New Yorkers...
Run for your lives.
Posted on 12/21/2005 9:45:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bill Weld does!
New Yorkers...
Run for your lives.
Just what are you inferring about Bill Weld, with your artsy martini pic?????
Republican candidate for New York governor and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, speaks with reporters in Albany, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Republicans are meeting in Albany to work towards selecting a slate of candidates for the 2006 election. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)
Everything Weld touches, Weld destroys (except for the Democrat party, of course).
Uh, nothin...
Haven't thought of him in years. Remember when he and Jesse Helms went at it tooth and nail?
That was fun watching Jesse stomp that RINO trash into the ground.
Too bad for Weld the strike is going to end on Thursday.
Wow, he got old, didn't he?
Great post!!!
Wow! According to the article, Weld has not only turned "Empire Stater" but has also turned "Republican."
THis time Weld may be just what we need, to keep New York... Not that it is much of a victory, but it is better than Spitzer as Governor, because that would make him part of the Democrat presidential candidate farm team.
Can you imagine a governor wanting to have the State House flag lowered to half-staff when Jerry Garcia died? Meet Bill Weld.
He did nothing for the Republican Party in Massachusetts, got bored, and left. Good luck New York.
Keep New York for what ? He's a trojan horse Democrat. He destroyed what was left of the Massachusetts Republican party. That nuke cloud ain't a joke, it's what that Weld scum DID to Massachusetts and that college he destroyed in Kentucky.
I would rather have a RINO who caucuses with the Republicans, than a DINO that caucuses with the Dems.. At this point, more and more DINOs hearts will move them to the GOP on the issues that matter. RINOS will always disagree on a lot of issues, but they agree with us more than mainstream Democrats do!
also, keep in mind the political culture in New England is far more moderate. we can't expect a republican in Massachucets to tbe to the right of a democrat in alabama...
I will support any Democrat over the equivalent of political AIDS like William Weld if it will benefit or save the state Republicans for the LONG term. My claims that he absolutely and completely obliterated what was left of a RECOVERING and GROWING Republican party in the wake of the Dukakis era aren't merely an opinion, but absolute fact. When even LIBERAL Republicans in the state were crying out to Weld for help and he ignored their pleas, along with Republicans of every other stripe, that truly speaks volumes.
Weld is only interested in one thing, and that is himself and nobody else. He doesn't, nor has he ever cared, about the Republican party. He has been the greatest asset to the Democrats wherever he goes. He helped return absolute control to them in Massachusetts to the point that there is no longer a viable two-party system in virtually every corner of the state. The Governors that succeeded him have absolutely NO power or authority, are reduced to figurehead status. Not even Romney could turn around the damage Weld was completely and entirely responsible for creating and is getting out after one term.
If we have so lowered ourselves to the point of running "Republicans" indistinguishable from radical left-wing Socialists, you've just made the argument that we no longer need a Republican party at all. A substantial part of the reason why we have had such eroding fortunes in the northeast is because we have consistently FAILED to offer the voters clearly-defined choices, from the federal offices all the way down to the local level. Running liberal RINOs has been and continues to be a recipe for capitulation and a recipe for disaster. It hasn't proven a positive development anywhere.
I just would prefer to field candidates (esp in the case of the US Senate) that will vote for Bill Frist for Majority Leader (or maybe McConnell if Frist moves up the political ladder) than a Dingy Harry or Dasshole or for even Denny Hastert for house speaker over Nancy Pisslosi. The lines it is organized by are the most important right now, not merely in getting policy through, which is where Bush is suffering, but successfully waging the war on terror and winning it. Since 9/11, the Republicans have kept the worst of the terror attacks off our soil. If that means more Lowell Weickers and less Zell Millers being supported, so be it....
NY is rather a null set when it comes to Pubbie white knights isn't it? Don't be trigger happy when in a null set zone, is my best advice.
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