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Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?
Time to put down the manga and pick up the ganja.
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The FDP must be stepping things up, I keep getting blasts about Posey. The district incorporates the southeast end of the I-4 corridor, so I can picture the value in stepping things up in the region other than Posey’s general vulnerability. The only challenger I’ve heard of is Heather Beaven, and I’m curious who else might be up.
As in, time to throw in the towel, or do we wait a week past labor day?
UGH.
Cannot wait for three months from now when Clark is killing it fundraising wise. I dont think Ive ever been so excited for a candidate! I cant wait to harass my cousin from St. Cloud about voting for her. She voted Kerry but volunteered on the Bachmann campaign in 06 because she was great on nursing or something… (Im sure my cousin met her, said Im going to school to be a nurse and then got an ear full of bullshit.) I didnt bother in 08 to harass everyone for Tink at our last family camping trip but I most certainly will be this year, especially since she represents so many of them in the state senate as is. (My family is entirely from the St. Cloud area, my parents met in high school so almost my entire extended family lives in CD6.)
God I hope she turns Bachmann into a Musgrave. I cant help but have a grin over this race, or maybe that’s just my buzz 😉
Clark’s senate website is really piss poor and I wanted to email and give her some encouragement, she better lock that shit up as a Congressional candidate.
Did FBI raid your house too?
Man I wish I lived in this district, but I’m still pretty hopeful about Anthony Woods’ chances for pulling off an upset over that schmuck Garamendi and the lackluster Buchanan and DeSaulnier in CA-10’s special election.
Beyond that, I want David “Diaper” Vitter out of the Senate, and if Charlie Melancon can do it, I will forgive him for being a jerk about healthcare.
We’re going to need boots on the ground in southeast Iowa before the September 1 special election in Iowa House district 90. This will give us the first hint of how well the GOP message of “cut spending and discriminate against gays” will play in the Iowa statehouse races next year.
It’s been 8 months since the election, and McCain is already set up to run for reelection next year, instead of retiring as I predicted. While there has been chatter about running a primary opponent against him, this is not turning into an Arlen Specter like situation for John McCain.
The best hope is whoever is the Democratic candidate, he or she will be able to prevent John McCain from winning the ridiculous landslides he’s received from the electorate before. If McCain’s vote goes under 60% this time around, I’ll be happy.
The real race is in 2012, when Jon Kyl is up for reelection. Or even 2016, when McCain is 80 and Janet Napolitano only has a year left in Homeland Security (providing she stays on after 2012 with the Administration).
There will be news by next week in this race that I can’t disclose yet, but it’s exiting stuff.
From yesterday (Thursday, 23 July 2009)’s Politics1 news summary:
OHIO. Former US Senator Mike DeWine (R) announced Wednesday that he will run for Attorney General next year. DeWine – a former two-term US Senator – lost a bid for a reelection in 2006 by a 56-44 margin. DeWine will face Delaware County Prosecutor David Yost in the GOP primary. The winner of the GOP contest will face incumbent Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) in the general election.
Initially I had this guy written off as politically dead when we first started hearing that Kay Hutchison herself was going to challenge him, a guy who only won re-election with 39% in 2006. Early polls confirmed my impressions of the coming primary, but then…something happened. He’s pulled ahead and every poll that comes out shows him putting even more distance between himself and Hutchison and now people are even wondering if she will go through with it and risk a humiliating loss.
Perry has successfully become a national spokesperson for the Republican Party, he’s well on his way to a landslide re-election…anyone else getting 2012 vibes from him? With the rapidly dwindling GOP field, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him start taking steps towards running for president.
Which is a terrifying thought to all rational human beings, of course. And I doubt America would be ready to send another Texas governor to the White House after our last experience. However, it would really solidify the differences between the two parties of our country. One on side you have guys like Perry, and then on the other…you have everyone else.
The guy takes shit loads of money from big energy and votes against the energy bill and then takes shit loads from big healthcare and stalls the healthcare bill.
has New York up now
Had an inflated performance in 2008 because of the most recent batman movie.
My guess is the Republicans will heavily recruit State Del. Rob Bell or State Sen. Robert Hurt.
it appears that Joe Pitts PA-16 has not filed with the FEC, neither has Rep. Cooper of TN-06, is that a sign that they will retire?
Over the summer, I’ve been having a small Terry Gilliam film marathon. So far I’ve watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, and The Fisher King. I loved the latter four, and the first one was hilarious but a little too nuts for me.
The FDP must be stepping things up, I keep getting blasts about Posey. The district incorporates the southeast end of the I-4 corridor, so I can picture the value in stepping things up in the region other than Posey’s general vulnerability. The only challenger I’ve heard of is Heather Beaven, and I’m curious who else might be up.
As in, time to throw in the towel, or do we wait a week past labor day?
UGH.
Cannot wait for three months from now when Clark is killing it fundraising wise. I dont think Ive ever been so excited for a candidate! I cant wait to harass my cousin from St. Cloud about voting for her. She voted Kerry but volunteered on the Bachmann campaign in 06 because she was great on nursing or something… (Im sure my cousin met her, said Im going to school to be a nurse and then got an ear full of bullshit.) I didnt bother in 08 to harass everyone for Tink at our last family camping trip but I most certainly will be this year, especially since she represents so many of them in the state senate as is. (My family is entirely from the St. Cloud area, my parents met in high school so almost my entire extended family lives in CD6.)
God I hope she turns Bachmann into a Musgrave. I cant help but have a grin over this race, or maybe that’s just my buzz 😉
Clark’s senate website is really piss poor and I wanted to email and give her some encouragement, she better lock that shit up as a Congressional candidate.
Did FBI raid your house too?
Man I wish I lived in this district, but I’m still pretty hopeful about Anthony Woods’ chances for pulling off an upset over that schmuck Garamendi and the lackluster Buchanan and DeSaulnier in CA-10’s special election.
Beyond that, I want David “Diaper” Vitter out of the Senate, and if Charlie Melancon can do it, I will forgive him for being a jerk about healthcare.
We’re going to need boots on the ground in southeast Iowa before the September 1 special election in Iowa House district 90. This will give us the first hint of how well the GOP message of “cut spending and discriminate against gays” will play in the Iowa statehouse races next year.
It’s been 8 months since the election, and McCain is already set up to run for reelection next year, instead of retiring as I predicted. While there has been chatter about running a primary opponent against him, this is not turning into an Arlen Specter like situation for John McCain.
The best hope is whoever is the Democratic candidate, he or she will be able to prevent John McCain from winning the ridiculous landslides he’s received from the electorate before. If McCain’s vote goes under 60% this time around, I’ll be happy.
The real race is in 2012, when Jon Kyl is up for reelection. Or even 2016, when McCain is 80 and Janet Napolitano only has a year left in Homeland Security (providing she stays on after 2012 with the Administration).
There will be news by next week in this race that I can’t disclose yet, but it’s exiting stuff.
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you’d just be
One more person crying.
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn’t talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer’s pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only.
What manga have you been reading?
/me, despite watching a few animé shows, still shows little interest in manga for some reason
From yesterday (Thursday, 23 July 2009)’s Politics1 news summary:
Wait…that’s not this guy, is it?
The Gradaute, been thinking of that movie, love this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Initially I had this guy written off as politically dead when we first started hearing that Kay Hutchison herself was going to challenge him, a guy who only won re-election with 39% in 2006. Early polls confirmed my impressions of the coming primary, but then…something happened. He’s pulled ahead and every poll that comes out shows him putting even more distance between himself and Hutchison and now people are even wondering if she will go through with it and risk a humiliating loss.
Perry has successfully become a national spokesperson for the Republican Party, he’s well on his way to a landslide re-election…anyone else getting 2012 vibes from him? With the rapidly dwindling GOP field, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him start taking steps towards running for president.
Which is a terrifying thought to all rational human beings, of course. And I doubt America would be ready to send another Texas governor to the White House after our last experience. However, it would really solidify the differences between the two parties of our country. One on side you have guys like Perry, and then on the other…you have everyone else.
The guy takes shit loads of money from big energy and votes against the energy bill and then takes shit loads from big healthcare and stalls the healthcare bill.
has New York up now
Had an inflated performance in 2008 because of the most recent batman movie.
Not sure if this counts as a SSP race. But there are some really freaking funny candidates.
These are not Ron Paul crazies, it’s a totally different level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
In trying to post my latest diary I get
Java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value: ‘xCExBE.
It looks fine in preview, and it posted with no problem over at Daily Kos.
Any idea what’s happening?
Virgil Goode will not run in 2010.
My guess is the Republicans will heavily recruit State Del. Rob Bell or State Sen. Robert Hurt.
it appears that Joe Pitts PA-16 has not filed with the FEC, neither has Rep. Cooper of TN-06, is that a sign that they will retire?
Over the summer, I’ve been having a small Terry Gilliam film marathon. So far I’ve watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, and The Fisher King. I loved the latter four, and the first one was hilarious but a little too nuts for me.
Any other Gilliam fans residing in SSP?