Posted on 06/28/2014 3:38:13 AM PDT by OldRanchHand
How long have people known about that? I would not vote for anybody like that.
“...Miller's successor as governor, Roy Barnes, appointed Miller to a U.S. Senate seat following the death of Republican Sen. Paul Coverdell in July 2000. While the Democratic Party's historic control of Georgia politics had waned for years, Miller remained popular. He easily won a special election to keep the seat in November 2000. During the campaign to keep the seat, Miller spoke warmly of his late friend Coverdell, praised Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, and promised to work for bipartisanship in the Senate...”
I loath Roy Barnes & was livid when he (or his political allies) made the special election non-partisan. Absent a party affiliation, voters would be inclined to vote on name recognition—IOW Zell.
Zell Milker was a close friend of Senator Coverdell and he promised to represent all Georgians, not the democrat Georgians.
He kept his word. Had he sought re-election I would have proudly cast my vote for him. I would have been a republican voting for a democrat.
It happens. :)
I’ll leave it to others to ferret out the details but it’s been several years at least.
“Oh, yeah, voting Dem will really help conservatives! It might help you feel youre saying neener, neener, neener to the GOP establishment, but they dont care and meanwhile Harry Reid and Obama are high-fiving each other at your efforts to keep the Dems in power.
Its a numbers game. Get the best Republican you can, but if you cant get a good one, get any Republican. Unless there are more GOPers than Dems, no matter how pure and conservative the GOPers may be, theyre powerless.”
You are the voice of logic and reason — if only people would listen...
There isn’t any ABSOLUTE rigid rule. A stiff enough minority might be able to inspire more to join their raft next election cycle — just to be fair to the purists.
But that’s probably more practical if they can’t meet in a phone booth.
The liberal republican leadership must be denied a majority in the Senate.
Liberal republicans are what is moving the liberal agenda forward.
/johnny
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I evpect you are right These are the same people who have no principles. They tout they want change but the more I am exposaed to them the more I am seeing that these people are the rats in disquize, trouble makers or just sore losers. Democrats are courting them, and I speak with first hand knowledge. As a conservative, republican, I know we must win back the senate, one senate seat at a time. Some of these tea partiers like to call them selves Regaen Republicans. Then they should start acting like one. Trying to take back the country by fignting against republicans is not something Regaen would have done. He believed in the big tent party.We all have something to bring to the table.
I evpect you are right These are the same people who have no principles. They tout they want change but the more I am exposaed to them the more I am seeing that these people are the rats in disquize, trouble makers or just sore losers. Democrats are courting them, and I speak with first hand knowledge. As a conservative, republican, I know we must win back the senate, one senate seat at a time. Some of these tea partiers like to call them selves Regaen Republicans. Then they should start acting like one. Trying to take back the country by fignting against republicans is not something Regaen would have done. He believed in the big tent party.We all have something to bring to the table.
I evpect you are right These are the same people who have no principles. They tout they want change but the more I am exposaed to them the more I am seeing that these people are the rats in disquize, trouble makers or just sore losers. Democrats are courting them, and I speak with first hand knowledge. As a conservative, republican, I know we must win back the senate, one senate seat at a time. Some of these tea partiers like to call them selves Regaen Republicans. Then they should start acting like one. Trying to take back the country by fignting against republicans is not something Regaen would have done. He believed in the big tent party.We all have something to bring to the table.
I evpect you are right These are the same people who have no principles. They tout they want change but the more I am exposaed to them the more I am seeing that these people are the rats in disquize, trouble makers or just sore losers. Democrats are courting them, and I speak with first hand knowledge. As a conservative, republican, I know we must win back the senate, one senate seat at a time. Some of these tea partiers like to call them selves Regaen Republicans. Then they should start acting like one. Trying to take back the country by fignting against republicans is not something Regaen would have done. He believed in the big tent party.We all have something to bring to the table.
Logic and reason? Spare me. If Cochran pulls this off and wins in the general, the GOP-E will use this despicable tactic against the Tea Party whenever there is a serious primary challenge. The base cannot let this stand. The GOP-E has to know there is a line and they just crossed it big-time. We don't have to vote against every GOP-E congresscritter. But IMO it is imperative to send a clear message here. Namely, to the GOP-E, Alinksy the Tea Party at your own peril.
The GOP-E has shown, time and time again, that they will fight harder against the Tea Party than against the Dems - even though the Tea Party gave them their house majority in 2010. If the GOP loses ones Senate seat in teaching them that there is a boundary, so be it. After all, they had no problem stabbing Tea Party primary winners in the back in 2010.
Oh, that's rich. The Cochran GOP-E team just committed probably the worst violation of Reagan's 11th commandment I have ever seen, and you have the gall to invoke his name here?
I was a democrat once, and I have voted for both democrat and republican on the same ballot, just not the same office. There was a time when one could vote for a democrat and he/she was a great candidate for the office. I’d not vote at all if the republican was unfit for office at present. But I have not voted in every election, either. We could not get our ballots in time when we lived in Turkey and even the first few years in Germany.
Sometimes there are reasons for voting for the democrat. There was a time when I thought Haley Barbour was a great governor, based on articles written about him, but the more I listened to him, the more I began to see that he’s not such a great conservative. When one has a good conservative House and Senate, one gets credit for a lot more than one’s own ideas. Left alone to themselves, some of these politicians reveal too much about themselves and their persona starts coming apart.
And here is how another great Tea Party victory turned out in the general election: the Dems gained a seat:
Sen. Richard Lugar defeated by tea party challenger
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/09/nation/la-na-lugar-election-20120509
Conservative rival Richard Mourdock easily wins Indianas Republican Senate primary over the 35-year incumbent. He will face Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly in the general election.
Followed by:
Joe Donnelly upsets Richard Mourdock in Indiana
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83440.html
Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly pulled off a stunning upset over Republican Richard Mourdock in the Indiana Senate race a battle that the GOP thought was a sure win until the final days of the campaign.
Mourdock wasn’t Tea Party. Also, the GOP-E had a vested interest in Tea Party winners losing and knifed them in the back every chance they got. So don’t lecture me about party unity. You should have been lecturing them.
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LOL
Is this like CatDog?
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