Posted on 07/14/2005 11:38:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Either one sounds good to me, I'd rather get rid of the RINO and at least run an honest conservative and lose. That way you are at least offering people a choice, and building momentum for the future. With a RINO, you think you've won something but it turns out to be a steaming pile.
With a reasonable Senate majority like we have right now, 55-44-1, this is as good a time as any to jettison a few RINOs. Maybe some other ones will get the message. Most of them don't hold strong convictions anyway- if the price is right, or the danger too great in acting against the Republicans, they can always pretend to be conservative.
I agree about the GOP holding Tennessee. Having Harold Ford as an uncle doesn't help Jr.
L is for LOSER...
Unless there is a conservative in RI with a real shot at winning (HIGHLY unlikely) I think I'll stick with the RINO in that race. You never know what might happen elsewhere and a RINO's vote towards a Republican Majority Leader is as good as any conservative's.
Rhode Island might be a reasonable reason for a RINO, as long as they don't let the RINO on any important committees.
I certainly hope that Ben Nelson (NE) is beaten. The person running against him is a true conservative, but he has lost twice in the past. Nelson has been trending right the nearer it gets to the election and it may be enough to win. I hope I am wrong.
My elderly mother always had a problem confusing conundrum with condom.
Chafee won't jump. Traitors aren't respected in either camp. On top of that, the trend is your friend. Why jump from the party of power to the losers in a year in which R's may pick up two to three seats? 57 - 42 and 1?
Jeffords jumped out of political miscalculation. The guy he made the deal with is now unemployed.
Haley would suit me just fine. :-)
There is no upside for Chafee by switching parties, unless his switch gives the Dems control of the senate.
And Pittsburgh!
Interestingly enough I just got a new...>NEW< voter registration cardf in the mail. THere was NO NEED! I've had mine since at least '72.
So I called the department of elections and asked them why I got hte newe card. The >canadien< wommink who answered didn't have a clue...just shrugged it off and told me to fogetaboutit.
NO WAY!
Next week after I've had a chance to double check the registration numbers I intend to start harassing the farking ratz and find out why I am >apparently< registered twice!
prisonre6
The assertion that Ford is a "right of center" has been repeated so often in the mainstream (i.e., liberal) media that even some conservative writers now accept it as fact.
Ford is NOT right of center. He's a liberal Democrat. He represents a black majority district in Memphis where any member of the Ford family can get elected easily.
He also has higher aspirations. He'd love to be a U.S. Senator and perhaps even run on a national ticket someday. Being a smart guy, he's looked at the success of southern politicians like Bill Clinton across the river in Arkansas, Doug Wilder (black governor of Virginia elected back in 1989), and Al Gore & Jim Sasser (two long-serving Senators from Tennessee). All those guys were liberals, but they successfully hid it from the voters well enough to get elected. Ford is copying their formula for success.
That formula consists of lots of handshaking, appearances at churches and other family type functions, speaking with sort of a southern drawl, and talking about "values", without ever being specific about what that means.
Jim Sasser is probably the politician Ford seems to emulate the most. Sasser was elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee in 1976, defeating incumbent Republican Bill Brock. Sasser's TV ads never mentioned any national issues, they just showed him patting an old farmer on the back, shaking hands with a factory worker, or kissing a baby at a grocery store checkout. His campaign speeches centered on "fighting for Tennessee values", without specifying what that meant. He'd roll up his shirt sleeves and in a southern drawl talk about going up to Washington and "fightin' against them career politicians". Of course, he declared himself to be a champion of us common folks.
He got elected, and turned out to be a flaming liberal. He supported abortion, gun control, forced busing, high taxes, defense cuts, giving away the Panama Canal...you name it. But when he came up for re-election in 1982, he suddenly began talking like a Tennessee boy again, worrying that the Democrats were too far to the left. Why, the voters simply had to re-elect him so that a conservative voice like him could remain prominent in the Democratic Party.
He pulled the same scam in 1988 (helped by a weak GOP opponent), but by 1994 the act was running thin. He got voted out, losing to Bill Frist.
Ford's no conservative. He's a black Jim Sasser.
hey, how is that e-mail coming? :)
bttt
Maryland will be an interesting Senate race....Mfume is already way behind in the money department, and whining that the dems are trying to derail his run....ALL true actually. The dems are going to run an older white guy, who's paid his democratic dues, so to speak...and the republicans will most likely run Steele, our handsome black lieutenant Governor. I just can't see Baltimore minority voters coming out for Ben Cardin, after Kweisi loses. They'll either stay home, or vote for Steele.
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