Posted on 10/05/2007 3:59:16 PM PDT by fifedom
If Rep. John Doolittle is the Republican nominee here in 2008, the seat is a certain loss for the GOP. ... Doolittle ... has pledged to fight plans to push him off the ballot in 2008. ... Charlie Brown, who nearly beat Doolittle in 2006, is back again. But given the Republican nature of this district, he needs Doolittle on the ballot to win.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
So, you rely on the opinion of the Washington Post, not voices of actual consitutents (voters) as you implied. Got it. Don't miss the SacBee and the whole McClatchy enterprise--they're doing their best to take the man down, too.
I did not live in the districts of Don Sherwood, Bob Ney, Conrad Burns, JD Hayworth, John sweeney, Mark Foley, Charles Taylor, Gov Bob Taft, Richard Pombo or any of the other Bozo’s who cost us seats witht here bull shit. But, anyone can see where this is going to. tell your buddy to either clear himself or clear out.
I'm with you on Ney, Foley, and a few others. But what on earth qualifies as Pombo's "bull shit"?
If he runs again and costs us this seat he is scum, slime, maggot, filth and crud. I have had it with this garbage.
Nice. /s
“Don Sherwood, Bob Ney, Conrad Burns, JD Hayworth, John sweeney, Mark Foley, Charles Taylor, Gov Bob Taft, Richard”
That is what all of there supporters said. Just tell him to clear his name by filing deadline or clear out.
I don't understand what you are saying.
Whose supporters said what?
I also asked specifically about Pombo. Are you accusing him of wrongdoing?
I see you still didn’t respond to this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907211/posts?page=71#71
People here call refer to Doolittle’s “ilk” and want to strip him of his seniority. I ask: FOR WHAT????
“Don Sherwood, Bob Ney, Conrad Burns, JD Hayworth, John sweeney, Mark Foley, Charles Taylor, Gov Bob Taft, Richard”
All of there suporters said the same thing you are saying about Dootlittle. Got it. If I remember Pombo got caught up in scandela and we lost a seat.
Only divine intervention will get rid of a Dim majority in the senate come the November 2008 elections. The Republicans are losing too many to retirement, and more Republican seats are on the ballot than Dims. We march ever closer towards civil war. God help us.
We are criticizing your bandwagon building of abjectly uncalled for attempt of drumming an exemplary conservative with gobs of seniority that helps this district's constituents in ways that you are willing to dump over the side.(like finishing a dam that rescues our Capitol and most of CA's water supply from a Katrina like inundation)
Your sudden impulse to get out in front of this chitstorm of horsepuckey and join the left in drumming falsely perceived conservative Republicans out of positions of power due to circumstance alone is reprehensible and you should stop the verbal diahreah and think quietly at you keyboard for about a month, or two!!!
No one is insulting you! The stuff you keep stepping in is what makes you feel so uncomfortable, like this sudden urge to make just like a Liberal and start playing "the victim" role, claiming like Rodney Dangerfield that you git no respect! You obviously are in the habit of taking yourself way too seriously out there in Algore & Fred land. You probably thought Howard Baker was a conservative, too, right?
Stop trying to convince us that you bonafides are superior to any of ours because especially in the case of ElkGroveDan, you are the one that is being insulting!!! Oh! And please try to honor the tradition on FR of pinging anyone who's name you're taking in vain in a reply! It's been a long-standing protocol and helps keep the peace around here, ok?
Now I can't speak for the rest on this thread, but personally, I'm getting tired of trying to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man on this subject because your hapless feet are quite obviously frozen in hardeded concrete in your untenable postion. So why don't you just give it a rest until you can clear your emotional mind, ok? Thanks in advance.
It’s certainly going to be tough and it really doesn’t help that we seem to be having a tough time recruiting. Rehberg really should have been running in Montana, and a couple of the current crop of presidential cadidates should be running for senate instead.
Public service is public service, not an 'entitlement' - no, I do not think they should have a similar wage and benefit to the private sector; if they want that, get a job in the private sector. Since I also believe that the federal and local governments should outsource most of their departments to the most efficient commercial company, then I don't care what kind of employees the government is able to attract and retain, since they shouldn't be employed in the first place.
Probably not a popular belief since in many areas, the government is the largest employer. So what? If one believes one of the central conservative tenants: that government should be small and efficient, that there is nothing a government agency can do that a private industry can't do ten times better, then how can that be connected to salaries and benefits that equal or exceed private industry?
Private industry has the balance point of requirement of making money, whereas government employment has the requirement of being able to spend the people's money.
I’m a small-government type, so I agree with some of what you said. But, there are things I want our government doing—defense of the counntry, first and foremost. And if we want those jobs done right, employees deserve a fair, competitive wage, IMO, and that applies to a benefit package as well. To call that an “entitlement” is a bit of a stretch. And I didn’t say payments that “exceed” the private sector, I said “competitive”.
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