List every public figure who contributed to GOP defeat in 2006

[mondo joe]

Here's my idea - list them, one per post.

To get started, she was by no means the biggest player, but here's on of them - Harriet Miers:

[TexasLawyer]

1. intentionally or

unintentionally?

If the latter, I'd say Bush himself was the biggest contributor to the demise of his party in 2006.

[mondo joe]

2. Either. Many of the best contributions were unintentional. :-)

[Oceansaway]

3. .

[Burma Jones]

4. Let's start with the over 1,800 dead from Katrina

Oh Wait, public figures, well, I would say Rummy, Pat Tillman, George "Macaca" Allen, Mark Foley, Jack Abramoff........etc

[Coexist]

5. .

[Bicoastal]

6. Chronologically, then Harriet would be followd by...

Michael "Heck of a Job" Brown. This was when mainstream America got its first glimpse of how Bush's White House rewards loyalty and connections over competence and credentials.

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Former republican Congressman Pete McCloskey

He go really, really, really mad when Pombo started messing with his legacy, the Endangered Species Act of 1974....and then some.

[malta blue]

8. ...

[KingFlorez]

9. .

[mondo joe]

10. Michael Schiavo

Thanks for the good fight Michael!

[lpbk2713]

11. He did a heckuva job .....

Brownie

[PeaeyeParker]

14. Speaking of the "Limbaugh Foxtrot", Take a Look at This

Found this on another forum - what do you think?

"Dems and Progressives, It's Time to Thank Mr. Limbaugh!

I have an idea - how about "Blue Roses for a Red Limbaugh."

There is no question that the "Limbaugh Foxtrot" had some effect on the final outcome of the Missouri vote. The delicious irony is that while the right wing was bellowing about Kerry's mistake, Limbaugh made the one of the biggest boneheaded moves in the history of American elections (and he did it with half his brain tied behind his back). If I were a Dem or Progressive, I would want to say "Thank you, Rush - for just being you." I would think some blue flowers sent to the man behind the golden microphone would be a most appropriate way of saying, "Rush, we couldn't have done it without you.'"

[newyawker99]

22. Hi PeaeyeParker!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[tulsakatz]

12. libby/cheney

due to the outing of Valerie Plame which still has not been resolved but we know that Cheney's office was intimately involved.

[mondo joe]

Thank you Keith Olbermann!

[11 Bravo]

13. S.R. Siddarth

He's the young Webb volunteer who Felix Allen infamously referred to as "macaca". I don't think the importance that moment can be overestimated in terms of our securing a Senate majority.

[Ringo84]

15. SEAN HANNITY. ANN COULTER

Both of them were too smug and sanctimonious for words. And look where that smugness got their precious GOP.
Ringo

[Rosemary2205]

16. Cindy Sheehan

[EC]

17. Olbermann... n/t

[WernhamHogg]

18. Schiavo n/t

[Alexander]

19. George Felix "Macaca" Allen.

There's Allen on Meet the Tim, with toupee.

The Senate hinged on Virginia, and Virginia hinged on the "macaca" comment. Allen was a shoo-in until he said that.

So really, we have Allen to thank for the Senate.

[cybildisobedience]

20. how about a shout-out for Al Gore?

He was the visionary who saw the promise of the Internet DECADES ago, and helped make it become a reality.

The Internet(s) has been the THE most democratizing development of the last 50 years, allowing all of us in the wilderness to find each other, organize, raise funds, support progresive candidates, warn about evoting, and provide a much-needed check on an out-of-control corporate media.

From a big picture perspective, Al Gore IS the one who started it all....

[ck4829]

21. George W. Bush

[demwing]

23. Dr Howard Dean and his Scream

[txindy]

24. Ted Haggard

With the assistance of meth, a male hooker, and a huge amount of hypocrisy.

[mondo joe]

25. Thank you Michael J Fox!