Christian looks like a good candidate
Just because a process is rigged, doesn’t mean that it can’t produce fine results.
On a related note, wouldn’t everyone’s life would be much easier if we just accepted the fact that Terry Strine and Charles Lamont DuPont Von Copeland are the smartest men in Delaware.
“Christian looks like a good candidate”
She really is. I had the chance to meet her. Top notch. No doubt about it. A real reformer.
How can you have a chance meeting with someone once and know that he or she is “[t]op notch”?
And I’ve heard it from the horse’s ass’s mouth/anus that Prince Still and Faux King Mayor Schaefer are way smarterer than “Hey, I’m a Dupont” Copeland and “Everyone can suck my dick” Strine.
Take a breath Dave. I said “good candidate” You’ve made it a horse race – that’s all for now.
It wasn’t a chance meeting. Her committee wanted to talk to me because people really think I had something to do with winning the last special election.
So I met her, and I talked to her, and she really impressed me. Which is kinda hard to do.
Dave, you are such a dick.
Hey, Wyatt. Call John Atkins. He agrees with you.
And is it over the top for me to point out that “Wyatt” displayed his eloquence during the same ten-minute window that a certain someone was commenting on other threads on this fine site…?
…and Dave’s admirers continue to emerge.
Router problems.
The sad part is John Feroce is resigning his two posts in the Colonial Region.
For once, in recent times, you and I agree. That is the sad part. I was, and still am, disappointed to see his resignations (one from Colonial the other from a non-regional organization). I believe I understand why, but from my viewpoint, of course.
Clarification…
For once, in recent times, you and I agree. That is the sad part.
You and I agreeing is not the sad part, although some may think it is. 🙂
I am agreeing that him resigning is the sad part.
I hereby retract my incredulity expressed in comment #2 that Dave could make a snap judgment about Christian and be correct. After having thought about it for a day, I recalled my first, brief meeting with ‘Prince’ John Still, and remembered thinking, “What a complete rectal probe.” It turns out I was absolutly right.
Sorry, Dave, I concede that you are allowed an opinion after ten brief minutes with someone.
The GOP in Delaware is slowly imploding and not because the Democrats are exceptional at what they do. When a guy like John Feroce resigns you lose a worker and an organizer who has the desire to perform in tough situations. The GOP can not afford to lose anyone in any capacity.
Ms. Christian’s candidacy will be a referendum on her and Mr. Ennis but also a refernedum on the GOP and its inner workings. The stakes are very high for the GOP and the outcome will speak volumes.
Sounds like Mike wants us to lose…
I will say that the State GOP has a knack for seriously pissing off anyone who wants to put in the considerable effort to run for office. The end result has been not only losing the candidate, but also losing the vote and the voter registration.
It looks like things were heavily influenced for a while by the Still-Brady-Wagner-Schaeffer team. When that turned into an apparent self-defeating contest (i.e., Brady saying “you can do my party in the ass if you give me a judgeship”) to screw as many people as possible, the New Castle segment again seized control. We seem to be observers of a Stalinesque purge of party members thought too close to Still (you can tell by the skid marks). However, in doing so, the ‘heavy-lifters’ are switching to Dems.
Dave,
We are losing and simply because I report what the voters have said in repeated elections doesn’t mean I caused it or like it. I am hoping we can reverse the course we are on.
I had a long talk with a Computer person today on integrating our videos on issues which are coming out and how to make them the most appealing. We talked and settled on a good plan and then she asked, “Mike, when is the Republican party going to get its act together stop nominating the same old people who don’t win?” She is a Sussex County citizen who wants to vote GOP but can’t find a reason to do so.
As I said to the Sussex GOP people in June if you track the gradual decline of the GOP in the state and track the decline of the state in the same time period (10-15 years) it is remarkable.
Take another look at my comments please. This special election will have implications beyond those at the ballot box.
The National GOP was saved from irrelevance when Barry Goldwater dared to make an issue of issues.
The ‘Eastern Establishment’ retreated to their cushy clubs and abandoned their nominee but a generation of activists was created. They licked their wounds and finally got their act together after four years of Carter.
A political party can be held together by venality alone, as witness the fun and games in New Castle County. The motivating force is not ideology but a choice spot at the public trough.
An unholy alliance between the two opponents at Chigago ’68 has borne some fruit. The big city bosses engorge themselves on graft and patronage and the radicals push their culture cracking agenda.
Inertia and blandness are not the way to win hearts and minds or elections.
Where is the beef?