One for the establishment: Ayotte wins New Hampshire GOP nod
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Sarge
"Castle, a moderate"
Moderates are people who can't make up their mind if they're liberal or conservative.
I have more respect for liberals than I have for moderates.
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Molenir
Yeah, based on his votes, Castle is in no way a moderate. Just about the only thing he voted with the rest of the party on, was who should be speaker of the house. He is a far left loon who had an R next to his name. When you're more liberal then either Snowe or Collins, you know theres something wrong. I am glad they tossed him over in favor of someone else. And given the attitude of the country, O'Donnell actually has a pretty decent shot, even in a state as liberal as Delaware.
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SushiSake3
Molenir, is O'Donnell the one who wants to cut the Dept. of Education? If anyone is loony, it's someone who says they want to do that.
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Molenir
I mentioned this elsewhere, but you can easily make a case for eliminating it. When it comes down to it, how is education any business of the Federal Government? Up until now, it has always been the role of the States. All the department of Education really is used for, is to transfer tax money back to the states. But the fact of the matter is, they don't need to transfer that money, they can eliminate it, tax less, and let the states increase their own taxes to fund the difference. Yes, thats not all the Dept of Education does, however thats its primary role. To control and punish those states that do not fall into line, with what the Federal Government mandates.
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TimRussert
The winner, Ayotte, was the one Palin backed. So I guess she is now 'the establishment' ?
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TimRussert
The Dept of Education - brought to us by the Carter administration - started operation in 1980. Americans of just about any political persuasion will generally concede educational standards and achievement have fallen steadily - - and that teachers' unions just get bigger and stronger.
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SushiSake3
The more nominations the tea party wins, the more the battle between them and the GOP will devolve into a fight to the death. The Dems at this point should just sit back, watch and enjoy. O'Donnell is virtually unelectable, and the election of tea party canditates like her will force the GOP to field even more extreme Right candidates than they already have. I never thought I'd say this, but promotion and coverage of tea party people by the likes of Fox News, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc. is behind this. Their strategy to win is rapidly backfiring and turning into a game plan that could well break the back of the GOP.
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SushiSake3
If the Right really wanted to win big in this election, the GOP and the tea party should have united.
Sadly for them and their future aspirations, they decided to go their separate ways and attack each other.
The time for these two groups to cooperate has long gone, which means hello conservative vote split, goodbye large right wing victory.
And at this stage, it's pretty much irrelevant which party Our Sarah ultimately decides to run for - heads or tails - the Right is in trouble.
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TimRussert
I do believe some commenters here suffer from Tea Party envy...
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SushiSake3
"Tea Party envy"
This is like watching Luke Skywalker take down Darth Vader in Star Wars, a protege attacking their master.
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jruaustralia
If Palin decides to run, then my guess would be for various establishment darlings to defer their political ambitions, and let her go head-to-head with President Obama in 2012.
I'm not sure about your claim of a degrading educational system, but it's true that teachers' unions have become more formidable ever since... with union catered/ teacher's retirement equity funds now one of the largest financial service companies in the US-- a clout you couldn't ignore....
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TimRussert
I don't quite understand what you are on about here but will take a guess:
Apparently a political movement in a distant foreign country, one you will never visit, has somehow triggered memory of some childhood / adolescent trauma involving imaginary figures you still identify quite strongly with, characters from American sci*fi flicks?
I hope you work things out.
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SushiSake3
Tim, are non-Americans for some bizarre reason not permitted to hold valid views about U.S. politics in your view? That is a pretty childish, navel-gazing attitude.
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Triumvere
Personally, I perfer using my brain to figure out my stance on difficult issues, rather than just swallowing a party line, but to each his own I guess.
I have little respect for conseratives or libreals, so I suppose that makes us even, Sarge.
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Triumvere
Well, the establishment (aka state republican party) backed her, so, yeah. She's the establishment candidate. Not that that means a whole lot.
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jruaustralia
And a bit arrogant as well.... but then again maybe he's just egging you to visit the States and take advantage of the rising yen. Not a bad idea I say, and at least you'd be supporting their tourism industry lol
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SuperLib
Enjoy what? Their loss of seats? Crack open some champagne bottles because the Tea Party handed them some seats that they would have otherwise lost? Maybe a better idea is for Democrats to create some cohesive policy they can sell and then actually lead. Start with the economy.
??? If far right wing people can't get elected, why would the solution be far, far right wing candidates? It will force core Republicans to go more towards the center, not the other way.
Yoda was Skywalker's master, not Vader.
Having a point of view is natural. Being a partisan hack for a political party in a foreign country is an entirely different animal.
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SushiSake3
Superlib - "Yoda was Skywalker's master, not Vader."
Sorry. You are correct. That makes all the difference...... :-)
"Being a partisan hack for a political party in a foreign country is an entirely different animal."
Not really. I'm not quite sure why a person would say something like that.
"Enjoy what? Their loss of seats?"
Of the GOP, yes.
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sailwind
Well it is good the dust has settled and now that O'Donnell has won the primary the race can fix on the difference between her and Coons her opponent instead of Castle.
Think this one is going to be pretty easy call come election day for Delawarean's......
An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat.
The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36726.html
Yup, that's going to go over well come November for him.
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SushiSake3
I'm wondering what the GOP and the tea party will look like after they spend the next 6 weeks shafting each other. The Right has definitely ruptured, and that can only mean 2 things: 1/ the conservative vote gets split and watered down, and 2/ awesome entertainment for global liberals like myself. The Right could not have chosen a worse time to engage in battle. The destruction of the Right has well and truly begun. Will someone please pass the tissues? :-)
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MisterCreosote
If opposition to Obama is proof of 'racism' why is opposition to and denigration of ODonnell, Palin, Fiorina, Angle, Bachman et al not considered misogynist ?
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RomeoRamenII
After four years in control the democrats have nothing to run on other than campaigning against Mr. Bush and the tea partiers.
Too funny.
RR
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yabits
The Dems haven't had fours years in control but their message could very well be: "Better than halfway out of the deep pit dug by the Republicans."
As in 1929, so was true in 2008. The Republicans ran the ship aground and fled like roaches from sunlight.
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SushiSake3
It's amazing to see conservatives and tea partiers still going off about massive govt. bailouts, bailouts that would have been completely unnecessary had those same conservatives and tea partiers not voted for bush.
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jruaustralia
Unlikely for the Republicans to capture the Senate majority anyway. It's the House you have to watch because Pelosi's in real danger of losing her job =/
http://www.globegazette.com/news/local/article_d8585fe0-c11e-11df-be3d-001cc4c002e0.html
Amen, amen... but I think SuperLib's just being personable... in a very public, creepy way
Would you-- really?
Opposition to Obama (or the people you mentioned) is just proof you don't like the guy (them). Opposition to his policies simply mean you don't like his governance. Period.
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SuperLib
Sounds like "ground zero mosque" talk to me.
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Molenir
Actually, in all fairness, the election isn't over yet. Its not even November yet. We still have a ways to go. Things could change. The fact that all predictors make it seem as if the Republicans have the house, and are knocking on the door of the Senate, doesn't mean things will go that way. While I would love to see it happen, I personally remain a bit skeptical about the upcoming election. Yes I think Republicans will retake the House. Nancy "wicked witch of the west" Pelosi's reign of terror is drawing to a close. Dirty Harry though, well, lets just say I think 10 seats is too high a hurdle, even in a year like this. Possible, of course. Heck Republicans could pick up 13 seats. But I doubt it will happen.
Tea Party hasn't necessarily handed anyone seats. Coons is going to have an uphill battle. So is O'Donnell of course, but Coons isn't a shoo in by any means. O'Donnell has a chance to fill in his history, while making the case for herself. And in this election year, she has a decent chance, even in a state as liberal as Delaware. Angle is running ahead of Harry Reid again, barely. Miller will win Alaska, and of course Paul is an almost certain lock in Kentucky. The Tea Party hasn't handed anyone an election yet. Only made things a bit more difficult in Nevada, and possibly Delaware.
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RomeoRamenII
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said “intraparty Republican anger” ... would help ... Obama’s Democratic allies in their quest to retain their majorities in Congress.
The democrats are basing all of their hopes of retaining power on “intraparty Republican anger”?
A laughable strategy. In truth, the democats have no accomplishments to hitch their campaign wagons to. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. The Barack Hussein Memorial Health Care Scam? Spendulous Maximus? Heh, if they were truly honest with the voters they would run TV ads proudly proclaiming how they voted "yes" on legislation that the majority of Americans do not want.
RR
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Molenir
Heh, yeah, so many of them are praying that their constituents aren't paying attention. They're running ads saying how they are working for 'you'. Of course they don't want you to know, that they are working for 'you', by raising your insurance rates, increasing taxes and burdensome regulations on every single business in America, and throwing out more then a trillion dollars.
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SushiSake3
RR, the stimulus porkulus or whatever you call it would have been completely unnecessary if people like you hadn't voted for bush. People like you are to blame. Every time you blame Obama makes you look like a village idiot who thinks 1+1 = 6.
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Molenir
Yes, yes, I know, everything is Bush's fault. We gotcha. Obamas stupidity and incompetence are all Bush's fault. Global Warming, Hurricanes, even my stubbed toe, are all the fault of George Bush. Out of curiosity, is there anything, anything at all, thats actually Obama's fault?
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