Embattled Texas Republican DeLay Running Hard

[lovuian]

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Embattled Texas Republican DeLay Running Hard
Sat Oct 30, 2004 02:57 PM ET

By Jeff Franks
HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has coasted to easy wins in recent elections, but this year he is running hard as his once-ascendant political career has hit a rough patch.

In contrast to past campaigns, the powerful Republican from Texas is pounding the pavement of his suburban Houston district, going house to house in search of votes, and flooding local television with campaign ads.

He stunned a local high school debate club recently when he showed up unannounced at its candidates' forum and, perhaps most surprisingly, is attacking Democratic opponent Richard Morrison, a political novice given little chance of winning.

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Could this be an october surprise!!!

[PATRICK]

1. Running hard

Close the border, Mexico!

[maddezmom]

10. Close the Border!!

were my first thoughts, too! :)

[Catt03]

2. Too bad he will probably be reelected.

i read ...that another Bush or another Republican president will never
have to worry about Texas as they will always have the Senate and the House at their disposal, due to redistricting that Delay orchestrated.

[aquart]

8. Not exactly.

First, the redistricting is being challenged in the Supreme Court.

Second, any districting is only until the next census.

Third, and this is delicious, if the Republicans screwed up by underestimating a determined voter turnout, and Democrats take the races, then it is the Republicans who will have holy hell trying to get back in.

If Tom DeLay is campaigning, then he knows he could lose. And many, many people want him to.

It really is silly to keep imagining the Republicans as super beings against whom it is impossible to fight and win. These so-called Republicans are merely fascists, and fascists fuck up.

[Raster]

13. not only that, delay has LOTS of enemies. he's not very well liked...

...even by members of his own party. His nickname's "the hammer." Doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. I'd love to see the bastard lose fair and square. I about lost it at his "...I am the government." remark.

[belle]

17. That last paragraph is so RIGHT ON, thank you.

I mean, it's important not to underestimate them--they are vicious, relentless little fucks--but yes, absolutely: not supervillains. They're more "Fargo" than "Silence of the Lambs." Most criminals are.

[DBoon]

18. There is no such thing as a "criminal mastermind"

like there is no such thing as an "intelligent republican"

[PermanentRevolution]

24. Now, now...

I know several intelligent republicans. They're the ones voting for Kerry!

[VegasWolf]

25. Aquart, well said.

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[snoochie]

16. That redistricting fiasco probably hurt more than helped them

A lot of the republicans in TX voted for democrats in their state elections because they knew and liked them. Taking that option away upset a lot of rural republicans. When they finally were forced to hold hearings about the issue, the overwhelming majority of the people that showed up to give their opinion were solidly against it.

I'm hoping it bites 'em all in the ass.

[shadu]

3. He is one very brash bastard if he is going door to door

I am sure he is hated by many.

[fidgeting wildly]

6. Heh heh.

Almost makes me wish I lived in Houston so he could come knock on my door.
"Why hello, Mr. DeLay. Won't you please come in. I've got a big bug for you to squash..."

[AndyTiedye]

14. Let Delay Go Up Against One of the Bugs from "Starship Troopers"

[VegasWolf]

26. Be nice if there was a rabid dog behind one of those doors! Gee I'm

feeling mean today.

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[Mabus]

4. "vitrolic campaign"??

"Also, DeLay said he is fighting against a vitriolic campaign by national Democrats to oust him."

Really, this is unprecedented. It is so unlike his fund raising and fund funneling he's done that he's amazed it can be done legally and above-board. What a little toad.

[Burma Jones]

5. Maybe he's practicing for the day he returns to Bug Killing

Going door to door, muttering, "Ya'll got enny bugs I kin kill?"

[Changenow]

7. If this happens I'll go to church again.

I promice, God if you want another soul intervene!

[elehhhhna]

9. The Deabte club was "stunned" because he'd initially refused their invite,

and was cowed into relenting and attending last-minute due to LOTS of local pressure ("he can't even explain himself to the high-schoolers?, etc.") He's TOAST. Dry ass crumb-covered but sorta soggy in a microwave-reheated-type way toast.

[lovuian]

11. I voted in the early election in Houston Delay had No Workers

giving out anything there was a little old lady God Bless her with a Morrison shirt on and after everybody left the polling place she said Thanks for Voting

NoRepublicans were working for Delay

things are changing and sometimes Karma comes atcha in a strange way!!!

[PATRICK]

15. Idiot sent them all to Florida

n/t

[AlCzervik]

12. "Embattled" oh how i love that!

next i'd love to hear-"Disgraced former Congressman and now fulltime prisoner tom delay"

[cliss]

19. Well, Tom can always go back to his prior career....

as a bug exterminator. Just be careful when you breathe that bug spray, Tom. It can wreack havoc with your brain.

[despairing optimist]

20. It's too late for him now, but we can stop his exhaling on the rest of us

Secondhand bug spray is lethal to the general welfare.

[harpo]

21. It felt good to donate to Morrison early on :)

[elehhhhna]

23. samae here!

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Cool Delay goes down and that will be wroth

cold champagne