Posted on 12/13/2006 4:43:43 AM PST by Froufrou
Politics ping...
this shows further evidence of a significant problem with the party. Incumbents who can be relied on to get re-elected are losing their seats. This election shows a clear erosion of support for the GOP. Those in this election had time to reflect on the change of power in Washington, and clearly identified that change as a good thing. If traditionally GOP voters had been shocked by last months outcome, they would have come out for Bonilla in this runoff.
It was misleading. I thought I'd be able to vote, but as it turned out it's not my district. Although I knew that, the media made such a big deal out of it ["all of Bexar County"] I had to double check myself.
What you say is true. We are losing it.
We get the politicians we deserve.
I'm preparing myself for a return of the 60s - I don't see Republican majorities again for, at the very least, 8 years and probably more like 16 or 20.
Where did Bonilla's voters go?...
60,175 Bonilla Nov. 7
32,165 Bonilla Dec. 12
28,010 difference
Nov. 7, special election results
| U. S. Representative District 23 | ||||
| August G. "Augie" Beltran | DEM | 2,647 | 2.13% | |
| Rick Bolanos | DEM | 2,564 | 2.07% | |
| Henry Bonilla(I) | REP | 60,175 | 48.60% | |
| Adrian DeLeon | DEM | 2,198 | 1.77% | |
| Lukin Gilliland | DEM | 13,728 | 11.08% | |
| Ciro D. Rodriguez | DEM | 24,594 | 19.86% | |
| Craig T. Stephens | IND | 3,341 | 2.69% | |
| Albert Uresti | DEM | 14,552 | 11.75% | |
| ----------- | ||||
| Race Total | 123,799 | |||
| RACE | NAME | PARTY | EARLY VOTES | PERCENT | TOTAL VOTES | PERCENT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U. S. Representative District 23 |
|||||||
| Henry Bonilla - Incumbent | REP | 14,419 | 46.05% | 32,165 | 45.68% | ||
| Ciro D. Rodriguez | DEM | 16,896 | 53.95% | 38,247 | 54.32% | ||
| --------------- | --------------- | ||||||
| Total Votes Cast | 31,315 | 70,412 | |||||
| Precincts Reported | 267 | of | 267 Precincts | 100.00% | |||
| -------------------------------------------- | |||||||
I am really beginning to think that the best thing Bush and Cheney could do for America is to resign and make Nancy Pelosi president. This would give the sheeple a good dose of what they are in for and possibly save us from a Hitlery Clinton presidency. At minimum, it would guarantee a good catfight between Pelosi and Clinton in the primaries and force Hitlery to tack hard left rather than just run out the clock for her nomination.
Making this move about Halloween of next year would give the sheeple a good sample of what they were in for unless they change course dramatically in 2008.
2008 and 2010 will go a long way towards determining that. The GOP needs to gain governorships and state legislatures in the next two election cycles. If not, the Democrats will pretty much control the 2011 redistricting process. That will allow them to replace Republican gerrymanders with Democratic ones. If you think being a 30-seat minority party on a map the Republicans drew themselves is bad, just imagine how many more losses there will be on a map drawn by the Democrats.
Did they vote for Rodriguez, or against Bush? There is a lot of that going around.
Where were all the Hispanic Republicans?
Voting for Demonrats?
The future of America with illegal voters and then newly made legal voters?
No agenda on the part of those wanting illegals made legal?
You decide.........
This is why we lose. Who CARES about a meaningless donation 8 years ago from someone who LATER did something wrong? That kind of charge is as likely to turn off your own voters and embolden your opponent.
In Virginia, Senator Allen all but abandoned his plan to sell himself, and spent the last 2 months trying to get people to hate his opponent. And every time he complained, another batch of voters got tired of it. And for many of his attacks, the military republicans were drawn to his opponent -- who wouldn't want to vote for a guy that was willing to say women should be in combat?
Hispanic Republicans are voting Democrat this year, because no matter how much they agree with us about stopping illegal immigration, they simply are turned off by the Tom Tancredo's of the world blaming mexicans for all our problems.
"The sheeple of San Antonio have joined the sheeple of America in voting for the next 9-11. And, here, I thought Texans were smarter that most Americans."
Don't be so hard on the rest of TX. There is a huge populist element (some might say brain-dead lefty element...) in San Antonio. ANY congressional district that touches Bexar county is at risk, and Bonilla didn't run what you would call an inspired campaign, while Cuellar pandered to his base at times.
Correct. James Sensenbrenner and Tom Tancredo successfully drove the non-Cuban Hispanics out of the Republican Party.
In 2004 both parties were competitive with the Hispanic vote, especially in Texas. In 2006 the Hispanics voted much more like African Americans.
What's funny about this campaign is that Ciro Rodriguez is such a miserable campaigner that he wasn't allowed to have a campaign. The DCCC sent down its organizers who told him what to do, didn't give Rodriguez any say in his own campaign, and basically elected this clown who is otherwise completely unelectable.
I knew that ad would backfire. I saw it on redstate a few weeks ago.
We have to face the fact that a lot of "true conservatives" got creamed in this election. The country is drifting to the left quite strongly and it will take a lot of effort to arrest that, if it's even possible.
Conservatives had better get their act together and decide that, yes, winning is important. The Democrats have only one principle, and that is the pursuit of power.
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