Official 2008 Election Coverage (related to online poker in some way)

[Legislurker]

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With pat robertson endorsing giuliani, it wouldn't be to hard to imagine huckabee as his vp, this seems bad for us?

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I think Pat Robertson's endorsement of Giuliani speaks volumes to the weakening of the Religious Right.

Social conservatives have had THE power within the Republican Party for so long that they EXPECTED the party to follow their dictates. We saw it with UIGEA. Dobson decided to end all online gaming, so FoF (with Harrah's and the NFL) simply told the GOP to do it. Fortunately, social conservatives aren't very pragmamtic. They overreached and got trounced last year. And, they haven't learned. Two KY candidates ran on purely social conservative platforms this year and got crushed. And, next year looks worse (though a lot can change in a year), especially with the congressional elections.

These big government social cons think this power even extends to primary voters, given that Dobson pretty much ordered them to not vote for Giuliani. LOL. However, it's becoming clear that rank-and-file party aren't buying into the big government repressive platform of the social conservatives. That's one reason the party lost so badly last year. So, the social conservatives are scrambling to keep whatever power they can. They're fracturing - Dobson isn't really supporting anyone (he's just against some candidates), Brownback endorsed McCain, Robertson essentially said "screw off Dobson" and endorsed Giuliani, while others endorsed Romney. Meanwhile, the only real social conservative in the race, Baptist minister Gov. Mike Huckabee, can't buy an endorsement from these guys, and he's complaining loudly.

This is good stuff for us. Hopefully this will all lead to a realignment of the GOP. Election losses tend to do that.

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Some 150 Bush administration officials were graduates of Pat Robertson's Regent University, including Monica Goodling, who put on such a lamentable performance before a House inquiry into the firing of nine US attorneys.

Text from the article Ugly posted. Put that together with the Robertson endorsement, Id think some high profile Bushtards will start endorsing him and thinking they will keep their jobs. Heres to getting drunk Nov 08 celebrating the Republicans only getting 35% of the vote. If the article is premium content and anyone wants a CNP let me know, its awful long or Id post it into the thread, definitely a good read.

[TheEngineer]

How sad about the social conservative implosion. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Hey big government prohibitionists: Don't let me click my mouse, lose ALL your (non-Southern) seats in the House! Haha.

[Uglyowl]

By the way next date to look for is December 11th with the Ohio 5 seat up for grabs. Looks to be a close race by all accounts in a historically heavy Republican area.