Posted on 11/08/2006 12:27:06 AM PST by ConservativeTeacherInTraining
I just have one question. Who were the Conservative traitors who chose to throw their vote away and vote for the libertarian candidate? That makes NO sense to me whatsoever.
Good question.
How many votes did the Libertarian get?
The GOP voters and conservative base has been stabbed in the back by the RINOS in congress for several years now...put the blame where it belongs. Unfortunately we lost a lot of good folks in this election. The blame is on the spineless leadership not the voter base.
You don't win elections by pushing people away.
Stabbing a conservative in the back on election - like Allen or Talent - because there are RINOs in the Senate makes no sense.
Didn't you get the memo? The Republican party doesn't need the libertarian vote.
The more socially conservative members of FreeRepublic told me so.
Thank Michael Savage.
I agree. The blame lays primarily at the feet of the Senate Republican leadership. Their position on illegal immigration, the drunken sailor spending and their bending over for lobbyists alienated them from the conservative base.
Frist is now dead as a potential Presidential candidate in 2008, as is Allen.
We need more like our Dr. Coburn from OK who is not afraid to stand up and be counted along with our Senator Inhofe. Spineless leaders we do not need! I have had enough of kumbyya to last a lifetime!
Frank Gilmour is the Lib candidate--received 46,814 votes.
Amendment 2 (Stem Cell Initiative) is up by 28,464.
Results from Missouri
http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/
Your post #7 is absolutely correct.
Looks like the Show Me boys wanted it in their constitution that we should be cloning people huh?
people try to say its iraq. but with "only" 3,000 US military deaths, that is not much in the normal context of war. years and years of harping by the press didn't help. but in the end, the voters didn't like being ignored on the issues impacting locally (offshoring, illegals, spending).
don't get me wrong, i don't believe the dems will be better.. i just think people voted for change more then anything else. (another result of non-stop advertisement via tv)
Claire McCaskill Democrat 923,585 (49%)
Jim Talent (i) Republican 898,444 (48%)
Frank Gilmour Libertarian 43,592 (2%)
Lydia Lewis Progressive 16,570 (1%)
The Libertarian took enough votes to put Talent over the top. That is a lot of votes for a candidate who had a snowball's chance in hell of winning. 43,592 wasted votes. Need to start calling it the "Perot" effect.
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