Bingo.
Posted on 05/14/2008 12:06:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
On Tuesday night, Republicans lost a Republican congressional district in a special election in Mississippi.
Party insiders fear the loss may be just another sign of a coming bloodbath for congressional Republicans this November.
Democrat Travis Childers’ victory over Republican Greg Davis in Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District yesterday dealt the GOP its third straight loss of a solid Republican district to insurgent Democrats in this year’s special elections.
With nearly all precincts reporting, Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Childers held a 54 percent to 46 percent lead over Southaven Mayor Davis.
The seat was vacated by Republican Roger Wicker when he was appointed to fill the Senate seat that Republican Trent Lott vacated when he retired.
Wicker had held the seat since 1994, never winning re-election with less than 63 percent of the vote, the Washington Post reported.
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That’s what happens when your “lead” candidate is a RINO
“That’s what happens when your “lead” candidate is a RINO”
EXACTLY!!!
Stop trying to slip pissant RINO’S under the radar screen you A%$HOLES!!! Conservative’s aren’t as stupid as you may think.
“That’s what happens when your “lead” candidate is a RINO”
Bingo!
Any "conservative" who genuinely believes that there can be "conservative Democrats" after seeing that this Democrat-controlled Congress has delivered in the past year and half has got to be insane.
The GOP has gone the way of the Whigs. We have a one party system at this time.
Time to throw this baby out with the bathwater and start all over. The RINOs have destroyed the GOP reason for being.
They brought this on themselves by listening to Karl Rove and his “center right” philosophy.
If they don’t get back over to the right of right they can expect more of the same.
Greg Davis is my mayor and he has been a good one. He would have been a great US rep IMO.
I’m not sure what to think.
In the first two special elections (Hastert’s seat and Baker’s seat), the GOP nominated candidates with flaws, namely Jim Oberweis and Woody Jenkins.
The Dem candidate in Louisiana (Cazayoux) ran as a conservative Dem and tried to keep the national Dems away. It appears as though Childers (in Mississippi) did so too.
I’m still unsure as to whether the GOP is looking a 1974-style buttkicking or whether these losses were aberations (sp?).
But it certainly isn’t encouraging that the GOP couldn’t have held at least one of these seats.
Bingo.
Gives me a new tagline...
Could be no Republicans at all after November. Would anybody notice?
The country will meltdown faster than you think and the Democrats will get the blame and will be DEADMEAT. They will have to worry more about preserving their lives and personal safety than relection. The day of reckoning is rapidly approaching.
“The GOP has gone the way of the Whigs. We have a one party system at this time.”
Yes, and don’t forget what happened to the Federalists. We had better prepare for the “Era of Really Bad Feeling.”
Davis WASN’T a RINO. He hailed from the wrong side of the district. The rural residents didn’t want somebody from suburban Memphis.
RINOS are bad, but Conservatives are wholly unproductive.
What are Newsmax and FR going to do about this predicament?
When the left is in trouble the NYTWPNEWSWEEKTIMECNNMSNBCCBSABCNBCNPRHOLLYWOODACADEMIA...don't just sit back and whine, call names, and throw up their hands.
They fight, for 40 years running they have been fighting for their cause.
“Keep this in mind:”
You can tell from a lot of these comments these folks keep very little, if anything, “in mind”.
“Davis WASN’T a RINO. He hailed from the wrong side of the district. The rural residents didn’t want somebody from suburban Memphis.”
Finally. Someone who gets it.
>>The GOP has gone the way of the Whigs. We have a one party system at this time.
Time to throw this baby out with the bathwater and start all over. The RINOs have destroyed the GOP reason for being.
I seem to recall after 2004 elections, that it was the RATs that were done, put a fork in them. One thing we should NEVER do is misunderestimate these creatures penchant for self-preservation.
I agree that we should start over and with rock-solid Conservatives. Even if it means that we are sentenced to four years of an Obama/Clinton presidency, we will just have to gut it out and make sure that there is still an America left to fight for.
I already got my bumper sticker for the next four years picked ot:”NOT MY PRESIDENT”. I know it’ not original, but it works.
May the force be with you. I hope you are right.
I do believe people are about to find out what misery is.
They will look for a cure for the pain. Question is "will we be ready"?
Any way we look at the 2008 election, it is going to get ugly with only one party left.
We have really become the architects of our own fate and we shouldn't look to political parties to think in our best interests.
“They brought this on themselves by listening to Karl Rove and his “center right” philosophy.”
And the man behind him and white house policy, Grover Norquist who said years ago, “”I started out as a right-winger, and when I retire I want to be a squishy middle-of-the-roader,” he jokes, chortling at the thought.
“They brought this on themselves by listening to Karl Rove and his “center right” philosophy.”
And the man behind him and white house policy, Grover Norquist who said years ago, “”I started out as a right-winger, and when I retire I want to be a squishy middle-of-the-roader,” he jokes, chortling at the thought.
To be honest, I would hope your assessment is right.
Lets hope God doesn’t give up on America.
Yep the GOP was wounded in the 89 swearing in of Liberal Poppy but the party itself died in 1995 after abandoning principles for personal political gains. Lott and others began a wholesale sellout of the GOP platform and any hint of conservatism. The sooner the GOP is gone the sooner a replacement is established. The current Democratic and Republican parties are so close in agenda they are destroying the nation. There is no longer a loud and clear voice of dissent in the peoples house.
I would like to see someone like congressman John J Duncan as Speaker of the House. One of the few remaining Republicans with common sense left.
Anyone yelling for Newt can forget it also. He walked away when his nation needed him most. Why didn't he stand and fight the Rockefellers head on rather than giving them the keys to the house and party?
The Force is with me and everything is proceeding as I have forseen after the 2006 election. Very sad but very true. The headlines are reading like a script. I have it written down. My tagline tells it all.
“Lets hope God doesn’t give up on America.”
God has not given up on America. It has forsaken Him and is about to get a serious eye opening as never before. Read Hebrews 12.
Excellent post. That pretty well describes my opinion. The problem is not the voters, it is the self obsessed so called “servants of the people.”
Just take a look at Lott. Screwed over the voters and then bailed after helping to ruin the GOP.
These people need to be limited to fewer terms, once they are done, they need to get a real job, like most other Americans, and no longer be eligible for taxpayer health coverage and lifetime benefits.
They all disgust me. I am ready to start over.
Thank you Mr Vader, I will do exactly that.
You posted, “Time to throw this baby out with the bathwater and start all over. The RINOs have destroyed the GOP reason for being.”
I have to say I agree....I have not given any money to the GOP this year, not even to renew any GOP Memberships...I will vote for local candidates and donate to the NRA.....Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh yes, and save the polar bears...what a joke.
It’s funny, of the 3 House race specials we’ve lost, only 1 of them (Oberweis in IL) was a RINO, and he lost because of that. Jenkins in LA was a Conservative, but he was undermined by RINO establishment elites (and an Indy RINO candidate — as it was, the Dem won by less than 50% of the vote). And, with Davis, he lost because he lived in the wrong place. All 3 had different reasons for our failure to win.
I endorsed McCullough because I believed he could neutralize rural opposition to Davis that would go to Childers (or Sen. Steve Holland, had he won the Dem nod) and could simultaneously hold suburban Memphis, of whom most would rather play Russian Roulette than vote Democrat.
Short of armed revolution again which no one especially myself wants to see happen this will be our only hope. The RINO's have to go. If some good Conservatives get caught in the crossfire politically they will recover politically on their own merit.
Yes the Democratic Party is headed for destruction and it is on a collision course with an iceberg like the Titanic was. It will happen faster than you think and its destruction will be far more spectacular and violent than you can even possibly imagine.
The best thing that can happen to the Republican party is a major defeat in Nov. From Pres. Bush to Congress, to this RINO McPain, this party has been one disappointment after another. I totally agree, throw them all out starting with that pr*ck, Amnesty Graham from S.C. None of the current group of senators or congressmen deserve a vote of confidence.
The Republican party is going the way of the Dodo bird. Time for a true conservative party to come out of the ashes what once was the Republican party.
Don't bet on it. They are what they say they are and they deliver what they say they will. They are Liberals and deliver a liberal agenda. It is the GOP that has the major identity problem. Open your eyes.
Whadiyaknow about that? The candidate that ran as a conservative won.Very telling.
Why should we bother voting for the f###s who make up the GOP when they are just as bad as the f###s who make up the Donks? See AGW, polar bears, amnesty, no border control, out of control spending, moronic rules of engagement for our troops on the ground, constant appeasement of the “religion of peace,” etc., etc.?
Screw ‘em all.
The conservative voting base has every right to be angry.
I see far more clearly than you do. There are very powerful forces at work here that they are helpless and powerless to resist and which is setting them up like lambs for the slaughter. There is nothing here on earth they can do to stop it. Their agenda will be turned into ashes before them and blown to the wind. The Republicans time is over and the Democrats are next on the list.
“The country will meltdown faster than you think “
The trouble with this prediction (not that I disagree) is that you and I live here too, and that “meltdown” is going to hurt. Best to avoid it.
“and that “meltdown” is going to hurt.”
I believe that is the intended effect to get all of the people to pay attention.
The voters are sick and tired of liberal republicans. and are electing conservative democrats.
“The conservative voting base is angry.
The conservative voting base has every right to be angry. “
And the best way it has of channeling this anger is to commit suicide ?
I think this is all a bunch of hooey. Looked at with a sense of perspective the state of the nation is excellent, people are comfortable, and mostly prosperous, the country is powerful, poverty is low, the general level of public morals is high (its certainly improved since the 1970’s), many critical issues are going our way, like guns and abortion (where the democrats have had to lay off the one, and the other is in decline), even the divorce rates are down.
This is all mostly a morale problem. Don’t let morale problems create real ones.
No, its just going to hurt. In a real sense.
“Attention” is a matter of a state of mind, an insubstantial thing.
Thanks, but I would prefer no real hurt to some insubstantial benefit.
There's a word for political parties which -- when increasingly confronted by anger and rejection on the part of the electorate -- routinely blame said voters for "not getting it," rather than re-examiming their own product for warts and flaws.
That word is "losers."
“Lets hope God doesn’t give up on America.”
Never fear - Jeremiah, and Barak Hussein, the muslim, have America in their prayers.
When you are hurt in the real sense, you are more inclined to listen. That’s what it is going to take to get America to wake up from her malaise.
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