Election 2006 Thoughts

Yes Virginia, there was a "Macaca" Allen and you sent him on a shell shocked extended holiday. The votes have been counted and Democrats assume majority in the Senate.

Around town, Coshoctonians handed Joy Padgett a solid whack of reality. It's tough to win a Congressional district when you can't prevail in your hometown. Let's face it, Joy didn't have a chance. Anti Republican sentiment, the "freedom fries" Ney albatross, and bankruptcy questions colored Padgett as another rubber stamp Republican't.

As the national races closed, the pundits began blathering about exit polls and voter motivations. Mostly, they proved themselves as out of touch with typical Americans as Republicans who were given the boot.

One thing I've not heard discussed are the pundits themselves. I can speak from personal experience that windbag, hatemongers like Ann "Mrs. Ed" Coulter, Rush "Oxycontin" Limbaugh, and Bill "Falafael Boy" O'Reilly turned my stomach to anything Republican. Their twisted rhetoric sounded like lap dogs yapping for big daddy Bush's approval and access to the White House doggy door.

In fact, Limbaugh's bellowing and Michael J. Fox nastiness probably tipped the Missouri senate race in favor of the Democrats.

I wonder if anybody, including Karl Rove, learned a lesson.

Ney Sails While Padgett Bails

Say buh-bye to Bob "Freedom Fries" Ney.

Ol' convicted "Freedom Fries" finally decided to step down from his former Congressional seat.

Like a stinking albatross corpse, he hung around Joy Padgett's neck until voter's caught a big whiff of the stench. It's an odor that a truck load of baking soda can't cover up.

Factor in big questions about Padgett's financial disarray, with her questionable, vocal support for Ney until the moment he plead guilty, and you have a recipe for a huge Zack Space poll lead.

As I watched a Joy Padgett commercial this morning, she railed on Space's lack of plan to deal with job loss in the 18th. Job loss that has occurred under Republicans and Ney for twenty years.

In fact, almost everything on which she attacks, could be followed with the phrase "which happened under Bob Ney's twenty year term".