Some random thoughts on Jim Walsh's announcement that he won't be running for re-election.
First, Walsh is quoted as saying "it was time to go". He just doesn't feel the way he used to about being in Congress. My guess is his feelings were based on polls that showed that his lame effort to be a "moderate" Republican not only failed to win over the voters who were against him last time, but also cost him the support of most of those who did vote for him in the past.
Second, I think its hilarious that the liberal editorialists at the D&C are falling all over themselves with "praise" for Walsh as he bows out. When did they start to like him? When he started running away from President Bush, in his ill-fated effort to save his seat.
The only Republicans that the D&C (and the NY Times) likes are ex-officeholders or those who are willing to buck the "GOP party line". The libs know that the Republican candidates that go that route, will soon be ex-officeholders.
Bye, bye, Jim. You won't be missed by many Republicans.
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Some of us like moderate Republicans who actually seem to care about their consituents and what those consituents think!
(The same goes for Democrats. I hope the GOP puts up someone decent in my Congressional district to save us from Massa!)
By the way, it's beginning to look like neither of boys we backed in the Presidential race will make it. At least mine was a long shot in the first place.
We'll have a better idea after tomorrow.
McCain/Huckabee? Hmm. I could live with that.
Lee:
I thought Walsh was OK until his "transformation" after his near loss in 2006. After that, every move he made was an attempt to appeal to "so-called" moderates and Democrats by running away from every conservative principle.
The only 'principle" he was left with was trying to preserve his seat. Polls apparently convinced him that it wasn't working.
As far as Huck and Rudy go, at least you will get a cup of coffee out of it! It looks like it would take a miracle for either one of them to come through. Given their backgrounds, I'd say Huck has the better shot at divine intervention.
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