Posted on 11/02/2005 6:24:16 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
I just KNEW someone would pick up on that one.... :-)
The recruitment has been a bust. The Dems will not be losing any seats, except maybe in Minnesota if the GOP gets lucky.
Not to mention Nebraska, North Dakota and especially Florida (among others).
Basically, I think the only Republican shot is in Minnesota.
I might add New Jersey as slight possibility with Kean (certainly better than Steele), if Corzine does something cronyistic like appointing Menendez to the Senate seat.
Otherwise, the Republican recruitment efforts have been pretty awful.
Democrats have done excellent recruiting in Missouri, Pennsylvania (obviously).
They have been so-so in Rhode Island (Langevin and Kennedy would have been top-tier), Montana (Tester and Morrison are good, but I don't think it's as close as 2000), and Ohio (Ryan was easily top-tier, Brown is too liberal and Hackett I don't believe can do well in a full campaign).
Suffice it to say, I think the Democrats could win 3-4 seats under the best of circumstances, but if their recruiting had been better, they could win 3-4 seats even without the best of circumstances and take back the Senate in the best of circumstances.
It's even worse than that, because Kennedy basically recruited himself. He's been aiming for the Senate since before Liddy Dole took up the NRSC.
>>>Dems’ lurch to the left.<<<
Speaking of Lurch, what has he been up to lately?
Yea.. we should have gone with norm coleman for this round of nrsc chair. Even better though if George Allen went at it again for this round , but i doubt they'd let that fly.
I don't recall hearing any dim let us in on his plan to lower the cost of gas. Perhaps you can steer me in the right direction.
It is identical to the plan Clinton offered in 1992 to fix the economy.
If it took concrete and viable plans to elect Democrats then Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton would never have been elected president.
Like many people you believe that what is necessary to get your vote is what is necessary to get a majority of votes. History proves that is not true.
Did I mention the clear and concrete plan that JFK offered in 1960 to defeat the Soviet Union?
Democrats don't need to offer concrete plans to win elections. Concervatives get beat because they think it takes real and effective plans to win.
It doesn't.
She is doing a good job as NRSC chair.
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