Posted on 11/04/2008 8:26:40 PM PST by traumer
Veteran Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) defeated his GOP challenger William Russell after his toughest reelection race in his 34-year House career.
NBC News projected Murtha the winner with 56 percent of the precincts in his district reporting and Murtha ahead of Russell with 58 percent of the vote. Murtha won in 2004 by 61 percent.
Murtha watched his poll numbers shrink days before election after he called his constituents “racist” and “redneck” and accused Marines of killing civilians in “cold blood” in Hadditha, Iraq.
Murtha, the chairman of the House defense appropriations committee, had some high-level support in the last hours of his reelection campaign. President Bill Clinton campaigned with him on Monday, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) sent out a fundraising appeal last week.
Russell’s bid was propelled after Murtha’s controversial remarks, and the Republican Party poured last minute money into the campaign, which, until several weeks ago was an uphill battle for the retired Army colonel and Iraq veteran. Russell moved from Virginia to Johnstown to challenge Murtha.
Murtha held a late night press conference to proclaim his victory and spoke with cheers in the background. Murtha said he looked forward to working with Barack Obama, who was having a big night in the presidential race.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse.....
I told you so.
The voters always get what they deserve.
I thought that the most stupid voters on earth are those that vote for Pelosi BUT the idiots who voted for Murtha should look at themselves in the mirror.
To quote Terry Anderson...”Stupid people of America.”
“To quote Terry Anderson...”Stupid people of America.”
And the RATS rule the NEA..it will only get worst.
Pork is GOD.
I wished I’d been wrong on this one. But, I’m not surprised.
Add stupid to racist and redneck.
Are the people of PA freeking retarded? Did 3MI ruin the watertable and make you a state of Forrest Gumps?? I’m embarrassed to recide in CA. We got nothin’ on you asshats in PA. Hang your heads in shame PA!
I was born and raised there, but she's dead to me now. As I grow older, I realize more and more that "home" was a place in time, and not in space.
Heh Heh. Them red necks are in for a doozy, now then, ain't they?
PA voters are NUTS. Why would you vote for someone who called you names like racist and redneck. I really dislike this old fool. And that is what he is an old fool and those who voted for him are insane.
So the voters in Murtha’s district choose to whore themselves out in exchange for the pork that POS brings them...
Murtha embodies the people in his district. As far as I’m concerned, they are the equal dirtbag as him.
Same goes for KKK Byrd, Kennedy, etc....you know, the lifers who gamed the system and spit on the flag.
You f*cking brain dead idiots in Johnstown. You deserve the life you live.
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