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CNN's Inside politics report that Rove offered Nelson (D. Ne) Sec of Agriculture..Rove is BRILLIANT
INside politics..CNN

Posted on 11/17/2004 1:01:51 PM PST by ken5050

Judy (hmmm?) Woodruff just had a report that Karl Rove had offered Nebraska Sen Ben Nelson the post of Secretary of Agriculture. Nelson is up in 2006...and facing a hard race from popular GOP Gov Mike Johanns. Nelson is among the most conservative of Senate Dems..Does this make sense, because Nelson votes with the GOP on most of the key issues..?


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To: graf008
No serious independent analyst is predicting doom and gloom for the Senate GOP like you are. Not even the biased MSM analysts are predicting such an occurrence.

If anything, it is the RATs who need to be worried about defections. With 55 seats, we are going to be in power for the forseeable future. That encourages the likelihood not only of defections, but also of incumbant RAT Senators retiring rather than accepting extended Minority Party status.

Face it. We are in excellent shape in the Senate, and barring a cataclysmic event, we have the House locked up at least until the next round of census redistricting next decade.

101 posted on 11/17/2004 1:41:35 PM PST by comebacknewt
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To: SoDak

There seems to be a lot of confusion here about her politics..like on abortion..can we get it clarified?..To me.any thought of her switching might have more to do with how she assesses her future..look..possibly10 more years in the House, in the minority, ain't no fun..noways..here's a real wild assed thought..she switches NOW..gets some visibility in the House..maybe a choice committee..even let her chair a sub-committee..she puts in 2 terms...then TADA..runs AGAINST Timmy in '08...go ahead..poke holes in THSAT!!!


102 posted on 11/17/2004 1:41:40 PM PST by ken5050
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To: graf008
No serious independent analyst is predicting doom and gloom for the Senate GOP like you are. Not even the biased MSM analysts are predicting such an occurrence.

If anything, it is the RATs who need to be worried about defections. With 55 seats, we are going to be in power for the forseeable future. That encourages the likelihood not only of defections, but also of incumbant RAT Senators retiring rather than accepting extended Minority Party status.

Face it. We are in excellent shape in the Senate, and barring a cataclysmic event, we have the House locked up at least until the next round of census redistricting next decade.

103 posted on 11/17/2004 1:41:41 PM PST by comebacknewt
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To: Defiant
indeed, what are they smoking...some of these lunkheads would just love to get rid of Rumsfeld...

Probably wishful thinking on their part.

104 posted on 11/17/2004 1:43:09 PM PST by el_texicano (Liberals are the real Mind-Numbed Robots - No Brains, No Guts, No Character...Just hate)
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To: Ditto

The worst one ever..Robert STRANGE McNaMara..( was EVER a man more aptly named..?)but your argument proves your analysus..


105 posted on 11/17/2004 1:43:40 PM PST by ken5050
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To: mrs9x

They could put Osborne in Nelsons seat and lock it up until Osborne retires or dies, Nebraskans never will forget or vote against the legend.


106 posted on 11/17/2004 1:44:03 PM PST by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany)
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To: graf008

The Dems are really starting that total meltdown.

Why not; the moderates can see the writing on the wall with those neoMarxists running the party into the ground like that.


107 posted on 11/17/2004 1:44:36 PM PST by JFK_Lib
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To: graf008

Snow, Chafee, and Collins will surely vote with the GOP this time; you don't go where you get nothing.


108 posted on 11/17/2004 1:45:14 PM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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To: Frank L

I don't care whther Nelson or a Republican runs the Ag Dept. I do care that the GOP gain another Senate seat.


109 posted on 11/17/2004 1:45:19 PM PST by bushisdamanin04
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To: Lunkhead_01

what happened to the 100th senator?


110 posted on 11/17/2004 1:45:31 PM PST by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany)
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To: maine-iac7

You ARE referring to John, not TeddyBoy, right...
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OMG, you needed to ask??? (chuckle)

I think poor ole Teddy will go down in history as the one of the drunkest, nastiest, corrupt, criminal Dems in history. Albiet, he has ALOT of company of like stature...


111 posted on 11/17/2004 1:46:11 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: OldFriend

How about offering Energy to Mary Landrieu? Does Louisana have a Republican Governor now? And Rove could offer the Secretary of Defense job to war hero John Kerry. Mitt Romney could then appoint a Republican to the Senate seat. Rove might also have some jobs up his sleve for Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. That would give Arnold a couple of Senate seats to fill.


112 posted on 11/17/2004 1:47:12 PM PST by Edmund Burke
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To: MahaMarty

I agree, putting Tom Osborn up would lock the seat up either until he dies or retires, People in Nebraska will never forget him.


113 posted on 11/17/2004 1:48:31 PM PST by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany)
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To: ken5050

I don't know what her ambitions are, completely. She's on the record as being pro-choice. She's also on the record as having generally a GOP outlook on everything else. Of course it's wise to remember that Daschle at one time was the same way, and look what happened to him after a few terms in DC.


114 posted on 11/17/2004 1:49:11 PM PST by SoDak (Home of Senator John Thune)
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To: Howlin

Thanks for pointing out the obvious to our worried friends here..The advanatge to adding a 56th senator now is that it makes the magic number 60 easy to visualize..the point can then be made to many Dems ..well..OK.if you want a hard fight..we'll give you one..but why risk your seat..you're gonna lose anyways..


115 posted on 11/17/2004 1:49:24 PM PST by ken5050
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!!


116 posted on 11/17/2004 1:50:34 PM PST by E.G.C.
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To: WoodstockCat

And he's way to short to run for POTUS in four years (sorry, it's a cruel world Ben).


117 posted on 11/17/2004 1:51:28 PM PST by Mountain Dewd
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To: ken5050

Way to go Rove!


118 posted on 11/17/2004 1:51:36 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Edmund Burke

That's a real streeeeeetch. Landries csn't eb trusted...the two that are closest to the GOP are the pair from Arkansas...I think Lincoln might go if she were allowed to keep her seniority..


119 posted on 11/17/2004 1:51:47 PM PST by ken5050
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To: Edmund Burke

Louisiana has a Democrat Governor right now.


120 posted on 11/17/2004 1:51:48 PM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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