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This is great news for Bucks County! In 2006 the rats dug up “Iraqi War veteran” Patrick Murphy as one of their gimmicks to try to win a House seat... and it worked (barely). It turned out Murphy was a lawyer in Iraq, probably one of those slimeballs who went around trying to convict Americans of “war crimes” and “atrocities”, etc. (although I don’t know that for certain).

In any event, Tom Manion’s son Travis was a true American hero, and Tom stands a real good chance at retaking this seat for the Republicans. Murphy won the seat by a hair in 2006 on the strength of a sliver of Philadelphia that was gerrymandered into the district. Murphy LOST Bucks County, which is the vast majority and heart of the district, because conservatives and Republicans in general did not turn out. (That may have been due in some part to the incumbent Mike Fitzpatrick’s going against the party on several issues [he opposed ANWR drilling, for example]. Mike is pro-life and a good guy, but he tried to play it the same way previous office-holder Jim Greenwood played it, as a “moderate”, and it probably cost him.)

In any event, Patrick Murphy is a typical Democrat socialist and hopefully we can dump him after just one term.

Please add me to your ping list on this race. I am an 8th district resident and I am sick to death of the stupid amateur we have representing us. He is nothing but a lapdog for Nancy Pelosi and Jack Murtha, and does not at all represent the majority views of Bucks County!! And he is unethical to boot, taking a gigantic $100,000 advance for a book just before being sworn in to Congress and knowing full well that such an advance would become illegal as soon as he was sworn in. He has fallen all over himself trying to make excuses for this do-nothing majority he is part of.

Murphy won in 2006 because (a)he raised tons of cash and volunteers from moveon.org and they blanketed the small Democratic parts of the district; (b) Rick Santorum and Lynn Swann were a drag on all Republicans in Pennsylvania; and (c) Mike Fitzpatrick ran a horrible campaign. I hope Mr. Manion will run a better campaign, because without George Bush to run against, Murphy has nothing to say to this district and should be defeated easily.