Posted on 06/07/2006 11:52:39 AM PDT by seanmerc
'Culture of Corruption' Failed Democrats in House Race by Robert Novak Posted Jun 07, 2006
For all the hype and the money spent on the race between former Rep. Brian Bilbray (R) and Francine Busby (D), Busby, in her loss to Bilbray, failed to exceed significantly the percentage won here by John Kerry in 2004. This is significant, because although she will have another shot at Bilbray in November, the turnout should have favored her yesterday, since Republicans had no other races to drive their turnout and Democrats had a gubernatorial primary.
The outcome proves that even with corrupt former Republican Rep. Duke Cunningham’s name fresh in the news, low turnout, a weak candidate like Bilbray and dissension within the GOP ranks (that led to negative Republican campaigning against Bilbray), Democrats cannot win here. Even here, where it should have mattered most, the “culture of corruption” mantra wasn’t enough to convince voters to pull the Democratic lever.
The decisive issue in this race was clearly immigration, with Busby taking President Bush’s side against Bilbray’s anti-amnesty hard line. She cost herself support with a careless remark -- taken out of context -- soliciting illegal-alien volunteers for her campaign at a Hispanic voter event, which sounded like she was encouraging illegal voting.
A Busby victory would have put the Democrats within 14 seats of a House majority instead of 15. It also would have brought about a series of news stories highlighting the Democrats’ likely takeover of the U.S. House in November. But now Democrats have enough better targets on the map that they will not waste their time and money on this one again, barring some enormous gaffe by Bilbray upon his return to Congress. Likely Republican Retention.
Mr. Novak is a syndicated columnist and editor of the Evans-Novak Political Report, a political newsletter he founded in 1967 with Roland Evans.
Uh, no Bob, that was NOT taken out of context. Bob, Prince of Dorkness, please make it out of the Beltway in awhile. And Tyson's Corner does not count.
Do you think that old Bob has any sense of guilt over the Plame mess and the lives being skewered over his column?
Did not the American public hang Novak (Kerry operative) for treason yet?
[But now Democrats have enough better targets on the map that they will not waste their time and money on this one again]
I thought Bob was a conservative. I guess he still has CNN in his blood.
And the California race as seen
by Newt Gingrich:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/winningthefuture.php?id=15420
She argued it was taken out of context but if you listen to the long clip which includes the question, plus she can't claim her Spanish was bad with a translator literally at her elbow and coupled with her making the *same* gaffe on Monday doing a radio interview outside the Registrar of Voter's office (an horrified aide corrected her) you know where her position really is: She wants illegals to vote.
Busby not only belongs to the mother of the party of corruption, she is trying to string along ILLEGALS in the process. I mean, if they get caught, what are we gonna do?--deport 'em?
They won't waste a dime here in November.
The decisive issue in this race was clearly immigration, with Busby taking President Bush’s side against Bilbray’s anti-amnesty hard line. She cost herself support with a careless remark -- taken out of context -- soliciting illegal-alien volunteers for her campaign at a Hispanic voter event, which sounded like she was encouraging illegal voting.
Hey Bob, maybe you should have quoted it so your readers could make up their own minds.......but NOOOOOO.
"She cost herself support with a careless remark -- taken out of context..."
does anyone want to bet that if a Republican had said that it would NOT have been taken out of context, but rather taken as what it meant??
Bob should have no guilt over telling us abotu Valerie Plame, the liberal ideologue, Kerry operative, who was a known CIA deskjockey.
It's also because the "culture of corruption" is tarred all over the Democrats, too.
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