Posted on 02/23/2006 4:38:42 PM PST by SolidSupplySide
By the way, when I voted early this afternoon, there were 7 other cars in the parking lot of the early voting facility; all people there to vote (not poll workers). ALL SEVEN had DeLay stickers -- not a Campbell sticker in the bunch. A quick canvas in my subdivision (260 homes) revealed that all my neighbors that had DeLay signs in previous campaigns ALL had their DeLay signs out again. Only 1 Campbell yard sign out of 260 houses, and that home has never displayed any sort of campaign sign before. I figure it just must be someone that goes to church with him or something. I don't see ANY indication of significant erosion in support for DeLay. Anecdotal evidence, I know, but I get out a lot, talk a lot, and I see what is going on around here.
Hey, I'm just supporting a Ronald Reagan Republican with character in a GOP primary. There's no need to get defensive.
Go Tom Campbell!
Funny! I post an observation and you accuse ME of becoming defensive! I've got no need to! My guy, Tom DeLay, is on top and is going to win the primary AND the congressional seat.
That may be. DeLay has all the advantages of incumbancy. But I stand by my prediction. The more conservative part of the district, the higher percentage of votes Campbell will get.
I won't post anything different than I haven't previously posted at one time or another...
There are two basic thoughts on Tom DeLay from two different camps.
1. He is a saint who has done nothing wrong, ever. The Democrats hate him and thats all there is to it. Anything wrong is just Democrats, as thought the R behind someone's name made them a saint already.
2. The other side of conservatives don't see it quite that way.
He isn't angelic, just like almost anyone in DC. In his case, he takes too much money from special interests primarily because he's been a fixture for so long.
While, yeah he's Republican etc etc... he has also vaulted himself to represent the party itself. He has to hold himself to higher standards if he's gonna do that. Which, in my opinion, he didn't do.
He is giving the vast middle America reason to dislike Republicans. He has so far, and can continue to drum up support--for Democrats. Thats not because he's a Republican, nor because he's 'effective'...its because there is blood in the water and the sharks are out and he started all that of his free will. He messed up and its no one else's fault but his own.
The difference between group one and group two though isn't politics or political leanings. Its that group one its hunting for a partisan fight to defend their holy grail, which in this case isn't an ideal, its a person.
Group two though believes the party is bigger than any one politician and we need to keep it as such.
It just depends on how you represent conservatism.
With that being said, DeLay, no matter how you look at it is nearing the end of his carreer. Maybe he'll end up being the Strom Thurmond of the House, but I doubt it. I believe the party as a whole needs to put that stuff to bed and move beyond it, primarily so we can move forward. Right now its a distraction.
I believe someone new needs to go in because they will give new life to things. Its time for a changing of the guard basically.
Call me a DeLay basher if you will...so be it.
If anything that I am truly complaining about DeLay about is that he comes across as a jerk that thinks he's too big to be touched. His head is too big and I don't like it. If there is one thing I am 'bashing' him about, thats it. The rest of the stuff mentioned above isn't bashing Tom DeLay.
I concur. The politics of DeLay and Campbell are similar. I can't make a distinction based on politics. Therefore I go to character. Campbell wins.
God bless one of the few GOPers in this nation with true will to rule.
As much as we would all like to see a major shift to the right, all RIGHT NOW, its not going to happen. Bit by bit, inch by inch is the way to conquer. We have to win the hearts and minds.
The condescending stuff some republicans throw out doesn't do much of anything but piss people off. DeLay is using an old tactic, but now we have a chance to galvanize a Republican majority we have to do things differently.
Right now Republicans in order to shift right the country we need to identify what needs to be done. We won't go anywhere by sticking doggedly to the fringes.
We need people in office and not just that one seat who can diplomatically aim for the hearts and minds of the vast middle and explain to them WHY things ought to be the way we say.
Of all the things Tom DeLay is, one thing he isn't is a diplomat.
He was reconnoitering Union positions with his staff at dusk when he came upon Confrederate pickets. They mistook them for Union cavalry.
Delay will win, and he will win easily.
Unfortunately, DeLay is trailing Lampson in the polls. Also, DeLay's vote total was 7-10% less than President Bush in 2004. In a district where Bush easily topped 60%, DeLay only got 55%.
Lastly, we have a former GOP Congressman (Steve Stockman) who is planning an independent campaign. Stockman would likely draw votes from disaffected Republicans away from DeLay in the general election. In November, I predict that the winner in CD-22 will have less than 50% of the vote. Noone can claim to have won such a race "easily".
I want to make Stockman a non-factor by having a Republican (Tom Campbell) that everyone in the party can support.
There's nothing 'national' about the race DeLay is running in his district. It's the demonRATs that are trying to make DeLay's contest a national event.
BTW - Coleman will lose, a large margin or not - he will still lose - as he should. But the likes of you and the demonRATs will make something negative out of his win - both in the primary and in November.
HEY BOZO's...any more wild a$$ed predictions, or revelations you two losers want to make!?!
The guy I liked lost and you, and the guy are still assholes. What's changed?
Posted by maui_hawaii to Dubya
On News/Activism 02/02/2006 7:59:23 PM PST · 3 of 8
Question to those in the know:
If after the March 7 primary, which most likely DeLay will win...
What happens if something 'big' happens, ie he's forced out of the race for whatever reason?
Does the Dem candidate automatically win?
This is a procedural/election question not a political one.
In that event, could DeLay be replaced by the GOP post primary?
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IN fact, I am not even pitting Tom Campbell as man against man on this one. I say when its shown that Tom DeLay won't screw things up for everyone... then my questions will be answered.
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