Posted on 04/03/2009 7:10:49 AM PDT by libstripper
Dear Supporter:
With your help, The National Republican Trust PAC was able to beat back President Barack Obama’s front-line offensive against American values.
When we told you about the special election in New York to fill the congressional seat vacated by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, and that we had a chance of winning it back for conservatives, you responded and we were able to send a message to Washington, D.C., that Obama’s massive spending is not wanted.
The election was held Tuesday — and the race right now is a tie with some 10,000 absentee ballots still to be counted.
We are confident that Republican Jim Tedisco will be certified the winner.
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Update - Some good news:
Republican Candidate Takes Lead In Race For Gillibrand’s Seat; Begins Transition To Congress
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221537/posts
lol
What they say and what they believe are two different things.
Of course it wouldn’t make sense to you. Anyone who can accept the fact that a Republican needs to ‘make up his mind’ about the most pressing issue in the country and on a bill that ALL house Republicans voted against, obviously wouldn’t understand.
You’re thinking in terms of parties. You’re thinking that no matter how bad the Republican is, the Democrat is worse.
Well, you’re probably right, but here’s the issue that elected Republicans across the country are forgetting: Many people are starving for candidates who stand for SOMETHING. They’ve been so deprived of leaders who know who they are and know what their position is that even if they don’t agree with that position, they’ll go with them.
You are failing to step back and realize just how deep the betrayal has been. People BELIEVED that electing Republicans would bring about a more responsible government. They stuck their neck’s out. They dealt with constant derision and outright vilification in some cases to vote in the people they believed in. And they were left in the dust with nothing to show for it.
Wake up. We have Republicans in the house voting ‘present’ on fascist bills to control executive pay. We have Republicans in the house who don’t know that a Bill of Attainder is unconstitutional.
Are there Democrats that are so stupid that one wonders how they walk upright? You betcha there are and that’s most of them in fact. But that doesn’t make it anymore acceptable than Zero’s lame ass argument about Bush starting the bailouts and spending first, so his doubling down on it is okay.
Republicans were supposed to be better. They promised us they were better. And they didn’t keep their promise.
With this in mind, any candidate must tread carefully in order to keep their base. That means knowing who they are, what they believe in, and where they stand. Hesitation is unacceptable.
Imagine this is with the Obama machine putting ALL its energy on ONE little election.
Now divide that machine over the entire house elections.
FOOTNOTE: TAKE YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR TEENAGEERS TO THESE TEA PARTIES!!! EDUCATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF VOTERS!! OBAMA MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!
This was a congressional district, not a statewide race.
They'll never learn.
This was a house race and not open to voting by the whole state.
It's not like New Jersey where the law doesn't count at all.
In New York, in a Congressional DISTRICT, only registered voters that live in that DISTRICT are allowed to legally vote.
Size of the state is not material, as in jersey where the jersey supreme court can override the state constitution and replace an indicted senate candidate with a different one, even after the deadline has passed.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
All congressional districts are the same size in terms of population, so the population of NY is not relevant. There are about 600,000 or 700,000 residents per congressional district, I am not sure what the figure is these days. Of those, not all are eligible voters. 150,000 is probably a 40 or 50 percent turnout of registered voters.
Each Congressional District represents about 800,000 people, and registered voters might be 60 % of that of thereabouts, so I dont get your point about this being NY.
ha! yeah,
just a litle herding of the sheep here... ;^)
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