Posted on 02/12/2008 9:58:27 PM PST by icwhatudo
(With all the upheaval around here lately- I put this in breaking to give everyone a shot of good news...and it is breaking btw)
CHESTERTOWN, Md. (AP) - A nine-term Republican congressman critical of the Iraq war has been defeated by a well-funded state senator in Maryland's primary.
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest was narrowly defeated Tuesday by state Sen. Andy Harris.
Gilchrest voted to go to war in Iraq but later said he regretted the decision. A year ago, he was one of two Republicans in Congress to vote for a withdrawal timeline.
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now folks, that is a real RINO. Not someone who supported the war through its darkest days.
I don’t understand why some people think Steele would be a good VP
Thank you eastern shore folks.
Oh this is beautiful. Pipkin’s egotistical, indulgent entrance into the race made me think the effort was futile. Gilcrest is a repulsive ugly man. Reap what you sow. This news makes the weather today much brighter.
Gingrich supported Gilchrest?? The same Gingrich that is now calling for conservative independence from the GOP?
Sometimes I feel like the guy in that beer commercial... the GOP keeps parading these lefties past me and asking me to vote for them, and I'm sitting on the couch as they walk by in their stinky underwear, and I keep saying "Dude."
I'm usually not this pessimistic. But we must be realistic.
Putting party before principles.
He’s black.
There was no hype in that story about the Battle of Brooklyn. The British fully expected to take Washington and his forces in Brooklyn and it was miraculous that they escaped to Murray Hill, Manhattan across the East River.
In October the British fleet was set to sail down Lake Champlain and capture Fort Ticonderoga and link up with their counterparts in New York City by sailing down the Hudson and basically capturing the entire Hudson River. But the brave Benedict Arnold fought a suicidal naval battle after hiding his makeshift fleet behind Valcour Island and attacking the British from behind after they passed the island. Arnold almost got killed (many of his men had to swim to shore after their ships were shot out from under them) but he forced the British northern forces to spend another 11 months trying to push south of the lake, by which time the politics of New York State had changed and the loyalists in the Albany area were ready to fight the British on farmland near Saratoga.
Anyway, after escaping to Murray Hill (which is where UN employees now live) Washington had tea with Mrs. Murray who was apparently an attractive rich widow. Apparently he dallied amost too long because the British had crossed into the Wall Street area the morning after the Americans escaped in a fog from Brooklyn and the Brits were moving up the west side highway to try to encircle his forces yet again. Whenever I am on the west side highway, I think about how the America was saved because American troops ran fast to the north that day.
Great news!
This is wonderful news - for us, for the nation, and especially for the superb U. S. men and women serving in the Middle East.
Thank you for this great day BRIGHTNER!!!!!!!!
Perhaps Pipkin split the Easter-Shore vote more than he split the conservative vote.
Perhaps Pipkin split the Eastern-Shore vote more than he split the conservative vote.
Gilchrest was a fluke, from the beginning. When he first ran in 1988 he was a high school teacher with no money running against an entrenched “conservative” Democrat with wads of Defense PAC monies in his bag, and the only reason he came within 400 votes of winning was becuase Dyson’s top aide was caught hiring boy pages and romancing them in Dyson’s office, with the implication that Dyson was gay also.(the aide committed suicide). That doomed Dyson and gave us this liberal Republican who has plenty of PAC money himself. But not enough to win, apparently.
Sounds like Oregon. Most of the state is conservative but is overwhelmed by Multnomah(Portland) County. Our delegation is currently 4-1, but with the incumbent Dem retiring in the 5th and more registered Republicans than Dems(slightly) in that district, there's a very good chance Oregon become a 3-2 delegation split.
so will the winner get any support from the Republican establishment?
A good Pub district and Harris will be a good rep. for conserv values and policies. It would be odd if Obama and or Hil actually lost Md. to McCain. Newt was for Gilchrist and that does not pose good for our side when Newt was on the wrong side of this contest.
I agree. One RINO down a few hundred more to go. Cool.
Sadly it has been long forgotten the vital part New York played in the Revolutionary war. Yes, it started in Boston(tea party)and lexington/concord, finally finishing up in jamestown VA 5 years later; but it was NEW YORK where the main action took place. It was Hamilton that put manhatten on the road to becoming NYC but if Washington had known what a liberal snake pit it would become he might have hung it up right there and stayed even longer at tea w/Mrs Murray.
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