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Meta Casey/Santorum | 39 comments (39 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Chris is wrong, but what else is new? (4.00 / 4)

Anybody who thinks the last couple of decades worth of losses is due to poll numbers and money is either stupid or willfully blind.

Casey will lose, and he will lose badly. Here's why:

the Republicans have a HIGHLY motivated base, and Santorum as, on the main, been very loyal to their base.
The Republicans fight for keeps. Every dirty trick will be used, both directly and through surrogates.
Casey is, reportedly, a shitty campaigner.
The Dem base is beaten, bruised, insulted and ignored. A sizable portion of them WILL NOT turn up for Casey.
Casey is a wimp. He needed to be BEGGED to run, and would only do so when his connected friends cleared the field for him. This is going to be a bruising contest, and he just doesn't have the stones for it.

Casey will be slaughtered, mark my words, and I will sit here in WI and watch his disembowelment with unconcealed glee. Enough is enough ... and if the backroom corporatist hacks can't let go of their pampered connected princes, then they'll have to lose a few more times before they can be forced out of power. Chris is looking at things through Schrum-colored glasses, and a Shrummy world is a shit brown world.

"Whenever a Voice of Moderation addresses liberals, its sole purpose is to stomp out any real sign of life." - James Wolcott

by Madman in the Marketplace on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 05:00:00 PM EST

Casey losing (4.00 / 3)

I think you're right...I wrote something similar to this in the last week(on some diary-not sure which one) concerning the '06 elections. My main theory was that the dems were/are counting on people voting for anyone(even rethugs fed up with all the shit their party is doing) but a rethug because the public is getting fed up with the direction the country is going in.

I didn't want to be so pessimistic as I started out thinking-almost gleefully and with great optimism- that the dems were going to make significant gains in this mid-election but what I've seen unfolding around the country and the disarray of the dems, no unity and abandoning basically the democratic idealistic platform and their willful ignoring of their base voters-as exampled by running Casey instead of a real democrat-shows that they have no real passion or principals to run on...just chickenshit rethug lite..and that isn't going to get it.

The republican machine even if they don't like their candidate anymore or think he's in trouble still put forth great effort and unity to get behind them unlike the dem party right now. The democratic party(with only a few bright spots here and there-like Hacket who was forced out, Feingold whose not supported by other dems re the Patriotic Act and so on)seems almost hellbent on becoming republican lite. How else to explain so many pro-life dems, war hawks in the dem party, agreeing marriage is between a man/woman only and the list goes on.

Like I said I'd be extremely pleased to be proven wrong and somehow a few true dems get elected who will make a difference in the vote counts but I'm not holding my breath.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 05:51:42 PM EST
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