Brightening GOP Prospects for the Northeast
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Republican candidates are showing surprising financial strength in Congressional districts held by Democrats in the Northeast that party leaders have singled out as ripe for what could be critical gains in the November election.
Some of the most competitive races are taking shape in the New York metropolitan region.
In the 19th Congressional District, north of New York, the Republican challenger, Nan Hayworth, an ophthalmologist, has amassed about $519,000, slightly more than the roughly $451,000 that the Democratic incumbent, Representative John J. Hall, has in his campaign coffers…
And on it goes. Of course, money doesn’t equal victory – but after having been outspent by the Democrats in 2008, it is telling that the GOP in the Northeast is getting such traction. Remember, the leftist story line is that unless the GOP goes left, we’ll become a regional party of the South. And yet, as the GOP base has tacked further right and started to drag along the GOP leadership, Republican prospects are rising all over…including in the more liberal areas of the country.
Could it be that the left is wrong?
Could it be that the sun rises in the east?
Anyways…
The battle for November is really not even begun and we can expect Democrats to find yet new depths in the political gutter to try and derail conservatism. We won’t win this in a walkover, boys and girls: if we win, it will only be after a very hard, very long fight with determined political opponents.
But, 2010 is still getting more and more fun, all the time…
Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.
14 Responses to “Brightening GOP Prospects for the Northeast”
Caucus of Corruption
Deleted – gross vulgarity.
Does “Scott Brown” ring any bells?
“teabaggers”, “third party”, “infighting”
Good job faux, you have covered all the talking points on this subject.
You are such a good regurgitating talking point useful idiot lemming.
The last few elections have show that the American People are rejecting the looting policies of the left.
As usual, Fox, you’re only telling one part of the story.
You see a lot of Ron Paul signs at Tea Parties, but, in talking to several people carrying them, I’ve discovered that the only thing most supporters know about him is that he is for small government — one of the main thrusts of the Tea Party movement. Congressman Paul is what I would call a Libertarian ideologue, but, at heart, he’s still a politician.
why did the teaparty activists applaude & cheer tancredo’s bizarre comments about civics tests to vote?
are these people unaware of the terrible history in the segregationalist south of denying the right to vote?
or is it the teaparty is itself segregationalist considering fewer than zero blacks or hispanics were at the (for profit)”convention”?
FAUX
the only “teabaggers” I know of are barney frank, and obama & sinclair….get your facts straight.
mitt romney & scott brown show NE voters will elect moderate gop candidates.
So a moderate GOP candidate then:
- opposes Obamacare
- will deny terrorists miranda rights
- supports an across the board tax rate cuts
- advocates a smaller federal government
- opposes more stimulus
If that’s a moderate GOPer, then more power to them.
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or is it the teaparty is itself segregationalist considering fewer than zero blacks or hispanics were at the (for profit)”convention”?
Hmmmm the flip out of the racist card….
seems not many whites were in wrights “church” next to obama when they were screaming hatred and racist comments from the rooftops, and the crowd was wildly cheering mmmmmm?
so obama is a racist by your standards as are you, since you are an obamabot kneepadder?
I didnt realize “wright’s church” was a political party like the teaPARTY.
so answer my question if u dare.
why applaude & cheer tancredo’s bizarre comments?
why invite a tancredo known to be bizarre in the past?
Good idea’s that Congress would rather ignore:
Faced with moribund economy and weighted down with astronomical obligations it cannot make good on, our federal government is slouching toward fiscal disaster. This much is obvious to most observers and politicians alike. The problem is that politicians are loath to do anything about it, because the swamp of federal spending has always been a fertile ground for political fortunes. Paul Ryan’s Roadmap bucks this trend and seeks to reverse our disastrous course with a series of commonsense measures. Here are some of the plan’s highlights:
Allowing those under 55 to invest over one-third of their current Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts, similar to the Thrift Savings Plan available to federal employees;
Placing future Medicare beneficiaries (those currently under 55) into a semi-private programs similar to those currently used by Members of Congress;
Reducing the tax code into two rates: 10% on income up to $100,000 for joint filers and $50,000 for single filers, and 25% on taxable income above these amounts;
Eliminating the alternative minimum and the death tax;
Doing away with taxes on interest, capital gains and dividends;
Replacing the corporate tax—currently the second highest in the industrialized world—with a business consumption tax of 8.5%;
Imposing a 10 year discretionary spending freeze.
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I didnt realize “wright’s church” was a political party like the teaPARTY
Neither are you big “DUMMY”
yet wrights cult was clearly racist!
I addressed retiredspook’s subject about the teaparty.
once again, ur off topic.
A seemingly grassroots organization that’s mounted an online campaign to counter the tea party movement is actually the front end of an elaborate scheme that funnels funds — including sizable labor union contributions — through the offices of a prominent Democratic party lawyer.
A Web site popped up in January dedicated to preventing the tea party’s “radical” and “dangerous” ideas from “gaining legislative traction,” targeting GOP candidates in Illinois for the firing squad.
“This movement is a fad,” proclaims TheTeaPartyIsOver.org, which was established by the American Public Policy Center (APPC), a D.C.-based campaign shop that few people have ever heard of.
But a close look reveals the APPC’s place in a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions into political slush funds for Democratic activists.
Here’s how it works: What appears like a local groundswell is in fact the creation of two men — Craig Varoga and George Rakis, Democratic Party strategists who have set up a number of so-called 527 groups, the non-profit election organizations that hammer on contentious issues (think Swift Boats, for example).
Varoga and Rakis keep a central mailing address in Washington, pulling in soft money contributions from unions and other well-padded sources to engage in what amounts to a legal laundering system. The money — tens of millions of dollars — gets circulated around to different states by the 527s, which pay for TV ads, Internet campaigns and lobbyist salaries, all while keeping the hands of the unions clean — for the most part.
The system helps hide the true sources of funding, giving the appearance of locally bred opposition in states from Oklahoma to New Jersey, or in the case of the Tea Party Web site, in Illinois.
http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2010/02/10/anti-tea-party-web-site-part-scheme-funnel-funds