Tom DeLay's wife plans to vote against McCain

Christine DeLay - YES!! Tom may be stuck in Republican Party loyalty - but at least someone in the DeLay household is showing some intelligence by taking a position in opposition to continued 'Demopublican' bullsh_t! ~~

Christine is on target. Who cares what Barr's positions are? He is just a vehicle to let Juan McCain know he can't use a Huckabee spoiler to hijack the Republican party. "Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain" means one Obama term will lead to 30 years of CONSERVATIVE Republican control of Congress and the White House - After all, we survived Jimmy Carter.

Good Wine, Sewage, and More Evil Pouring sewage into good wine gives you sewage! Pouring good wine into sewage gives you more sewage! Separating all the rhetoric from the reality, there is hardly a dime’s worth of difference between the performances of the national Democratic and Republican parties. Reviewing the history of both over the past forty years, both represent: 1. Larger and more authoritarian government 2. Unrestrained increases in federal entitlement program spending 3. Complete lack of interest in protecting US borders from Illegal Entry 4. And now, enthusiastic support for a ‘War on Global Warming’ - which is a completely unscientific, and diseconomic ‘red herring’ intended to divert attention and resources away from the U.S. structural problems that these dualism political parties have alone created. Continuing our support another General Election for the ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ will only result in -- MORE EVIL! Christine Delay’s may have just discovered the answer: http://lp.org/ ~~~

Tom DeLay is one of the major reasons the Republican brand is so tarnished these days. But however poor his performance as House Majority Leader, he has made the correct decision in announcing support for John McCain. Now, like President Bush, he has to keep his distance. Oh, and Tom, "hammer" the wife, okay?

Oh, and somehow your paper thinks that her vote is important?? I hate to tell you this, guys, but most of the world has long since forgotten who tom delay is, except that he used to kill bugs for a living!

Serously, who gives a rat's hairy a** about Tom DeLay or anyone associated with him these days? The guy is a 24-karat scumbag and is a perfect example of why the GOP has gotten itself in the mess it's now in. He'd sell his own mother for a pack of cigarettes. So his wife wants to vote for a raving lunatic like Bob Barr? Fine. One of the great things about McCain winning the GOP nomination is that it signals the beginning of a movement by the Republican Party back to the center of the political spectrum and away from the influence of the far right-wing anal-retentive Neaderthals that have dominated it for the past 8 years. For every childish twerp like Ms. DeLay that the GOP loses, we'll pick up three new voters in the middle. So good riddance, you stupid b****.

Before voting for Barr, Ms. DeLay should ask Al Gore, George Bush senior and Jimmy Carter how they feel about the benefits that third-party candidates have for American presidential elections, since they all lost elections because of Ralph Nader, Ross Perot and John Anderson, respectively. If she wants John McCain to lose, then she should go right ahead.

The real danger in the Barr/Root campaign is not to the Republicans, but to the Democrats, and the reason is the "blue" Democrats -- the Blue Dogs and the Blue Collars. Current polling shows 12% of Democrats cannot stomach Obama, and these are primarily the Blues. They likely will not switch to McCain either, but in what will be a contentious election, they won't sit it out either. Come time for the debates, they will be open to the small-government pitch of the Libs. The 8% of Republicans who can't stomach McCain may do the same. That's a 4% spread, and enough to influence an election. But it gets worse for the Democrats. Few Republicans can take the pure-freedom policies of the Libertarians (borders, abortions, drugs, gays, etc) and will not switch. However, these are hot-button issues for Democrats, and ones on which Obama will equivocate. Singe-issue Democrats will defect where as single-issue Republicans won't. Pair this draining of votes with the Nader factor, and it all starts piling up against Obama. And it gets worse. For all his charisma, Obama breaks when discussing the details of policy in a confrontational mode. He will wither during the debates when pitted against well-honed warriors like Barr, McCain and Nader. Obama will finish the job the Libs have started. Enjoy your moment my Democrat friends ... it will be short lived.