Posted on 05/14/2008 6:19:23 AM PDT by Obadiah
In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by a 54%-46% margin, a spread that several Republican strategists on Capitol Hill characterized as a startling wake-up call for a party in dire straits.
Voters cast ballots for the fourth time in three months for the seat, vacated when Republican Roger Wicker was appointed to fill the remainder of Senator Trent Lott's term. After winning the primary and the runoff election, Childers came within 410 votes of winning the first round of the special election against Davis on April 22, beating the Republican by a 49%-46% margin.
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Let the revolution begin.
Dang RINOs.
Davis wasn’t a RINO. Childers did run as a conservative. Hopefully with Obama on the ticket in November this might get pulled back on our side, but who knows.
If you think mayor Davis is a rino, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Davis is about as conservative as you can get, I know him personally. He would have been a great addition to the House.
To blame “rinos” on this loss is totally absurd. The country is pissed at Republicans for a multitude of reasons, some relating to rino politics (spending, immigration) some not (Iraq). The economy is also a big factor.
Wake up. The MS loss had nothing to do with RINO politics. It had everything to do with Mississippians wanting a generic “change” of brands.
Uh oh.
I think there have been three GOP losses in special elections just recently to democrats....... This one in MS, the one in LA around Baton Rouge which Woody Jenkins lost and one other I can’t remember. Not good news for the GOP even at the local levels it seems.
Boener and Blunt have to go in the House. They shoul have never been elected to their slots after the 2006 train wreck.
BTW, who in the heck is the Chair of the RNC???? Still can’t get an answer to that one.
Republicans congress people have no one to blame but themselves, they need to show their conservative values, and more people would support them.. look at the vote on drilling for gas yesterday in the senate.. I think 7 Rinos voted against it...when every one in their states are feeling the pinch when they gas up..
Republicans had better unite behind a clearly stated conservative agenda or face bitter defeat in ‘08. The GOP needs to start standing for getting spending under control and tax cuts or it will lose it’s butt.
I live in Southaven. Davis is a good mayor.
“The leadership aide suggested that a former NRCc chairman, Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, could take on a larger role in the coming months.”
Yeah, THAT’LL help!
What a bunch of DUMBA—ES.
Yes, Childers did run as a conservative, but this is more focusing on the very serious problems with the GOP at the national level. The GOP has foolishly allowed their brand name to be compromised by RINOs and the self serving types.
The RNC coffers are thread bare. There is a grassroots revolt and it is showing up in the form of the lack of donations to the RNC. Just wait until October when there are no ground troops for door-to-door type activity for McCain or few others down the ticket.
The GOP is broken and as long as they continue the present course there will be a train wreck, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
That's why McCain still has some chance to win the Presidency, because he has been so effective in distancing himself from the tainted GOP brand.
For the rest of the party, a wholesale purge is coming.
The other loss was for Speaker Dennis Hastert’s seat which had been Republican for about 100 years. This is serious.
I don’t understand why people are mad at the economy. Unemployment isn’t high, taxes are down, and the stock market is holding it’s own - the only big problem I see is the price of gas and who do we have to blame for that? The Democrats.
Or they could focus on the threat of Global Warming. Maybe that will help.
This is not good. Hopefully Davis sticks around for the rebound.
Among other things, Childress had better sounding negative ads and ran a ton more of them - including during Rush Limbaugh’s show. The DNCC, I should say, they ran the ads so that Childress could claim to be above the fray.
The RINO begins at the top of the GOP ticket. There is where the perception begins.
The Obama-Clinton race has energized RATS. The GOP primary was dull.
“To blame “rinos” on this loss is totally absurd.”
I don’t know. I think I would have to be very convinced the (R) was a true conservative before I’d vote for him: Someone that was going to not only fight to kill the Rats but someone was going to fight to kill the RINO’s. Any, I mean, any hint that he harbored a “spirit of bipartisanship” or “compassionate conservatism” would cause me to stay home.
That’s because of the RINO’s. I’m not consenting to the rule of someone who A) Is basically a Rat or B) is going up there just for a paycheck.
Vote Republican: We promise not to piss away another 14 years.
That’s why McCain still has some chance to win the Presidency, because he has been so effective in distancing himself from the tainted GOP brand.
For the rest of the party, a wholesale purge is coming.
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Yes it is. I shudder to think what November will look like if Obama wins. Dems will have a huge margin in the House, and possibly 60 seats in the senate. Hello socialism.
Gulp.
Just an indication of what is to come and a big reason that if McLame is elected that he will be stymied by Congress and Senate which are controlled by the Dims.
“I don’t understand why people are mad at the economy. Unemployment isn’t high, taxes are down, and the stock market is holding it’s own - the only big problem I see is the price of gas and who do we have to blame for that? The Democrats.”
That’s usually too much for your average dolt behind a cash register to comprehend.
Desoto county basically went straight Davis. The other counties, forget it. Like in Marshall county, most live there waiting on the check to come every 3rd of the month, and that included alot of my family!
Nowadays I believe half the population either pays no income tax or actually receives money from earned income credits.
Why would someone like that not vote for a party who promises more government largesse?
You clearly don’t live in Mississippi. Nobody in the first district, I mean nobody, would characterize Davis as a rino. He is right there with Tancredo on immigration. Guess what? Nobody in MS has immigration at the top of their list. They a pissed at Republicans for the war and the economy. It is that simple. And if the first district in Mississippi is upset with republicans, LOOK OUT, INCOMING!
They will not impede McCain's agenda. As soon as he sees which way the wind is blowing, he'll be full-bore behind their agenda.
Illinois........
The RINO begins at the top of the GOP ticket. There is where the perception begins.
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Mccain wasn’t on this ticket. Trust me. Peole who voted for Childress weren’t voting for him because McCain is a rino. Many of those people (the ones who went D in this election) will vote for McCain in the general.
I don’t think it matters anymore. It’s a shame that some real conservatives are going to go down in flames because conservatives want to send Washington a message. But that’s just the way it goes . . . they don’t call the Republicans the Stupid Party for nothing.
How many Republicans are articulating this? They should be beating the Dims over the head every chance they get with that vote yesterday.
November will be an absolute bloodbath..........
It’s time for the conservatives to throw out the RINOs and take the party back. Or else, start our own party, which is the poorer of the two options.
It’s time for the conservatives to throw out the RINOs and take the party back. Or else, start our own party, which is the poorer of the two options.
The bleeding won’t stop until the GOP reclaims it’s conservative roots.
If you don’t stand for SOMETHING, you will fall for EVERYTHING.
After 8 years of a pseudo-conservative, the Republicans are running an out-and-out Rino with an explosive temper for Congress. The economy is in a shambles and the average VOTING American is being hurt - BADLY - by skyrocketing costs and the embarrassment in the White House flies to Israel for a visit.
The Repubs and Bush SHOULD be pushing for oil drilling anywhere we can in the U.S. providing funding at an accelerated level for nuclear-powered electric plants, increasing the use of coal using new technologies, construction of new refineries, stopping the flow of oil into the oil reserves already at 97% capacity, putting the screws to the market in oil speculation, and funding accelerated research for alternate energy.
Instead of buying into the religious cult of Global Warming like the Non-Entity in the White House and the fool running for President and the Democrat Party, they should be exposing this for the hoax it is.
They should stand for an English as an Official Language platform and support the construction of a physical border wall with Mexico as well as deportation of all illegal aliens.
Unless the Republicans return to their conservative roots, they will die as a political party and, if that’s the case, we are better off without them.
We need another political party - one free of the Rockefeller-Bush-Rove RINOs.
It’s time for the conservatives to throw out the RINOs and take the party back. Or else, start our own party, which is the poorer of the two options.
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Davis is not a rino. These same Mississippians who voted for the Democrat WILL VOTE FOR McCain in the general. I can guarantee you that. You cannot blame the total implosion of the party on the rinos. It starts with Iraq, it ends with the economy...mix in disgruntled base and pow...total collapse.
Isn’t Childers a philosophical conservative - pro-gun and anti-abortion?
Now we have the Carbon Credit John “ALGORE” McCain.
No, it has everything to do with RINO politics, because that is what the GOP has increasingly allowed itself to be cast as. The GOP no longer has a credible name when it comes to keeping taxes down, opposing spending, fighting big government, and is even losing its reputation as the socially conservative party, which will do nothing to bring on board conservative Reagan Democrats.
Davis may have been as conservative as you can get, but the problem is, Childers was pretty conservative, too, and Davis was stuck with a label that now says "Hey, we're soft on taxes, spending, government intrusion! Vote for us because we're Democrat lite!". If you offer people Democrat lite, they'll just go for the real thing, instead.
The GOP tolerates conservatives only because conservative votes equal power. They will relearn this lesson in a few short months. If the Republic and the Constitution don’t die between now and 2012...we may see a conservative comeback.
These were THREE solidly Republican districts (one was Speaker Hastert’s). This bodes a coming disaster, with a veto proof House, the Republicans are likely to have about 140 seats, the same they had after 1964. GW Bush will have leveled the House (and Coalition) that Reagan Built.
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