The left are having a field day with him brushing off his wife so abruptly during his concession speech.
Posted on 10/16/2013 6:51:47 PM PDT by servo1969
The Associated Press has declared Newark Mayor Cory Booker the winner in Wednesday's special U.S. Senate election.
Booker defeated former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, a Tea Party Republican, to serve out the remainder of the late Frank Lautenberg’s term.
Although the race was close early on, Democrats were quick to declare Booker the winner. Only 40 minutes after polls closed at 8 p.m., the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was declaring victory. A short time later, state Sen. Barbara Buono, who is running against Governor Christie in the Nov. 5 election, offered her congratulations to Booker.
Right back at ya :)
Sorry, but there’s no reason why 1 ‘major city’ (let’s say 5-10%) negates the will of the other 90-95% of the State. If anyone got the message out, it was the 90-95%.
If we still had a Constitutional Republic, it would not MATTER what the ‘message’ is....nobody could use the force of gov’t to rob another for their own benefit, ones’ own $$ could not be used to buy votes, etc.
Tell me, outside the static 40% for each party, what exactly did Romney bring to the table last round (aside from ‘ditto’ to everything O was yammering about)?
Now, WHY was there only the 2 party cartel in the debates? Because they have GAMED the system that no other voice(s) are allowed.
In the land of Capitalism, the electoral process is the ONLY place where more choices are a ‘bad thing’?!
Well, Bush was the last ‘hold my nose’ vote. The system and the message the GOP have aren’t swaying me from, at the least, a write-in.
Ah, that’s a totally different issue.
I agree. The party doesn’t get our votes automatically. They need to earn them.
But that is a different subject altogether. It has nothing to do with making voting harder. We shouldn’t be restricting voting, we should be making sure that we nominate candidates worth voting for.
Conservatism is the better political philosophy. So long as we do it justice. That’s where our efforts should be - if we do our job then we don’t have to keep relying on low turnout to win statewide or national elections.
I have learned over time that it can ALWAYS get worse! The real question is whether it will ever get any better. I find it hilarious that people who considered themselves to be reasonably intelligent were telling me in ‘08 that, “We can’t do any worse than what we have now.” I should be rolling in the floor laughing at their stupidity but somehow I just can’t find it in me to crack a smile right now.
I suppose I should just console myself by remembering how I, in my infinite wisdom, told them that in a couple of years they would be eating those words. Somehow that ain’t no comfort neither as my Grandpa would have said. It’s pure hell being right when you want so badly to be wrong.
Just wait til Hillary gets elected and we’ll be saying, “not even Bathouse Barry was that bad ...”
To #44. “You didn’t vote enough times”. Think and act like a Democrat and we can will.
Yeah, I know. There are some very nice areas in my State. The politics are a lost cause. That’s what sucks about it.
I do live in a very Republican area though. We’re going to keep it that way!!!!
Hard to imagine but you may be right, several times on FR I have mentioned my seventh grade teacher, “Miss Ruby” who used to tell us that a good woman is better than any man but a bad woman is worse than any man...then again between those two which is the man and which is the woman, I’m just not sure.
Restricting? Nope, open the field to any/all...best idea(s) win.
This whole B.S. ‘rules’ (5% of electorate, only XYZ on ABC, etc.) setup by the 2-party cabal are the problem
If this is any indication of the mentality of the electorate, we are doomed in 2014.
I agree.
But when you start talking about restricting voting hours and access, that’s where you and I will part company. That’s a crutch too many conservatives are leaning on instead of crafting a winning message.
Conservatism is a natural winner, if you can get the right message out. I don’t understand the defeatism that lies beneath trying to lower turnout.
The left are having a field day with him brushing off his wife so abruptly during his concession speech.
Lonegan got Alfrankenated.
Conservative Republican Steve Lonegan said Monday the government shutdown crushed his chance of winning New Jersey’s Senate seat — and made him the "biggest casualty" of a GOP shutdown strategy of "no message and no game plan."
"There is no doubt in my mind or in the minds of any of my campaign staff that the shutdown cost me the election," Lonegan toldnj.com. "If I had known it was going to happen and that it was going to be handled so badly in Washington, I wouldn't have run for Senate."
Clarification, please. Would that be for the corruption he already did, or for what he's gonna do?
And can we indict Obama at the same time?
Yup. The Roman historians who sucked air at the mention of Caligula, never saw Caracalla or Elegabalus or Maximinus Thrax.
It always can get worse, and -- here is Gibbon's message -- very often, it does.
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