Posted on 11/11/2006 8:19:55 AM PST by Graybeard58
What I said is blindly voting straight ticket Republican is idiotic and people should decide on the races individually. Chafee is deserving of ZERO support from Republicans. Time and money used to help Chafee could have been better spent helping Talent, Allen, Burns, and Steele. Instead people wanted to endorse Chafee's re-election solely because he had an "R" next to his name.
The powers that be in the GOP should be neutral in a primary, but THEY donated plenty of time and effort to derail Steve Laffey so that POS Linc Chafee was renominated. Chafee was NOT the choice of the GOP voters and wouldn't have won the primary without outside interferance. Once Chafee was shoved down our throats in the primary, we should have abanonded him and went to work for decent Republicans deserving of our support. If we had done so, we'd still control the Senate today.
The ONLY conservative newspaper in PA that I know of is the Tribune Review owned by Scaife, the gazillionaire the Democrats accused of running some kind of stealth campaign to smear (the Arkansas Project) Clinton. He owns a bunch of little papers in a ring around P'burgh in addition to the T-R, but he certainly doesn't hire the editorial or news staff of any of them from the looks of them. He is slowly but surely putting the toxic Post-Gazette, the only remaining P'burgh city paper out of business, but nobody, neither conservative nor liberal, is much interested in buying newspapers. It won't be long until most graduates coming out of the public schools will not be able to read well enough to understand a news article, so that's understandable.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
That's actually not Chafee's problem, unfortunately. He had 60 something % approval ratings.
It's just that RI is a nutcase D state and they wanted a nutcase D, not a nutcase R.
Straight party balloting killed the GOP in NH, too. Lynch was strong at the top of the ticket and people here hated Bush so much that the NH House and Senate Dem candidates were swept in after beating long-time GOP officials of all political persuasions (from very conservative to very liberal, so there was no real rhyme or reason to booting all of them out) and it killed Bradley and Bass (Bradley, moreso). No one who studies state politics expected the landslide win for Democrats in the House and Senate, even though many believed both houses would go Dem. It was the proverbial tsunami that analysts were talking about on the national scale in congressional races that didn't exactly happen.
Republican Gov. Don Carcieri was the lone member of his party elected to state office, and even he survived a closer-than-expected fight.
Carcieri is known for standing up to the Democrat legislature and demanding fiscal responsibility. In short, the conservative in this election survived.
Regards, Ivan
Senator Chafee: Just go away, putz.
Funny how in Florida, Democrats called this "politicking" in the Foley-Negron district.
-PJ
Were they reacting to the Christian wing of the GOP or the war in Iraq?
Amen.
LOL.
A bit of both, but mostly Iraq-- 9/10ths Iraq. New Hampshire voters hate everything about George W. Bush. He couldn't win a race for dog catcher here.
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