There is also a mistake in the article. The Republicans last won the governorship in 1980 (John Spellman) but lost it in 1984 (Booth Gardner).
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Article title:
“Washington State Republicans Seek Distance from McCain, National Party”
Let’s be frank about this.
It no longer matters what Washington State Republicans think, in terms of the national party. The same goes for Oregon and - of course - for California.
This is because Republicans, even today, play little role in the politics of those left-leaning liberal states. What little influence they have today, will only be reduced and further marginalized tomorrow.
Washington state, Oregon and California have become the Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York of the west coast. Honestly, the best choice for conservatives living in those states is... to leave.
- John
Good thing Mr. Postman is not a general or he would get lots of people killed. The situation on the ground changed Friday, yet Mr. Postman filed the same old tired copy he had prepared previously. I suspect after Friday the local candidates are quite thrilled to be associated with the GOP ticket.
I think that Washington COULD be in play, if he played his cards right...and used his VP choice correctly. She is a PNW girl and could bring the blue collar Democrats in play. There are a lot of pretentious liberals in Seattle, but I know a lot of rank and file union members who vote Democrat because they think they should.
The other thing he needs to do is somehow turn the Boeing thing into a win. There is a perception locally that he sank the tanker contract and gets money from Airbus. The way to do that is to make sure they know their corrupt leadership sank the original deal....People hate Stonecipher and co, and that’s where a lot of the blame lies.
>>>...thanks to blue collar voters and “Scoop Jackson” Democrats...
Scoop Jackson? I’ve not heard that name since....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943029/posts?page=3#3
I like that great old Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson who was one of the great democrat strong defense leaders of our time. He said, ‘in time of war national policy should emanate from our shore with one voice’.
—Duncan Lee Hunter December 2007
BTW, Rossi had the election won in 2004. However Gregoire and the Democrats, taking a page from the AlGore playbook, held several recounts, each time "discovering" uncounted ballot boxes found, surprisingly enough, in unsecured warehouses, that finally brought her total to more than Rossi's, at which point the Washington State courts (Democrats, of course) shut off the recounts, and declared her the winner.
The Seattle Times is not the voice of the Washington Conservatives.
This is bu*l
The Tacomacrats versus the Latte Crats. I’m sure there are plenty of registered Democrats in South King and Pierce Counties who are sick of having to deal with frou frou douches like Gary Locke and Chris Gregoire.
Seattle out votes the rest of the state even if they don't have enough votes.
I don’t buy this nonsense. It’s just another tactic to manipulate voters.
Not to worry Publius... Rossi is wisely taking advantage of the “change” mantra and applying it to the governor. After all, the “regime” in this state is the democrat party. And a gentle reminder to our media buddies ;), George W. Bush is not running this year LOLOL.
In this heavily RAT (yuk) state, I believe Rossi is running a very smart campaign. Look for him to get ever sharper closer to the election. Ol’ Chrissy started with our largest RESERVE and has spent us into our state’s largest DEFICIT in 3 short years. Chock full of new, expensive, & ongoing “programs”, new state workers... The worker thing will be difficult, but I think citizens are responding to Fraudoire giving us the country’s HIGHEST gas tax, the ferry debacle, and a checking accout overdrawn by BILLIONS of dollars.
Run, Dino, RUN!
Jaw dropping obove the fold on this morning Seattle Times. It is classic Gregoire and had her finger prints all over it. Very clever but nothing but a stinking steaming pile of crap news story. Rossi is as much excited about the McCain/Palin team as any of us.
Sometimes you’ll hear among us here in Alaska “Alaska is an extension of Washington.” From the gold rush days until now, this has been the case.
This being so you’d think the appointment of VP Sarah Palin might influence Washington more to the right.
They might want to re-think that decision. McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as Veep has energized this party overnight, and if the Wash. State folks can't see that, then they're blind, as well as stupid, and they don't deserve to be in any office.
I know about California and Oregon, but I didn’t realize that enough of the infectious puss had drifted north to send Washington down the toilet, too. Oh well.