This gives a better idea of how they vote (proper color schemes of Blue-GOP; Red-Democrat) from the '04 Presidential vote.
Posted on 12/19/2007 6:44:16 AM PST by grace522
what an absolute disgrace, especially after the ad castor cut for matthews in the week leading up to the election. this is the guy who ran on the number 2 ticket last year for governor. i didnt work to get the guy the elected, but alot of others did. go to **** matthews.
It does make you wonder whether funds were exchanged here.
RINOS will do that to you all the time. First they try to placate the so called “middle” to get elected. In the end people prefer not to vote for the liberals on a budget. They vote for the real thing and you get democrats.
Probably no funds needed. Matthews = typical PA Republicrat. In the '90's, when the "Republicans" took over Allegheny County for the first time in a zillion years (prior to the new form of gov't when they still elected 3 commissioners) the 2nd "Republican" who was dragged into office by the top vote getter, stabbed him in the back and sold out to the Democrat, same as Matthews did. Just typical PA Republicrat behavior.
The only silver lining in this is that Bruce Castor, who seems to be a solid law-and-order Republican (I’m not completely familiar with his record, so don’t flame me), comes out of it looking like a man of principle and may have a statewide future. We need candidates badly.
My husband, a "born" Republican left blank the governor's race last time when he discovered Matthews was Chris Matthews' brother. Blood, thicker than... and I guess he was correct. LOL!
We should be glad Lynn Swann didn’t win, since this POS (just like his brother) Matthews would’ve been the Lieutenant Governor of PA (and would’ve shown no hesistation in undermining him and knifing him in the back). Better gridlock government than including leftist repugnant rodents in decisionmaking leadership positions.
There are Republicans in PA?
Pennsylvania ping
Pennsylvania, yes. Palestinian Authority, no.
LOL. Aren’t most PA Repubs of the Rudy kind anyway?
There are Conservatives and there are RINOs, just like many other places.
The problem is recent elections has been the Philly suburbs lurch to the left.
This gives a better idea of how they vote (proper color schemes of Blue-GOP; Red-Democrat) from the '04 Presidential vote.
I’m afraid that’s how it will be for a while. We will not see any more conservatives from PA from now on, Santorum was an aberration.
Johnstown and even Scranton have had GOP Mayors in recent years. Cambria County (Johnstown) now votes GOP Presidentially. It was the first time since 1972 when it went for Dubya in 2004. It didn’t even vote for Reagan.
Don’t worry, it’ll come back around again. We do have Conservatives in PA (even some of the Dems aren’t pinkos).
Scranton (and Barletta's city of Hazleton) are quite depressing places, although I am happy to see that there is at least SOME political sense among the local populace.
On a final Pennsy note, my great grandfather settled in Dixon City, PA (between Scranton and Wilkes Barre) when he first came to this country. The fact that he left for NEWARK after only four years tells me all I need to know about Coal Country. ;-)
On the one hand, this report is from the Philadelphia Inquirer and therefore cannot be trusted. On the other hand, if there is any truth to the story then Jim Matthews may have just won his last election in Montgomery County. What a disappointment.
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