newsobserver.com projects - Chris Cillizza - Comments

Re: Christensen, Leslie make Fix's cut

bniolet — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:48:18 -0400

HA, PoliticalJunkie.

Niolet

PoliticalJunkie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:56:39 -0400

You was robbed. Robbed.

Re: Christensen, Leslie make Fix's cut

AgentPierce — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:10:22 -0400

... "Dome knows him as the human encyclopedia who often saves us from having to look it up." .....
****************

The rest of us "know Rob Christensen" as a totally predictable Edwards apologist - Helms hater - and general Liberal sycophant.

Re: A superlative election for Edwards

captainjack — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:52:59 -0400

I think all the nominees are special in their own way and it's difficult to pick a winner. But you have got to stick with your own hometown hero.

Re: A superlative election for Edwards

Russell123 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:05:44 -0400

Edwards broke the number one rule in marital code.

Ensign did as well, but also violated the number one rule in "bro code", you just don't do both and get away with it.

Re: A superlative election for Edwards

annerussell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:30:59 -0400

gosh, a tough choice, but I'd have to go with Edwards, as he is the only one who has denied his own child and paid off someone to claim false paternity. bad bad bad.

Re: Quick Hits

BitterEXdemocrat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:22:15 -0400

Its time to launch an investigation into the Golden Leaf and Dan Gerlach also! THEREs where you will find trouble!

Re: Eight Ball: Cooper's decision

Gosh — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:24:56 -0400

I feel your pain domewatcher. I was among the first of my peers to prognosticate Bush in 2004 despite public polling.

If I may be so bold as to offer analysis of what happened, this is almost more Dole's fault than Burr's.

Every state has and needs a Star Senator and a Wonk Senator. The Star's job is to raise money, win, and protect the wonk that actually does stuff. Our Star Dole lost, and in the minority aftermath, Burr not only didn't shine as a star but said no a lot to wonk stuff that would make him more effective in order to fill Dole's void. Burr trying to be it all to everybody is equivalent to Burr doing nothing, or everything half-bottomed.

Burr was still learning to be a Junior Senator when his safety net Dole got tossed by 10 points.

Now he's less than nothing, and bad at even that as his first "public outing" to raise his profile this week proves. Burr's neither a star nor a wonk and solidly outclassed by even more Junior members now that he's in the minority.

All partisanship aside, Burr contributes nothing to North Carolina now, and it's not his fault entirely. He just can't. He's already lost. Blame Dole, McCain, Palin, whomever you like. The guy just has no independent presence to break free from the stigma of his own party's failures. Burr was recruited by Karl Rove for a reason, and that reason for existence is long gone.

Burr, on his own, simply can't please the wingnuts and mainstream constituents at the same time, and he's ham-handedly trying to do both without Bush and Rove to guide him anymore. You have to remember this empty suit was a proud 96 percenter voting for Bush's agenda, including the bank bailout, before the bottom of his ideology bailed out.

What the remaining DC Republicans need to determine is if Burr's worth spending $20, $30, $40 million or more to prop up and even make it a close race even though he's still a goner. For the history books, they passed on Hayes and were right.

Still, it's a hard decision to make since the GOP has scant places left to go or spend money. So I still predict NC to be the hottest, most expensive Senate race in America in 2010. But only because the GOP giving up and going home is no longer an option. Homeless parties have no place left to go.

As for all the Big Drug, Big Insurance, Big Oil and Big Globalist interests that normally fund campaigns against the grain of voters, they seriously need to start considering who's going to actually be writing legislation in the future, not just who they wish would.

Burr will never be more popular in NC than the percent of voters happy about CAFTA. End of story. See Elizabeth Dole and Robin Hayes for details.

Re: Eight Ball: Cooper's decision

domewatcher — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:03:35 -0400

Cassius:

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

[Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)]

These words uttered by Cassius Clay seem to describe Sen. Burr. I fear, for the first time, that I must agree with GOSH. It seems that the stars are aligned for Sen. Burr to lose his seat to either Roy Cooper or Alice Cooper or D.B. Cooper.

If I find myself continuing to agree with GOSH I will change sinus medication.

Re: Eight Ball: Cooper's decision

lpetrou — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:51:13 -0400

Instead of running for U.S. Senate, AG Cooper ought to be investigating corruption in NC. Why is it that only Feds investigate corruption here in the state; remember Jim Black? Are we not paying Cooper to do that? Now we hear about another Federal investigation of Easley and auto dealers. What's the story with that?

Re: Eight Ball: Cooper's decision

BitterEXdemocrat — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:45:43 -0400

the reasons Cooper may be polling well is because of the recent democrat
sweep, and rampant citizen IGNORANCE that is standard in NC.

Re: Eight Ball: Cooper's decision

Gosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:33:33 -0400

Burr already has an opponent.

It's Senator Richard Burr, and I for one love his work.

Re: Washington Post: N.C. for McCain

shri123 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:10:58 -0400

hello dear i read your comment but i don't have knowlege about it but dear i tell you one thing barrack obama is a great person i like his persnailty i think he will handle all the world thanx

wyoming drug rehab-wyoming drug rehab

Re: Towns: DSCC ran best campaign

greenswamp — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:26:00 -0500

All you have to do is google Leroy Towns to discern the credibility of that statement. A dyed-in-the-wool partisan like Towns is never going to give the opposition candidate any credit.

Re: Towns: DSCC ran best campaign

CarltonHuffman — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:35:53 -0500

Amen to Mr. Towns. Hagan hardly ran any positive commercials and was simply bankrolled by Chucky Schumer's millions running down Elizabeth Dole. Dole didn't do herself many favors but Schumer and The DSC deserve the credit, not Kay Hagan.