Republics ready to concede 5 Republic seats to Dems!

[NewJeffCT]

Sex Scandal Hurts GOP Chances
Analysts See Risk Of Loss Of House
October 3, 2006
Combined Wire Services

WASHINGTON -- Republican strategists said Monday that public revulsion over the e-mail sex scandal that has ensnared a former GOP congressman could tip the House to the Democrats in November.

The revelation of the sexually graphic communications between former Florida Rep. Mark Foley and congressional pages also jeopardizes the party's hold on the Senate, the strategists said.

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Republican operatives closely following the battle for the House and Senate said they are virtually ready to concede nearly a third of the 15 seats the Democrats need to recapture control of the House, and that they will spend the next five weeks trying to shelter other vulnerable incumbents from the fallout of the Foley scandal in hopes of salvaging a slender majority.

Others warned that the impact could be much wider. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and an important social conservative leader, said that "there's a real chance" the episode could dethrone the GOP majority.

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-foley1003.artoct03,0,629169.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld

[Pachamama]

1. Sorry GOP - 5 ain't nearly enough and the amount we are going to kick your

asses on! :kick:

Try more like 20 you corrupt group of morally bankrupt pieces of crap!

Party over....

[NewJeffCT]

3. I know, but

Just the fact they are not supporting 5 Republican incumbents in HUGH!!! I'm series!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. Buh Buh Buh Buh Buh But It's Only A DDDDDistraction!

Orrrrrrrr, maybe it's one of the most fortunate things to politically fall in our laps in one hell of a long time...

Let's go get em!

:toast:

[tyedyeto]

4. I posted this in the AZ forum the other day...

National Republicans back away from Graf race

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/campaign_diary/arizona/archive/2006/09/national_republicans_back_away.htm

In a stunning turn of events, it appears that less than two weeks after embracing him wholeheartedly in Washington, D.C., and cutting him a $10,000 check, the National Republican Congressional Committee has decided to cut short a planned advertising blitz for immigration hard-liner Republican Randy Graf.

The move has already been characterized as a sign of conceding defeat–especially with a recent Bennett, Petts & Blumenthal poll showing Democrat Gabrielle Giffords trouncing Graf 54 percent to 29 percent–in the Arizona congressional race for the seat Rep. Jim Kolbe is vacating. Graf is a conservative founding member of the Minuteman Project and is best known for carving out a get-tough stance on immigration.

Last week Republicans in Washington canceled roughly $1 million in planned television advertisements they were going to run for Graf. Ads currently airing will stay up through October 3, but not until the general election. Analysts say this was the only instance of the NRCC's choosing to withdraw already promised funding for a Republican congressional candidate in 2006.

Graf's campaign manager, R.T. Gregg, has insisted that his candidate is ready to "go it alone if necessary." Graf has already run a largely un-Washington race: During the Republican primary earlier this month, the NRCC spent at least $120,000 on ads backing his moderate opponent.

The latest reporting of Graf's spending– dated Aug. 23, 2006– shows Graf with just $82,135 cash on hand. On the same date, Giffords had $334,530.



Another one bites the dust!!! This is my district, BTW.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. No doubt, this is HUGH

The one strategist said it best when he indicated this would reduce an already expected to be dull Republican turnout on Election Day. Even the hardcore evangelist types can't like what their Congress has done on this one, in sheltering a homosexual pederast. It may not seem like it, but for them, that's two separate nails in the coffin there.

[mac56]

6. As mentioned elsewhere, voters may not know about habeus corpus

or about what Condoleeza knew, and when she knew it.

But, by god, they understand peckers.

[Lasher]

13. That's funny - and exactly right.

I still can't get over the Congressional authorization to torture. Honest, Americans used to be the good guys. I can remember.

But this is coming up in conversations of those whose favorite topics include which Nascar driver can whip all the rest of them, and what kind of hamburger Paris Hilton likes best.

[tyedyeto]

7. kick

:kick:

[Raffi Ella]

8. "...could dethrone the GOP majority."

:kick:

[NewJeffCT]

9. dethrone is a good word

This is supposed to be a democracy.

[corkhead]

10. Those F***ing Republics!

:rofl: :toast:

[skids]

14. self delete.

oops replied to wrong post.

[HardRocker05]

11. "republics" LOL, i'm going to start using that too. nt

[skids]

15. Make sure to pronounce the u hard. n/t

[cui bono]

12. could be a ploy to get out the Repug vote...

[Raffi Ella]

16. to hear that they are virtually ceding seats

is blood in the water for Democrats,or at least it is for me...If 'We the People' can't capitalize on this then there is no hope for our Democracy.

[NewJeffCT]

17. to say you're giving up on 5 seats you have now?

I don't think that is how you get the "base" out...

[quiet.american]

18. I wonder how this will impact Holy Joe's campaign?

Since he is a Republican in all but name, will this slime rub off on him, too?