Anyone here from TX-22? If so, please vote Republican. No, really.

[argonaut]

http://www.kesharogers.com/content/ides-march-are-coming-pro-impeachment-democrat-wins-nomination-texas

Houston, March 3, 2010 – The victory in the 22nd Congressional District yesterday by LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers sent an unmistakable message to the White House, and its British imperial controllers: Your days are numbered. Kesha's campaign hit relentlessly at a single theme, that President Obama must go, that his attacks on this nation – with his dismantling of the manned space program, his efforts to ram through a fascist, killer “health care” policy, his endless bailouts for Wall Street swindlers, while demanding budget cuts which will increase the death rates among the poor, the sick, the elderly and the unemployed – are not acceptable, and will not be tolerated.

Skeptics said that LaRouche's approach is impractical, it won't work, that Democrats will never support someone who is calling for the President's impeachment. Obviously, the voters of the 22nd district disagreed with those skeptics, as Kesha received 53% of the vote against two opponents. As Kesha told the Galveston Daily News last night, when a reporter asked if she expected support from the Democratic Party in the fall election, “I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.”


Oh my God.

[RBInMaine]

1. Sounds like a LaDOUCHE whackjob to me.

[argonaut]

2. Yep!

It's not every day that I get to say I want a GOP Congressman to win!

[MrCoffee]

3. The British Empire?

Well now I'm completely confuzzled...how did the British Empire get drawn into this?

[Mz Pip]

4. Time warp?

Too many "Lost" episodes flying through this woman's brain.

[MrCoffee]

5. All three.

[Ken Burch]

11. Time Warp, you say?

No problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarYjuN-m8I&feature=related

[Mz Pip]

12. Madness takes its toll.

Indeed.

[Sebastian Doyle]

14. I think it has to do with the "He's a KENYIN MUSLIN!!1!!!" thing

Kenya was a British colony in 1961, so theoretically Obama would be a British subject, if he were born there.

[starroute]

21. With the LaRouchies, it's *always* about the British Empire

They have their own special brand of conspiracy theory in which the British Empire is the heir to, I think, the Venetian Empire, which is the heir to Babylon or something. I forget the details, but it's one of those cosmic forces fighting it out through all time and space kind of things. And whatever may really be happening, one way or another they'll manage to haul the British Empire into it.

[BeatleBoot]

6. Sounds a bit Tea-Baggy Nutso.

Oh, no.

What if Larouche and Teabaggers get it on?


:scared:


:rofl:

[Ken Burch]

7. You mean, you don't want to drive the British imperial controllers out of Texas?

:sarcasm:

BTW, do Dems ever WIN the 22nd district?

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Yep, in 2006, when DeLay had to drop out quickly

due to an embarrassing outbreak of Jack Abramoff associations. See below.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. It's either the Republican, or a credible Independent if one stands

The Republican is Pete Olson, first elected in 2008 by 53% to 45% fro the Dem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Olson

A Larouchite winning anything is a disaster for the Democrats. The only people nominally in the Democratic party that are crazier, more offensive, and more crooked than the Republicans.

Wow, the seat has been held by DeLay and Ron Paul in the past. It's Whackjob Central.

[Ken Burch]

10. I'd say there needs to be a progressive independent.

And I hope the mods will do the sensible thing and NOT hold Texas DU'ers to a "no campaigning against the Democratic candidate" rule in this particular case.

How on earth did this nutjob slip through OUR primary?

Was there nobody else running?

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. 2 others; she got 52% of the vote

As this blog says, "probably not a few of which came from mischievous cross-over Republicans" (the Repub incumbent was unopposed in his primary):

How will the state Democratic treat Rogers?

Not nicely.

"La Rouche members are not Democrats. I guarantee her campaign will not receive a single dollar from anyone on our staff," Kirsten Gray, spokeswoman for the Texas Democratic Party, told Hair Balls.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/03/democrat_impeach_obama.php

[Alexander]

15. This happened in the Illinois gubernatorial race in 1982, if I recall.

Adlai Stevenson III was running for governor, and a LaRouchie nutjob won the Lt. Governor nomination. Stevenson refused to campaign with or endorse the LaRouchie, and lost the election in part due to the split ticket.

[depakid]

16. And this is worse than the usual dishonest, paranoid anti-science Texas Republican how?

[Jennicut]

24. I would vote for the indie in this race...is there anyone in it that is not a wackjob?

[rug]

17. Meet the Candidate.

I have fought long and hard on behalf of the ideals and principles of the true Democratic Party best represented by Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon LaRouche, even at the expense of happily putting myself at odds with the now discredited 'mainstream' leadership of my party.

***

I joined and became an active leader of the LaRouche Youth Movement over 6 eventful years ago.

http://www.kesharogers.com/candidate

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

23. Anyone bother telling her that LaRouche is a racist? (nt)

[Arkana]

18. What.

[LiberalPC]

19. This is Tom DeLay's old district. Lampson won it and then lost it to Pete Olson

[yowzayowzayowza]

20. Present.

Welcome to DeLayLand.

:hi:

[Hippo_Tron]

22. My father has a saying "If you can't get good government you might as well get good entertainment"

So if I'm getting bad government either way, I might as well vote for the crazy LaRouche lady.