Why are you people hell-bent on political suicide? You blew the safest position in electoral history. Because of the healthcare debate.
Now you’re kissing off three house seats in Congress. Tsongas was losing anyway, along with Delahunt’s retirement, and not supporting Lynch, that’s three seats.
On the state level, you’re losing the Governor and LG seats. and just how the heck can you support Guy Glodis for Auditor?
I mean my questions most sincerely. Thank You.
Please share widely!
And I mean that question sincerely too.
Mind you, I know Brown took Lowell, but Tsongas is a fighter, down to earth, and there are plenty of us who will roll up our sleeves, polish our canes, and pound those cobble stones for Nikki. Don’t count Nikki out.
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p>And as for the seat being vacated by Delahunt, who deserves retirement and has served the public long and well.
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p>Whoever works hardest for that seat, whether Democrat or Republican, will win. Right now Perry seems to have the strongest campaign energy, but the field is not fully developed either. Politics is not magic, it is sweat, hard work, and the willingess to fight with everything you have.
She is going to lose regardless of her healthcare vote. The Sam Meas campaign has been hard at work for months now. I don’t know what Niki does back in Massachusetts, but she’s spending a lot of time in Charlestown. Charlestown is not in the 5th district BTW. And for those who want to mention Republican candidate Jon Golnik: Wait until he actually does something campaign-wise. As you said: “Whoever works the hardest will win”. I agree. Republicans just can’t toss their name out and expect to be on the Scott Brown tidal wave.
… is hooked into the national GOP in a way that Meas isn’t. If a GOPer is going to make inroads in the fifth, it’ll happen because the national GOP makes it a priority.
how many times Golnik’s name appears in this article:
Doesn’t know it’s ass from it’s eyeteeth. I think we can all agree that they didn’t jump into the special Senate election until the very end. Yes, we can call them a non-factor. The national organization I want opposing me is the DSCC, Their stupid ads helped Scott Brown win.
Throwing up a website asking for money alone will not win Golnik an election. As Miss Amber said: you gotta work for it. Sam Meas’ campaign is working for it, and will deservedly win.
He is friendly, smart & passionate. His heart is in the right place, as I’ve said before.
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p>I don’t think the GOP cares about those things.
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p>Good luck.
… near the end was strategy. They worked very hard to funnel cash as stealthily as possible in that race.
Democratic activists and Obamacare advocates. One and the same, I imagine.
Rasmussen: 55%-45% no.
Gallup: 48-45% no.
I’ll find the links if you need them. I didn’t see the need to save them.
First, most people in that poll don’t know what is actually in the bill, and after months and months of Republican scaremongering and outright lies about the bill, you can bet those numbers are going to change as people see the law go into action. Second, when people are polled about the individual elements of the bill, they seem to like it.
Rasmussen is always 5-10 points to the right of the other polls. The average of the last month’s polls puts public opinion about evenly divided and trending toward support.
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p>So you have 50/50 … and failing to pass HCR would have shattered Democrats’ base, spurred many primary challenges, and created the perception among independents that they are losers who can’t do anything.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/w…
Go back and read your posts from the past and count up how many times your predictions of doom have come true.
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p>I also don’t see how a Republican is going to beat Lynch for voting against the health care bill. If Lynch goes down it will be against a progressive.
Makes up for a lot of little losses!
…doing the right thing is worth the political risk. That being said it’s the public option that’s really both right and popular, so maybe with this out of the way that can be next on the agenda.
The term “public option” has confused a lot of people and contributed to the general uneasiness about the bill. Was it a liberal who thought that one up??
question for you: why do you guys persist on giving political advice?
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p>It’s a peculiar conservative trait I’ve encountered elsewhere, namely the National Review. If our interests coincided, then maybe, just maybe there would be some value in your critiques. Our interests, however, don’t coincide at all.
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p>I might reverse your question and ask, why are you people hellbent on doing nothing, even harming our country to maintain political power?
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p>Your question echoes Newt Gingrich’s warning, that if Democrats pass health reform, “They will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” with the Great Society legislation. See Paul Krugman’s column for the whole thing. If we have indeed destroyed ourselves, you should be rejoicing.
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p>It’s very likely, however, that David Frum has more on the ball than Newt Gingrich, when he says,
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p>”No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the ‘doughnut hole’ and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there – would President Obama sign such a repeal?”
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p>Yesterday, you guys struck out. We may lose some seats in 2010. But people will start to listen to the facts, not the lies, about health care reform, and many will decide a concrete benefit to them beats all the resentment and fear the GOP can muster.
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p>The Democratic Party has a lot wrong with it, but yesterday showed the difference between us and you. We believe in the public interest; you guys believe in the self-interest and believe you can sell it with a patina of libertarian mythology and wishful thinking.
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