http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/14046300.htm
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How did he do that?! Is there no morality in Houston?!
People sympathize with him because he’s the victim of a leftist plot, donchano.
Apparently not. But then, this is Texas, the state that gave us Bush.
Gotta love Texas Politics. Even NJ usually tosses out the politicians that get caught. Does Nick Lampson have a chance of beating him?
Jim
Most of DeLay’s district is outside of Houston, so you are largely blaming the wrong folks. To quote from Tom’s own website:
*"The 22nd Congressional District of Texas is comprised of parts of four counties along the gulf coast – Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris – and is home to more than 651,000 people.
The district stretches along the outskirts of Houston into some of Texas’s most prosperous suburbs…District 22 is one of the most culturally and historically diverse areas in the nation and the State of Texas. The district is both the birthplace of Texas history and the engine of her future. Its constituents would hasten to add, of course, that Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris Counties are home to some of the kindest and most patriotic* men, women, and children in the United States of America."*
And to be sure, some of the biggest dumb-asses in the United States of America.
Maybe Nick Lampson will beat him in the general election, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that.
*Doubtful, since I don’t live there anymore.
No, people are stupid. That’s the Razor explanation.
How is it immoral to vote for Tom Delay?
What else could it be, to choose DeLay over three other Republicans more or less untainted by scandal?
And it’s not even an “opposition-splitting” problem. DeLay got 64%!
Interesting choice of words. You seem, by them, either to accept as a given that Delay is guilty of the crimes alleged against him, or to believe that even an untrue allegation is enough to deny him re-election.
Which is it? Or is there another option I didn’t consider?
He certainly has the liberal Dem from Saint Paul, MN vote going for him. He’s such an albatross around the neck of the Republican party right now, that I’m hoping for a decapitation.
Weeell, there is the small difference between the presumption of innocence in sending some one to jail and that same presumption in sending them to Congress.
What David said.
Look, this is pretty simple. Delay has huge clout and huge seniority, and he brings home the bacon to the home district. Why would any Republican want to change that out for an unknown with no seniority?
It’ll be more interesting when he goes up against Lampson, the Democrat, in November. At this point, Lampson has raised more money than Delay, which is quite an exclamation point in itself. Lampson is mainly handicapped by Delay’s gerrymandering. He lost his previous seat because of it. Some of his old district is now in Delay’s but, surprise, it’s mostly Republican.
BTW, I’m from Houston. My representative is John Culberson, a tool in his own right, but not Delay. Delay is from Sugarland.
My heartfelt apologies to the good people of Houston.
Sure there is.
So answer my question. Do you either accept as a given that Delay is actually guilty of the crimes alleged against him, or believe that even an untrue allegation is enough to deny him re-election?
For my part, the first. At least, the evidence against him (as discussed on this Board and articles linked herein) should be enough to convince any reasonable voter, by a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, that DeLay is an amoral scumbag.
Every so often, one hopes for evidence that the average Republican isn’t a sociopath; that’s why people are expressing dismay. Mind you, I personally expected nothing better of the Texas Republican Party.
One does not need to be certain of something in order to act according to that belief.
Even though that evidence has not been subjected to any reasonable challenge?
In other words, even if you adopt a preponderence of the evidence standard, a trial is the venue for a witness to tell his story and then be cross-examined. Right now, you’ve only heard one side of the story: the claims that his accusers have marshalled. You have not heard those claims tested by a vigorous defense.
And, of course, based on Delay’s politics, you believed him to be an amoral scumbag even before any of these charges came to light… didn’t you?