Comments on: How Important Was NY-23? Ask Bill Clinton

By: notreallyrepublican

notreallyrepublican — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:09:43 +0000

There wasn’t any. I’m not in VA, so your governors race, while great for you, didn’t do much for me. The GOP letting 2 seats fade away in congress, however, does. That abomination of a ‘health care’ bill was made all the easier to get through. So sure, shout about beating the democrats all you want.

But conservatism is what I work for, and that got nowhere. It sickens me. We need to ditch the GOP once and for all. Get real conservatives in office.

By: DONTREADONME

DONTREADONME — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:46:36 +0000

Then again, all of those Governors and down ballots races at the local level that shifted to the R after years of being controlled by the D’s says absolutely nothing.

As a resident of VA, I respectively disagree with your downplaying of the switch of the Governor, Lt. and Attorney to alll R’s. My delegate is replacing the Democrat incumbant, and Richmond republican majority increased by at least 6.

Bummer dude, gee whiz we blow-sacarsm off.

By: DONTREADONME

DONTREADONME — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:42:48 +0000

no turds were laid in this race. You are a little wet behind the ears if you think that the vote in the House was not gerrymandered. BTW, if Hoffman would have won and Cao voted against the bill the final vote count would have been 218-217 instead of 220-215. So I am not seeing how even if scuzzy voted against it we would have stopped this.

Come on man, use your head. BTW, you’re assuming that Pelosi was trying to pass the bill with limited amount of House members that would be hemmorraged in the next election. I guarantee if we had both NY-23 (Hoffman) and CA-10 and Cao, the vote still would have been 218-217.

By: notreallyrepublican

notreallyrepublican — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:33:48 +0000

The first things Owens (NY-23) and Garamendi (CA-10) did, literally their first actions as congresscritters after being sworn in, was vote for Pelosi’s health care bill.

I like a Republican Governor as much as anyone else, but they don’t get a vote in congress. Or the senate.

By: notreallyrepublican

notreallyrepublican — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:30:56 +0000

Governor’s are great and all, but there were exactly 2 elections that mattered that day. NY-23, a recently republican district, and CA-10, which hadn’t had anybody in it for half a year at that point.

And we laid a turd in both of those races. The (D)’s picked up 2 seats, one a switch, and the other for all intents and purposes a newly created district (as far as balance of power in the house goes, both sides dropped it from all whip/vote counts it had been empty for so long)

The democrats whipped us good, and I’m entirely convinced now it’s because we’re stuck with the GOP as a prom date, when we should have stood tall, proud and conservative on our own.

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:50:13 +0000

But the dems shuffle people around to get the votes they need.
They would have made someone else walk the plank.

By: Freedoms Truth

Freedoms Truth — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:42:36 +0000

Yes, it did matter. The Dems have had some tactical luck that is blinding them to their strategic error of over-reach. Hoffman would have made it a Trifecta and would have made the ‘narrative’ impossible to spin for Pelosi and Co.