Target: Any Blue State GOPer should have a big bullseye on them

[FDRLincoln]

One thing that we need to do for 2006: ANY GOP officeholder in a blue state needs to be targeted and targeted HARD. The Republicans fiercly attack any Dem in a Red state. We need to do the same. That means people like Snow and Collins and Shays need to be given strong, well-funded challengers in upcoming elections.

They may vote with us some of the time, but as long as they vote GOP for leadership positions they are the ENEMY.

[okieinpain]

1. that's true. just think those three would put dems back in the hunt

for majority.

[lovedems]

2. The first one should be Dennis Hastert.

A prick of pricks.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

20. Another Bushbot that has to go in Illinois is

Henry "The Hypocrite" Hyde. Hey Melissa Bean got rid of the alcoholic Phil Crane. We can't stop there now can we.

Actually, if the Illinois Democratic Party had any balls they'd target all of them. But when you have DINO's like Mike Madigan and Richie Daley in charge, I think you get the picture.

[Fovea]

3. And the other track

should be ethics investigations of the Solid Red Leaders.
DeLay should be meat for the redistricting.

[lastliberalintexas]

25. So you know, Ronnie Earle is working on that

He's the Travis County DA, for those outside of Texas. We just need to make sure his office isn't forced to stop their investigations. They've already obtained indictments on a few of Delays' cronies and have been working on others and the Hammer himself.

[BOSSHOG]

4. An excellent Idea

Let us share our thoughts with the DNC. Lets start now. I'll send a few bucks from the red states. I feel like the French Resistance.

Lets have the red states singing the Blues! Take back the house in 2006.

[prodigal_green]

9. Forget the DNC

I'm hooking up with DFA. I think Dean has the right idea--get in at the ground level and work up from there.

[HootieMcBoob]

5. Rick Santorum in PA

When is he up for re-election. He's one of the worst of the worst. Spector won again in PA so he's safe for a while. It would be great to find a strong Dem candidate who the people of PA could relate to and get that giant prick Santorum out of the Senate.

[prodigal_green]

8. Santorum is toast next election.

Essentially, the Pukes have all jumped into the same cauldron and lit their own fire.

Two years from now the economy will still suck, we will likely have been hit by terrorists again (in a red state, my guess) and the young men and women of Pennsylvania will be trooping off to Iraq/Iran/Syria/Brazil(which now has the capability to produce nukes). Rick will get hit with the brunt of that. They can't blame Clinton for a recession after this term.

[Patiod]

22. I will be writing checks and knocking on doors for that one

He has got to go

[lastliberalintexas]

26. Rumors were that Hoeffel will

run against him, that this was a practice-and-get-your-name-out-there run against Specter. Anyone from PA know the answer?

And he's up in 2006.

[aquart]

6. Won't work unless we TARGET THE VOTING MACHINES.

Stop pretending this was an honest election. It was stolen in the voting machines.

[The Magistrate]

7. Absolutely, Mr. Lincoln!

The conservatives have offended, but it is the moderates who must pay. There is nothing fair about it, but it is practical and necessary. Republican office-holders in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions must be rendered extinct as the Democrat in national office are at the South and on the High Plains. Anyone who will assist in providing a majority for Frist in the Senate, or vote Republican for Speaker in the House, must go: it does not matter how they vote otherwise.

"No quarter!"

"Americans looked into the abyss, and fifty-one percent said: 'Hmmm...I wonder what's down there....'"

[FDRLincoln]

10. yep!

That's right.

I want to run adds linking Snowe with Dubya's most unpopular policies (whatever those might be) in Maine, for example. Link Snowe with the lack of health care, for example. If she protests, say "then why are you a Republican?"

[The Magistrate]

14. That Is Indeed The Proper Line, Sir!

A climate must be created in which these people either switch parties or forfeit their careers....

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. FDRLincoln I stand with you!!!!

ALL REPUBLICANS ARE THE ENEMY NOW!!!

I love your username!

:)

[FDRLincoln]

12. thanks

Thanks. On my office wall I have four portraits:

Abraham Lincoln, founder of the GOP, who would certainly be a Dem today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, founder of the New Deal.

Winston Churchill, a conservative yes, but a reminder to myself to NEVER GIVE UP


John F. Kerry, who fought the good fight.

[tedoll78]

13. We need to label them as.. "Lott Enablers."

When you support the GOP caucus, you support the likes of Lott and Helms and Frist. We need to hammer the hell outta this.

[The Magistrate]

17. Yes, Sir, We Do

And that will be a powerful line in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions.

[tedoll78]

18. Exactly.

Trent Lott and the other pig-fucking southern GOPers are poison in the NorthEast. If we can portray NorthEastern GOP senators as the ones holding-down the pig, we win. It's that simple.

If they can make association with the northeast politically toxic to our Southern candidates, we can turn the tables and do the inverse. We end-up basically making each race a referendum on the Southern GOP.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. In Minnesota, we have our sights on

Governor Tim Pawlenty, who has managed to piss off increasing numbers of people and who, thanks to concerted efforts on the part of the DFL, has just lost 13--count 'em, 13!-- of his legislative cronies AND who has undoubtedly lost favor in the White House for failing to turn his state red.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

19. did the DFL gain seats in the State House?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. It sure did!

Thirteen, count 'em, thirteen Republicanites are out of a job! :7

[neomonkey]

16. I'm in California in LA County in a VERY Democratic district

Don't have much to chose from other than the Gropenator, and he is downright untouchable.

I think he can be beat given the right candidate, but even that seems slim pickins lately.

[Sandpiper]

23. Santorum, Chafee, Snowe, Collins

Should all be squarely in our crosshairs.

It's time to tell blue state Republicans to get on board or get the hell out.

[blue america]

24. ABSOLUTELY

The movement, the dedication HAS to start in the Blue States. They had their "solid south" strategy, we gotta go blue.

I just ordered one of these for my car: ?r=632352575321875000

[CityZen-X]

27. French & German Products

will be the for most on my shopping list. Anything that comes from the I-Q states of 85% will be totally boycotted by my grip!

[CityZen-X]

28. Stop Paying Taxes!!!!

if you are against this criminal takeover of our so called govt., why are you feeding the monkey? (aka Taxes) revolt in the most powerrfull way we can!

[sangh0]

29. That's what I tried doing this election

I live in NY, and there was no way it was going for Kerry. My health prevented me from going somewhere I could do more good, so instead I tried to get a WFP (progressive third party) candidate elected to replace the puke that represent my neighborhood in Congress.

We lost, but I know I was trying to do the right thing. I won't give up.

[Walt Starr]

30. You just lost and wasted tons of cash!

You cannot target every GOP office holder in blue states, damnit! You will overextend your resources and lose it all!

You have to carefully analyze the election result data on a ward by ward basis for each and every congressional district.

Right now without more analysis, best case scenario in Illinois is five congressional seats that can be effectively targeted. The truly serious route to take in the blue states is to shore up the local level offices that are relatively safe, defend those seats that show some weakness in the evaluation of the data, and go after those GOP seats both on a local and a national level that actually have demonstrated vulnerability in the data.

Attacking every last GOP seat in a blue seat without viable data on how to attack as well as who tyou actually have a hope of winning against is folly.

This is an uphill battle and the sooner you get used to it the better off you're going to be.