Chicago Tribune Excerpt:This is huge!
It happened again Tuesday, as Travis Childers (D) beat Greg Davis in a special election to replace Republican Roger Wicker, who served in the House since 1994 and was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat vacated by Trent Lott.
Excerpt:This is DOUBLE HUGE! A Bush/Cheney rubber stamp running ads linking his democratic challenger to Barack Obama is DEFEATED? In Trent Lott’s district!!
Vice President Dick Cheney campaigned for Davis the day before the special election, and Davis ran ads trying to tie Childers to Barack Obama,
But even in reports such as these, the MSM writes up the story not as a celebration of good news for a democratic change sweeping the country, but as a correction alarm for those who have been largely responsible for the mess we are in now.
Despite the trends, democrats can’t take anything for granted and must be prepared to defend their seats and fully support democratic challengers in districts that traditionally have been safe havens for the GOP. But voters should also take issue with some honorable democrats who have been crossing aisles to sponsor legislation with certain congressional GOP partisans. We have to let our democratic representatives and senators know that they shouldn't allow republicans opportunities to grandstand bi-partisanship efforts all the while they're stabbing democrats in the back.
Take our own Rep.Paul Ryan for instance. Here, he is at the center of a new group of partisans called Young Guns, a program that will raise money and provide strategic advice to recruit a breed of GOP congressmen that might be capable of leading their party back into the majority on Capitol Hill. THAT is their goal. They have basically taken on the role of the RNC while representing our interests in Congress. Their first target might be Rep. Steve Kagen of Appleton or who knows? Perhaps Rep. Ron Kind. Nothing is sacred, no democrat is exempt.
Democrats must be prepared to fight the long hard slog against Republican incumbents who are mislabeled as conservatives, even if they try to distance themselves from partisanship or Bush policies.
I have to hand it to them choosing a name like "Young Guns"...... for GOP wartime politicians who are young enough to serve in Iraq, but old skool enough to know better.
5 comments:
To be fair, this guy is strongly pro life and pro gun, and went on the air stating he has never heard of nor met this guy - Obama - the Republicans were associating him with.
Either way, better than Lott.
Yeah, I realize that, and described him as a social-conservative democrat. Things are a little different down south for sure, but the vote proves people are not running away from Obama, Pelosi or the democratic party as the GOP would have us believe.
On the plus side he is "very fair trade". He ran on a platform of no NAFTA like trade agreements.
It is a refreshing change to see a candidate who is both anti-war and anti-abortion. That is the sort of philosophical and moral consistency so lacking today. It serves the Democratic Party well. How did the Democratic Party come to see something like partial birth abortion as a virtue or at least morally neutral? Why does such a large portion of the Democratic Party scorn working class Americans and what they do? How did the Democratic Party come to make heroes out of job ending, wealthy trial lawyers at the expense of the working class? FDR, HST, and JFK must be spinning. The entire party needs more of what happened this week.
Contrary to popular opinion, there are such things as conservative democrats. But I find a ton of contradictions between trial lawyers (only democrats?) becoming wealthy defending working class people.
As far as our own district here (WI-1) is concerned, I would hope we wouldn't have to resort to a republican themed democrat to beat the incumbent. His record should be enough for rejection.
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