Posted on 04/12/2006 10:21:27 PM PDT by FairOpinion
An 18-month recruitment drive by the Democrats has produced nearly a dozen strong candidates with the potential for unseating House Republicans, but probably not enough to take back control of the House absent a massive anti-incumbent wave this fall, according to House political experts.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), said his party was able to avoid a primary fight in California and is emerging from Tuesday's balloting united and ready to go after independent voters. In contrast, he said, Republicans will have to unite a fractious party around a nominee who still has not been officially named.
Currently, there are 231 Republicans, 201 Democrats, one independent and two vacant seats in the House. It will be up to lesser Democratic lights -- running in Republican districts with less-than-glowing résumés -- to help provide the 15 net victories Democrats need to take back control of the House, which has been in GOP hands since the 1994 election.
In that context, Busby's performance -- respectable but not surprising -- is not encouraging to Democrats, said Stuart Rothenberg, a congressional analyst and editor of the Rothenberg Political Report.
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Noted, but in the meantime, it probably wouldn't hurt to keep the seat hot for some of these feckless appeasers we have sitting in the U.S. Congress.
Here is a stronger message for RINOs and sell-outs: WE OWN YOU.
Yep, leave you conscience and morals at home and vote for the lesser of two evils.
or
Reach into that toilet and pick up the small piece of s**t.
Take your pick.
There is NO "3rd" door.
It's door #1 or door #2. If you don't pick door #1, you will automatically get door #2.
Anyone who prefers a leftist Dem, is NO conservative.
Case closed.
15 million illegal invaders and counting and still nothing is done.
L
Flawed argument, but you already know that.
[Anyone who prefers a leftist Dem, is NO conservative.]
Well said.
History is proof.
The Perot voters gave us 8 long years of Clinton.
No, the GOP gave us 8 long years of Clinton.
A Perot voter, no doubt.
How does it feel, knowing that, without Perot, Bill Clinton would never have been president?
To: Carry_Okie
Well, there is the Republican party with some conservative members and some not so conservative and then there's the evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party. I'd rather have a conservative Republican in office, but I'll take a not so conservative Republican over any evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat any day of the week. And I might express my unhappiness with some of his policies but I think I've learned my lesson about irreversibly trashing the Republican office holder or the Republican base or the party itself (at least not too much trashing). As they say, the alternative is unthinkable.
34 posted on 03/02/2006 2:15:02 AM CST by Jim Robinson
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Hmmm -- Read this and see if it sounds familiar.
The new 'Republicans vote on Wednesday' game (FR mentioned)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613957/posts
"But there seems to be a new “Republicans vote on Wednesday” taking form in time for the 2006 election. This effort targets grassroots conservatives known for their passionate views about issues who may be open to a grassroots voting rebellion. But the effort is being led, or at the very least aided, by liberals pretending to be grassroots conservatives, as opposed to actual grassroots conservatives themselves.
But the pretend-conservative act is being carried onto a whole new playing field, one that has become wildly influential over the past few years and one that does not stand to be instantly recognized as a fake. That playing field is the blogosphere, which is then used in conjunction with massive e-mailings to “spread the word” (as one e-mailer insisted I do to my readers/e-mail list) to other conservatives
The concept is the same: the blog or e-mail claims, first, that the said writer has been a conservative for years and that they have “had it with Republicans.” They then point to an issue that conservatives would likely be upset about such as excessive spending, immigration, or the expansion of government. Their supposed rage over the issue has convinced them to either not show up to vote in 2006, or, in order to really show Republicans, vote for the Democrat instead.
The blogs and e-mails are convincing in their wording and could incite the sort of reaction that occurred following the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court. Of course, any liberal could read Free Republic and find out what’s irritating conservatives this week, grab a handful of phrases, and toss it on their “I’m a conservative but voting for a Democratic because of (insert issue here)” blog. After tossing in a few posts about the evils of Hillary Clinton and abortion, the blog is now being run by a bona-fide “conservative.” A few e-mails and link connections later, the message of conservatives voting against Republicans is spread."
I always love this phrase--like the House is this Democrat possession which was stolen from them.
Arguing that the Republicans are responsible for this "which do I pick?" situation while those who will allow Dems to take over are blameless is hilarious on a site that supposedly prides itself on self-reliance and responsibility.
The next time a kid at school does something wrong and says "It wasn't MY fault, he MADE me do it!" I will think of many at FR.
" 15 million illegal invaders and counting and still nothing is done."
What? The strongest immigration bill in a decade, the Sensenbrenner bill, passed the House last December and that's just chopped liver to you!?!?
i agree, i vote straight (R) all the time. Saves time and I would never vote for a dem.
Bush has done many a disservice to conservatives in his term, but the idea that things would have been "little different" after eight years of Al Gore is so demented and demonstrably false, only a buffoon could believe it.
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