4:15:08 PM PST by jamesrichards
You hear all about how great chucky was but two people made the ultimate difference.
Emily Miller former powell aide who outed abramoff to the fbi. She was married to scanlan and he cheated on her and she was outed them both.
The abromoff scandal played huge in montana. The left wing groups ran non stop ads bashing him.
Montana in exit polls 60 percent said burns was hiunethical.
In Montana burn's ethics were more important than even the war. Montana voters will give you a break as long as they trust you and the abromoff smear finished burns. That is why I wanted rove to get him to retire. Anyone that saw the polling and knew the trust factor in montana knew he was done. The irony is that burns was least connected to abromoff but the smear worked. People talk about the foley scandal but the abromoff scandal loomed far more than foley in the burns race.
In Virginia it all came down to SR. Sidarth following Allen around with the camera. I'm sure one of the reasons why the webb campaign did it was to provoke allen and they got their wish. They might have even picked him hoping allen would say something to him they could use against him.
So when you look back at the 2006 campaign the hidden stars were emily miller and SR. Sidarth.
Without them the senate is 51-49 gop.
My last point would be I was reading hampton roads online their blogs I can't tell you how many vets were online saying they voted against allen and for webb because or rumsfeld.
Virginia has something like 150,000 vets. Think of virginia beach and northern virginia with pentagon employees and vets across the state.
Even without macaca allen could have won if rummy was fired.
I was thinking about posting something about the number vanities; but I used that joke two years ago.
The chinese water torture of the MSM
Okay, you got me. Good 'un.
This would not even be possible had CLinton not:
1) Inherited an economy that was painted as the worst in 50 years but had merely been in a recession and was actually growing again before the 1992 election
2)Been rescued from himself by the 1994 Newt Gingrich Congress.
The notion that Clinton erased the deficit is false. Clinton slowed down the erasing of the deficit with his tax increases that slowed the economy down. Reagan, and now Bush II have grown the economy and increased government tax revenue by reducing taxes.
It works every time and not a single Democrat understands that. They are worse on the economy, not better. It just shows how much the people understand.
You're missing the point. The Republicans spent and spent until they became the party of big government in the eyes of the independent voter. And the independent voter is who decides elections.
WHAT? No blaming Rush for Missouri?
How about assigning blame on someone for DeWine? Maybe the cabal of 14 --- the seven Republican led by Mr and Mrs McCain?
Now let's go after Rick Santorum. Let's blame HIM for not backing Toomey. Are you okay with that?
What about Katherine Harris? Can you blame her too?
Moving along, let's shred ALL of the others who lost their respective senate races, and not just focus on the two races that remained an open question after the others were decided!
Bush should deport Mr. Sidarth for his participation in the corruption inside the Webb campaign. He used unethical and immoral means to bring down Sen Allen.
But to call the Rats better for the economy is like saying that Kevorkian was the best Dr. since his procedures were 100% effective. Well maybe not, but I'll think of a better analogy later.
I blame Missouri on having the minimum wage on the ballot and the rural counties running out of ballots.
Then I blame rush. Talent had the momentum and rush gave that fraud mccaskill victim status with michael j fox.
Talent was focusing on her bad ethics and then fox came out.
As the incombent you never want to elevate your opponent.
But the minimum wage on the ballot was the real blow. Urban areas had huge turnout and they didn't come out for mccaksill. They have no love lost for her but once there they voted straight D.
Talent also shouldn't have appeared with Bush.
Rummy hurt talent in missouri too.
Lets remember who the real opposition is: Its the democrats and it was turnout,turnout,turnout for whatever reason.
Rep elect John Hall, who beat the incumbent Sue Kelly, was on the "Colbert report" show complaining about the US government's debt not being good conservative policy at all. OK fair enough. So what are the Democrats going to do to cut spending? Are they going to reduce social programs so their constituents suffer?? I have yet to hear them say how they will bring about fiscal control. Just ending the Iraq war isnt going to do it.
They can pull this every election too. Remember the press said the anti-gay-marriage issues were "ploys" to attract conservatives to the polls? So to the press, a real defence of marriage issue is a "ploy" and a repeated liberal minimum wage ploy is an "issue".
It's not enough to say "turnout." What caused the higher turnout among the Dems? Like "red state" and "blue state" and a lot of other terms, it skims the surface. Doesn't really explain anything, just names the one of the most superficial, obvious facts.
Rummy hurt talent in missouri too.
Unless the President is having sex or "non-sex" with an intern in the White House, I think it's a MISTAKE to not appear with him when the COUNTRY IS AT WAR and he is the public leader of your party. That every other candidate spoke out against the President and the War and tried on the Kerry flip-flops shows how little they care about the country.
And, if urban areas had "huge turnout" based on minimum wage increases, and NOT to vote for McCaskill, then it seems pretty unlikely that Rumsfeld meted a blip on their radar. Sounds like a "what can I get for MEMEME?" turnout.
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