Posted on 02/06/2010 9:34:53 PM PST by Def Conservative
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message983106/pg1
This is what the Tea party is about - finding people from all over the country that will now be willing to run - PEOPLE-people, not the establishment/career pols...but REAL people that will be true representatives.
People like Scott Brown, Like McClowan and Col Allen West.
(West ran in 2008 and the GOP establishment ignored him - and the democrat won. He's running again - the Tea Party found him and the people found him and now, after he's gathering good funding - the GOP is finally admitting he's alive.
Here's Mc Glowan
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message983106/pg1
and here's Col WEst - 2 most important clips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M
and this last one on Red Eye - it starts out with a bit of the first clip but watch it through - it was just after dingy harry’s ‘tan’ remark hit the news. West lays everything out in lavendar in this clip. -
Mississippi ( W-O-W ) Ping.........
Unless she was his pimp, that won’t fly, that’s 10 years ago. Even Ensign would win reelection this year, not that he should run again.
I believe Angela worked for Ensign from 2001-2003, then became a Fox News Talking head from there on.
I’d like to see a poll showing a hypothetical showing a amtch up between Reid vs Ensign. I suspect Ensign would beat Reid.
EXCELLENT!
Oh, come on. How on Earth can they link an affair years later to work she did in 2000. Ridiculous.
A single-celled amoeba beats Reid.
Welp...wardaddy is an Ole Miss grad, too.
Shep is an anomaly...in more ways than one. lol
Mississippi ( W-O-W ) Bump.........
She’s a very beautiful and smart lady. I’ve seen her on FNC many times.
She can tote her weight...
/wardaddy
;o)
I saw this Friday night. I lazilly waited for someone else to post it. ;D Geoff Davis was talking about it as a reason to maybe wait rather than just endorse Nunnelee.
Nunnelee has the right profile to win the seat, Childer’s won as Fieldmarshadj points out because the last Republican came from the “wrong” part of the district, the same (very stupid) reason we lost Maryland CD-1. But McGlowan is good too. An attractive and intelligent woman.
I envy the primary voters of the district who can be happy either way.
She’s a racist....< /sarc >
I spoke to her at the Memphis tea party. Nice, smart and prettier in real life. I’ll do what I can to help her.
I am an Ole Miss grad and I don’t think Shep actually finished in Oxford.
She’s from Oxford, so she can’t get tagged with being a Memphis suburban candidate. I’m loathe to admit it, but I have to wonder if her race might harm her here. The district has a fairly high (27%) Black population, and there is polarization here (at least one rural White Dem county which hadn’t gone GOP in recent memory clearly did so because you-know-who was the Presidential nominee, while conversely some marginal counties went to Zero precisely because he ginned up Black turnout).
If she got the nomination, I’d hope some of the more racist-minded Whites would see that she’s not of the Jackson ilk of Black politicos (read: Bennie Thompson), and give her their consideration. Then again, I’d expect her to have more problems getting Blacks to vote for her, as they haven’t shown that much more interest in Republicans in some of these Southern districts. Of course, if she could crack 25% of their vote, that would be enough to overcome any problems on the GOP side.
It would be nice to see in the upcoming Congress some breakthroughs with Black GOP candidates, especially ones who can forcefully present a Conservative message. Lacking them is partly why we’ve had so much trouble with getting more than 10% of the Black vote. The more we elect, the more the message is heard and the party becomes less seen as the party of White folks and viewed as the party of opportunity for all races, the more we get to critical mass with having an excellent representation in office from top to bottom across the country and breaking the one-party monopoly, as it should be.
Amen. Once young blacks see a good number of black Republicans in Congress, it will become impossible for Democrats to convince them that the GOP is “the party of white people.” And if we get just 30% of the black vote, we would have permanent majorities in both the House and Senate and be unbeatable in all but a handful of states.
As a proud son Mississippi and as an Ole Miss alum I hate to admit it, but I don’t think Miss Angela has a snowball’s chance.
To start with, the rural whites in TVA counties like Tishomingo, Itawamba, Tippah, Union and Pontotoc still have a pro-Dhimmi streak that’s left over from the days of FDR and the New Deal. The label “Republican” still runs too much against the grain.
But even more important, there’s no way the white good ole boys in that neck of the woods are going to vote for a black person — liberal or conservative, male or female.
And if those factors weren’t enough, the local Dhimmi political machine in Rep. Childers’ home county, Prentiss, is as corrupt as they come. They’ll manufacture however many votes it might take to put Travis over the top.
Finally, the ca. 25% of voters in the First District who are black simply aren’t going to vote for a Republican candidate, no more than the Pennsylvania blacks went for Lynn Swann or the Ohio blacks went for Ken Blackwell or the Maryland blacks went for Michael Steele. The pro-Dhimmi indoctrination just runs too deep.
So however much us FReepers may admire Angela, sad to say that it just ain’t gonna happen.
This district was held by Roger Wicker (R) for some time — could any Republican win it back?
Another white Republican, especially (à la Roger Wicker) from a rural county like Pontotoc?
For sure -- although Travis Childers and the Prentiss County Dhimmi machine would probably make it a real horse race.
(And by the way, I don't mean to convey "approval" of the racial situation. But it's just a political fact of life.)
Sad when the more conservative candidate can’t be deemed a winner in my county, Desoto, which will go pubbie 100% of the time.
Shep went to my highschool in Holly Springs. What an asshat.
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