Posted on 05/22/2010 3:21:54 PM PDT by Liz
Any Freepers involved in the upcoming campaigns need to tell the leadership of the GOP to grow a spine and a set of gonads like yesterday!!!
>>So can every other Democrat. “We forced them to run as conservatives” will be cold comfort if Republicans do not retake the House.<<
Don’t trust them. Once Pelousi works her witch’s spell, they will all fall in line. Same old story - sell the people a line, beg for votes, get elected, laugh at the voters, go to Washington, forget the people back home and in two years, repeat.
After Stupak’s betrayal, I do not believe anty RAT who claims to be a Conservative. Fool me once.
> Don’t trust them.
I don’t. But you and I do not have enough votes. Republicans have to learn from PA12 - Democrats will lie, they will claim to be conservative. I expect they will have a series of votes over the next 6 months to demonstrate their conservative principles. Republicans have to learn how to deal with this and develop an effective counter. If they do not do this - November will be a very sad month.
>>Republicans have to learn from PA12 - Democrats will lie, they will claim to be conservative. <<
And every time they do, call them a liar. Oh, and include RINOs in the liar category.
Stupak-—you mean the one who no longer has a job? (/snix)
> Stupak-—you mean the one who no longer has a job? (/snix)
I am not really sure about the meaning of “/sinx”, but if Republicans are unable to make Stupak into a poster boy for lying Democrats, November will be a very sad month.
To the best of my knowledge, no media ever mentioned the presence of a Libertarian Party candidate, who drew about 2 and a half percent of the vote, most of it (one would presume) from the Republican Burns. So the take here is that the result would have been 53-47 in a two-candidate contest. That 53% for Murtha's lackey compares unfavorably to Murtha's 57% in '08, indicating some slippage for the Dems.
Also not considered by the pundits was the relatively low total vote for the special election, to be expected in a special election. That total of 133,000 (approx.) was less than two thirds of the total vote for Congress in the district in the off year general election of '06. The low tuotal turnout would have figured to favor the more entrenched candidate with the better organization: in this case, the Democrat. Of course the presence of the hotly contested US Senate Dem primary was duly noted as a plus factor for them as well.
Come November, when these same candidates sqauare off again, at least one third of the voters will not have voted in the primary, which gives the GOP a better chance than in May. Furthermore, the Dem incumbent will probably have a bit of a voting record of his own on which he could be attacked.
BTW, were there any hints of fraud on the part of the 'Rats in Penn-12?
Barone ignores a key point in number three. The Democrats hold a 2:1 ratio over the OP(formerly the GOP) yet the election results were far closer than that margin. Most importantly the RAT only holds the office for 5 1/2 months. This should be encouraging news for Burns given the close margin.
A detailed analysis of any voter fraud in the PA election must be documented. Use the data to prepare for stopping, exposing, and prosecuting their fraud in November. Contest any election won by voter fraud. I urge the leadership of the GOP to recruit volunteers, huge numbers of patriots, to be at the polls in November with video cameras. I urge them to recruit retired military and retired law enforcement who will not be intimidated by the RAT thugs which was their technique in 08.
The new buzz emanating from the Burns campaign is that they "learned valuable lessons" and now will "change strategy" and "repackage" Burns for the Fall.
It's laughable and it reminded me of something I'd read....
A large multinational dog food company decided to come out with the latest and greatest dog food. They had their research scientists design the most nutritious combination of ingredients, containing all the essential vitamins and amino acids required by dogs. They had the marketing department put together a most colorful advertisement and a catchy jingo was thought up for their TV commercial. And they spent gobs of money on TV advertising and splashy full page magazine ads. The engineers designed equipment to make this dog food in the most efficient manner, and the packaging department designed a beautiful box for it. The sales force was trained, and every supermarket chain had shelf space devoted to the dog food.
It did not sell.
So the company CEO gathered his top executives together to have a meeting to discover why. He asked each department "Why isn't our dog food selling?" The research department said there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with their formulation. Marketing was completely stumped. The sales force was mystified. No one had a clue as to what was wrong. Finally, after a long pause, a new employee sitting in the back of the room finally got the courage to say "But the dogs don't like it!"
The guy was also a staffer of Murtha, not a *new* face to those voters. I put this in the same category as the widow who wins the seat, I don't see it as this enormous wake-up call warning sign to the GOP -- frankly I'd have been more surprised if Critz had not won the special election.
Tea party must be doing really good. One of obama’s former druggies is out spinning like a TOP! Not one word from Cooper asking what he meant in this interview.
Yes, but Democrat Critz ran as a pro-life conservative -- he ran against Obama's abortion-worshipping agenda. Critz was helped by his conservative stand on guns... and he trashed Obama's health care and cap-and-trade.So long as the voters remember his supposed positions and don't let him get away with his inevitable coat-turning...
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