Meet the Blue Dogs: pro-gun, anti-abortion - and Democrat

[BigBadBrian]

Meet the Blue Dogs: pro-gun, anti-abortion - and Democrat
By Tim Reid

Our correspondent examines how the party masterminded its move to the centre and reined in liberals to seize hostile territories


They wear cowboy boots, chew tobacco, love hunting, hate abortion, want less government spending — and some voted for Ronald Reagan. Now they are headed to Congress as Democrats.
Although the Democrats’ victory was above all an overwhelming repudiation of the conflict in Iraq, it was also built on the back of moderate, often conservative candidates recruited to compete in traditionally Republican territory.

When Congress returns in January, both the House and Senate will see something of an ideological shift, with an influx of freshmen Democrats who, while unified in their opposition to the war, are well to the right of the party’s current caucus on cultural issues.



Their success reflects a resurgence of “Blue Dog” Democrats — socially conservative but generally economic populists — across the Midwest, and a bold new strategy to target the Republican-leaning West and South West — states such as Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico — as a way of winning back the White House in 2008.

If Jon Tester, the Democrat’s Senate candidate in Montana, wins his race against Conrad Burns — he declared victory last night but votes were still being counted — the chamber will have a Democrat who is an anti-abortion, pro-gun, three-generation farmer with a buzz cut, three missing fingers on his left hand and no big fan of Hillary Clinton.

Jim Webb, the Democrat favoured to win a probable recount in the Virginia Senate race, was Reagan’s Navy Secretary. A social conservative, he hates liberals and likes guns so much he gave one to his son at the age of 8. He champions, as he puts it, “Southern redneck culture”. A decorated Vietnam veteran, he converted to the Democrats only over his opposition to the Iraq war.

Bob Casey, who soundly defeated the Republican Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, is also anti-abortion. Like many of the new Democrats, he ran a profoundly populist protectionist economic message which attracted many blue-collar “Reagan Democrats” back to the party in the Midwest, where job losses and economic pessimism combined with Iraq to make the region one of the bleakest landscapes for Republicans yesterday.

Heath Shuler, a former quarterback for the Washington Redskins, was once courted by the Republicans as a possible congressional candidate. He is anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-free trade — and is now the Democrat representative for the North Carolina 11th District.

In Indiana, a state overwhelmingly won by President Bush in 2004, three Republicans in the House of Representatives lost seats. All faced conservative Democrats. One, Brad Ellsworth, a county sheriff, is a social conservative who signed a no-tax-rise pledge during the campaign. Joe Donnelly was another cultural conservative winner in Indiana.

In Colorado, Democrats continued their push into the West with victory in the state’s gubernatorial contest, meaning the party now has a sweep of western governors stretching from Canada to Mexico, through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.

In Kentucky, John Yarmuth, a former Republican candidate running as a Democrat, beat Anne Northup, a five-term veteran. Democrats also picked up an open seat in Republican Arizona and even unseated a Republican incumbent in Kansas — where Mr Bush won 62 per cent of the vote in 2004.

These new Democrats represent what Rahm Emanuel, the congressman who masterminded its takeover of the House, described as the future of the party, and the key to its presidential hopes. The growing belief of many Democrat strategists is that the South — the party’s base until the 1960s, but now solidly Republican — is beyond their reach, and that the future lies in targeting the Midwest and West with moderate candidates. That theory was bolstered by the defeat in Tennessee of Harold Ford. Despite running as a conservative on nearly every issue — even immigration — the black former congressman could not prevail in the one Southern senate seat in play.

The result was rich vindication for Mr Emanuel and other top Democrats who have spent two years recruiting candidates to make the party competitive in western states they had all but ceded in recent years.

Mr Emanuel and other centrists have told the incoming Democrat leadership — which is far more liberal than the new influx of moderates — that the party’s liberal wing must not dominate the agenda. The new crop of moderates will be anxious to keep the party rooted to the middle ground.

Their arrival on Capitol Hill will be one of the first early tests of the leadership skills of Nancy Pelosi who, as House Speaker, will have to forge a coalition in a party that has profound philosophical disparities.

Ironically, the greatest losses for Republicans came in the North East, the last redoubt of the party’s mainstream moderates. They were routed.

Link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2444457,00.html)

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

A similar premise was put forward in todays Op-Ed in the NY Times.

Nonetheless, Brian, your team still lost - BIG - and you're still an idiot. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!

[FORD]

Fuck Rahm Emmanuel and the Elephant he rode in on. And fuck Rupert Murdoch for peddling this LIE in the foreign press.

Yes there are "moderate" Democrats. But that is NOT what the DLC is all about, and that's who Emmanuel speaks for. Fuck that little weasel trying to take the credit for Howard Dean's victory.

[Warham]

I don't know where you keep getting this scenario where Howard Dean engineered some great campaign plan for a Democratic comeback.

Nobody in the DNC should take credit for the win: Reid, Pelosi, Dean, the NY Times, moveon.org.

It was all about the failures of the RNC.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
A similar premise was put forward in todays Op-Ed in the NY Times.

Nonetheless, Brian, your team still lost - BIG - and you're still an idiot. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!

"My" team did not lose. My team is America.

The people of America have spoken and I respect their decision.

Now...tell me....how does it feel to be hated and disrespected by everyone in the Frontline?

Hmmm?

:cool:

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian


Now...tell me....how does it feel to be hated and disrespected by everyone in the Frontline?


You would know. Bitch.

[knuckleboner]

as a skins fan, i'm not sure i like seeing shuler on the democrats...;)

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by Warham
I don't know where you keep getting this scenario where Howard Dean engineered some great campaign plan for a Democratic comeback.

Nobody in the DNC should take credit for the win: Reid, Pelosi, Dean, the NY Times, moveon.org.

It was all about the failures of the RNC.

Skwak! Skwak!

See Warhead the conservative parrot repeating the DeLay talking point.

Whimper on loser.

Don't worry. If the minimum wage goes up you and BigBland will both be able to tithe more to the Lord!

[FORD]

Brian's still obsessed with fighting the "biggest threat" to this country.......

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20061109/capt.4492c4073dcb4ae086de9e22534271d7.gay_marriage _maea105.jpg

Aren't they frightening?

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
[i]

Don't worry. If the minimum wage goes up you and BigBland will both be able to tithe more to the Lord!

Okay, this is fucking FUNNY.

[redfire]

Tucker Carlson is asking if Tom Mattzie has noticed that a couple of Dem got elected that are pro-life and pro-gun. And Tom Mattzie of Moveon.org is saying that abotion wasn't an issue in the election. Classic sidestep.

[redfire]

By the way, I would give more credit to Nancy Pelosi for guiding the Dem agenda of "Iraq is a quagmire."

[Lqskdiver]

Originally posted by FORD
Brian's still obsessed with fighting the "biggest threat" to this country.......

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20061109/capt.4492c4073dcb4ae086de9e22534271d7.gay_marriage _maea105.jpg

Aren't they frightening?

Is that Ma and Pa Ford?

;)

Who's the butch and who's the bitch?
:D

[FORD]

Originally posted by Lqskdiver


Who's the butch and who's the bitch?
:D

....says the guy with the rainbow monster in his signature.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Well congrats to the Libbys, who did bring in Democrats with Conservative values to ice the already severly damaged Republican party. I am not sure why everyone is shredding the above article. I guess the next question is how long it will take for the listed politicians above to be shut down by Pelosi and her ultra liberal socialist brigade? And I am not whining, the Republican party deserved the thorough ass kicking they received. The problem is that some top notched politicians got taken in the wave. Here in Maryland we lost two class acts, Michael Steel and Robert Ehrlich. We now have Martin O'Malley who has a terrible track record as the Mayor of Baltimore.

[redfire]

Casualities of the excess that the Rep party embraced. Reps stopped being the fiscal conservatives that MANY of them promised that they were.

If you claim to be conservative, eventually conservatives will hold you to it. I did. And I think the bulk of the country did as well.

You look at '04 and you'll see that county by county, George Bush won like 2.5 million square miles of America, and Kerry won something like 800,000 square miles. Libs may not like it, but the bulk of the country is conservative. And when I say that I don't mean the stereotypical conservative. But they seem to be MORE irritated by in-your-face liberal activist groups, than by in-your-face conservative activist groups. :) But that's just my observation having worked on a number of campaigns across America. Doesn't mean I'm right, that's just what I think.

[FORD]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
Well congrats to the Libbys, who did bring in Democrats with Conservative values to ice the already severly damaged Republican party. I am not sure why everyone is shredding the above article. I guess the next question is how long it will take for the listed politicians above to be shut down by Pelosi and her ultra liberal socialist brigade? And I am not whining, the Republican party deserved the thorough ass kicking they received. The problem is that some top notched politicians got taken in the wave. Here in Maryland we lost two class acts, Michael Steel and Robert Ehrlich. We now have Martin O'Malley who has a terrible track record as the Mayor of Baltimore.

Steele and Erlich deserved to lose. They had a bunch of "sample ballots" made up, picturing both of them as "Democrats" and passed them out to the black community.

Or in other words, they assumed the blacks were stupid enough to fall for it. Obviously, they were not.

These guys are every bit the Uncle Toms that Ken Blackwell was. Good Riddance to all three of them.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Originally posted by FORD
Steele and Erlich deserved to lose. They had a bunch of "sample ballots" made up, picturing both of them as "Democrats" and passed them out to the black community.

Or in other words, they assumed the blacks were stupid enough to fall for it. Obviously, they were not.

These guys are every bit the Uncle Toms that Ken Blackwell was. Good Riddance to all three of them.

You need to stop getting your political news from the National Enquirer.

[FORD]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
You need to stop getting your political news from the National Enquirer.

Try the Washington Post, UltraDouche......

Sample Ballots in Pr. George's Misidentify Candidates

By Ernesto Londono
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 7, 2006; 4:18 PM

Inaccurate sample ballots describing Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele as Democrats were handed out to voters in at least four polling sites in Prince George's County this morning.

The ballots were distributed by people who said they arrived by buses this morning from Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Erik Markle, one of the people handing out literature for Ehrlich, who is seeking reelection, and Steele, the current lieutenant governor who is campaigning to replace retiring Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D), said he was recruited at a homeless shelter in Philadelphia.

After a two-hour bus ride to Maryland, Markle said the workers were greeted early this morning by first lady Kendel Ehrlich, who thanked them as they were outfitted in T-shirts and hats with the logo for Ehrlich's reelection campaign. Nearly all of those recruited, Markle said, are poor and black. Workers traveled to Maryland in at least seven large buses.

Ehrlich said he wasn't aware of the hiring of workers from out-of-town.

"If folks are here from out of town that's fine with me. That's what the Democrats have always done. It's legal and it's what the Democrats have done forever. This is a story?

"If we've finally caught up with the Democrats that's fine," he added. "People asked me about ballots and other stuff. That's not my job. I've got other things to do."

Calls to Steele's campaign were not immediately returned.

The Ehrlich and Steele campaigns yesterday acknowledged sending out an election-eve flier, sporting pictures of Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, his predecessor Wayne K. Curry and former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume. The mailer, declaring itself an "official voter guide" and criticized by Democrats, suggested the three Democrats backed Ehrlich and Steele. Curry has endorsed Steele; none has endorsed Ehrlich.

Democrats were quick to criticize the distribution today of the inaccurate sample ballots.

"I think it's pretty low that Ehrlich and Steele would print up a fake ballot and bus in unemployed people and exploit them," Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, the Democratic candidate for governor, said this morning as he greeted voters as a polling site in Greenbelt. "It doesn't get much lower than that."

Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (D), who is running against Steele, called the fliers "fraudulent" and said he believed they might work in Democrats' favor by angering voters and encouraging more to get to the polls. "I think it speaks to a lack of integrity of the people who would put out something like this to try to mislead voters," said Cardin. "It has the Ehrlich-Steele authority. If they put this out, they should be ashamed of themselves."

In addition to Ehrlich and Steele, the ballots also list Republicans John A. Giannetti Jr., Ron Miller, Kenneth Brown and Antoinette Jarboe-Duley, all candidates for the state legislature.

Markle, a Democrat, said if he had known they would be campaigning and passing out literature for Republicans, he would have declined the offer. "I know what's going on in Pennsylvania, but not Maryland," he said in a telephone interview from the polling place at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Suitland.

Markle was told he would be paid $100, plus two meals for the day. He also passed out the fliers inaccurately reporting the prominent Democrats' endorsement of Ehrlich and Steele.

Johnson, who held a news conference today, said he received numerous calls to his campaign headquarters asking if he had switched parties after some confused residents received the flier.

Johnson said he was also outraged that poor people from Philadelphia were hauled into Prince George's County, most unaware of what they were doing or who they were doing it for.

"I understand that people need jobs," Johnson said. "But put people in training, not just bus them from out of state and pay them less than minimum wage."

Jonathan Keel, another worker from Philadelphia handing out the sample ballot, said he and other recruits were tricked by the campaigns.

"We were hoodwinked," said Keel, who added that he was unemployed. He was stationed at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt. "We were just hired to do a job," he said. "We're broke. We're in a terrible situation. There's no way out of here."

Del. Melony Griffith (D-Prince George's), who was outside the polling place in Suitland when she met Markle, denounced the tactics.

"It's a very sad day in Prince George's when politicians have to stoop to misleading, race-baiting and hate campaigning," she said.

Voters and other officials also decried the sample ballot.

"It's an absolute lie and it's very offensive," said Del. Anne Healey (D-Prince George's), who saw the ballot at a polling place in Hyattsville. "They put them in with the rest of us as though we've endorsed them. It's too late for us to do anything except tell people."

Voter Ruth Clopp, who got one of the sample ballots in Hyattsville this morning, said most voters got a "good laugh" out of them while they waited in line.

"I would like to think they've underestimated the intelligence of voters," she said. "But obviously they feel there's enough voters out there who would fall for these."

One of two workers passing out the fliers at Ernest Everett Just Middle School in Mitchellville said he knew there were elections in Pennsylvania today but "I guess I sold my vote to buy a coat," referring to the $100 he was told they would be paid for the day.

Kevin Baker, 40, who lives in a homeless shelter in North Philadelphia, said he felt duped.

Baker said he was one of about 300 people who boarded buses at Broad and Oxford Streets in Philadelphia, bound for Prince George's County. The bus was supposed to leave at 3:30, but didn't pull out until about 5 a.m.

"I feel like I was brought here under false pretenses," Baker said.

Salim Abdu-Haqq, 36, agreed. He said someone came to their shelter about a week ago, asking if they wanted to make some money. "They promised three meals and $100," he said.

Abdu-Haqq said about 85 percent of the workers were from homeless shelters. The rest were from the neighborhood.

Dennis Johnson, 55, who said he is a salesman from Claymont, Del., passed out the fliers to arriving voters while wearing a Steele T-shirt and an Ehrlich cap. He said he was being paid to pass out the fliers. Asked who was paying him, Johnson said, "Ehrlich and Steele -- that's where we went to get this [flier] and shirt and hat."

Asked about the accuracy of the flier, Johnson said, "I had no idea about it. I'm a hired hand."

Terry Lierman, chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, said he has spoken with "a couple lawyers" about the legality of the fliers.

"We're going to iron that out after the election -- to see what can and can't be done," Lierman said Tuesday morning outside the polling station at Leisure World in Silver Spring. Lierman said he's going to speak with Maryland's attorney general after the election.

"Obviously, it's too late for this election," Lierman said, "but I want to see what rules and laws we can establish for the next election." He called the fliers "incredibly deceitful."

"Every election they find new lows," he said of the Republicans. "We have to say enough is enough."

Staff writers Ann E. Marimow, Dan Morse, Matthew Mosk, Katherine Shaver, John Wagner and Ovetta Wiggins contributed to this story.

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

Michael Steele is one EVIL son of a bitch. I had Meet the Press on in the background last week, and just hearing the heavy spin and the lies coming out of his mouth made me nauseated.

Two years ago he was happy to be called W.'s homeboy. Now all of a sudden he was talking about himself as something beyond party lines and distancing himself as much as he could. When he was asked about his stem cell research posiiton he gave a carefully nuanced answer that made it seem like he gave his full support.

***Russert even called him to task for bumper stickers his campaign had made that read something to the effect of "Michael Steele: The Democratic Way", to mislead people into thinking he was the dem candidate.***

Full of it. There oughtta be a law.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
You need to stop getting your political news from the National Enquirer.


And you need to stop getting your's from Highlights.

:rolleyes:


You're so involved, you can't even get the names right of "your" candidates :rolleyes:


What a simple fool.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE




***Russert even called him to task for bumper stickers his campaign had made that read something to the effect of "Michael Steele: The Democratic Way", to mislead people into thinking he was the dem candidate.***



I think they actually read...

I'm a Steele
Democrat



pathetic attempt.:D

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by FORD
....says the guy with the rainbow monster in his signature.

Looks like Lqueersuckdiver might be a real live self-loathing queer in denial.

Poor sad lonely Republican fag.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by redfire
By the way, I would give more credit to Nancy Pelosi for guiding the Dem agenda of "Iraq is a quagmire."

I thought the "Iraq is a quagmire" thingy was a Republican agenda? :)

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by DEMON ####
Skwak! Skwak!
....

Don't worry. If the minimum wage goes up you and BigBland will both be able to tithe more to the Lord!

This line is just gold-standard!:D

[redfire]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
I thought the "Iraq is a quagmire" thingy was a Republican agenda? :)

It prolly was, almost every high profile Republican screwed himself. But, stupid people shouldn't be in Congress... or the White House.

[FORD]

Originally posted by redfire
It prolly was, almost every high profile Republican screwed himself. But, stupid people shouldn't be in Congress... or the White House.

So why did you guys elect Coburn again? ;)

[Nitro Express]

We can sort the Democratic Party out later. There's been a huge political shift. the main thing is we slapped the neo-cons greedy fingers hard enough that they dropped their grasp on their political power monopoly.

The neo con special intrest money will still be in Washington in gops. Ready to bribe any sucker they can. Who says the Democrats can't be bought just like the Republicans were?

Washington can be an increadably out of touch place.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Democrats Ran As Conservatives
by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Posted Nov 09, 2006



From the riotous coverage of this election, starting months ago and ending with the Nov. 7 crescendo, one might conclude that momentous events are afoot: To the barricades! Out with the old, in with the new!

Actually we have just endured a typical midterm election, when a president halfway through his second term suffers losses on Capitol Hill. On average that has meant 31 House seats lost and six Senate seats -- poof. Now, once the lawyers have conjured with the corpus delicti in all the close elections, we shall see that this is about what happened. Do not let the clang and bang of the media fool you. When President George W. Bush picked up seats in 2002, that was the unusual event, not his loss this time around.

We might well ask: Why the media's near hysterics? To be sure there was enormous effort made by both parties, but in the end only some 40 percent of the electorate turned out and that was about normal for a midterm election. Once again the ordinary Americano is more sensible than the Washington elites. The 60 percent that does not vote is usually pretty much satisfied with the way things are. The economy is sound. No grave issue fevers the republic, save for one, an issue that very much fevers the Washington elites. Namely, an Old Order is passing and fighting desperately to maintain its dominance in the political culture.

The Democrats' victories do not signal a liberal recrudescence in the republic. Many of the incoming Democrats ran as conservatives. That is because the conservative drift of the country continues. As many as two dozen of the newly elected Democrats ran affirming traditional social values, low taxes or other conservative desiderata. In the long term things continue to look bleak for the Old Order. Bob Casey, the candidate who beat Sen. Rick Santorum, is a social conservative whose father was barred from the 1992 Democratic convention because of his opposition to abortion. Jim Webb, who ran against Sen. George Allen, was a Reagan Republican and President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Navy. In the House newly elected Democrats ran as advocates of gun owners' rights and traditional values. One even signed the Americans for Tax Reform's pledge against higher taxes (three Democratic incumbents in the House and one in the Senate have done the same).

The old order and the angry left do remain at the top of the incoming Capitol Hill majority, and they are going to play the role that we have come to expect from them. They are going to attempt to raise taxes, spending and the spectacle of congressional investigations. The Democrats, once they won the second midterm election of the Reagan years, entertained us with their Iran-contra hearings even as the Old Cowboy proceeded to end the Cold War with the Soviets. Expect nothing less from Madame Nancy Pelosi and the dirty-mouthed Harry Reid.

There will also be drama from the Republicans and this drama will be salubrious. Starting perhaps even before this column is off to the printer, the Republican leadership of the House will be gone. Under Speaker Dennis Hastert the leaders revealed themselves to be dull-witted and inept. Their spending spree has offended the conservative rank and file for years. Hastert's flat-footed response to the Mark Foley scandal might well have cost the Republicans the election, virtually reversing the momentum that was then going their way. It is time for him to go.

Most likely he will be replaced by one of the young conservatives from the solidly conservative Republican Study Committee. Indiana's Rep. Mike Pence will probably run for minority leader and Arizona's John Shadegg will run for whip. Both are splendid representatives of the New Order, the order whose political reforms began with Ronald Reagan, continued through the Contract With America, and have been responsible for the economic growth of the past two decades that forced even Bill Clinton to intone, "The era of big government is over." Bring on the future, a future that will not include Pelosi and Reid beyond 2008.

Mr. Tyrrell is founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator, a political and cultural monthly, which has been published since 1967.

www.humanevents.com

[LoungeMachine]

Are you even capable of a non cut-n-paste post?

[FORD]

This is such complete crap that the Pukes and the DLC are spinning.

I'll bet the right wingers aren't aware that Pearl Jam played a benefit concert for the John Tester campaign. Yeah, it's true that Jeff Ament grew up in Montana and knew Tester from way back, but it's also true that Pearl Jam are solid Liberals with a capitol L and they wouldn't be endorsing a candidate who didn't share their views.

They didn't play any concerts for Maria Cantwell in other words. Even though she's their senator.

Jim Webb, as I pointed out earlier, was talking old school Liberal values in a state where even the Democrats are usually Republicans.

Voters in Arizona, known as a conservative state, rejected the wedge issue nonsense of a gay marriage ban. And in South Dakota, again hardly a bastion of leftism, voters rejected a ban on abortion that a right wing judge had forced on the state earlier in the year as a religious right test case.

Speaking of the religious right, even 30% of evangelicals bailed on their party and voted Democrat.

Claire McCaskill won in Missouri and she credited Mush Limpdick for pissing people off with his senseless attack on Michael J. Fox's political ad in which his Parkinson's disease symptoms were more than obvious. These same voters also rejected the backasswards attitude toward science pushed by the BCE and the religious reich, and this was in a Southern conservative state!!

This was not a gain for conservatism under any label or disguise. This was a clear swing of the pendulum the other direction. And hopefully it will keep on going in that direction in future elections long enough to undo all the damage

Republicans, take your party back from the BCE and the neocons and get back to the party of Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

And the Democratic wing of the Democratic party will continue to do what we have done since Howard Dean took the reigns. Rebuild our party without the interference of the DLC and the corporations and foreign interests who control them.

[redfire]

Originally posted by FORD
So why did you guys elect Coburn again? ;)

Well he's only been elected as a Senator once, but the reason why OK likes him is because they don't think he's a "yes man." Freaking Dick Army gave money to the Dem that ran against him cause he wrote a book about how f-ed up his time in the House was, and what a pawn Army was.

You do that, and you've pretty much secured their trust.

[FORD]

To those of you who still think centrists or conservatives won this election


Check out these election results:

* Bernie Sanders: First Socialist in the Senate.

* Sherrod Brown: Unapologetic liberal beats incumbent DeWine by 12 points.

* Jon Tester: Populist wins Senate seat after destroying DCCC favorite, center-right John Morrison, in the primary.

* Amy Klobuchar: Democratic-Farm-Labor senatorial candidate wins by 20-point margin.

* Sheldon Whitehouse: Liberal Democrat beats centrist Republican Lincoln Chafee.

* Jim Webb: Beats George "Macaca" Allen with a strong anti-war, pro-economic justice message.

* Jerry McNerny: Beats Richard Pombo after a primary win over DCCC-backed Steve Filson.

* Keith Ellison: Anti-war Muslim wins multi-candidate primary, goes on to take MN 5th district seat.

* John Hall: Musician and environmental activist wins Sue Kelly's house seat after taking 48% of the vote in a 4-way primary.

* Carol Shea-Porter: Wins NH house seat after beating centrist and party favorite Jim Craig in the primary 54%-34%.

* David Loebsack: Strong anti-war, pro-universal healthcare Dem beats centrist Jim Leach in Iowa's 2nd.

* John Yarmuth: Progressive, independent newspaper publisher beats three moderates in the KY 3rd district primary, then beats Anne Northup with zero financial support from the DCCC.

* Larry Kissell: Former Social Studies teacher wins a 4-way primary despite DCCC opposition. General against Robin Hayes still too close to call.

* Zack Space: Wins Bob Ney's seat after beating three primary opponents including (wait for it...) DCCC-backed centrist Joe Sulzer.

* Deval Patrick: Far-left Lefty McLefterman wins MA gubernatorial race after taking 50% in the primary against two center-right opponents.

* Tammy Duckworth: DCCC-supported, ambiguously centrist candidate loses IL house seat to Pete Roskam.

* Harold Ford, Jr.: Pro-life, anti-gay, pro-war Dem loses TN Senate race to Bob Corker.

* Missouri Stem Cell Bill: Passed.

* South Dakota Abortion Ban: Crushed.

* Minimum Wage Increases: Passed by six states.

* Parental Notification Laws: Defeated in two states.

* Dallas, TX: 41 of 42 judgeships switch from GOP to Dems. Judgeships. In Texas.

* Congressional Progressive Caucus: Gains at least seven new members, becoming the largest ideological caucus in Congress.


(For those of you who aren't aware, the DCCC - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is headed by Rahm Emmanuel, the DLC shitbag who's trying to steal credit for this victory from Howard Dean and Liberal & Progressive Democrats nationwide. Sorry Rahm, the facts speak for themselves....)

[Nickdfresh]

Incidentally, I saw Jim Webb on the History Channel yesterday. I guess he was one of the primary interviews for the 80s PBS series "Vietnam: The Ten-Thousand Day War."

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT


Don't worry. If the minimum wage goes up you and BigBland will both be able to tithe more to the Lord!

You need to start coming up with your own stuff.

It's kind of embarrassing to be you, huh?

I make a couple of comments about you flipping burgers for a living and you have to use it (with minor modifications) for a comeback like you did above?

Maybe EMA can teach you how to insult someone the correct way.

:gulp:

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
You need to start coming up with your own stuff.

It's kind of embarrassing to be you, huh?

I make a couple of comments about you flipping burgers for a living and you have to use it (with minor modifications) for a comeback like you did above?


Nice try, bitch.

You cry this little whimper whenever your fake Christian ass suffers a severe owning.

If you really think that you came up the "flipping burgers" concept you truly are delusional enough to believe in talking snakes and a magical place called Heaven.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
If you really think that you came up the "flipping burgers" concept you truly are delusional enough to believe in talking snakes and a magical place called Heaven.


I'd love to find the post where BRIE claims ownership of the CAN OF SPAM reply....

LMMFAO:D

[Warham]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
Looks like Lqueersuckdiver might be a real live self-loathing queer in denial.

Poor sad lonely Republican fag.

Aren't you supposed to be tolerant of gays, conservative or liberal, Monkey?

[Warham]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
This line is just gold-standard!:D

It is???

You guys have lowered your standards of what qualifies as humor lately.

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by Warham
Aren't you supposed to be tolerant of gays, conservative or liberal, Monkey?

Exactly. That is why your accusations don't bother me.

You neocons though, go apeshit for the gay stuff. BigBland is still talking about the faggy pics that I added to his retarded copy/pastes.

Those pics made quite an impression on several of you neocon-gays-in-denial.

[scamper]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
Looks like Lqueersuckdiver might be a real live self-loathing queer in denial.

Poor sad lonely Republican fag.

Are you going to start making racist jokes now?

[Warham]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
Those pics made quite an impression on several of you neocon-gays-in-denial.

I find your pics a minor annoyance more than anything. A waste of bandwidth, really.

I think you're projecting your inner homoerotic feelings onto Brian or whoever else you can pin them to.

Moving to Massachusetts soon?

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
Exactly. That is why your accusations don't bother me.

You neocons though, go apeshit for the gay stuff. BigBland is still talking about the faggy pics that I added to his retarded copy/pastes.



Noooooooooooo......

It just shows you are a butt-dart.

:gulp:

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
"My" team did not lose. My team is America.

The people of America have spoken and I respect their decision.

Please. You were the most divisive person in here.

If I had the time I could find 100s of quotes from you about you winning and others losing back in the day.

:rolleyes:

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT


Don't worry. If the minimum wage goes up you and BigBland will both be able to tithe more to the Lord!


[i]Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
Okay, this is fucking FUNNY.

yeah, that was funny

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
the Republican party deserved the thorough ass kicking they received.


The problem is that some top notched politicians got taken in the wave. Here in Maryland we lost two class acts, Michael Steel and Robert Ehrlich. We now have Martin O'Malley who has a terrible track record as the Mayor of Baltimore.

This is definitely a top-notch post from you ultravag.

Both statements are well thought out and communicated.



Is there more than one person posting on your account?

[ODShowtime]

ok, upon reading the rest of the thread it looks like that was bullshit too...