Actually the biggest issue was corruption.
Mehlman last night admitted it last night without shading on NBC.
"Actually the biggest issue was corruption.
Mehlman last night admitted it last night without shading on NBC."
Didn't see that, do you have a link, or can you be more specific about the corruption?
"Actually the biggest issue was corruption."
Actually the biggest issue was how the corruption of Democrats gets a pass. I know for example that there was maore than enough info to sink Harry Reid, but the Repubs were too wishy washy to pick up the info and flog the bastard with it. Instead, they let Foley be the issue. Or how about what Hastert did for Jefferson? Disgusting.
I don't agree with that, I believe Iraq was far and away the biggest issue. But let's look at what Rush is saying. From the start of the Virginia Senate campaign, I and others here were going nuts at the attacks on Jim Webb for his writings about women in the military. What kind of conservative has a cow when a guy expresses his opinion that ground combat is no place for a woman?
I prefer that we refrain from the blame game, but if we have to play it, I'd like to bring Elizabeth Dole into the discussion. Her NRSC campaign put out an ad attacking Webb because he called Tailhook a witchhunt and a feminist something or other. Well folks it was both of those things, and I am sure this lost Allen a good few thousand (if not more) votes in the military area of the state. This ad was released just before Novelgate, and I believe that it was not Novelgate that backfired, but her ad.
George Allen is supposed to be a conservative. Somewhere in the post mortem there needs to be a discussion of the lunacy of running him as a radical feminist sympathizer.
"Actually the biggest issue was corruption. Mehlman last night admitted it last night without shading on NBC."
I read the same thing. Corruption.
People who read every political play in terms of left-right are a small part of the electorate. A bigger part look for results.
Republican majority for 6 years gave them corruption. Solution=change it. They did.
So called rinos had/have nothing to do with it. JD Hayworth lost in a red state.
This was a "toss the bums out" election. In this case, Republicans OF ALL stripes were the bums.
Ed Rollins said that the public corruption of the GOP only masked the sense that the Republicans had gotten too comfortable at the trough. As he put it, in 1994 they came to drain the swamp and instad turned it into a hot tub. With all that pork comes more opportunities for corruption.
Corruption of conservatives and their belief in the Republican Party to champion them. That is where they lost. Soliciting pages was just icing.
The issue was Corruption ut the country voted FOR corruption. The Democrats coddle corrupt members and defend them to the max while Republicans flush it when it is brought to the surface. For the Crats Corruption is a right of power.
I concur. 85-percent, anyway.
Cunningham, Rey?, Foley, Abramoff clients, and others.
Yes, the Dems had their William Jefferson's, but that's normal. And no excuse for the GOP to join the corupt-fest.
Take Mehlman, Rove, and Libby Dole. Duct tape them together and drop them in the Reflecting Pond at the Washington Monument from your helicopter.