Posted on 11/06/2008 4:40:13 AM PST by Impy
WASHINGTON -- Democrats won both open-seat congressional races in Alabama Tuesday, preserving a century-long hold in the Tennessee Valley and breaking Republicans' 44-year hold in the Southeastern part of the state.
Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions was easily re-elected to a third term.
With the election of Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright and state Sen. Parker Griffith of Huntsville, Democrats gained one seat in Alabama's House delegation. Republicans will hold a 4-3 majority in the delegation and occupy both of Alabama's Senate seats.
Did the idiot voters listen to the out of state media which told them what a "great fit" for the districts these pelosibots are?
Did they run as conservatives?
“Conservative” democrats.
Public enemy #1.
Yes, they lied, they’re for Pelosi.
Did not vote for Bright,but I understand why he got in.
He’s from this area and he is/was an old school Dem..We’ll see how he stands in DC.
I think he’ll morph into a DC lefty.
I wish somebody would talk about the good news coming out of this election in some places, such as here in Kansas. Now we’re down to one stinkin dim instead of two. Two R Senators, 3 out of our 4 reps are now Republican!!
Bright basically got voted in on name recognition and the belief he was a Republican. Bright was mayor of Montgomery, only a small part of which is in the 2nd Congressional District. Bright's tenure in Montgomery was especially helpful to surrounding Elmore and Autauga counties, which benefited as businesses and homeowners fled Montgomery's tax increases.
I’ve posted many many threads the last 2 days.
Good news ones too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:impy/index?tab=articles
Parker Griffith won the Huntsville area seat that Repubs had high hopes for. Pretty sad. Didn’t he make some outrageous comments defaming veterans, or people currently serving in Iraq? I forget the exact quite but it was mentioned on FR. Sounds like a scumbag so I can’t believe the good people of AL rewarded him.
Blue Dog Democrats.
We’re talking MY Home State, the State that most formed who I am today.
These are the “old” “original” Democrats like my Grandfather before Liberalism and Socialism destroyed the fabric.
Blue Dog Democrats or DIXIECRATS are the moral conscience of the Democrat Party.
They are generally conservative, fiscally, and may be socially generous. Don’t discount them just because they use the Democrat Party as their Party of Choice. They are potentially the ones who can wrest control of the DNC from the Yankee Liberal Howard Dean.
Dixiecrats like myself are more likely to be on FR than on DU. They’re not usually given over to emotional outbursts, don’t “hate” anyone and are uncomfortable at DU and Kos.
They’re also usually gun owners and defenders of the Constitution. They are true Traditionalists.
You are part of the problem then friend.
You buddies vote for Pelosi and allow scum like Rangel, Frank and Waxman to chair committees. They also rarely defy the labor unions.
In state legislatures they keep liberals or corrupt scum bags in power rather than conservative Republicans whom they try to disenfranchise when drawing the legislative district lines. In Georgia Cynthia McKinney’s daddy was a commitee chair is the state legislature till the GOP took over. ‘Dixiecrats’ kept him in power and drew a new house seat intended for a liberal black state legislator’s son.
Very few if any blue dogs deserves the “dixiecrat” designation, they mostly vote as far left as they think they can get away with.
Bright is a shifty scumbag who shopped around on which party to run for.
How can you be in the party of Obama? Seriously what the hell? This isn’t 1950 dudette(I assume from your tagline). Democrats=left liberal. Conservatives=Republican. You must shed ridiculous ancestral leanings. Your gramps was a Democrat cause the south was 1-party territory and people still hated the GOP as they did since the Civil War, that is long since no longer the case. The place for conservatives is the party that is (largely) conservative not the socialist labor party. Especially not locally.
Sounds like a real tool.
He should at the top of the target list for 2010.
Parker Griffith said we have nothing to fear from Islam. He said that America’s greatest enemy is materialism. It was a nasty campaign and it was said he mistreated cancer patients and didn’t get them adequate chemo thus prolonging their treatment and adding dollars to his income.
I really thought Wayne Parker would win but he is a lobbyist and not sure what else they threw at him.
He will be,I’ve met folks down here already who did not vote ,due to McCain, that would have if Palin was at the top of the ticket.
And I’m going to keep my eyes and ears open as I think people will see Obama as he is by that time and turn on him,though the media I don’t think will.
And the 2-3 most conservative Dem Senators?
It strikes me these guys may very well be the most powerful people in Washington.
Griffith from North Alabama did. Campaigned as Pro-Life and Pro 2nd Amendment. Actually called himself a conservative.
In the pre-election debate, Parker asked Griffith why he voted himself a 68% payraise in the state legislature. Griffith responded that the bill didn’t pass (obfuscation). Parker pointed out that he DID vote for it.
Griffith got outgoing Congressman Bud Cramer’s endorsement 5 days before the election and appeared with him on TV ads. Killed the Republicans chances.
North Alabama has some union people in the West side and a bunch of liberal transplants in Huntsville.
The state is decidedly conservative. However, the area that contains the 5th congressional district (The Tennesse Valley area of N ALabama) does not have a single elected official among the 26 state wide elected political offices.
That seat literally hasn’t gone Republican for Congress in 140 years. One problem was that Wayne Parker was viewed as an old retread and Griffith held office and was known. The GOP tried to recruit an old Democrat State Senator to run, but he declined, so it fell to Parker. I’m not giving up the 5th and 2nd (which hadn’t gone Democrat since 1962) as lost causes since both men, however moderate they try to portray themselves, both cast votes for a moonbat San Francisco Speaker and ultraleft Congress. If we can get our act together and illustrate how out-of-touch and extremist the 111th Congress is, we can retake a lot of what should be GOP seats in 2010 (and frankly, why we lost seats this time was because the bulk of the public doesn’t even know what party is in charge — many think the GOP is still in power because of Bush. They’re about to be in for a rude awakening). This country’s new dictator is about to make Bubba Clinton look like Reagan.
I don’t know where to begin to address HO’s post... First of all, the response about this not being 1950 is dead on the money. While some Dixiecrats were right on the issues YEARS ago, the “moral conscience” part is highly dubious since so many were racial supremacists and spawned far more problems and helped in radicalizing the Black community instead of seeking to fully integrate them into society. Indeed, they DROVE them into the arms of Socialists.
To claim, too, they don’t “hate anyone” is also ridiculous. And it’s the height of naivete to think that somehow those individuals are going to take back a highly radicalized and reactionary ultraleft anti-American party. It’s not gonna happen. There’s a reason the sane people left the Democrat party to become Republicans. The days of the reasonable Dem party are long gone. These “moderates” (sic) only serve now to pad the numbers of a radical party and do nothing to further the cause of Conservatism.
The lost House seat had been Republican since 1965.
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