Posted on 12/22/2005 9:50:12 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Latest poll shows conservative ex-Congressman Ed Bryant leading Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. by a 41% to 38% margin and conservative ex-Congressman Van Hilleary leading Ford by a 41% to 39% margin, but shows Ford leading RINO Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker by a 42% to 36% margin.
This just in: Harold Ford, Jr., leads 97%-3% among deceased voters.
True but I would have liked to seen him elected governor. I hate to say this but our current governor the liberal Dem he is has done a lot better job than Sundquist did and far less damage so far. Still Van Hilleary would have been many times better. Politics is weird at times.
What is up with this Lamar = RINO crap?
He's got an excellent voting record in the Senate, and has had mostly good positions on issues his entire career? Is he a RINO just because he isn't screaming all the time? Give me a break!
Don Taxquest was a disgrace and a scumbag. He set the Republican Party back years in Tennessee.
While I am certainly not an expert on state politics, Bredesen seems to be competent and to conduct himself with dignity.
Lamar has been up to his knees in questionable deeds from his term as governor on including taking donations from a former Dem oppenant who was the head of the Butcher Banking Empire in Tennessee for starters. Source here TN US SENATE: Clement, Alexander trade accusations about roles in Butcher bank failures
The Butcher Brothers were using shell companies they or friends created to shuttle bad loans. Loans also tied into such ill conceived projects as EXPO 82 or the 1982 Worlds Fair. By the time the fair was over the Feds were raiding United American Bank Ran by Jake and Southern Industrial Banking Corp {ran by CH Butcher Jr}. Hard working persons lost all they had in Southern Industrial as it was a Savings and Loan operation.
I will say this much most of the scandals about Alexander were in the papers here years ago. His being chosen by Bush for the GOP senate nod was a political favor. He was by no means the best man for the job.
I disagree with him on a lot policy wise. But to be fair to him he was left a huge mess Ala Taxquist and squared a lot of it away despite his own party {Dems} opposition. I do wish he'd rescind the Pre-K program. Kids need to be home. Sending a 4 year old off to Public School IMO is insanity and not wise. Budget wise though he is a much better manager.
He did to Tenn Care what no one else would. I honestly think he was ready to shut it down. Hard to find a DEM willing to do that. I think he must have put some of Ned Rays cronies running the HMO's on notice :>}
Overall he's been better than about any governor I can remember and I was born here in the 1950's. But if Van Hilleary goes for it again I'll vote for Van Hilleary again.
What is it with these rich kids turning to politics?
Rockefeller, kennedy, ford, coors, kerry, all these rich fools running with daddys money. That sure doesn't make them have any brains.
I mean what the hell have they ever done?
I'd rather have a politician rooted in the real world, not some punk like algore who thinks he should be elected by birthright.
....I'm hoping the Memphis black turnout is dampened a bit by the Ford family's recent scandals......
As in "He may be black and he may be a crook, but he's our black crook"
Why not? People prefer Democrat to Democrat Lite. Run as a conservative and win.
I hate to say it but race could be playing a factor in the polling data.
In polling, black candidates show better numbers than they do on election day.
People who are polled are afraid they'd they'd be thought of as racist so they say that they'll vote for candidate X (the black candidate). In the voting booth, they vote a different way.
I was one of the voters that put Wamp into office back in '94. I am actually glad that he has stayed. I think he would make a terrific senator for TN.
Put Ford in as Senate Majority leader. Nobody will notice any difference.
The problem in this state semms to be getting a Republican to run. Jim Cooper ran completely unopposed in my distrct for the U.S. House. In Nov. '04, I only voted for president since there was no way I was going to add another vote to a 'Rat with no GOP opponent.
I just moved back to TN from CA in late 2003. That was just before the CA voters kicked that crooked, incompetent Gray-out Davis out of office mid-term. I have been mostly impressed with Bredesen as a Governor. I tell my family in CA that my Democrat Governor is more conservative than their Republican one. That doesn't mean I'll vote for him though.
Jimmy Duncan IMO would be a fine senator also. He's stood alone against the party on key issues when needed. The senate needs such persons badly. He's a quiet one you don't hear much about but overall he's been a good congressman.
Well that's enough to lose my vote. I was willing to let him slide on the term limit thing, but abridging free speach is a big no-no.
The evidence you present is spotty at best. And even if so, that doesn't make him a RINO.
He was the best man for the job in terms of experience, and in terms of how easily he won the seat. Since then, he's had a solid voting record. I'm not going to get into some kind of personality debate as to if he's an effective manager or tactition or whatever, but I think it's a bit naive to think that a former 2 term Governor wasn't a better bet when you are trying to win back control of the senate then a Congressman who hadn't won a statewide office.
And if anybody has a legitimate reason to be upset with him in the Senate since his election, I haven't heard it.
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