This will be a tough year.
McCain isn’t even either of those two.... very tough year indeed... and look around ya... it’s no one else’s fault.
Ding! You can stop reading right there.
We have the FR Quote of the Day.
To lose a safe seat we need only run more McCain clones.
I will not vote for McCain in November.
It worked in '06 in PA and it will continue to wipe out Republicans here, not that it matters much since the elected Republicans from W PA vote in lockstep with Murtha.
So you're saying that the Mexicans are voting?
I say that if you have a real conservative, less taxes, less government, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-illegal and pro-fence you have a shoo-in. Just don't count on the support of Washington and the national silk-stocking Republicans.
But you'll get plenty of local support from conservative, grass roots Republicans who will give you their time and money along with their vote.
There are scores of local and statewide races that are proof. Look at the number of "rats" that have switched parties in the South.
The Louisiana Republican party is a joke. They have been losing a lot of elections by super large margins that they should have won or at least have been very competitive in. We got lucky with Jindhal, but that was in spite of the La. Republican party, not because of it.
Landrieu will get re-elected easily this year.
Jenkins was the worst possible candidate for that seat and still nearly won the special election. If Republicans can find a decent candidate they can get that seat back in 2008. Same with Denny Hastert’s seat in Illinois.
“Mr. Jenkins should’ve been a cinch to win a Baton Rouge district in Republican hands for 34 years, and that President Bush won with 59% in 2004”
What was the change in the voter makeup after Katrina? If this was once a safe Republican district, how did the influx of people from New Orleans affect it?
One reason for this loss may have been a Katrina backlash against the GOP, which won’t carry into other states.
That said, we all need to work hard, donate lots, and fight long this Fall.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
‘More debilitating to the Jenkins campaign was a strong whiff of the ethical problems that have plagued Republicans. A labor union ran ads noting Mr. Jenkins’s had seen 19 tax liens filed against him and his broadcasting company since 1990. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pointed out that a murky Jenkins charity had paid him consulting fees, paid rent to his company, and paid more than a half-a-million dollars to his wife.’
Democrats can’t lead but they can sure knock out Republican candidates with various real and bogus “ethics” violations.
The funny thing that the national media fail to point out is that they’re compromising their liberal banner with people like this (and Heath Shuler and Brad Ellsworth, etc, etc). That’s short-sighted of them because they’re keeping conservatives in Congress. That said, the GOP ran terrible candidates in both Jenkins and Oberweis.
Where has this been happening?