Posted on 08/05/2009 4:13:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Errrr, errrr. Well Sparky, don't let the door hit you in the ass.
You think it's bad now? Just wait until the numbers are crunched for the 2010, WH (ACORN) controlled census. The amount of re-districting and gerrymandering that follow will be staggering. State legislature elections in 2010 should be JOB 1 for the right, otherwise the House of Reps. will be lost forever.
Not too long ago Maryland had 4 dem and 4 GOP congressmen. The state voter registration is 2-1 dem, and as you say, the rural areas are captive to the Baltimore and DC suburbs voters.
Redistricting has sliced the City of Baltimore into pie wedges that go out in every direction so that most of the eight congressional districts will have a majority of dem voters. Only our most western district still has a Republican representative. We used to have a Republican on the Eastern Shore, and a Republican in the northern suburbs of Baltimore county. These two districts were redrawn, so that the actual home of the Baltimore county rep was absorbed into the Eastern Shore district. The district looks like a string of beads draped over the top of the Chesapeake Bay reaching almost all the way down the Western Shore to Baltimore city.
Computer-assisted redistricting is something that our Founding Fathers Never anticipated.
If we could have grids that did not take into account the voting history of residents of the grid, we would have many competitive races every two years; and many fewer lifetime congressmen.
I get the dead tree version, and I love it.
The WSJ went way left, with the “news” section of the page repeating all the talking points of the ‘rats during 2008.
The entire 2 page editorial section is conservative, with some greats like WE Williams, Malkin, Sowell, VDH, etc.
They have ONE column per issue “from the left”. This happenes to be that column.
Am I the only one who sees things for what they are? It's driving me crazy....
Joshua Chamberlain left the Northeast 100 years and he ain’t coming back.
His replacement is Gen. Kathleen Parker and her brigade of bed-wetting Nancy-boys. Cover your heads, men, they’re coming down south to hit you with their purses.
Or Lugar.
It’s funny that the elitists still talk in terms of political parties...
probably because there are no individualists in the ‘rat party at all,
whereas the GOP, having its share of elitists as well, has a good quantity of individualists.
Hopefully peaceful? Yes you are crazy.
If you are right then "they" have their Lincoln in place. Where is our Davis?
The left spends so much time looking for a speck of dirt in the Souths eye that they cannot see the log in their own northern utopia.
1) The most RACIST city in America is .......Boston, Mass.
2) Crumbling freeways...yes it snows up north but spend the money on highway maintenance rather that union kickbacks
3) Dying Cities...Detroit and Buffalo
4) The Kennedy’s and their grip on power
5) Increasing left-wing militant colleges
One thing folks need to understand about the leftist control mindset is that it makes their heads pop just thinking about people being able to escape their control.
No, they wouln’t “allow” anyone to get out from under their thumb.
We’ll just have to break that thumb.
I’m offended ya’ll! I think that Southerners are what’s great about the party. Err, err...
After Harry Ried, Voinovich is the most stupid member of the Senate. One can hardly imagine at a member of the Taft family (the old Taft family, not the RINO offspring) who would ever say such a thing about southern Republicans.
Isn’t it time for Republicans in Ohio to take back their party?
You and all Yankees are a joke.
Hell, McCain and Palin were both Westerners and not Southerners anyway.
One group is middle-American and of the middle class, with blue-collar or technical jobs. They are observantly religious, live in the suburbs or more commonly the "exurbs", well outside the cities in any event. They drink their beer cold in the bottle and their whiskey on the rocks. They like traditional sports like football, hockey and car racing. They have traditional marriages, and children. They are frequently veterans of military service and own guns - often many, and drive SUV's and light trucks. They take their vacations at Disney or Yellowstone or fishing and camping in Maine or Minnesota.The other group, the GOP Elite, is as different from the former group as day is from night. Increasingly they are indistinguishable from the Democrats with whom they live and work in close proximity.
The Parkers, Froms, Noonans, etc, all live in the cities of the East Coast or very close nearby. The are wealthy, went to prestige schools and consider themselves of the professional class. They almost never go to religious services, except for weddings and funerals. If they must drink beer, it will likely be Heineken in a crystal glass, otherwise they prefer $10 Cosmopolitans in trendy fern bars. They play squash at the health club and watch Wimbledon or World Cup Soccer on TV. They marry - and divorce - other members of their professional class, and have children who go exclusively to private schools (at great expense) in the hope of getting them into a proper Ivy League school. They detest guns, which doesn't matter since their states and communities wouldn't allow them anyway, and they don't know anyone who ever served in the military. They drive Volvos, SAAB's, and Lexuses, or take the subway/ commuter rail to work. They vacation in the south - of France, that is. Or in the Hamptons, perhaps.
Having lived and worked with both groups of people at different times, I can say with some degree of certainty that the foregoing descriptions do not exaggerate, all that much. One thing is for certain: both groups will not co-exist peaceably in a single political party; not for much longer.
They simply have nothing in common.
Now see, if Snowe and Collins were in the dem. party and they were constantly voting with the republicans the dnc would cut them off. No money or support for their run. Why does the GOP not do this? These 2 and quite a few more need to be hustled out of their seats and a true conservative bolstered up in their place. I would start giving money again. Even the dems. know where these 2 true allegiance is. Sickening!
Great point
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