Jackson Free Press

The Washington Post is reacting to Travis Childers' victory tonight in Mississippi 1st Congressional District—historically a conservative Republican stronghold:

House Democrats won a conservative northern Mississippi House seat in a special election tonight, a victory certain to send shock waves through the ranks of congressional GOPers. The Associated Press called the race for Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers (D), shortly after 10 p.m. eastern time. With 81 percent of precincts reporting, Childers held a 51 to 49 percent edge over Southhaven Mayor Greg Davis (R).

The victory marked the third time this election cycle that Democrats have won a Republican-held seat in a special election and seemed to suggest that the national political atmosphere could significantly broaden the House playing field in the fall.

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Hopefully this is the beginning or the furthering of the end for the most amoral and corrupt party of all times. This so called party of conservatives and honorable people were supposed to restore honor and integrity to government. With Gingrich, Delay, Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Chucky Rove and the likes involved and running things, I'm personally surprised anyone with any sense ever believed this group would do anything concerning honor and integroty but destroy it. They have made even Nixon look minimal and okay by their standards.

Walt

May 14 2008

I've yet to see any "compassionate conservatism" from that side of the aisle.

golden eagle

May 14 2008

I'll take "fiscal conservatism" if that's what's needed to balance the budget, quit spending millions on an unjust war and get our troops home.

Jeff Lucas

May 14 2008

amen to that, jeff! I know of many fiscal conservatives who say that the fundamentalist conservatives - too often hipocrites - have hijacked their party and they want it back. A couple of these repubs actually are voting for Obama this time cause they hate the war and the wasteful spending so much.

Izzy

May 14 2008

And it's interesting to see the national play that it's getting. I just heard it mentioned on the Daily Show. I don't really align myself with either party, but I must say I was glad to see that, especially after the campaign crap.

bill_jackson

May 14 2008

Yeah, I don't align with Democrats, either, but I love seeing the rotten Republican cabal of late broken up.

DonnaLadd

May 14 2008

Now if only we could get open primaries like in Louisiana we could really do something

bill_jackson

May 14 2008

For which types of elections? Not all of them in Louisiana are open. This is the first presidential election to happen since I moved from MS to LA and I hadn't realized until our primary rolled around that it is closed. Since I'm registered unaffiliated, I was not invited to the party, so to speak. Congressional primaries here are rather odd in that unaffiliated voters can vote in the Democratic primaries but only Republicans can vote in theirs (at least that's the way it went down in the primaries to replace Jindal after he was elected governor, not sure if that was something different because of a special election). I do believe that state and local elections are simply 'open', however.

dvc

May 14 2008

I proudly align myself with Democrats after fully realizing what republicans clearly are at this point - one of, if not the worst, thorn and abomination this country and the world has ever seen. If Democrats don't save this country from the low-life dogs Republicans of present, we're doomed for great failure and disaster. The handwriting is clearly on the wall. The country led by republicans has surely gone crazy. Creating bombs that leaves building but kill innocent babies and old folks. False prophets(republican leaders, supporters and their hired or on the take preachers) are preaching lies to the few and many. "Even the changes of the seasons bring disaster and destruction for a reason." I for one will always call them what they clearly are now. I blame all of them not just Bush and Cheney or this administration as some would have us to believe for the situation we're in. In my considerate view, republicans haven't shown themselves to be decent human beings since before Nixon, yet they enjoy a good reputation that is undeserved largely due to a bought off press or media and their friends, supporters and relatives reporting the news on their behalf. The hard cold facts of their existence tell a different story entirely than the one usually told as the gospel concerning them. Those so-called lofty principles involving government for which they supposedly stand have alway been nothing more than pretense or a front to shield from view their true beliefs or interests. I prefer to judge people and organizations by what you do rather than what they say they believe. Bush and Cheney and the rest have shown us what a true republican is. Both sides have rested and the jury has deliberated and given the verdict. It's pay up time now. And the truth of the matter is that the Democratic party has never done anything at any time that warrants an equal comparison or consideration with the republican party of the present time. Clinton's indiscretions as president could never compare to this administration's or the republican party's indiscretions immediately before him. Yet so many people prefer to say the Democratic party is like the republican party. In my view, nothing is like the republican party of the present time therefore it's unfair to try and make an equal comparison at this time. However, and finally, I have a dream of one day seeing a revamped republican party made up of decent people and real humanistic and governmental goals. I hope I live long enough to see it.

Walt

May 15 2008

Hopefully this is the beginning or the furthering of the end for the most amoral and corrupt party of all times. Where does the Republican Party stand in relation to the Nazi Party or the Communist Party?

QB

May 15 2008

Close by in the eyes of many.

Walt

May 15 2008

I don't like Republicans much, but I wouldn't go that extreme to compare them with the Nazis.

golden eagle

May 15 2008

It is interesting that Bush gave a speech in Israel today comparing Obama to a Nazi appeaser prior to World War II because he advocates that we should have diplomatic discussions with beliggerants such as Iran when the Bush administration began to normalize relations with Lybia which had acknowledged that its agents participated in downing a civilian jet liner a few years ago. It resulted in Lybia peacefully dropping its nuclear plans. O.K. When I do it its diplomacy, but if you talk to a country labeled as terrorist you are terrorist/Nazi type appeaser? These are tried and true tactics recently detailed in Newsweek: Divide and Conquer: http://www.newsweek.com/id/33009?tid=relatedcl

FreeClif

May 15 2008

Considering how Bush's badly planned Iraq misadventure has done more to create new Islamic terrorists who would love to kill us all, I think he would do well to STFU about the subject.

Jeff Lucas

May 15 2008

Close by in the eyes of many. Thank you for your honesty.

QB

May 15 2008

Comparing the Republicans to Nazis or Communists is farfetched. They have not openly advocated genocide ala HItler and Stalin (as far as I know --- as Hillary Clinton might say). They were the party that black people often voted with until the sixties when the script was flipped and the Democrats sided with Civil Rights and the Republicans decided to go with Nixon's southern divide and conquer strategy. The big shift away from Republicans began with FDR.

FreeClif

May 15 2008

There were some Republicans in 1860's who advocated giving our ancestors a free trip back to Africa. That is not as bad as genocide though. We must give credit where it is due.

FreeClif

May 15 2008

Well Harry asked the stupid question. Why not oblige with the last answer he suspected or desired. He, he. Yet I bet some people in foreign countries would compare the repubs of today to Nazis or Communists. Again I say in the eyes of some they come close or is just as bad. Trying to send us back to Africa isn't as bad as santioning or allowing numerous lynchings and various kind of murders and abuses in my view. Iadmit I was talking about the modern or republican party of the last 40 or so years and not before.

Walt

May 15 2008

I've never found glib comparisions with Nazism particularly accurate or useful in an intelligent discussion of American politics because it's like throwing a live grenade into a crowded room. There are probably mild aspects of nazism and communism present in BOTH parties. But that doesn't mean that either deserves a direct comparison.

Jeff Lucas

May 15 2008

Again, Walt, you made the melodramatic comparison. Hopefully this is the beginning or the furthering of the end for the most amoral and corrupt party of all times.

QB

May 15 2008

Fat Harry your party still might be the most amoral and corrupt party of all times. We don't know what it is authorizing thru the CIA or other organizations in the business of destroying people and things in other countries. We all know I was talking about political parties in American politic. However,if you have nothing better to do than bring in those 2 parties then good luck. I hope I provided you some good humor. You certainly have provide me some. Besides your party isn't completely finished yet. Who knows what else it might do before all is said and done. You know like attack Iran needlessly as well.

Walt

May 15 2008

Didn't a few Democrat Presidents use the CIA to "do the business of destoying people and things in other countries"?

BubbaT

May 15 2008

They certainly did Bubba! The Democrats hands are not clean. The campaign to destroy Rev. Martin Luther King by tapping his phones, bugging his hotel rooms and encouraging him to commit suicide was signed off on by Democrats! The Tuskegee experiment continued under Democratic administrations. We continued to coddle the Apartheid regime even while Carter was in office. Rather then sentencing/prison reform under the Clinton's --- the prison industrial complex was greatly bolstered contributing to our current elite status, up there with China and South Africa, of imprisoning a record number of people per capita! There might not be enough broadband space to transmit the transgression under Repub admins though!

FreeClif

May 15 2008

You forgot assassination attempts on Castro and Che Guevara, coups in Vietnam, involvement in Belgium Congo.

BubbaT

May 15 2008

It's easy for the anti-communists to argue that Castro and Guevara deserved it (not that assasination of professed communists is right), but it is hard to argue that about MLK, the Tuskeegee experiment "participants", Nelson Mandela or Kemba Smith (and the many other women like her) who got life in prison without parole bascically because her boyfriend sold crack (but she did not).

FreeClif

May 15 2008