Posted on 11/04/2008 11:11:57 PM PST by HamiltonJay
Shutting down coal resonated in Pittsburg, did not resonate in Philly?
Actually, in many counties, PA votes Conservative, unfortunately those counties are sparcely populated.
Murtha won. He’s an incumbent. Incumbents don’t lose simply because of a few dumb statements.
Hell, I am an Iowan and yet I can't figure out why the GOP lets this state of losers still get the first caucus! The state's Republican apparatus has ossified to the point of debility, so let 'em throw as big a fit as they want... give the first one to GA or TX.
At least you live in a red state. I live in Florida which I thought was a red state but today’s results proved me terribly wrong.
Tom Cole won. We returned 4/5 Republicans to the House — same as before.
Republicans had a great night in OK.
I as disgusted during the primary season when Iowa kept getting mad when candidates didn’t come in the state all the time and how they were going to punish them and ditto NH and then MI.
I am fed up and think 55 million other Republicans should be too that we allow blue states to pick our nominee.
Wonder how we go about changing it? I am willing to start a petition or whatever it takes. We have 3 years to get it changed.
Really, to hell with IA and NH and Mediascum and RINOs and “open” primaries etc. How do we reclaim the nomination process so that the Mediascum do not determine who we are allowed to nominate? We really have TWO years to reform the system for choosing R. party nominees since by the time it gets close to 2012 it will be too late for the coming cycle.
I think to some extent we saw two important things:
--The utter backfire of "Operation Chaos," which merely ended up pumping more money and resources into what eventually became Obama's "ground game" machine, while also giving him loads of media attention, and
--The failure of the McCain campaign to capitalize on the months and months and months between his capture of the nomination and the convention season. Where WAS the McCain campaign? What was it building all that time, if anything, on the ground?
Perhaps McCain would have lost in any case but... like this?
His campaign managers have a lot to answer for tomorrow.
Well yes.
Philly suburbs trending liberal screws the whole state.
I think that the caucus order should be based on performance in the last Presidential election (or a similar setup). No state gets it "just because it has always been that way," and it rewards the organizations with moxie. And no crossover voting. Ever.
That this frigging state went for Obama (and Huckabee) tells anyone how worthless it is to the Republicans.
I am with you guys! I want open primaries gone, I want Iowa, NH, and Michigan sent to the back of the pack, and want conservative states in the front that are reliable red states not ones that we have to guess are going red.
We need to start now to get it reformed. This is ludicrous for blue states and the media to pick our candidates. I detest open primaries with a passion. I want closed Republican primaries like we have in Oklahoma which BTW was ruled constitutional.
Don’t think that is too much to ask. RNC has way too much control for being such an inept organization. That place needs a thorough housecleaning.
Exactly! Way too much time was spent by our candidates in Iowa and NH — both blue states.
States should be rewarded for staying red.
I did a lot of work for McCain and was his coordinator in this part of the state. Like so many others I didn’t start out supporting McCain but went over after the FL primary when I was asked.
Also worked with LetsGetThisRight.com that we put together a few months ago to support Congressoinal candidates.
At least Oklahoma went in large numbers for McCain. We must be doing something right in our State.
To anyone who knows of a good way to start the ball rolling, just keep in mind that the Iowa Republican apparatus is quite creaky these days, and they would have no choice but to back down. It ain’t my mother’s GOP... heck it isn’t even mine.
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