Posted on 10/03/2006 7:09:38 AM PDT by DredTennis
The Widow Carnahan won in 2000 after her husband died in a plane crash. His name was on the ballot too. Congressmen win reelection when they are under indictment for all sorts of offenses. Foley is in a heavily GOP district. By carefully designing an ad campaign, this race can definitely be won.
and Gerry Studds from Mass.
I guess we'll see, soon. I'll definitely be interested to "look back" (to now) and see how all these comments "pan out" -- in terms of the actual elections and what "made sense" (now) -- versus -- what happens in these coming elections.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Perhaps, but remember, none of this is coincidence. This is a concerted effort to make the GOP look bad and smelly and out of touch for the next month, with each days news worse than the last.
We had better play our cards soon, because the Foley thing has wrecked our momentum.
We need something to change the subject, because the MSM is delighting in this story.
How did ABC News obtain the IMs and why did they sit on them for 6 or so weeks?
I'd bet more like 210 now.
The DEMS strategy when the take congress will be this:
They will continue to fund the war in Iraq but will attach tax increases to the appropriations bills.
This forces the GOP to either support the military or tax cuts. It will be politically popular for the Democrats to do this. Either the GOP supports the war and unravels 26 years of conservative policy on taxes or they abandon the troops in favor of the rich.
Actually, we don't. The MSM delighting in the story will be its undoing.
How did ABC News obtain the IMs and why did they sit on them for 6 or so weeks?
The bloggers are already asking this question.
Someone is delusional
yes, but since the GOP actually stands for something, it doeshave an impact on them...Also in case you havent noticed the Democrat party has been in the miniority since 1994. So to assume that sex scandals havent hurt the Dems is not correct
You assume that people here will be completely Foley adverse. While he is not my congressman, he was next door. He was an exceptionally good congressman. We all knew he was gay. The feeding frenzy makes me mad, and my neighbors may agree. PEOPLE GETTING ON THEIR HIGH HORSE AND TALKING ABOUT THE MORAL HIGH GROUND WILL END UP HIGH AND DRY IMHO. SORRY ABOUT CAPS.
They wont, but it could depress turnout if this isnt handled correctly. It could also cause some undecideds to vote Democrat
We had better play our cards soon, because the Foley thing has wrecked our momentum.
BINGO!!!
It takes the races off of terror and security and that only helps the left
"We need something to change the subject, because the MSM is delighting in this story." I'm not much a of conspriacy theorist, nor do I usually like to delude myself be attributing GOP foul-ups to a brilliant "strategerie", but have you noticed no one is paying attention to Bob Woodward's book? Could it be that the Democrats, giddy over this, really are going to wind up hurting themselves?
Question is, how do we play our cards to overcome the DBM's collaboration with the dems? I hope the party has some plan for this.
You said -- "We all knew he was gay."
Well..., it's too bad I couldn't have voted *against* him, then (on that basis alone). I'm sorry I wasn't there to do that. But, then again, maybe someone wanted to put him in charge of the Boy Scouts, too (or maybe that's where he'll go next).
Regards,
Star Traveler
Some DUmmies suggested that the Amish school shootings were a GOP-orchestrated distraction to Woodward's book.
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