lousiana in the hands of the democrats on this runoff

[jefhatfield]

the dems have another foothold in the republican south

maybe the south is not all that republican after all

and the GOP sent president bush, cheney, senator elizabeth dole, and others to try and win this runoff after they realized that the country may be losing patience with W's vendetta/personal war against saddam hussein and the slagging economy

[eyelikeart]

well I went out & voted on Saturday...

and Landrieu won by just a few percent points... :rolleyes:

[Backtothemac]

Jef,
Louisiana is historic for its support for Rebpublicans in the white house, Dole in 96, Bush in 92, 2000 etc.

yet they continue to elect, well, Democrats continue to win, buy, well, you know their seats there.

[wdlove]

Thank you eyelikeart for your vote, you are the sign of the coming changes.
Its encouraging that it was close.

The Democrats have no reason to claim any call for change, there has never been a Republican elected to the Senate from Lousiana. But as the South has gone I'm sure that Lousiana will soon follow.

I think there is still hope for MA, if Mitt Romney does well as our governor he could be our Senator in the future.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by wdlove


I think there is still hope for MA, if Mitt Romney does well as our governor he could be our Senator in the future.

a senator from MA that is a republican is not what i would suspect next

you mean that he would take kennedy's spot?

he is like a god there...right?

i see the kennedys staying in politics for a long time to come, and on the other side of the fence, i see the bush family staying around a long time, too

i hear jeb's son is their next hope in the family

maybe one day there will be a kennedy vs. bush election for president

[Rower_CPU]

Looks like all of Bush's campaigning didn't have the desired effect. ;)

[wdlove]

There were rumors of Teddy Kennedy retiring if Shannon O'Brien had been elected. The plan was that she would nominate Joseph P Kennedy III, son of Robert Kenney, in hopes of continuing the dynasty.

He's not the god that he was, the past is catching up, Liberal ideals are starting to wane. He campaigned heavily for Shannon.

I see no Kennedy on the horizon to run for President.

I agree that their are other Bush's in the wing, remember the speach at the convention.

Americans no longer seem to want NE Liberals as President ex. Dukasis.

[wdlove]

Liberals shooting themselves in the foot?

Laura's Weekly E-Blast!
http://www.LauraIngraham.com

Liberalism on Life Support

Democrats are buoyed a bit by Sen. Mary Landrieu's win in Louisiana over
Republican Suzie Terrell (yes, my prediction was wrong). But Senate seat
or no Senate seat, liberalism is on a heart-lung machine.

For 30 years, liberals have been essentially trying to scare voters into
believing that Republicans want to create a religious state, roll back
women's and minority's rights, impose their own rigid lifestyle on
everyone else. A few weeks ago, Washington Post columnist William
Raspberry charged that Attorney General John Ashcroft, left unchecked, was
close to imposing his own brand of theocracy on America.

As usual, the doomsday scenarios of liberalism are unfounded and expose
the ideology's moral bankruptcy. Conservative Christians work tirelessly
to expose religious persecution in China and around the world.
Conservative leadership ensured that women in Afghanistan were rescued
from oppression when our military forces decimated the Taliban. And it is
conservative leadership that will ultimately liberate the Iraqi people
from the decade of torture carried out by Saddam's henchmen. The British
intelligence report released a few weeks ago documenting the methods of
Hussein's torture (acid baths, de-limbing by hanging for hours, rape)
received shockingly little coverage from a mainstream media eager to jump
on such atrocities when they suit a particular liberal outcome. Even
Amnesty International (which has posted similar torture accounts) threw
water on the report-dismissing it as politically-motivated to justify war
(which Amnesty is against).

Today who, more than anyone else, is actively advancing the cause of civil
liberties around the world? The Bush Administration (and its allies), and
brave men and women in uniform. Liberals will never concede this because
they don't approve of President Bush's means (military force, muscular
foreign policy). Liberals want us to engage in a perpetual dialogue, with
virtually any U.S. military action abroad approved first by the U.N. They
are more apt to trust Blix over Bush.

But following the liberal lead will leave the U.S. more vulnerable to
attack as terrorist and their friends continue to plot while we
"dialogue." And while we continue to consult with the UN Security Council
and comb through thousands of pages of chicken scratch, life is getting
worse for those millions who don't have the right to criticize their
government.

How does that advance the cause of liberalism? It doesn't. It is called
self-sabotage.

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
the dems have another foothold in the republican south

maybe the south is not all that republican after all

and the GOP sent president bush, cheney, senator elizabeth dole, and others to try and win this runoff after they realized that the country may be losing patience with W's vendetta/personal war against saddam hussein and the slagging economy
jef, you do of course realize that LA has never had a republican senator, right? When it comes to senate LA has always been a Democrat stronghold. The fact that Landrieu won by such a small margin bodes very badly for the Louisiana Democrat party.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Durandal7

jef, you do of course realize that LA has never had a republican senator, right? When it comes to senate LA has always been a Democrat stronghold. The fact that Landrieu won by such a small margin bodes very badly for the Louisiana Democrat party.

She won by 52%, being a heavily Democrat state she should have won by 90%. 2/3's of LA is Democrat which is higher than MA. The Democrats should take no consollation in this win.