The 2004 Election is Over, Now

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 11 November 2003 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[scannell]

You got him Billybob

[Monti Cello]

Hillary might be looking at the Schwarzenegger campaign as a model for victory.

Surprise late entrance, a campaign of only about 60 days, massive use of name recog and star power to wow the media and create nonstop buzz. A campaign too short for details or numerous debates, keeping to very general themes, and based on attacking the incumbent. Arnold escaped a thorough vetting and won in a state that disfavors his party.

The key difference is the level of distaste among the electorate for the status quo. Depending on events, that could swing against Bush, though surely not to the levels of Gray Davis.

A short campaign/coronation with limited questioning is certainly what she'd prefer, and it's probably the only way she could win.

[streetpreacher]

LOL

[streetpreacher]

Let me guess: the assassination was a vast right-wing conspiracy led by Tricky Dick and funded by Coca-Cola.

[streetpreacher]

Come on, your post... dare I say... stretches the boundary of credulity? The Clintons are OUT of power and will remain OUT of power. There's no comeback for the "comeback kid"; they've killed the Democrats as a majority party. The next 40 years belongs to Republicans. Now, let's just see if we can do anything with it.

[streetpreacher]

Buchanan never enjoyed an early surge this early before the primaries... and was NEVER considered a lock. If anything, he was seen as a fluke. Buchanan himself has even said that he never led in the polls at any point. What he had going for him was his ground troops.

[leprechaun9]

Nakita DEAN - Doctor of SOCIALISM!

[streetpreacher]

November 22, 1963 taught me a lesson you never learned. Oh I get it now (thanks to the poster who wrote, "it's a trap."). JFK's assassination should have taught Congressman Billy Bob a lesson about politicians that threaten the establishment. Congressman, this is a threat to you that you should stay out of the campaigning business. Hflynn, are you a SPOOK? Did Oliver Stone send you? Do you need... oh, noooooo.... GRAVY?!!

[Congressman Billybob]

I said nothing about assassinations. Why are you going down that street? It is irrelevant to a discussion of elections, unless you think the US will degenerate into parties shooting candidates of other parties when they can't beat them. Is that your logic?

John / Billybob

[streetpreacher]

Well, I thought my post was an attempt to be humorous and sarcastic. Apparently, I've accomplished neither. I wrote in response to a post by "huckleberry finn" or hyflynn or whatever the heck it was. The subject was NOVEMBER 22, 1963 to which you responded about where you were on that day. Sheesh!!

Some people be too serious...

[streetpreacher]

unless you think the US will degenerate into parties shooting candidates of other parties when they can't beat them.

Just as an aside, this did happen in Tennessee, I think in 98, for a statewide office. An (R) killed a (D). At the time I joked with my liberal Dem supervisor, "I'm for any tactic that gets a Republican elected." Very tasteless.

[streetpreacher]

unless you think the US will degenerate into parties shooting candidates of other parties when they can't beat them.

Just as an aside, this did happen in Tennessee, I think in 98, for a statewide office. An (R) killed a (D). At the time I joked with my liberal Dem supervisor, "I'm for any tactic that gets a Republican elected." Very tasteless.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

What a thoughtful post....

[loudmouths]

Buchanan won the early primaries. That is the point. As for name recognition, Dean has less name recognition than Gephardt.

With all of the press, he is stil behind the pack in that category.

[BohDaThone]

Not a statewide office -- a local state rep race. The incumbent dem was killed by "Low tax" Looper [his real last name, and he had changed his first name for ballot purposes], the county tax commissioner. It happenend about 4 days before the elctions. The widow got 98% of the vote as a write-in!!

[My2Cents]

I'm with you on that. Complacency is not an option. The stakes are too high to give the Democrats any breathing room. If some think Pres. Bush is a shoe-in next year, that's fine, but let's all work hard for a total blow-out. I just don't want to beat the Democrats next year...I want to rip their lungs out and squeeze the life of them. I just don't want to see them out of power for another two-to-four years...I want to rid this country of the cancer that is the Democrat Party.

[My2Cents]

I agree with you. Hillary is totally unelectable. The only thing that keeps her name afloat are her own megalomania, and panic in the ranks at the prospect of a McGovernesque wipe out.

[HIDEK6]

white liberal angry white guys

Wow! Is that a mental picture or what!

It's also an extremely miniscule demographic.

[Semper Paratus]

I just don't want to beat the Democrats next year...I want to rip their lungs out and squeeze the life of them. I just don't want to see them out of power for another two-to-four years...I want to rid this country of the cancer that is the Democrat Party.

I like the way you think.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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