Posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Travis Childers, elected U.S. House, District 1, Mississippi. [Note: This is an AP bulletin - nothing follows]
Amen to that Sarge. Unfortunately, it may take a whooping this November to have a changing of the guard. We need some new, younger, conservative blood in leadership positions.
I've been telling the GOP by my lack of contributions and my lack of involvement this year...what a shame.
Agreed. I was disappointed as a conservative and the holy middle and far left were disappointed it didn’t happen quick enough.
Good night. Don’t get too wound up. (Allow me to get wound up for the both of us.) ;-)
Agreed but this is cyclical and will pass. The economy is not going to only have ups and no downs. The Dems have no real solutions except to raise taxes. The independents don’t realize this.
We won over 50 house seats in 1994, but the press refused to quote the actual number, instead bemoaning the “Republican takeover.” We never had another big night until 2002, because 9-1-1 gave us a Republican president and a Congress that could support him. We blew it. We squandered it.
This Mississipi race is for a dependable Republican district. I live in a silk stocking Republican district where the GOP clearly outnumbers Democrats. It went Democrat two years ago. The national Republicans refused to support their own congressional nominee because he was too conservative for them. He wanted to close the border. They would rather have had the enemy win. They are Rino’s. This is where they take us.
The Republicans are now as impotent as during the bad old days of FDR, Johnson, and post Watergate. They stand for nothing, a “me too” version of the Democrats, and we are told to vote for a dreadful candidate that many of us despise. I am listening to talk radio as I type, airing a McCain speech in which he thunders in favor of a pet cause, global warming. We are told to vote for this madman because he will give us good SC justices, while the same man battled his own president on similar justices with the creation of the “Gang of 14.”
When the economy tanks, and I've been laid off myself, the president is thus held responsible. I know people will get mad here, but gas prices and food prices are starting to resemble Jimmy Carter's economy. That's where we're up against as far as reaching the general public in an election year. This is going to be a wipe out.
Tom Cole, the head of the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee, has been losing race after race he shouldn't have been losing. This is just the third THIS YEAR -- in heavily Republican districts.
However nobody in the GOP has the guts to actually fire the guy, despite his obvious incompetence.
He hasn't been raising money, he hasn't been recruiting candidates, and he hasn't been spinning a positive message. Now admittedly, a lot of this goes above the pay grade of an Oklahoma Congressman, but the pied-piper mentality screws us over royally.
It will be interesting how the blue collar Dems feel in 2012.
I will still be the Repulicans fault.
Agree. McCain’s idea of Conservative is anything but. He is a left of center candidate who remains supportive of the war (much like Lieberman)...for now.
Good gracious. Vote for Obambi then. We got much bigger fish to fry than for us to get caught up on global warming no matter what McCain thinks of it.
I will still be the Repulicans fault.
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Don’t be so hard on yourself :)
If he could be recalled, Bush would lose to Sherrod Brown right now.
Lesson for Republicans: Sow Reagan Conservatism to the wind, and reap your whirlwind.
As someone from Tupelo which is in the 1st District I would like to apologize for the poor choice the majority of voters in my district made tonight. I feel like Dr Evil when I say “I’m surrounded my frigin idiots!”
As someone from Tupelo which is in the 1st District I would like to apologize for the poor choice the majority of voters in my district made tonight. I feel like Dr Evil when I say “I’m surrounded by frigin idiots!”
This is good news!!! It will give Maverick McCain more help in passing his agenda!!
Well then, ask everyone you know eveyday why the Senate voted down the McConnell/Domenici bill to drill ANWR this morning?
Whose your Senator and how did he/she vote?
Why do you think said Senator did so?
Don’t sit round wringing your hands, if Clinton hadn’t vetoed this bill in ‘95, we’d be sitting pretty.
A vote TODAY in the senate would have dropped the price of a barrel of oil in mere minutes.
This is suicide and we’re sittting here with our thumbs up our bums.
SPEAK OUT! Do so Loudly and Proudly!
Stop waiting or somebody else to come to your rescue.
“But we have a devoted socialist running as well.”
I’m sure Bush thought the same thing when McCain went after his trillion dollar prescription drug giveaway, farm subsidies, and pork addiction.
It is true that the GOP has won few elections since Terri Schiavo was murdered. 2005, 2006, and 2007 were somewhat disappointing. There were a few bright spots in LA and MS in 2007, and now the congressional races have brought those gains back to reality. I can imagine wholesale losses in the fall even if by some miracle Oprah’s Obama is not elected as chief executive. There are just no “safe” seats much any more, and people saying those IL, MS, and LA seats were “safe” did not understand that voters are blaming Republicans in general for high fuel prices, rightly or wrongly, and I say wrongly. All people understand is that they vote “D” when they sour on the “R”. Nothing more.
It really is not your fault or even the fault of the other constituents in the district. They see no leadership in the GOP, they see a failure to govern and they want a change. The change may be for the worse but why continue on the path of obvious failure.
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