"The Stupak, it burns!"
Posted on 05/12/2010 4:12:03 PM PDT by freespirited
As Adam notes, incumbents should take Rep. Allan Mollohan's loss of his primary as a shot across the bow but there are 13 members it should terrify. Mollohan was one of the 14 Democrats who voted for Bart Stupak's amendment in November and for health care reform on final passage. Republicans are targeting this group, accusing them of flip flopping on abortion; the GOP even has a website called Stupak's Sellouts. Already Michigan's Stupak has announced he's retiring, as has Dave Obey, the powerful Appropriations Committee Chairman from Wisconsin. The National Republican Congressional Committee singled out Mollohan, the group's first casualty at the polls, with an advertisement right after the vote. Mollohan, a 28-year House veteran, was defeated by a Democratic candidate who attacked from his right. State Senator Michael Oliverio, 46, received the endorsement of the National Right to Life Political Action Committee and benefitted from ads and voter outreach run by the Susan B. Anthony list, a pro-life group.
Of the remaining 12, seven are in districts won by John McCain in 2008: Baron Hill (IN-09), Chris Carney (PA-10), Earl Pomeroy (ND-AL), Joe Donnelly (IN-02), John Salazar (CO-03), Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03) and Tom Perriello (VA-05). Two of the remaining five are are also in trouble: Pennsylvania's Paul Kanjorski is facing the primary battle of his life and Ohio's Steve Dreihaus is in a race rated a “toss up” by the Cook Political Report. Only Texas's Ciro Rodriguez, and Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa of California looks likely to escape their health care votes unscathed. Note: Brad Ellsworth also falls in this group, though he's not running for reelection as he's running for Evan Bayh's Senate seat in Indiana.
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.blogs.time.com ...
http://gopcodered.org/stupak.aspx
May each and every one of them be sterilized like Mollohan.
I’ll be thrilled to see Donnelly and Perriello go.
Are any of the blue dogs that Rahm recruited in danger?
Driehaus a tossup? Yeah so was the battle of Yorktown.
A political birdie tells me Dr. Steele has received more contributions in the 1st qtr than Dingell.
If so he won't be controlling the people...
Anna Clark writes in Salon: "When Stupak decided not to run for another term, the news should have buoyed [pro-abortion true believer Connie] Saltonstall's campaign. Instead, Saltonstall found herself hung out to dry by a state Democratic Party that groomed another candidate as successor to Stupak’s seat: Gary McDowell, a Democratic state representative so opposed to reproductive rights that he voted to ban a safe abortion method even in the cases of rape and incest, or to protect a woman's health. He has been endorsed by the antiabortion group Right to Life."
The most unkindest cut of all: a Democrat endorsed by Right to Life. Oh, the humanity!
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