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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (8487)	11/8/2006 5:26:35 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224744

Another bright spot:Jimmy Carter's Son Defeated >>Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., coasted to victory Tuesday over Democratic challenger Jack Carter, handily defeating the son of former President Jimmy Carter. Ensign led with 55 percent of the vote to Carter's 41 percent, with most precincts reporting.<<

To: longnshort who wrote (8487)	11/8/2006 6:04:03 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224744

Giuliani or Schwarzenegger in 2008? Some interesting remarks from Fred Barnes: >>THIS ONE IS PRETTY EASY TO EXPLAIN. Unpopular wars trump good economies and everything else. President Truman learned this in 1952, as did President Johnson in 1968. Now, it was President Bush's turn, and since his name wasn't on the ballot, his party took the hit. In Arizona, Republicans dropped two House seats and Republican Senator John Kyl got a mild scare. Kyl, by the way, may be finest and most able senator in Washington. He's certainly in the top five. Already the wails of the IMMIGRATION restrictionists are rising, insisting Republicans lost because they weren't tough on keeping ILLEGAL border-crossers out. Not true. The test was in Arizona, where two of the noisiest border hawks, Representatives J.D. Hayworth and Randy Graf, lost House seats. Graf lost in a seat along the Mexican border, where ILLEGAL immigrants flock. What Americans want is a full-blown solution to the IMMIGRATION crisis. And that will come only when Republicans come together on a "comprehensive" measure that not only secures the border but also provides a way for ILLEGALs in the United States to work their way to citizenship and establishes a temporary worker program. If Republicans don't grab this issue, Democrats will. What happens in a bad Republican year is that good Republican candidates lose. There were many of them: House challengers David McSweeney in Illinois and Van Taylor in Texas, lieutenant governor candidate Luther Strange in Alabama and Tom McClintock in California, and House incumbents Melissa Hart of Pennsylvania, Jim Ryun of Kansas, and Clay Shaw of Florida. But you have to give Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic campaign chief, credit for recruiting an impressive group of candidates, including a few non-liberals like Brad Ellsworth in Indiana and Heath Shuler in North Carolina. The media, however, is exaggerating the number of these unconventional Democrats. They are a handful, and the pattern of moderate and conservative Democrats when they get to Washington is to pipe down. Or, as losing Republican Congressman Chris Chocola said of his victorious opponent Joe Donnelly, they become "Nancy Pelosi." Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, he's sui generis. But he won a landslide victory after moving to the center, while holding onto conservatives by not hiking taxes. Just think if he were eligible for the White House in 2008. Even (some) conservatives would be clamoring for him to run.<<