Posted on 12/21/2006 5:45:17 PM PST by Sir_Humphrey
MAYBE MY eggnog has been spiked. Or my fondness for big colored gaudy Christmas lights has blinded my sensibilities.
But I'm one Republican hoping that in the event South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson can't serve - and I pray he gets healthy and can fulfill his responsibilities - Gov. Mike Rounds replaces him with a another Democrat.
Disability is no way to win control of the Senate.
Yes, I know that history is replete with examples of situations where partisan advantage has arisen from tragedy. Gov. Bob Casey Sr.'s appointment of Harris Wofford to replace John Heinz after the airplane catastrophe comes immediately to mind.
And Gov. Rounds himself was faced with the death of a Democratic state senator in 2002 and named a Republican to replace him. I have no problem with those cases, or the many others with which I've become familiar.
But never before has control of the Senate hung in the balance in a circumstance like this.
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Over the past few years, he's veered left and now openly ridicules the GOP (but never the Dems)every chance he gets. The further left he drifts, the more face time he gets on MSNBC. Coincidence? I think not.
Now he wants to valiantly give back the Senate to the Dems because it's "the right thing to do" even though the jackass party would never do the same if the situation were reversed. Gosh, no wonder why he's their favorite republican.
Again, what a ninny!
Smerconish is an idiot.
I used to listen to him from 1998 to 2001 when I lived in Swarthmore. He was a moderate then and now apparently a liberal.
Just another go along to get along RINO.
But if Tim Johnson can not finish out his term I expect the Governor to replace him with somebody who is representative of that states views nationally which are conservative and republican views.
What a wuss. At least he correctly identifies himself as a "Republican" instead of as a "conservative." I expect this sort of wussiness from Republicans. It's reminiscent of the "power sharing" that we saw with the great compromiser, Lott.
It'd be payback for Jumpin' Jim Jeffords. That said, I wish ill of no man and hope the good Senator makes a complete recovery.
Sure thing Smerconish.
So if you are a Republican you should give it to the Democrats - dang that seems like a good idea...
Whoever this guy is (I have never heard of him), he sounds just like a moderate or RINO.
A true conservative would have said: I hope Gov. Rounds replaces him with the MOST QUALIFIED PERSON. And if that person is a Republican, so be it.
And how about Zell Miller, a Democrat, taking Paul Coverdell's Senate seat after his death? Of course, if all Democrats were like Zell Miller, we wouldn't have anything to complain about.
Governor voted in by the citizens of the state. Senators serve the state. Governor wouldn't be in office unless citizens supported his views. Governor pretty much third Senator. If the replacement shares the governors views, then replacement is representative of citizens views. When you vote for governor, you're not just electing the leader of your state, you're electing a back-up senator. If his views are good enough to lead the state, then his views are good enough to vote for the state.
Shocker, another MSDNC house "conservative" sides with the libs.
Smerconish is a total fool. He believes in playing by the Marquis de Queensbury rules while the opponents are rabbit punching and kicking us in the nads.
Smerconish is a recovering lawyer who has relapsed in his recovery. He lost me last year when he inexplicably took the side of that ghoul Michael Schiavo
I think everybody on this board feels the same way. The man's health is more important than which party controls the Senate.
Still, the people who keep talking this scenario to death are the Dems, particularly the liberal Dems. And it's just like this ninny to rise up and take the bait. The Dems can bank on it.
This is why Republicans always lose the the 'rats in a fight...we have too many wimps like this. I'm so sick of republican girlie men that I could punch one of them in the face...just for being such testosterone challenged sissies!
My gosh, the Repubs can't get politics and beisbol through their skulls.
Leo Durocher said it: "Nice guys finish last."
We're the empirical data points Leo might have had in mind, except that he was a baseball manager and probably wasn't thinking politics at the time.
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