Posted on 11/08/2006 9:15:35 PM PST by staytrue
All we have to do to retake the senate is to win 2 of these 12 seats.
Arkansas: Pryor (D) Delaware: Biden (D) Illinois: Durbin (D) Iowa: Harkin (D) Louisiana: Landrieu (D) Massachusetts: Kerry (D) Michigan: Levin (D) Montana: Baucus (D) New Jersey: Lautenberg (D) Rhode Island: Reed (D) South Dakota: Johnson (D) West Virginia: Rockefeller (D)
It looks like we could have a shot at Pryor, Harkin, Baucus, and Johnson.
AND THEN ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS HOLD ALL 21 OF OUR OWN SEATS THAT ARE UP.
Yes, we do need to get the worst RINOs out of there. They don't really do us any good.
I think the backstabbers need to be first on the list. Senators like Lindsey Graham do us more harm than good. What's especially frustrating about Graham is that you could actually get a purist elected in South Carolina (where that would be difficult, at least at first, in some other states), but he doesn't come close. He's not even half-conservative.
The Dems made an example of Leiberman, who do the Pubs get to make an example of?
Voting opens here! Unfortunately Chafee is already gone.
YEAH!!!! That's the spirit you moron! So Democrats can take those seats!!!!
Brilliant!!!!!
Lindsey Graham is a great disappointment - he became purely self serving. the thought also comes to mind that Allen could be a drag at this point, too - I'd like the seat but we don't need another Trent Lott for the media to hone in on.
PRYOR is going nowhere. Maybe Huckabee could do it but I seriously, seriously, doubt it. There is no Republican Party left in Arkansas after Tuesday and no candidates on the horizon. There are just no Republican candidates in Arkansas except a couple of perennial losers.
A lot of the Democrats, with the exception of the War in Iraq, ran as conservatives this time around. Those who think that this was a defeat for conservatism are dead run. It was yet another vindication for conservatism.
Bush has not taken "some" positions that went against the base. He's taken a lot of them.
General dissatisfaction with Republicans, whether because of the war (idiot left) or because of failing to stick to a conservative message (the right) hurt the good ones too, likely enough to make a difference in a close race.
The lesson from this is not to toss out the base, but to instead stick to the message which we promised when we did so well initially. A good, strong, conservative message, and more importantly, following through on that message, will beat the Left in the large majority of areas.
That should be "dead wrong", LOL.
And if you want conservatives instead of RINOs you have to dump Graham, Hagel, Warner, and Collins.
Very, very unlikely. I see most of these as safe seats. But the silver lining is that this will probably enhance the election of a Republican president. The voters seem to embrace divided government. The only way these seats change hands is if they retire or die in office.
and replace them with who? democrats?
Spare us. I don't think anyone is suggesting that you could replace a lib in say, Massachusetts, with someone like Jim DeMint . However, there's very little point in having a liberal in conservative clothing either, as it gives people a false idea of what conservatism is all about.
What I'd like to see from now until 2008 is an aggressive cleaning of house. We get out the backstabbing RINOs and replace them, depending on location, with moderate conservatives to conservatives. (For example, South Carolina would be a GREAT place to get a diehard conservative in there.) In any event, besides being more conservative than the ones they replace, they could not be of the flip-flopping, self-serving variety like McCain.
we just handed 6 R senate seats to the Dems, 4 of them conservatives - and they want to offer up a bunch more.
next they will tell us a Gary Bauer/Katherine Harris ticket will win the presidency.
You might add Sen Byrd to that list. He can't live forever.
Think RI could oust Jack Reed in '08?
No, slightly more conservative and more importantly, more reliable, Republicans.
Frankly, if Bush/Kerry were on the ballot, Kerry would have won.
Unfortunately, if Senator Byrd were to expire, the democrat gov. of WVA would name the replacement.
No, she barely beat Woody Jenkins the first time. There were allegations of voter fraud, and there may have been something to it, but if Jenkins had been a better candidate, it wouldn't have been close enough for that to matter. The second time, her opponent was Suzy Terell, who had the personality of wet cardboard.
You're thinking of Blanco, who beat Jindal for Governor.
that might work in the deep south, but in most of the country it won't fly
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