I am notoriously bad at making predictions, but what the hey, here they are anyway: Maryland: Cardin (D) beats Steele (R)- this is the one I want most to be wrong. I would LOVE to see a Senator Steele, having……

Jr is upset that all of Corker’s ads of late use clips from his own ads saying “here’s what Jr says” and follows with “here’s how he voted in congress” with records and Bill numbers supplied.

Ford is a typical liberal – tell everyone how conservative you are and vote liberal when you get there. Like Father Like son.

Welcome to Memphis Politics.

He was the long-time US Representative from Memphis. His last campaign was in 1994. The night after the election, he made the statement in an interview, “I have driven around East Memphis and I made a note of the houses of you white devils who had my opponents sign in your yards. You better not come and ask me for any help.” Needless to say, he decided not to run for re-election, instead annointing his son (who had never held a real job of any kind) to be his replacement. Since Memphis was 60% black at the time, Ford, Jr. won in a landslide.

The elder Ford’s brother is no choirboy either. He was a state representative and was the clerk of the circuit court in Shelby County. He found himself in hot water for fathering two children out of wedlock with two different women. People gave him a pass on that. What got him ihn trouble was the child support. In both cases, he convinced the judges to not impose mandatory child support. He swore he would do the right thing aand take care of it himself. He did. He gave both women high-paying jobs in the circuit court office for which they were totally and completely unqualified. The women showed up, did no work, and collected a fat paycheck. When he was caught doing this, he actually tried to act surprised that there might have been something wrong with it.

Harold Ford, Jr. is an apple that didn’t fall far from the tree.

The Democrats and MSM would be raising hell that Bush had not done anything about Saddam Hussein if we had not ousted Hussein and would still be whining that Bush I had not finished the job. That probably would have led to his defeat in 2004.

Today’s Democrats will whine and whine about Iran and North Korea, but they have no solutions except talking to our enemies. Like a poster said on here about a week ago, Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are in a quagmire in Iraq, not us. Where would we be killing terrorists if we were not in Iraq or Afghanistan?

So I really don’t understand why the war would be your number one issue.
januarius on October 21, 2006 at 1:17 PM

You seem strangely able to make assumptions about what the entire Democratic party would have done, what the electorate would then have done, but are somehow stymied on the issue of why I feel the war is the number one issue. Selective ESP, interesting.

Did you by any chance catch Chris Wallace yesterday? Had the top leaders of the Senate Armed Forces and Foreign Policy (may have the nomenclatures off a bit)–Luger, Biden, Warner, Levin. It was probably the most adult conservation I have heard from politicos in a long, long time. No Dems rehashing the march of folly this whole war has been, no Reps accusing Dems of being soft on terror. No talking points. It’s clear these guys–three of whom are in the twilight of their careers–are deadly serious about the risks facing us, and also are ready to work together on not just Iraq, but other pressing problems.

I was actually optimistic, what an odd feeling that is!!

Its working out for me far btter than having a democratic retreat and surrender.

Explain something to me: why is any suggestion that the current strategy is gravely flawed immediately reduced to “retreat and surrender”? Other than it allows you the comfort of feeling you are supporting the better of only two possible solutions?

You cannot be that simplistic in your thinking. Can you?

That shrill piercing sound you heard yesterday morning if you live on the Eastern Seaboard was a primal scream emanating from a leafy Chappaqua neighborhood as Barack Obama told Tim Russert he might run for President in 2008. This announcement could……

Well, pulling up your opponents signs is illegal political activity where I live, I wonder if TN is the same.

What about Iraq, Mr Corker? Well, what about it, Mr Ford? You were all about it and all for it yourself, only arguing about the number of troops needed there … until this election got all hetted up. Yup, Mr Ford just didn’t want to get Leiberman’d … a Democrat that is *gasp* FOR the war in Iraq! That simply will not do …

But it appears that Mr Ford and his followers are quite proud of this bit of party crashing …

Please let it be 11/8 when I wake up in the morning …

Typically off year elections yield seats to the out of power party, this is especially true in the 6th year of a presidency. [...]

honora on October 21, 2006 at 12:49 PM

Dunno about that, honora. Last time there was a 6th year of a presidency (1998), there was no change in the Senate and the party in power picked up 5 seats in the House.

Just another useless factoid.

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WTF man? WTF?