Posted on 11/10/2005 12:35:37 PM PST by TitansAFC
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows that Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is continuing to lose ground in his battle for re-election. Santorum trails Democrat Bob Casey, Jr by twenty percentage points, 54% to 34%.
That says a lot, doesn't it?
Come to think of it, there is a lot of water around here. Numerous boaters drown in it every summer--most of them drunk.
I didn't really read your post carefully--I thought you were talking about seagoing craft...yachts, etc.
We do have a lot of canoes on the cricks and pontoon boats on the Susquehanna.
A friend of mine operates a mini-sized model of the African Queen on our stretch of the river.
But enough boaters to defeat Santorum in a general election?
Never.
Uh-oh, you had better get your flak jacket on. You can't criticize Saint Patrick Toomey around here. These people act like Toomey is Jesus Christ and Santorum was Pontius Pilate ordering his crucifixion.
And I wish conservatives would spend half the energy taking on Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy as they do Arlen Specter. Which of those voted to confirm John Roberts? Which will vote to confirm Samuel Alito? Does anything else really matter?
Yep. He doesn't even have the saving grace of being a high-priced whore.
he really thinks it is wrong for the federal government to provide something in competition with the private sector
If that's the problem, the legitimate solution is to sell off the agency to a private owner. To deny taxpayers access to the data, while requiring them to continue paying for its collection, and then pay again to get it from one of his bagmen, is corrupt.
Really, when the names involved were "Bill Clinton", "Grande Escalante", and "James Riady" rather than "Rick Santorum", "National Weather Service", and "AccuWeather", I'm sure you understood this concept perfectly well.
Rick has a problem with foot in mouth disease sometimes. And he is in hostile territory.
That worsened his already bad position in NoVA. The voters here realize that enacting a local tax for roads will simply result in the Richmond gang siphoning off even more of our general-fund taxes to pave every cow path meandering along the North Carolina border. That's why they rejected the idea in the referendum a few years back.
They will ignore the pro-life issue because the libs and the gays want Rick out of office in the worse way ... they haven't gotten over his comment about that Texas law and and about marriage
Plus there is a rumor that Casey made a deal with Schummer to campaign as a pro-lifer .. but if election to vote as a pro-choicer
Then I take it all back. Apologies.
The Santorum bill is equivalent to a system where the police are pulled from the streets and contracted out to Wackenhut, and you pay both your existing taxes to support the police department and the service fee to have Wackenhut protect you.
Again, this is not a free market reform -- it's a "crony capitalism" scam of the sort that impeded and even derailed privatization efforts in some of the former Soviet Bloc nations.
"Maybe he should have Bush campaign for him"
I'm sure you've said it in jest...but I honestly believe that is one of Bush's strengths. Give him a bull horn and a message. He'll be back.
Many think Bush has lost his way, but I think it's been some major stuff going on behind the scenes protecting this country and our interests worldwide.
I agree that it's gonna be tough for Rick to pull this out
But I disagree about Casey .. the man is a spineless idiot and nothing like his father
LOL buy shares in pharmaceuticals...valium will definately be needed before all this is over.
Democrats have no message, but they can continue to post every poll out there.
Then Santorum has to force Casey to commit himself explicitly as pro-life. Go after him until he committs himself. This needs to be done early on.
>>>Democrats have no message, but they can continue to post every poll out there<<<
How right you are! They posted this one at least three times on FR today.
Guess they didn't like the comments on the first two.
The most tiresome part of being a Republican is to be in company of so many cowards and pantywaists. It's a year before the big game and way too many of us are already willing to throw in the towel. Sen. Santorum has six months to turn this around or the primary voters will free up his future. Whining and moaning now about the hopelessness of his chances will only server to help the democrat nominee build up his power base and war-chest. Regretfully, we could all stand to learn something about loyalty and team play from our opposition.
We've been here before. Pschological warfare is the toughest and can beat you down, unfortunately, without being aware of what's really going on.
Stay strong!
Santorum gets whatever he deserves for betraying Pat Toomey. Notice how he, Bush and Rove have all been cursed politically for that act of betrayal of conservatism. When you sell out your principles, you stand for nothing, and the people won't be fooled.
Forget the "housing bubble". We are watching the Bush Bubble bursting right before our eyes.
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