Posted on 05/11/2010 7:02:42 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Mike Oliverio 27766 56% Alan Mollohan 21660 44% --------------------------------- 49426
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Heh!
I’m going to post a thread with the title “Something just happened in America!!” with the body-text “Google the shocking details for yourself!”
Halleleuia!! It is better that this happens now. The rest of the Democrats need to learn sooner rather than later that siding with Obama can cost them their jobs.
If Oliverio wins in November, he should switch parties. Any Conservative credentials of his will be nullified the moment he votes for Pelosi for Speaker.
If Oliverio (I had been misspelling his name until now) can win the general by running as a solid conservative (although I, for one, think that McKinley has an excellent chance of winning an open-seat race in the most heavily GOP CD in the state), he will likely face a GOP majority in the House. His smartest play could be to vote “present” for Speaker (or for some conservative Democrat such as Gene Taylor or Mike McIntyre, assuming that they survive) so that it keeps his options open and he can either switch to the GOP as 2012 draws near or stay as a Democrat if redistricters draw a more Democrat WV-01.
Justice Dept. ends probe of Rep. Mollohan
Interesting timing, eh...?
After his investigation by the FBI was mysteriously stopped a week before the vote!
(1) if you don't live here you have no idea how hard it is for a Republican to win in WV. I had very little confidence that Mollohan could be beaten in the general.
(2) Mollohan was such an utterly corrupt, bottom feeding douche that I'm delighted to see him kicked out, even if replaced by another Dem.
I thought the same thing about Stupak! Thanks for saying what I was thinking!
I thought it was so they could see where they were going.
Dave was 18 in 1965. Why is there no mention of any type of military service in his biography?
Mollohan had a lot of ethics baggage and also this is a district that likes to vote for Republicans for President. Health care just sent the voters over the edge, seems like.
It will be “hugher” if a Democrat in a swing or DEM leaning district is repudiated in this manner. There are several test cases of this type in next Tuesday’s primaries.
That will give us more of a clue where we’re headed.
I'm not sure that John Denver ever visited the state, but he sure got a lot of the geography wrong in his song. It does sound nice though.
True, and I'll take a conservative Dem over a liberal Dem any day of the week. Hopefully, the GOP will win big enough in November that the occasional conservative Democrat making a pro forma vote for their own Party's leader for the Speakership won't make a difference.
WV strikes me as being about where a lot of the Deep South states like Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina were thirty years ago - willing to vote for a Republican at the Presidential level, but still locked in with the Dems at the local and district level. This makes sense as WV started to make the break a couple of decades after the Deep South did. Shoot, WV went for Carter in 1980, Dukakis in 1988, and Clinton both times. One could make the argument that WV has been voting reliably Republican at the Presidential level only since 2000.
Good point regarding redistricting. That is coming up everywhere.
Bad news for Republicans. Mollohan voted for healthcare and was tainted with ethics problems. This new Dem will be harder to beat. GOP may have just lost a pickup oppo.
No Democrat since Bill Clinton has carried the 1st District in presidential elections. George W. Bush carried the district both times in 2000 with 54% of the vote and 2004 with 58% of the vote. John McCain carried the district in 2008 with 56.77% of the vote while Barack Obama received 41.51%.
The fact that Mollohan inherited his father's seat made him an institution that garnered support from both sides. His absence will create a vacuum and I imagine that some diehard Dem supporters will not show up in November either out of anger or disinterest. I see this as a Rep pickup as long as the Rep candidate has no skeletons in the closet.
He sounds preferable to many Republicans, frankly. I gather he won't be herded by the likes of Pelosi, Reid or Obama. Good stuff. The GOP has pissed me off so mightily over the past two decades that I really have no built-in preference for a party label any more. I'd take a Zell Miller over a Lindsay Graham just about any time. This guy Oliverio sounds pretty good. May his tribe increase among the Dems. Moral Equivalence talk between GOP and dems ignores this reality.
Oliverio MUST be asked who he intends to support as Speaker. Even people like Heath Shuler voted for Pelosi. If Pelosi is Speaker she still sets the agenda. If he can't say or supports Pelosi he must be voted down.
Even if a Republican doesn’t take this seat in the fall, this is a huge step in the right direction.
In reality, there is no such thing as a "conservative" demoRAT or "pro-life" demoRAT. A demoRAT in the House is a another party vote for Pelosi or if in the Senate is a another vote for Reid. And the RATs still maintain control of all the committees with radical socialist demoRAT committee chairs. Personally I would have rather seen Mollohan win the RAT's primary and then for Republicans to take back this seat in November. Otherwise we will now have a so-called "conservative" demoRAT Oliverio running as a fiscal conservative, pro-life, pro-gun, yada yada. And unfortunately dumb ass voters will be sucked into thinking he is one of the good guys when all he does is just enable the socialist RATs & the commie pig 0bozo to carry out their leftist agenda.
There is only one Greenville. That would be Greenville, NC. Home of the ECU Pirates. :>) What a place.
Absolutely true! A vote for Oliverio in November is a vote for Pelosi to maintain demoRAT majority control, and for the House committees to be chaired & controlled by the radical leftist socialist wing of the socialist demoRAT party.
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