If I recall correctly, I remember reading some Maryland Freeper comments which stated some "conservatives" in this state would not bother voting for Ehrlich because he wasn't "conservative enough."
I hope those people are happy.
I've said it before, I will say it again. This is Maryland, not Texas or Utah. The Democrat party has a 2-1 registration edge over the Republican party in this state. There is simply no way for a Republican to win in this state without appealing to a fair number of Democrats. If someone wants a conservative state government, they are not going to find it here.
I also live in The People’s Republic of Maryland. Unfortunately, a lot of people are “old time†democrats but they are too ignorant and stubborn to actually see what is going on now. A lot of people remember the “good old union days†and continue to blame the companies for the demise of the state rather than the greed that took over. The unions put themselves out of work. The public schools are a mess and the people just refuse to deal with it and put their kids in private schools. Every time a good solution is brought to the table, the activist shut it down. I live here out of necessity - not choice. Hopefully, things will change as the old union people die out, but with the Demo-rats giving it all away to the illegals aliens and convicts, they probably will continue to suck the life out of this state.
I can understand Baltimore voting for democrats as they have a natural base there in the very poor with large numbers of felons and illegals. But the very rich, once Republican, Howard County voted for Kerry in 04 and for all Democrats in 06. Already the new democrat county exec says he will raise taxes yet once again for a record budget ,and a key program is tax payer paid affordable housing, as he makes our housing more expensive with more taxes.
HELP!!!!
1) he raised many taxes and fees when dems refused to pass slots (versus shutting down the government I guess)
2) Democrats successfully blamed him for the BGE deregulation mess they created. Stupid Marylanders actually claimed O’Malley was on their side, the little guy, and talked like they would save money under him, when he had a history of massive tax increases.
The Baltimore Sun was in on this too, blaming Ehrich for the deregulation mess he got stuck with and pointing out that he raised taxes when they attacked him every day in office for not raising taxes.
One last point. I called Ehrlichs’ office a few times and suggested many talking points to counter the pure cynical politics that the democrats were playing against him but Ehrlich would not play political hardball. He acted like he had an easy win. Like Bush he acted like he was above politics and like Bush he appeared to be guilty of whatever they accused him of to the public, and now we are stuck.