There Goes The Senate?

#1
CSpindizzy

CSpindizzy

Five Star Recruit
Joined
Oct 4, 2005
Messages
11,352
Likes
542
#1
Beau Biden announced that he will not run for daddy's seat but instead run for re-election as AG of Deleware. Looks like Castle's and the GOP's seat to lose. This is a GOP pick-up.

What astounds me is the lack of effort to defend your turf. Losing Ted's seat in MA is unheard of. This is like selling the Statue of Liberty to Iran. The legacy seat is gone. And now the VP's seat is gone with IL potentially dropping as well. If you cannot defend your own, how are you expected to maintain if not win anywhere else?
 
#3
#3
May their loss be liberty's gain. Bring on the "Reduce government and government spending" candidates.
 
#6
#6
Some of the biggest "conservatives" are the worst at adding to government. Essentially you have a changeover every once in a while of parties who then hand out to their interests. A party platform is merely a suggestion and something to fool a base into believing.
 
#9
#9
IBlvNTmWrk said:
Wouldn't that send an interesting message.
Click to expand...

Probably but I think it was R before Obama. IIRC it was that Ryan guy who got derailed by the stuff coming out about him trying to get his smoking hot actress wife (Jerry Ryan) to go to swinger clubs. I think he was going for re-election when he pulled out of the race.
 
#10
#10
Ryan was an idiot. The state party knew it but figured it would not matter. Even after that, they still tried to get Ditka to run who has even more skeletons in his closet. And all they could get was transplanting Alan Keyes from MD to run.

Kirk looks like the GOP candidate and a decent one at that. The Dem frontrunners have name ID issues and really have no agenda. They want to lean to the middle but can't due to their own records and wanting to ride Obama's coattails - which of late is not a good thing.

Too many Dems rushed to be Obama clones and this tied them all to him directly. Now they want to distance themselves but there are too many votes and quotes associating them with him.

NH, CO, DE, ND, NV, AR, IL could easily flip. NY is a slim possibility. A few others are on the radar. Obama is trying his best to make his base mad to look like he's in the middle. The more he gets Olberman, Matthews, Schultz, Maddow, Kos, Huffington, etc to chew him out, the more he's trying to recraft his image. The gamble is in an effort to pull a Clinton post '94, he could keep many of the fringe at home, make independents think of him as phony, and just hand the whole thing over to the GOP. Clinton could pull it off because he actually had a history of being a 'conservative' back in AR. Obama has little to show and what he does is fringe left.
 
#11
#11
Clinton also had an activist R Congress to deal with - he could ease to the middle and blame it on the Congress and the need to get things done.

BO moving to the middle with this Congress means more gridlock.
 
#13
#13
Rasmussen is showing a race between Tommy Thompson and Russ Feingold would go R. I'm sure there are quite a few conversations being had in WI trying to get Tommy to run. Another blue seat going R would sink morale even more.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top