Posted on 12/07/2008 2:51:46 AM PST by flattorney
It’s pronounced Cow.
“...The marriage/children rule of the RC Church works wonders in that case...”
That’s why I never considered marrying a Catholic.
I think some of those RINO Governors were complicit in destroying the viability of the MA GOP (and that’s not the only state, either). I see Weld finally gave up his farce of an act of claiming he was ever a Republican when he endorsed the False Messiah (and Slick Willard might as well follow suit, he’s as much of a Republican as Coupe DeVille).
I was reading this article about Torkildsen, who is quitting as GOP Chief after apparently doing... zilch. Torkildsen must’ve lost touch with reality when he uttered this gem: “I will not rest until we have Senate President Richard Tisei and Speaker of the House Brad Jones.” Was Pete aware the difficulty of getting a Speakership from a party holding 12% of the seats (now 10%) ? The goal is to get rid of the Country Clubber Brahmin elitists holding onto a paper-only party. If we turned it into a strictly Conservative party, we could get it up to at least 25-30% with hard work. A majority goal at this point is ludicrous, we just need a solid bloc of Conservatives there to toss sabot into the ultraleft workings. Once we’ve gotten that nice 1/3rd bloc, we can build on that.
If we don’t do that, we might as well just hire a Democrat to run the state GOP, since they couldn’t shrink it that much (what, 8%, 5% ?). Worse, too, what few Republicans are left in the legislature are left-wingers that scarcely differ from their Democrat friends. They are ALL a part of the problem.
He completely left out that all other taxes would be abolished, along with a tax prebate to cover the cost of groceries, because he probably never read a book about it.
He is considered a conservative Dumbocrat from Bush's “home” district. The guy is a complete fraud, and was in the running for Hussein's VP ticket. The day he gets voted out, I will have a giant bottle of champagne.
Coupe Dewho? Deval? Weld? "said Senate Minority Leader Richard Tisei, who said he learned of Torkildsens departure Wednesday. I think Peter did as good a job as he could have done under the circumstances"
Really Rich? Doesn't sound like a very demanding job. Where do I sign up? I'll work hard, like Pete.
A rat running it wouldn't be any worse. Actually it's a great idea they know how to elect people.
bttt
What was Weeks deal do you know? Think Kieth was too conservative? Too liberal? Or did he just want to buy himself a seat?
Debbil Patrick.
I found this article:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_/ai_n15637949
Weeks was apparently a leftist moonbat, sounded more like he was running interference for the Democrats, just like a vermin RINO weasel. To call Keith a “(right-wing) reactionary” was ludicrous. Keith scored an overall 45% rating from the ACU for the two years average they were keeping score in his last two years. Anyone to the left of the 50% mark is a liberal by Republican standards. It’s amazing, those Brahmins didn’t used to be liberals, go back a few generations and they were bedrock Conservatives. Somewhere along the line, perhaps in college, they were turned into rabid loonies.
The legislation may have been badly crafted, but I think it was a deliberate attempt to harm the black family. If you offer temporary help to people who are literally moving out of poverty, in a few years they don't need your help any more. If you deconstruct the family, provide bad schooling and other things, you keep generations of people in a cycle of poverty. You offer them a little "help" while keeping them down and the more you keep people down, the more they think they need your "help." It is really a diabolical system.
I was thinking too, that Katrina may have sobered people up a bit.
Congratulations Louisiana. And thank you for dumping that corrupt Jefferson.
George Wallace made the same observations about people moving to urban areas without the preparation for life in urban areas.
PALIN/JINDAL 2012
MA will lose a congressional seat after the 2010 Census, dropping to 9 CDs. I think that one could draw 3 or 4 of those 9 CDs to be competitive for the GOP (with President Bush getting between 46%-50% in 2004), although you are correct that one couldn’t draw any districts in which the GOP would be strongly favored.
Well that stinks, sounds like aside from a pointless vote for a GOP Speaker he’d be the same as Studds.
Kieth definitely should have stayed and fought. I’m sure your old Almanacs of American politics will show that district voting for Nixon even as the rest of the state was full tilt moonbat at that time for some reason. Only Carter in ‘76 appeared to win that area of the state until Clinton.
Gizzi tends to label certain Republicans as more conservative than they are. Keith was according the ACU a not as Conservative as Pete’s Torkildsen and Blute. But he was the only halfway decent one ‘side’s them.
Paul Cronin or his predecessor Bradford Morse? Nope? Heckler? Liberal. Conte? Super liberal. I browsed the all the ACU scores for them.
67% in 1981 was his only ACU score over 30. Heckler got the same score in 81 her only one over 50. Lots of votes related to the tax cut. They must have been for it. Some MA Dems did a little better than both sometimes.
Really puts Weld’s f.ing up a chance at a GOP comeback in MA in perspective. Offing an echo of the democrats in MA has failed in undeniably spectacular fashion.
Weld did one good thing by seeing to it they drew a couple at the time winnable seats.
3 huh? 46-50% for Bush? I wouldn’t think that was possible.
I’d guess the seats would be in the South Shore (Studds/Delahunt), Boston burbs including the part of the seat where Torkildsen lost in ‘96. And I guess a seat that takes parts of the current 5th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st districts. That one would be a beauty.
Of course with rats in charge they’ll probably make nice and sure all 9 are nice and rat. Especially The south shore seat.
Cali’s gonna drop a seat for the first time.
I think failed liberal governance is causing some residents to flee to other western states. And vote rat their of course.
If you carve out Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet (which you could connect by sea to Nantucket and Martha’s and from there to other Democrat turf) from Barnstable County and Brockton and Hull from Plymouth County, the rest of Barnstable and Plymouth yields close to a full congressional district that gave President Bush like 47% in 2004. Connecting Springfield, Northampton and Amherst to the Berkshires (and to Fitchburg and Gardner in northern Worcester County) to create an overwhelmingly Dem CD, and connecting the city of Worcester to Dem parts of Middlesex County to create another Dem CD, leaves enough GOP and marginal towns for a competitive CD along the CT border and in the western Worcester suburbs. Central Essex County and northern Middlesex County could also form a competitive CD for the GOP. Thinking it over, trying to get a fourth competitive CD out of MA would be more difficult due to the Boston suburbs voting so heavily Democrat nowadays, and I wouldn’t try it lest it makes the CD along the CT border too Democrat.
Of course, MA Democrats will have full control over redistricting (unless the GOP can win back the governorship in 2010, and even then the Democrats will have veto-proof majorities in the state leg), so don’t expect any competitive congressional districts for 2012.
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