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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Good News For the GOP
by Rich Galen
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There has been very good news for the GOP over the past few weeks, which has gone unnoticed in the laser focus on the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.

You may have noted a recurring theme in the Popular Press: How the disillusion, disappointment, disenchantment and dissatisfaction among Republican voters with the GOP is likely to lead to the end of the Republican Party as we know it.

The PP looks at the five major candidates in the Republican Presidential race being within 10-or-so percentage points of one another as evidence that Republican voters don't like any of them.

How about this as an alternative theory: ANY of the five will be acceptable to the overwhelming percentage of Republican voters in a race for President against Hillary.

As to that conventional wisdom that Republicans are so unhappy with their lot in life that they will sit on their couches watching the Fox News Channel 24/7 rather than getting out to vote let me present to you the following bits of good news.

Last week there were two special elections for Congress - one in Virginia and one in Ohio. You may remember that Ohio has become the toxic waste dump of Republican politics.

The Thompson campaign (to which I am a paid advisor) rolled through Columbus, Ohio about 10 days ago and Fred Thompson recorded a "get out and vote" video at the behest of the Ohio Republican Party.

We were told that the GOP candidate - in a district which has been in Republican hands since shortly after the Big Bang - was behind by about five percentage points.

Bob Latta came back to win that election keeping the seat in Republican control.

In Virginia, Rob Whitman won the special election in another Republican district. Virginia is not Ohio, but the loss of a US Senate seat and the election of a Democrat for Governor has put Virginia in play in the Presidential contest.

If either race had gone to the Democrat the Popular Press would have used it as a harbinger of bad things to come next November.

Here in Louisiana, Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal won the election for Governor. NPR noted that when Jindal (whose parents were born in India) is sworn in next month he "will become Louisiana's first non-white governor since Reconstruction."

Wait a minute, there Bobalouie. You mean to tell me that a non-White candidate in a Southern state was elected Governor and he was a Republican?

Where's the Time Magazine cover for the "New Face of the Republican Party?" Continued...
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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Dec 20, 2007 - 7:38 PM EST
voter fraud
To Onceamarine:
FRAUDULENT VOTING, BEING AN ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE LAWFULLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT, IS TREASON.
Let's start treating these traitors as traitors, and the politicians who help them the same. In PA, those accesories to treason are known as ED RENDELL AND THE DEMOCRAT-PARTY LEGISLATORS.
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Reply # 2
Date: Dec 20, 2007 - 5:27 PM EST
THE HUCKLEBUCK IS A LIBERAL

.....Except for abortion and gay marriage ...Huckleberry is as Liberal as Hillary ...

.....He believes in man made Global Warming (Kyoto?) ...and he was recently endorsed by the NH NEA who also endorsed Hillary ...

.....McCain, Romney, Giulani and Huckabee are all RINOs, flip/floppers or liars ...

.....McCain supported the Bush Amnesty as did Huckabee and Giulani ...

.....Romney did not support the Constitution of Mass when he allowed judges (in direct violation of the Constitution) to make same sex marriage legal ...

.....There are only two true Conservatives in the race ...Thompson and Hunter .....COLOSSUS
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