Posted on 03/29/2010 3:07:55 AM PDT by Scanian
What better message to send to Washington than to defeat an old bull like Charlie Rangel?
Rangel is one of the principal symbols of the tolerance Washington has for corrupt insider politics. He is Chairman-in-school-detention of the House Ways and Means Committee pending efforts of Democrats to avoid the most devastating mid-term election defeat in history.
Because he usually doesn't have a serious challenger, Rangel is able to funnel in the neighborhood of a half million dollars every election cycle to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Such political largesse protects corruption. Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats dole out committee chairs to, and overlook offenses of, big-money lieutenants like Rangel.
Last week at the Susan B. Anthony List dinner, I sat with Reverend Michel Faulkner, the career non-politician who announced as the Republican challenger to Charlie Rangel. That made a special night all-the-more special.
You see, a little over a week before, Bart Stupak was scheduled to receive a pro-life award at the Susan B. Anthony List dinner. Instead, he was ceremoniously dumped by the group's president Marjorie Dannenfelser for showing his commitment to his party and its corrupt, socialist ways was stronger than his commitment to the life issue.
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There is no way Rangle can lose in that District short of dying. For those of us with long memories, you may recall that he replaced the very corrupt Adam Clayton Powell in that District. Corruption is a way of life there.
If I were to run a campaign against Rangel...my theme would be “they fired him from the committee leadership because of incompetence”. And I would just let the public think about that theme everything I made a speech. I’d put the picture of Rangel laying out in the Caribbean on that lawn chair in every ad. If you just carve away 1/3 of his support...he loses.
w/ a majority we must investigate the ever-loving dogshate out of these guys.
Independent prosecutors for all.
You don’t try to take down America without severe, life-altering consequences. These guys are finished.
I went to Faulkner’s website. He certainly does sound good.
It’s true that people in Rangel’s district (where I once lived) have been electing him without a second thought for years. But I’m not sure that they’ll continue doing this, because I think he might have gotten too arrogant even for them. The thing about the rent-controlled apartments might be what does it - New Yorkers of all colors hate wealthy people scamming rent-controlled apartments.
The question is can we like Scott Brown give 5, 10 or 100 bucks to this guy and give him enough to run add about the Mercedes with no parking fee, the tax problems, and the rent controlled apartments (just to name a few).
At that point do the people of even Rangels district say no-mas.....
Oh PLEASE.....Rangel is there for LIFE.....the people are CORRUPT.
I don’t know about his Scott Brown, but Charlie usually has his head up his round brown.
Eaxctly: There is no one alive who can beat Charlie Rangel in Harlem.
The way to beat charlie Rangel is to put him in jail where the tax cheating scum belongs, but dont expect that to happen.
Among the primary challengers to Rangel is Adam Clayton Powell IV.
He *might* lose in the primary but I seriously doubt in the general.
btt
Charlie Rangel another member of the above the law club.
Even if this is a long shot why not fight it? The reason we don’t make in roads into to the minority community and have lost in the NE is not because of conservatism or the weakness of the ideas of liberty. It is because the reality of the message hasn’t been brought to them in a credible fashion. We may not win this time but the seeds will be planted and the problem with us is we don’t want to do the hard work. The conservative cause should be the natural home for black Americans.
It just takes work and it takes a bit of loosening up. Too often the GOP is not very “approachable” even cold. I’ve been to events that are just unbelievably stiff and offputting. The Tea Party events and Sarah Palin rallies on the otherhand have been refreshing because of the passion and the common cause. I just think we are missing out when we limit out message to places where there is only an easy win.
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