Oh Boy! A bruising Steve Pearce vs. Heather Wilson gubernatorial primary slugfest!
I can hardly wait for 2010! (NOT!) . .
NMPollyTicks
· 1 year ago
Perhaps it is time for the NM Reps to clean house. Allen Weh knows that the proper thing to do is to "fall on his sword" and resign. It is time for cleaning out the loosing strategies of the last few years and get unknown people to be the leadership models. Nationally, as far as the National Repubs are concerned, a pox on there house...let these rats leave.
JoMa
· 1 year ago
Nah, the Repubs are out for good. NM has been run by one party for decades - just like most other third-world states. That's one reason why we rank so high in everything.
Why would a capable conservative who happens to be a Republican waste time or money on this place. What we need are more like Manny Aragon. All Dems know greed is good and the biggest advantage to this victory is not that they can continue to enrich themselves on the backs of the people, but that their chances of getting caught are getting slimmer. That's the only down side I can see as the Repubs cave - now who can the Dems blame? Big business? Hollywood?
Party on!
babyfatt
· 1 year ago
The problem with the R's this year was not that it was a Dem year (economy, etc) it was that the R's continue to run on resentment and fear, and the country is finally sick of negativity and divisiveness. The R's made a deal with the devil when they wedded a big business, small government ideology with religious fundamentalism and the "Southern strategy" (i.e., racism). The old politics of resentment are so 20th century, which doesn't mean the R's won't continue to try and use them--and even win some elections here and there--just that the demographics of the country have changed, and the old culture wars just don't mean much to young people worried about jobs, healthcare, idiotic wars of foreign adventure, etc. Want to know what the R's biggest challenge is (and the Dems' biggest strength)? Just go to a R rally and count the non-white faces (one hand should suffice). Then go to a Dem rally, and see the diversity (not lockstep ideology, not agreement on all the issues, just genuine diversity). That's why the conservative movement died last night. It's disingenuous to suggest that the Dem victory was due to external forces beyond their control (the economy). Dems won because history passed the R's by, and they still haven't noticed (nor have their enablers in the mainstream media).
JoMa
· 1 year ago
I wish I had as much faith in "young people" as you do. What I see is a generation that believes it is automatically entitled to have fun, party on, and receive all the benefits of a great society built by those that came before without shouldering the load.
The Dems won because they spent over $600M on a terrific campaign which ran for what, 22 months? They've promised so many things to so many people, it will be a huge challenge. Do you really think that "genuine diversity" means that there won't be a huge fight among the special interest groups within the party over the spoils? The unions think they should be first in line. MoveOn has already said that they expect to be rewarded because they raised some $80m. People want free health care and believe that should come first. The list is endless.
Just watch how this diverse crowd starts to growl and snap over the carcass that is the "forgotten man" - the taxpayer.
I give it about 2 weeks before the fighting within the party begins in earnest, and about 6 months before the love affair in the media sours. (By the way, the MSM enabled the D's, not the R's.)
You can believe that the 56 million people who did not vote for O are all old white people who can just be ignored, but Obama has sense enough to understand that he has to try to get their respect too, even if you don't.
I'm willing to give him a shot.
babyfatt
· 1 year ago
Of course the Dems are going to fight internally--hey, we're Democrats, that's what we do, but that's not a sign of weakness, as the R's would have it, but a sign of strength (for us Dems, its the R's ongoing litmus tests of ideological purity speak most clearly to their weakness). The MSM was in the tank for McCain the whole way--the maverick, the war hero, blah blah blah (and never focusing on his past associations with terrorists and sleaze ball businessmen, just those of Obama). It was a great victory for working people (yes, including unions, which are the only thing that will save our middle class). It wasn't the Dems who forgot the "taxpayer", it was the corrupt elite that runs the R party.
politicalcouchpotato
· 5 months ago
It will be interesting to see if Torraco runs again. Too bad she is a republican, she would win hands-down if she registered Democrat. Progessive republican verses conservative dem... what's the difference?
cindy403
· 1 month ago
Good for Torraco. I am proud of her run. She took on a lot, she might have lost the election, but she won my support.
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I can hardly wait for 2010! (NOT!)
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Why would a capable conservative who happens to be a Republican waste time or money on this place. What we need are more like Manny Aragon. All Dems know greed is good and the biggest advantage to this victory is not that they can continue to enrich themselves on the backs of the people, but that their chances of getting caught are getting slimmer. That's the only down side I can see as the Repubs cave - now who can the Dems blame? Big business? Hollywood?
Party on!
The Dems won because they spent over $600M on a terrific campaign which ran for what, 22 months? They've promised so many things to so many people, it will be a huge challenge. Do you really think that "genuine diversity" means that there won't be a huge fight among the special interest groups within the party over the spoils? The unions think they should be first in line. MoveOn has already said that they expect to be rewarded because they raised some $80m. People want free health care and believe that should come first. The list is endless.
Just watch how this diverse crowd starts to growl and snap over the carcass that is the "forgotten man" - the taxpayer.
I give it about 2 weeks before the fighting within the party begins in earnest, and about 6 months before the love affair in the media sours. (By the way, the MSM enabled the D's, not the R's.)
You can believe that the 56 million people who did not vote for O are all old white people who can just be ignored, but Obama has sense enough to understand that he has to try to get their respect too, even if you don't.
I'm willing to give him a shot.