Comments on: The RNC Purity Test Is To Prevent A GOP Split

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:35:25 +0000

When RICO is reduced to a version of the “I know I am, but what does that make you” rhetoric, you know he’s just conceded that he was dead wrong.

By: a.price

a.price — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:21:14 +0000

it isnt even like he fails to notice. they actually think they won. Gotta hand it to them it takes heart… like the nerd getting beaten up on the ground saying “had enough?” its almost cute

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:10:37 +0000

It’s pretty typical for our wingnuts to not even notice when they have their ass handed to them in an argument.

By: a.price

a.price — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:09 +0000

astounding. its like a coked up glen beck naked on the bathroom floor with a needle sticking out from his arm yelling at the neighbors that their lifestyle is abhorrent. Gecko, do you really consider NY23 a win for your cause? cause if so i must say… many more fruitful victories to you and yours, pal.

By: gecko

gecko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:02:56 +0000

I know it’s painful when your talking point is undermined by facts. sorry.

Cheer up, the race will be run again in 2010. We will have a new result to pontificate about then.

By: a.price

a.price — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:59:10 +0000

try and use Beckian rationalization all you want, geico. the fact is the lunatic right proved not only would they rather lose a long time republican seat than have a republican they don’t really like… but they proved they have the power and numbers to lose that seat.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:53:42 +0000

Not quite clever enough, I’m afraid. There has been redistricting from the 22nd to the 23rd AND vice versa. The 22nd became reliably Democratic after 1993. But no matter the redistricting, we are still talking about NY-23 — a district that hadn’t elected a Dem for more than 100 years and had elected local repubs for state representation. Throughout multiple redistrictings, this district was reliably repub until your Palin and Beck wingnuts saw fit to interfere in this race and hand it to the Dem.

By: gecko

gecko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:32:52 +0000

every ten years the federal government counts all the people in the country, this is call the Census.

Based on the results of the Census, political representation maps are redrawn. This is called redistricting. When this happens the boundries of districts move.

On a federal level, there is no change in delaware as we have one congressional district that encompasses the entire state. On a local level you will remember that NewCastle County “lost” a district and sussex gained. although the numbering was adjusted, it’s as if district X moved south nearly 100 miles.

this is how voters who were in the 22nd district in 1990’s find themselves in the 23rd district in the 2000’s. They didn’t move, the district boundries did.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:18:17 +0000

but only half the district was “republican for 100 years? the other half was represented by a Dem in the early 90’s.

What is going on this morning with these idiots? There is just one district in NY-23 (that is why it is NY-23) and they’ve sent repubs to Congress since the Civil War damn near.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:13:05 +0000

I think the issues were local issues and the economy. Incumbents are suffering, no doubt about that. Christie and O’Donnell ran on the economy against either an unpopular incumbent or a terrible candidate.

You think I wanted Scozzafava? LOL! As far as I’m concerned she was just another GOP party of no backbencher. Do you truly think she would have got into Congress and started making brave stands against her own party? If so, I’d like what you’re smoking. The only “yes” Republican vote on hcr was Cao who is in an overwhelmingly Democratic district.

We want more candidates like Hoffman (loser) than candidates like Scozzafava (who could have won).

We say it was a Republican district because it was a Republican district. I’m sure it makes you feel better if part of the district was represented by a Democrat briefly but that doesn’t change the overlying issue. The only Republican candidate who ran on national issues LOST.

By: gecko

gecko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:04:02 +0000

UI, it’s a fun talking point for your side, but only half the district was “republican for 100 years? the other half was represented by a Dem in the early 90’s.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:41:20 +0000

We don’t have an “operation,” because we are not in the business — as you are — of engineering a hostile takeover of the nation. Your guy in Virginia won by denying his religious background. The guy in New Jersey barely hung on against a guy whose approval rating at the start of the race was 37% — not as miserable as the last Republican president, but still.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:30:46 +0000

Do you want to explain why repubs didn’t make any gains in Congress in 2009?

By: Republican David

Republican David — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:28:08 +0000

Do you want to explain why the dems lost every statewide office in PA, VA, and NJ in 2009? Two republicans and one dem running for one seat–and we still almost won it with one of the Republicans backing the dem while drawing votes from absentees and being on the ballot. This resolution will prevent that. We are fixing the one glitch in the operation. Your entire operation is a falling apart.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:52:46 +0000

Yep, they’re doing great! That’s why they lost a seat that they’ve held from more than 100 years.