Posted on 10/20/2006 2:18:37 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
Okay, good point. I got to thinking today that if I were in a state where the Dem was ahead by a wide margin, I'd stick by the R just in case-- maybe the Dem's supporters will stay home because they think they've got it sewn up, maybe they'll feel their candidate is so far ahead, they think they can cast a protest vote(like me). I think it probably applies here, too. The Dems are banking on enough of us to get pissed and stay home. Too bad some of our candidates are making that easy.
No, first of all, I'm reconsidering my position. I would NEVER vote for Radnofsky, I considered voting for the Libertarian, but just look at his quotes. Who else is there to vote for. I may vote for KBH this time, but she will not get my vote in the primary for any future office she seeks unless she shapes up.
KBH has never been perfect in my opinion. Maybe 92% perfect, but that beats the crap out of the alternative.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a candidate is who is 100% perfect. I guess that would be me, but I've never run for public office unless you count a student office at a university.
So, I've gotten over that. I vote for the best candidate on the ballot from the choice I'm given. It's a simple rule of thumb, but I'll be damned if I'm going to vote for a lousy candidate out of spite.
How about doing what's best for the country during a time of war, for starters....like STFU about "if I had known... blah, blah blah...." Just another self serving frikkin' U.S. senator.
Look at her voting record and then get back to us.
She's there every time.
I'm not frustrated with her voting record. I'm pissed because she's phrasing her answers in a debate in such a way that gives ammunition to her liberal opponent at a critical time. She needs to grow a set the size of the state she purportedly represents and quit worrying about how Texans may view her (new) stance on invading Iraq in order to gain (a few) votes. She also needs to do her homework on WMDs in Iraq and fight back accordingly.
I didn't see the debate, and I'll bet you didn't either.
A story about one line she made by the state's most liberal newspaper will not provide any context for the remark.
The Austin newspaper lives to kill Republicans with ink. It's their blood mission.
To judge Hutchison based on this story is to concede that the spin from a liberal newspaper is gospel.
I'm not willing to do that. I'm not sure why anyone here would.
Her answer should have been, "Yes, I would have voted the same way because we had every reason to believe that Iraq had stockpiles of WMD as did the previous administration and many of my democratic colleagues in the Senate. Saddam Hussein was aiding and training islamic terrorists. We simply couldn't take the chance to continue merely containing Saddam under a previous set of UN resolutions and sanctions that weren't working, hoping to somehow magically force a regime change in Iraq to allow for a more peaceful region. We couldn't allow for the likely prospect that Saddam would use his WMDs against his neighbors and Israel or use them against us via a terrorist proxy".
She took the John Kerry "I was for it before I was against it" waffle maneuver and applied that instead. Bottom line- she doesn't need to pander to Texans but that's the way she came across with her answer to that question.
The Austin newspaper lives to kill Republicans with ink. It's their blood mission.
No argument there. I hate that communist rag.
IU didn't even know KBH had a challenger. Go ahead and vote for her. SHe's a reliable vote. A back-bencher, but reliable.
So does that mean we nuke 'em when somebody gets their panties in a wad over something we say, do, want, ask for or demand? They must surely understand the idea of elections and representative government because that's exactly what they had before we went in to clean the place up. Of course, their electoral process and candidates left a bit to be desired but they do know how to cast a ballot.
Is this the best Texas can do?
I tend to believe my own eyes before even GWB.
This was found in Iraq. The story appeared here on FR in some detail. Also, there was quite a caravan of trucks and limousines headed for Syria in the 2-3 weeks before we went in.
I think GWB's statement was more political that factual.
That is waht I usually do. Unfortunately, thanks to Tom DeLay's "I'm running/not running" stunt, I have to vote for each candidate individually so I can write in Shelley Sekula Gibbs.
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