A Sure Republican Win

Well, here's one race a Republican has to win - a little Red on Red action.

On the Republican side, physician Barry Fleming and trucking executive Chris Gorman placed one-two (35 percent to 34 percent ) and will take their battle into the run-off. Their contest is expected to focus on the issue of illegal immigration. Fleming has proposed a transportation system to bus immigrants who have first been screened into the country as laborers, while Gorman has taken a hard-line, border security-first position.

Claiming "we don't have enough illegal aliens" might not be a winning argument for Flemming.

More on his position here and at his site where he advocates for harsher penalities for employers. So who pays for the buses?

Immigration is a tough problem. But there's little doubt what Obama will do. They'll be legal and registered to vote for Obama in 2012. As for McCain, we'll have to see.

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Add a close race to THIS:
"The guys and girls who may have to face our enemies want their leader to be McCain, not Obama. Hear that Harpo?
"A poll by the Military Times newspaper group suggests that there is overwhelming support for John McCain among U.S. troops in every branch of the armed forces by a nearly 3-1 margin.
According to the poll, 68 percent of active-duty and retired servicemen and women support McCain, while 23 percent support Barack Obama. The numbers are nearly identical among officers and enlisted troops."
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/21/poll-troops-support-mccain/
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 03:43 PM"

And we will probably get a division of Obama airborne lawyers into Washington to challenge the military vote by any means necessary.

[Fred Beloit]

Andrea Mitchell does the Twist...:
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=203183

[Fred Beloit]

...on the truth.

[chris]

Instead of participating in polls, shouldn't they be out looking for bin Laden?

[Lala]

I'm tired of these illegals

Racing from the bloodshed, Nuñez headed up an escalator, turning back to fire another shot at the wounded cops. But Abrahall was waiting at the top. Though Nuñez fired three times at the lieutenant, he missed, and Abrahall hit Nuñez four times.

Later in custody, another source said, Nuñez, who sneaked back into the United State after he was deported to his native Dominican Republic in 2001 for a 1997 drug conviction, "indicated that he was afraid of being deported. He had been deported once before and he was afraid of going back."

"Two brave police officers were shot by a suspect they were attempting to apprehend in the course of doing their job keeping us all safe," Mayor Bloomberg said at the hospital, where he, Kelly and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown rushed to comfort the heroes and their families.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10222008/news/regionalnews/humble_cop__im_not_the_hero_134775.htm

[Fred Beloit]

chris: "Instead of participating in polls, shouldn't they[active and retired military] be out looking for bin Laden?"

I don't know about that, chris. The retired military folks may not be in top form for the battlefield. Then there is the problem of an act of war. Do you really want us to send our entire military into Pakistan, a sovereign nation? Heck I though you weren't even in favor of bombing Iran's nuclear weapons development facilities. Now you want us to go to war with Pakistan?

[jharp]

"The guys and girls who may have to face our enemies want their leader to be McCain, not Obama. Hear that Harpo?
"A poll by the Military Times newspaper group suggests that there is overwhelming support for John McCain among U.S. troops in every branch of the armed forces by a nearly 3-1 margin.

From Fred's link,.

"The non-scientific survey gathered 4,300 respondents"

You are a birdbrain, Fred. Do you even know what a scientific poll is?

[chris]

No one cares about your silly wars. Face it, you and your kind are on the verge of complete irrelevance.

Hey look, the Dow is down 650. More votes for that feeble old man and his bimbo sidekick!

[Fred Beloit]

Why you silly boy. Don't you know that when Obie poll nums go up the market goes down and versa vice?

[chris]

Sarcasm, old timer, sarcasm.

[dm60462]

I was standing in line at the grocery store last night, wearing a "Palin...Babies-Guns-Jesus" shirt. A Mexican looked me right in my face and started chanting "See Say Pwayda"

[Fred Beloit]

Harpo: "McCain is a socialist.
Posted by: jharp | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 03:38 PM "

Why did he say this? (1) Because someone at Politikos or one of those other Leftist sites had it up. I saw it. (2) Because Harpo agrees with everything McCain says I guess: "At an October 2000 town hall on MSNBC’s Hardball, an audience member asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about why the rich pay higher taxes than the middle class. McCain defended progressive taxation, stating, “I think it’s to some degree because we feel, obviously, that wealthy people can afford more”"

But the rich, defined by Harpo's leader as a family with income of $250,000/Yr, already pay more than the poor. That's why the guy asked the question. What he should have asked is how much more should they pay? Where is the goal? Should those taking in $25mil/yr pay 98%, 90%, 85%...what? Where do taxing and fairness end and felony theft begin? Why not give a shot at an answer, Harpo? Common how about some figures? How much is too much?

[Fred Beloit]

chris "
Sarcasm, old timer, sarcasm.
Posted by: chris | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 04:12 PM"

Shoot, it ain't no fun if'n you have to say it, ya young whippersnapper.

[jharp]

Why not give a shot at an answer, Harpo?

All right Fred. I'll bite.

How about the top marginal rates increasing from 35% to 39%. And capital gains from 15% to at least 20%, or to 28% tops.

Kind of like what Obama is proposing.

And like those years of utter economic ruin under Bill Clinton.

[jharp]

Today on MSNBC, Chris Matthews challenged McCain campaign spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer to defend Palin’s comments(about what the VP does), saying that in all his time in Washington, he has “never heard anybody” give an answer like Palin did. “Where does she get her civics?” asked Matthews.

I thought of you Fred. Was Governor Palin in your civics class?

[IslamoLlama]

"-- And like those years of utter economic ruin under Bill Clinton. --"

Or Ronald Reagen.

[Denise]

The Fleming/Gorman runoff is in my district. (And it's John Fleming, not Barry) In the crazy political world of Louisiana, we will have the runoff on Nov 4th and then the race between the Dem and Republican on Dec 4th. This was delayed by a hurricane.

Fleming seems to have irritated a lot of people with a nasty campaign. If he wins, I will cross party lines for the first time in my life and vote for the Democrat in Dec. I hear many people saying this.

[seekeronos]

"--- Where do taxing and fairness end and felony theft begin? ---"

If you ask me, the theft begins at the first $1 more than is needed to tend to the most basic affairs of government.

But then again, my idea of good (federal) government borders on being the "Night Watchman Model".

Put up a suitable army, navy, and air force, pave the interstate roads, regulate interstate commerce and international treaties... and let the states sort out most other issues.

But yeah, I know... "states' rights" died alongside the Confederacy.

[rightwingprof]

In other news, apparently Murtha pissed a bunch of his constituents off when he called them racists. He's only ahead of Bill Russell by 4 points according to Susquehanna. The MOE is 4.9. And 54% of respondents said it was time for a change in Congressional representation.