Stunning Upset Brewing in Massachusetts

TownHall.com ^ | 9/22/07 | Patrick Ruffini

[conservativepoet]

Interesting...

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Personally, I think some more Northeast Republicans would be good for the GOP. The Southern version is too focused on social issue and not enough on fiscal. The traditional Northeast pubbie is a fiscal conservative. Don’t know anything about this person though.

[conservativepoet]

Neither do I. Maybe a “serious discomfort” has finally developed with a party deeply sympathetic to terroristic forces.

[Darkwolf377]

The Southern version is too focused on social issue and not enough on fiscal. The traditional Northeast pubbie is a fiscal conservative.

Good point. Where are all the fiscally-conservative Republicans in this and in the last couple of Congresses?

I could do with less posturing on social issues like gay marriage and more cutting of the ridiculous amounts of money spent in DC.

[Joe Boucher]

You may think along those lines until the repubs took over both houses of congress and then spent money like drunk democrats.
That really hurt their ability to walk, talk and act like fiscal conservatives.

[hershey]

YES!!!!! THANK GOD!!!

[G-Man 1]

Greed takes over almost everyone. Remember term limits? That would help limit greed, not all , but most.

[L.N. Smithee]

When I heard a blurb the other day about “Tsongas in Massachusetts,” I thought, “Isn’t he dead?” This explains everything.

[moonman]

Being from MA, Jim Ogonowski would probably be another Specter, Snow or Collins.

[cgbg]

The Republican Congress failed to control the budget because our Constitutional system has broken down and collapsed.

Madison warned about "factions", which are basically special interest groups that want to feed at the federal trough while the taxpayers pay for it.

The Founders created a difficult and confusing maze that these "factions" would have to conquer before they could enrich themselves.

One of the early obstacles to these factions was a President that would veto Congressional craziness.

Another (post founding fathers) method was a Supreme Court that would rule all violations of the Tenth Amendment by Congress unconstitutional.

Bush proposed budgets that cut programs, the Republican Congress reinstated those budgets, and then Bush stupidly signed the bills while the Supreme Court nodded and yawned.

It was a historic moment for the Republican Party--and they failed miserably to meet the challenge.

Future generations will pay and pay and pay for their blunder.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

You are correct. The mid term election was about the betryal of the contract.

[Joe Boucher]

Yeah but with very little time left in his presidency, President Bush is finally threatening to use his VETO pen.

Too little too late.
Maybe he can turn the whole budget over to Ted Kennedy and not just the education budget.

[C210N]

Its my understanding that you can replace "probably" in your statement with "definitely". There is a conservative party candidate, but he's got no chance here. Jim O' is against Partial-birth-abortion, but otherwise pro-choice. He is clearly for completing the Iraq mission. He's probably more a Rudy when it comes to protection of Marriage.

He's got my vote and support though!

...from here in the MA Cong 5th district...

[moonman]

Thanks for the update

[Zack Nguyen]

The traditional Northeast pubbie is a fiscal conservative.

I bet if you examined the voting records of Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, etc., you would find a firm committment to larger, more expensive government.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Why does this have the smell of “Send Cheney to Hawaii, it’s gonna be close!” to it?

[Leisler]

Like fat Dennis Hasteret of Illinois? Or Stevens of Alaska?

Republicans are politicians first and foremost and will buy and sell out the nation, literally, to buy the for sale affections of the citizens.

[kittymyrib]

Ted The Swimmer Kennedy is set to make one of his fine oratorical appearances for Nikki (think Rush’s hilarious clip of Teddy’s undecipherable gibberish here), and that will be enough to put another MA liberal in office.
Too bad the founding fathers did not make it possible for states to vote other states off the island.

[bert]

Fraud will always provide the winning margin in Massachuttes.