Hey Republicans, whatcha got?
To the Republicans out there. (at least I hope you're out there) With your party pretty much in a death spiral since your disasterous experience with Ryan and then running certifiable loon Alan Keyes for Senate, just what are you going to do for the next race for Governor?
Who ya got? Who's going to go up against Blago (if he's the Dem candidate... nothing's 100%) You have Judy Baar Topinka making noises, and ultra-rightist milk tycoon Oberweiss out there shooting himself in the foot with alarming regularity. So who's your world-beater? Who's going to be the horse you ride to the Governor's mansion next time around?
And out of fairness, I suppose Dems can chime in with their thoughts on the matter as well.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 5/14/2005
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6 Comments:
I don't think Edgar is interested, and I doubt he'd run again.
And I think the Dems would be pleased if any of the others on the list were to run.
Gop... thanks for your excellent observations, and welcome. Your scenarios seem to be pretty reasonable, though I wouldn't assume that Blago will go down quite as easily as you suggest.
And the mere thought of Bill Frist even running for President, let alone winning, is enough to give me night sweats. UGH!
I couldn't begin to list the reasons Frist is wrong for the country without going on for days (which I do often, but I'm trying to quit)
If you do a Google search on "jerry swallows", you'll find a lot of hits on a famous tattoo artist who went by the name "Sailor Jerry" and whose work featured swallows. I guess he was THE original tattoo guy in Hawaii and inked up thousands of sailors.
Maybe that's what "Sailing" was thinking about.
If you do a Google search on "jerry swallows", you'll find a lot of hits on a famous tattoo artist who went by the name "Sailor Jerry" and whose work featured swallows. I guess he was THE original tattoo guy in Hawaii and inked up thousands of sailors.
Maybe that's what "Sailing" was thinking about.
However, "J. Swallows" remains a complete unknown until someone enlightens us here. With that kind of name un-recognition, they're bound to go far.
My theory on why the Republicans of this area consistently field such pathetic candidates is this; fat cats just don't want the hassle of running for office and all that comes with it. They're much more used to, and comfortable with, throwing large amounts of money around to pay off others to do their bidding. Hence, they flounder around trying to find some pretty-boy or pretty-woman, some phoney media figure, who is easily manipulated and bought and paid for.
They are so used to their money getting them everything they want or need, that they're completely bamboozled when they butt up against the only thing they can't completely control, which is popular democracy.
Of course, as the Bush races and others have shown, on a larger scale, money can trump all logic and reason and fool enough of the people to actually prevail. But so far, that tactic isn't effective in this area, thankfully. People of this area have a strong distaste for obvious phoneys and empty suits, for which we should be eternally grateful.
Welcome "YoungDem". Your comments are very astute.
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