Posted on 02/06/2010 8:24:20 AM PST by mnehring
In light of the worst campaign ad ever- Demonsheep, I bring you the best campaign ad ever- Vote Pia
This kid has her head on straight.
I vote for her in a second.
Watch your back sweetheart mac daddy has you in his sites as you had the nerve to question him and his ideas.
Comrade Pia! Your state indoctrination center has failed you! The broadcasts from the Ministry of Truth have had no effect. Report to the Obama youth corpse for further training. Hail Obama!
Now THIS is a message and a candidate to not only get behind, but to get excited about. . .
what is she running for? Do you have a link to her website?
I ran into this recently, it looks like she is running against Philly powerbroker Rep. Bob Brady (D). The Philly Daily News (2/5) disses her as a Beck clone. He’s very popular right now, so how is that bad? Anyway, so far as I’m concerned I wish her the best and will chack out the video.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/83620237.html
A very Brady Tea Party
Pia Varma sings common refrains from the Tea Party hymnal, overwrought at times in a fashion that makes us think of Fox News personality Glenn Beck.
After all, the 27-year-old, who lives in Blue Bell but is moving to Northern Liberties, has written two stories for Beck’s “Fusion” magazine. And she tinkered briefly in the gold business, and Beck’s radio show is sponsored by a company that sells gold.
But mostly we get the Beck vibe from Varma when she talks politics. You may be hearing more of that, since Varma is challenging U.S. Rep. Bob Brady this year.
Varma’s pitch is big on the people versus the government. Her experience comes from a Kensington building project smacked down by the city’s Zoning Board of Adjustment, and trouble she had getting a business started through Delaware County bureaucracy.
Varma is reaching out to Republican leaders in the city and state, and has been called a longshot. But she thinks that it’s important to talk about issues that concern her.
We pressed a bit on her rhetoric about a need for a new revolution to fight for rights being stripped from citizens by an overzealous government. She waffled for a while and finally struck a populist chord on health care, saying that government should stay out of the business of medicine.
“At the end of the day, I may not be the best qualified but I’m not running on a resumé,” Varma told us. “Agree with me or don’t agree with me. I just want to have the discussion.”
Speaking of that resumé, we wondered if someone with a bunch of YouTube clips and a Web site that proclaims herself the “Liberty Belle” might be running for Congress to raise her profile.
“It’s not really a resumé-builder to me,” Varma said of the race. “I don’t really care about my resumé that much.”
Thanks for the link...I wish her well..we have to engage the Dems at every level, for every office..What is coming this fall is a political tsunami..it will sweep out the Dems..and what is not being mentioned...the Blue Dogs in the House who may escape defeat, and the Dems who are up for the senate in 2012, well, do you think they’re gonna be eager to run with Obama atop the ticket...after the 1994 elections, some 360 Dems crossed the aisle..I suspect the number will be higher this time around..
Holy crap, she’s hot ! Is she available ?
(*Unfortunately for her, that district hasn’t elected a Republican since 1946, and it’s really meant to elect a Black Dem, but has yet to do so).
I don’t care if it’s NEVER been held by a Republican. In this political climate a woman like this can win in any district. Remember, Barney Frank’s district voted Republican in the special election and they had close to general election turnout. There is a storm coming and the more candidates we can get in place like this woman, the better, because there are going to be a LOT of surprises in november.
A good chunk of Frank’s district was the historically Republican area that sent Speaker Joe Martin and Peggy Heckler to Congress. Heckler and Frank (who barely won an adjacent open seat in 1980) were thrown in together, but because it was ‘82, Heckler lost (she was the one expected to win). That district is heavily, but not obscenely, Democrat leaning. Frank could theoretically be beaten here.
But PA-1 is a whole different ball of wax. That district is one of the most Democrat in the United States, almost on par with San Francisco’s CA-8. No Republican has received more than 30% since 1972 here, nor has received 25% since 1986, nor has received 20% since 1990, or 15% since 1998, or 10% since 2004. You see where I’m going here. A Black Mohammadan ran as a Republican in ‘08 and he got 9%, the lowest for a GOP candidate in the history of the district. I doubt this young lady could get above 15% of the vote here. The demographics (it’s a Black district) and the iron fist of the Philadelphia Democrat Machine literally make it impossible for a Republican to win here.
Back in the 1920s, the Republicans controlled Philly and their equivalent of Bob Brady, William “Boss” Vare, owned the seat, and he won by margins almost as wide as Brady back then. That ain’t the same Philly anymore. The Dems deposed the GOP machine in the ‘40s and took over everything, and that ain’t likely to change anytime soon, not with the buffoons that run the Philly GOP, who take their marching orders from the Dem machine.
I live in rat central (IL-04, Stalinist Luis Gutierrez, 75-80% rat) so I’m an advocate of running strong races with good candidates in every single district and working on long term plans to make these areas competitive again. Our big cities are the part of the county most in need of good government and least likely to get it.
Cool chicks like this Pia should be running everywhere. Especially in seats where the Republican is likely to win.
50-100 or so conservative Republican women in their 20’s and early 30’s sounds like about the right number. ;-D
Gotta make up for all the Barbara Milkulskis.
PA was a big Republican state. Around 65% in the three 20’s elections. And even held for Hoover in 1932. I think I recall reading that at one point there were hardly any dems in the state legislature.
PA has the unique distinction of being the largest state that at one time had an all-GOP delegation. This was in 1925 when ALL 36 House members (and 2 Senators) were Republicans. But 12 years later in 1936 with that disastrous election, of the then-34 members, only 7 were Republican (with 1 Senator). We won 19 in 1938, recapturing the majority of the delegation, but never would we reach that glorious figure in the mid ‘20s.
BTW, Ohio also had an all-GOP delegation in 1920 when 22 of their House members were Republicans (Governor Cox as the Dem nominee for President was unable to minimize the damage with fellow Ohioan Harding). It was marred by the presence of Atlee Pomerene in the Senate, the lone Democrat. He’d be replaced by a Republican in ‘22, but in the anti-Harding backlash, we lost the Governorship and 6 House seats.
The short suckipedia article on the 1922 election points to the Progressive faction acting up and “undermining Republican leadership” as reason for loss of Republican seats.
It’s funny (allegedly according to what I read) Congress couldn’t pass a reapportionment act for 1922 because they couldn’t agree on the formula and were afraid a shift to more urban districts would cause many newly elected Republicans to lose their seats. But way too many lost to rats in 1922 anyway. Dropped more than were gained in 1920.
IIRC, rural Represenratives held up reapportinment (and thus redistricting) until 1944 or so.
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