MARK STEYN: Democrats stick to vaudevillian knockabout in midst of drama

The Daily Telegraph ^ | November 7, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[Paulus Invictus]

The Libertarianoids suck!

[Guillermo]

Excellent, as usual.

This guy is one hell of a writer.

[Palladin]

Al Gore -- "the country's most prominent Android-American".

ROFL! Steyn nails it, as usual.

[gortklattu]

This is Steyn's SECOND best piece. Did you ever read his "Reader Beware! This is gangsta rap" ??

[aristeides]

Step forward, Hillary Rodham Clinton. I can't wait.

Hillary? Who does Steyn think is responsible for McAwful's disastrous strategy?

[Erasmus]

For Jesse Jackson and Harry Belafonte and the other black power-brokers, it's always 1963 and Selma, Alabam'.

In Harry's case, I think it's October 1917.

[mrustow]

Thanks for the ping. Steyn is wrong on only one count: HILLARY! will never run in '04. She's about winning; she sees no value in symbolic defeats. She's waiting for '08, and an election that will make '00 look genteel by comparison. That's why Algore may get to repeat history in '04, a la Stevenson in '56 -- and we all know how that turned out.

[Southack]

"The only good news for the Dems was a handful of pick-ups in the gubernatorial races and in a significant number - Alabama..."

As has been pointed out in this thread, it was the Republican Riley who defeated the incumbent Democrat Seigelman in Alabama, marking yet another historic loss for Democrats on their home turf.

Also, the Dems lost their incumbent governorship in Vermount, though that seems to have been omitted by the news media (although their losses of the governorships in MN, GA, and SD got some press).

One more thing, the Libertarians broke 9 to 5 Repub to Dem in Alabama, meaning that Libertarians drew 9 Republican votes for every 5 Democratic Party votes that they syphoned off (based upon same precinct results of Libs versus Dems with no Repub and Libs versus Repub with no Dem challengers).

[rudypoot]

I was told 4 out of 5 democrats that voted for the Bush tax cut lost.

The only reason the republicans lost a senate race is because Hutchinson dumped his wife for his secretary, not because Pryor was the better candidate.

[cpprfld]

Thanks you guys. (Thanks, Ed. I'm sure Tommy is real proud of ya. You freak.)

Thanks to those Libertarians we are stuck with Jim Doyle as governor. Dumb @sses

[knighthawk]

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