John Nichols: GOP Gives Up On Beating Any Dem Senators

from The Nation:



GOP Gives Up On Beating Any Dem Senators
posted by John Nichols on 10/16/2008 @ 11:34pm



There was only one Democratic US Senator seeking reelection this year that Republicans seriously suggested they might be able to beat.

Elected in 1996 and reelected 2002 by the narrowest of margins, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu was seen as being vulnerable because so many Democratic voters who had once lived in the city of New Orleans -- Landrieu's base -- had been relocated after the Hurricane Katrina debacle.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee recruited a top challenger, state Treasurer John Kennedy, a former Democrat, and pumped money into his campaign against the incumbent. They attacked Landrieu for "voting with Barack Obama 81 percent of the time." They called her "the most liberal senator in Louisiana history." They tried the social issues. And the war. And, er, they failed.

The NRSC has given up on the race, canceling all of its remaining television advertising buys scheduled from now through the election.

Kennedy is on his own, and out of the running. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/373139/gop_gives_up_on_beating_any_dem_senators

That is, if they can obtain permission to use it. Probably not.




Have you ever heard the sound of disappointment?
It tangles your head like a winter rose.
Comes up eager and shining
And it likes to leave a scar before it goes.

Here comes that sinking feeling
(Can't keep it to myself)

Nobody hurts me like you do.
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You cut into me like a poison dart.
Creep into my sleep at night.
Break into my dreams and tear them apart.

Here comes that sinking feeling.

Have you ever felt the sound of disappointment?
It pounds in your head like hammer blows.
Comes on gentle and smiling.
And it likes to leave a scar...
Here it comes again no.
Here comes that sinking feeling.

Man .... that 'loser' stench is getting stronger and stronger.