I suggest putting pictures on the ballot.
Posted on 09/05/2010 6:23:52 AM PDT by Libloather
Democrats fight to stay in office amid backlash
By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Writer
Thu Sep 2, 11:04 am ET
McGREGOR, Texas – Rep. Chet Edwards, an imperiled Democrat deep in the heart of Republican territory, finds exiting American Legion Post No. 273 slow going. Supporters and well-wishers keep stopping him.
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As the campaign becomes increasingly toxic for Democrats, none of it may matter.
Some of the most senior Democrats in conservative districts are facing what could be their most difficult races: Missouri's 17-term Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and South Carolina's 14-term Rep. John Spratt, chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Even Democrats who, like Edwards, voted against the health care and climate change bills are locked in tough races because they are being linked to Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Georgia Rep. Jim Marshall and South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin join Edwards on the list.
"Jim Marshall's days are numbered because of his continued support of Nancy Pelosi and her agenda of backroom deals, hocus-pocus economics and massive government spending," Marshall's opponent, former Georgia legislator Austin Scott, wrote on his website.
Directly in GOP crosshairs are roughly four dozen Democrats in districts that McCain won in 2008. That's one part of any GOP calculation to reclaiming the House.
Edwards, like other vulnerable Democrats, has distanced himself from Obama and Pelosi on several votes, including repeal of the "don't ask/don't tell" policy on gays in the military.
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Good. Enjoy your retirement.
All Democrats are anti-american enemies of the Constitution.
If Chet Edwards were to be re elected the very first vote he would cast would be for Nancy Pelosi as speaker.
What more does ANYONE need to know than that?
South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin has been running ads trying to show she is in tune with voters in “fly over country” and showing her as a typical Mom of a 2 year old. This despite she hasn’t lived in this state for years, spent much of her career as a Washington DC lawyer and gets major campaign funding from Emily’s list and other liberal groups. Fortunately she is 10% behind in the polls with political new comer Kristi Noem who is a real South Dakotan.
Blue Dog = Coyote with a lamb suit.
They must all run from their own records. Don’t let the chaff cloud redirect your mission.
But I'm working hard at the grass-roots level, letting my independent voting record speak for itself. That's who I am, and that's who I always will be.
Who you are is a Democrat and that's what you'll always be.
Why didn't you run as an Independent? The Democrat campaign dollars that come your way?
I suggest putting pictures on the ballot.
No such thing as a good registered Democrat! And keep them out of American Legion posts!!!!!!
Blue Dogs fear becoming KA-GO-GI in the comming election.
Good! keep the pressure up folks.
A blue dog Democrat on a Pelosi leash is merely another Democrat son of a bitch
By the way folks. TALKING about defeating Democrats will not do the job.
EVERYONE, yes even YOU ,must put up the cash and time and support CONSERVATIVE candidates
I’ll say it again ..CASH AND TIME ...
We must not give these snakes PERMMISSION to be elected!
Amen to that
Blue Dogs are especially on the chopping block. Blue Dogs come, by and large, from conservative districts and they present themselves to the electorate as conservative. Once they get to Washington, they behave as anything but. They vote as the leadership wants them to. When they vote against the Democrat leadership and with their constituents, its because Pelosi doesn’t need that vote and allows the Blue Dog to deceive the folks back home.
Many, many Blue Dogs will be gone in November. Unfortunately, Ike Skelton will probably survive and he will continue to vote a very liberal line which is the price of his committee chairmanship. He’s happy to pay that price.
They should be on the chopping block.
How many times can the ‘Blue Dogs’ fool their voters? They are the 2nd string backups on the Socialist team. to be a Democrat of any kind is aiding and abetting the enemy.
I’m getting concerned that democrats and their media rump-swabs are hyping their underdog status a little too much.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see them trying to raise an unrealistic level of expectation for democrat losses. Then, when the losses aren’t quite as bad as their hype, they can spin it that they beat expectations, that the public isn’t nearly upset as pre-election predictions, etc., etc.
Remember, democrats never stop trying to spin, twist, obfuscate, stack the deck and, in the end, lie cheat and steal.
This in itself screams "TERM LIMITS"!
I agree. I thought the phrase (Even blue dogs are on the chopping block) was a bit naive. I would think they would be the first to go and with very good reason.
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