"Obi Wan DJ - you're our only hope!"
Posted on 12/13/2007 6:52:45 PM PST by LdSentinal
JACKSON — Mike Moore, viewed by many Mississippi Democrats as their best hope to capture a U.S. Senate seat held since 1989 by a Republican, said Thursday afternoon he would not be a candidate for the post.
Moore, who served four terms as state attorney general, had said earlier he was considering running for the Senate seat that is being vacated by Republican Trent Lott. Moore stepped down as attorney general four years ago and is now in private law practice in Jackson.
"The polls show I could win; and I would have the money I needed to win the race," Moore said. "It all just came down to whether it was best for me and my family.
"The truth is, I made my decision four years ago, and it has been a good one for my family and me."
Moore said he believes he can continue to make a difference in private law practice and while serving on various boards and commissions.
Taylor’s an effeminate, troop-bashing little punk. I could kick his @ss, and I weigh 150 on a good day.
why would he run? he is gonna make millions for the rest of his life with little if any stress (or any real time involved). Is being one of many senators really worth it?
You’re quite an exception and you know it.
Me on the other hand...am a stereotype as are most folks.
Assuming that blacks were 35% of MS voters in 2004 (which is a fair estimate, since blacks are 37% of the total MS population but have a higher percentage below age 18 and a higher percentage of felons and other non-voters than do whites) and that they gave President Bush 10% of the vote in 2004, that means that non-black voters in MS (almost all of whom are white Anglos) gave President Bush 85% of the vote in 2004. No other group in any other state gave President Bush such a high percentage of the vote (unless you count small sub-groups, such as the Dutch in Iowa and Michigan or Cubans in South Florida, or white Anglos in West Texas but not in Texas as a whole).
btw....NRT and I will lunch today in Lebanon as is our wont weekly and as usual when FR comes up, we will discuss your Go-To rep on local and regional politics.
I have to head out but I can further elaborate my gut about how folks here often just expound on where their heart leads them in the first place
the key is to find where all this can converge...and I think that’s harder today
The Red spots must be where MS black folks live.
I’m glad Moore is out of the race. The seat leans GOP. I wish Gene Taylor would go for the Seante seat. that way we’ll get a two for one deal. And Trent Lott will finally atoned for his blunder back in 1988.
Mmm, yeah. But not always a positive. Having greater insight doesn't equate with having a better time of it than just an average rube.
I can’t imagine South FL Cubans voting 85% for Dubya !
I think I’m better on out-of-state stuff. I find it’s easier to pontificate on things far away. I tend to cringe looking at the local. Hope you fellas enjoy your lunch. ;-)
As for Trent Lott and the loss of his House seat, you forgot that Republican Larkin Smith did win that seat that Lott vacated, but nobody knew Smith's love of small planes would cut his Congressional tenure so short. Running Smith's widow, that Lott passed over, might not have guaranteed us holding the seat over Taylor (Smith's original 1988 opponent). When she ended up running later, she lost badly.
“I can’t imagine South FL Cubans voting 85% for Dubya !”
I’d presume that was a bit lower than 85% if only because, unfortunately, some of the younger native FL-born Cuban-Americans were trending somewhat away from their GOP parents. Dubya’s current (and misguided) policy on those fleeing Cuba (wet foot, dry foot) has obviously eroded support for the GOP amongst them. Although I have become increasingly anti-illegal (especially since July), I tend to give some sympathy to those literally fleeing for their lives from totalitarian regimes (I also have similar sympathy for Haitians, although that’s not quite the same political situation as with Cuba). Mexico doesn’t meet that by any stretch of the imagination.
Wow!
You’re right...it is huge!
I don’t think Ronnie will be strong, either.
Taylor is the more appealing ‘Rat candidate.
Wheeee! No Moore Mike!!!
"Obi Wan DJ - you're our only hope!"
Of course, pursuant to the federal Cuba Adjustment Act, Cubans that make it to the U.S. are not illegal aliens.
It was rank hypocrisy for Clinton to deem U.S. coastal waters to be the United States for every conceivable purpose, yet not to be the U.S. for purposes of the Cuba Adjustment Act. It is also shameful that President Bush has continued that idiotic policy. If Cubans escaping a Communist tyranny make it to U.S. territorial waters, it is cruel to send them back to Castro where their fate is even worse than it was before.
Yup. And, of course, the Elián González matter, which still boils my blood. Probably the singlemost evil thing the Clinton Administration did. Of course, that little boy’s forceable abduction to Cuba probably made Dubya President by tipping enough Cuban-American votes in FL against Gore.
Some cause for celebration.
More so than tipping wavering Cuban-American voters our way, it energized the constituency and increased turnout; they all made sure that their grandparents had a ride to the polls to go and vote Republican. That’s what all of the Rudyphiles don’t understand-—even if most conservatives hold their noses and vote for Rudy (which may or may not be the case), they won’t be engaged in the type of informal get-out-the-vote activities that win elections. (And, of course, Rudy would also turn off all of those socially conservative traditional Democrats that need a reason to pull the lever for the GOP candidate, and running someone just as socially liberal as the Democrats certainly would’n’t give them a reason to abandon the Democrat candidates.)
“Of course, there are a lot of Whites fleeing Memphis and swelling the population of some of the northern MS counties adjacent, so that might be enough to tip it a point.”
Hope I live long enough to see that make some positive changes in Marshall and Benton Counties. I’m not racist at all but there are a lot of people with political power there that are really in need of an upgrade.
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