Looks like Charlie Rangel might get Cantored - Primary

[hal2kilo]

It is sad that even a total dirtbag like Charlie Rangel will still get back into Congress somehow.

That really is the sad thing. It not just a democrat or republican thing. Any of these polititians that get in a protected district with no real opposition election after election get arrogant and assume they have a job for life answerable to no one.

 

[fskimospy]

As if you'd vote against him in the general. Nope, gotta pull the lever for the corrupt dirtbag who was convicted by the House Ethics Committee for tax evasion and other reasons than someone from the other party, eh?

It depends on who he was running against, of course. I have voted for a number of Republicans in my life, although in recent years it's become hard as they have continued to radicalize. I think the last Republican I voted for was Arnold in 2006.

If Rangel were running against a moderate Republican like Arnold I could totally see myself voting for him. If he were running against one of the crazies, no dice. I take corrupt over insane as at least you know the corrupt guy is making rational choices. Not like the people who think the debt ceiling doesn't matter or that cutting spending in a recession makes things better.

 

[glenn1]

That really is the sad thing. It not just a democrat or republican thing. Any of these polititians that get in a protected district with no real opposition election after election get arrogant and assume they have a job for life answerable to no one.

I guess asking Congress and the political parties to police their own is way too much to ask. Democrats should have expelled him after the ethics conviction. It's not like his seat wouldn't have been filled by another Democrat anyway, so the most logical conclusion is that the party tolerates and even expects their members to commit ethics violations, tax evasion, and the other stuff he was found guilty of.

 

[hal2kilo]

I guess asking Congress and the political parties to police their own is way too much to ask. Democrats should have expelled him after the ethics conviction. It's not like his seat wouldn't have been filled by another Democrat anyway, so the most logical conclusion is that the party tolerates and even expects their members to commit ethics violations, tax evasion, and the other stuff he was found guilty of.

Puleeeze. YOU are blind if you don't think there are some people on the R side of the isle that also qualify.

Sometying to do with wearing diapers IDK.

 

[glenn1]

Puleeeze. YOU are blind if you don't think there are some people on the R side of the isle that also qualify.

Sometying to do with wearing diapers IDK.

I would *want* the R side of the aisle to do the same, and if they didn't I would want the home district voters to put the other party in power. Unlike Eskimo I don't have any particular position "litmus tests" which are more important to me than whether the guy is a crook. If that means the honest opposition guy gets the seat and votes some way I disagree with so be it, whereas to him it's more important that the "stimulus spending" or whatever flow.