David Jolly wins race for U.S. House District 13 seat

Bay News9 ^ | 3/11/14 | Trevor Pettiford

[GOPJ]

Sink’s 65 - She’s lost the last two races - I suspect she’s finished running.

[GOPJ]

Sink’s 65 - She’s lost the last two races - I suspect she’s finished running. Also she outspent him something like 3 to 1... and still lost.

[Lazamataz]

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz "Republican special interest groups poured in millions to hold onto a Republican congressional district that they've comfortably held for nearly 60 years."

And Democrats STILL outspent them 4-to-1.

And lost.

Suck it, Deb.

[generally]

“Republicans fell short of their normal margin”

See the spin? They still try to make it sound like a negative for the Republicans even when they win. If the situation were reversed, they would be crowing about the Dem victory. They would probably throw in something about R dirty tricks or R spending. They would call it a mandate on whatever issues were prominent in the campaign. They would definitely use it as an opportunity to propagandize on their pet issues.

[OPS4]

Sink and the Democrats (Socialists) have sunk.

[Liz]

We can play that third party spoiler game, also. There have to be some ditzy liberals out there who would love to run against a RAT who doesn't understand the true relationship between global warming, abortion, meditation.....and health food.

A ditzy vegan liberal who understands the true relationship between global warming, abortion and meditation....and health food?

Don't ask me why---but my mind flashed on Michele Obama .....

[ozzymandus]

The self-identified Libertarians I see on TV seem very condescending towards actual conservatives. A lot of “Libertarians” (like TV’s Andy levy) seem to actually be leftists who don't want to admit they're leftists and think calling yourself a Libertarian makes you look cool. (See also “hipsters”)

[jcon40]

Agreed, I hate that TV and news shows get to pick the “so called” expert for whatever subject, then parade the nut case out front then poke him with extreme questions designed to further erode the actual ideas he purportedly represents.

You nailed it with the “Hipster” reference. People will almost do anything to be cool when they’re young. I must confess I was an over the left cliff liberal when I was young and is probably why I tend to cut slack to the young libertarians.

Though they have maybe found fiscal conservatism they can’t quite drag themselves to the full conservative trough yet. It’s tough to give them a big hug like I fully agree with their developing points of view but I am willing to give them time and patience especially if we can keep people like our current president out of office.

I hate to sacrifice my core beliefs but I do want to elect better leaders. Sometimes I hate the color gray but...