Crunchy Con

Third time's a charm for GOP

Wednesday May 14, 2008

Categories: Republicans

Ruh-roh! The Republicans just lost a third House seat in a special election -- this one in Mississippi. When they lost Denny Hastert's seat in Illinois and Richard Baker's seat in Louisiana, they blamed weak candidates. Whose fault is this one, geniuses? The GOP threw all the Jeremiah Wright stuff it could at Childers, a conservative Democrat, and still lost in a heavily conservative district. It wasn't even close. Excerpt:

[L]osing heavily Republican seats in the Deep South is a big blow to the Washington GOP. "To lose two Southern seats in two weeks, I mean, oh my God," the leadership aide said.
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recovering ex-Pentecostal
May 15, 2008 11:01 AM

Reaganite,

"RJohnson.

So now you're calling conservatives "stupid people." What a marvelous way to advance the debate."

Like you "advanced the debate" when you implied that gay citizens aren't worthy of equal treatment before the law, and that they shouldn't be allowed even to serve their country in the military. I noticed you didn't bother to even address the issue after I questioned you on it (May 14, 2008 11:30 AM).

Likewise, for you it seems fair game to continuously try to link Obama to Wright and yet avoid the links between McCain and Bush (May 14, 2008 11:26 AM).

Selective much?

Reaganite in NYC
May 15, 2008 11:21 AM

recovering ex-Pentecostal:

I just double-checked the postings from yeserday. I didn't post any comments yesterday on this thread at either 11:30 AM or 11:26 AM. So what the heck are you talking about ??? Moreover, the allegations you make (gay citizens aren't worthy of equal treatment; linking Obama to Wright but not McCain to Bush) are totally bogus. You either misunderstood or purposely misconstrued what's been said.

Please dispense with the sniping. Why don't you provide us, rather, with a positive argument or insight (either pro or con) on the particular issues that are up for discussion here.

Thanks in advance !

Simon
May 15, 2008 12:04 PM

But it doesn't matter; the Republicans played the Wright card in Mississippi and came up empty. People can see that Obama is a decent, intelligent, fair-minded man. You can call him whatever names you like, but you can't conceal that fundamental truth.

Mississippi shows that a socially conservative Democrat who refused to endorse Obama or Clinton cannot be tied by Republicans to Obama.

It does not follow logically that Obama himself is immune to the political damage caused by his long association with Jeremiah Wright.

Reaganite in NYC
May 15, 2008 12:51 PM

Simon,

Good point. If this new Dem. Congressman from Mississipi (Childers) is already running away from Obama/Clinton and the national Dem. party, then for the sake of his long-run political survival he'll be secretly hoping for a McCain victory in November. Victory by Obama in November will force him to choose during the 2009-2010 Congressional session between the (liberal) President from his party and the (conservative) voters back home. If he sides too often with a President Obama (or a President HRC), he'll be plenty vulnerable when he runs for reelection in November 2010.

The same is true for all these conservative Democrats recently elected from conservative Districts. They'll all be thinking about their survival in November 2010 when they secretely cast a ballot for McCain in November 2008 :-)

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