tom delay drops out of race...?

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JackStorm

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Originally posted by: loki8481
damn, now the republicans actually have a shot at holding the seat :|

Yeah, that Delay is a clever bastard.

It's good news that he's gone. But who knows what will happen now. This might actually work in the Republicans favor.
 

GroundedSailor

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Originally posted by: loki8481
damn, now the republicans actually have a shot at holding the seat :|

Yup that's a bummer. I was hoping to see him lose the election. That would have really made him untouchable for any political post - appointed or otherwise - for a while.

 

CaptnKirk

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When the people that you employ within your own office are pleading guilty to corruption charges,
and it becomes clear that the office was used him for that purpose, it's inevitable that the other shoe will fall.

Still he intends to drag it out for a few more months, there's still graft money to be accepted
for campaign donations to a crook that intends to milk it for every penney he can grab.
 

conjur

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: tweaker2
i'm still in a mild state of shock to decide whether to be happy for the dems or really sad for the repubs. is this really a good thing for the dems?

whatever happens, it sure is going to be a lot of fun watching the fallout from this.

i find it hard to believe that delay would do this on his own volition. i get the feeling he got heavily pressured into this because this guy is not a quitter.
Well, considering DeLay handily won the GOP primary, his stepping down now *could* be a sign of impending indictments (considering a few of his aides have already been nailed). I think that would taint the GOP more than a new candidate coming in would help.

BTW,
Report: Delay to Resign From Congress
Texas Republican and former House majority leader announces his retirement rather than face a re-election fight that appears increasingly unwinnable. ?Staff and Wire Reports 10:25 p.m. ET

http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Despite his obvious criminal corruption the Republican Puppets of Texas were going to keep him in power. Most likely he is copping Plea deals before his trial so that this is swept under the rug as fast as possible to minimalize damage to the rest of the criminal GOP.

They are smart even with their own that get caught. I give credit where credit is due.
Well, this move may just be related to his legal woes:

Federal Probe Has Edged Closer to Texan
Two Ex-Aides Convicted, Another Also Named in Lobbying Investigation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...cle/2006/04/03/AR2006040302145_pf.html
DeLay has assembled a substantial legal team to fight back, and he has a defense fund -- financed largely by corporations with business before Congress -- that contained more than $600,000 at the end of last year, based on the cumulative record of its receipts and contributions. But contributions to the fund dropped from $318,000 to $181,500 between the third and fourth quarters of 2005.

DeLay also is entitled under federal election rules to convert any or all of the remaining funds from his reelection campaign to his legal expenses, whether or not he resigns, is indicted or loses the election. Election lawyers say one advantage of bowing out of the election now is that the campaign cash can be converted to pay legal bills immediately, instead of being drained in the course of a bid to stay in office.

As of Feb. 15, when his campaign filed its most recent report with the Federal Election Commission, DeLay had $1,295,350 on hand. But that was two weeks before the Texas primary in which DeLay bested three Republican rivals to win renomination, and the pot of money available to him now may be considerably less.

By stepping aside so early in an election year, a lawmaker "wouldn't be spending to be reelected" and could transfer the funds immediately to fend off any federal charges, said lawyer Kenneth A. Gross, a former head of the FEC's enforcement division. The last lawmaker to gain the FEC's formal approval for such a transfer was Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), who resigned last November after pleading guilty to evading taxes and accepting bribes.
 

shira

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Just wanted to provide a couple of Zendari's gems on Delay from Zendari's "There?s no leadership race" thread: Zendari thread
All the people with sense realize that Delay will be back into his ML spot soon enough.

Delay will be back in action and reinstated, and the Democrats will start crying again.

After all, when Delay is concerned, U Can't Touch This! :laugh:

And then, of course, there was the infamous "It's Hammer time" as the thread subtitle (now judiciously removed).

By way of comparison, here is some restrained verbiage in the same thread - responding to Zendari - from us clueless liberals:

But the beauty - the irony - is that his career is officially over, starting today [edit: 5/27/05]. Maybe "in fact" that's not yet true. But he's a dead man walking.

Good riddance, slime ball.

. . . you're mistaking being labeled a slime ball with being presumed guilty. My statement was that even if Tom DeLay is found NOT guilty, we all already know he's a slime ball. And I also wrote that because he's now officially going to trial - sometime late in the spring (Thank You, Jesus!) - his political career is effectively over. Even you know those statements are true.

Praise the lord and pass skunk repellant.

Come on, Zendari, make some more predictions.
 

Todd33

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I just heard the sound bite of Delay, he blamed the whole thing on the "liberal media", what planet does this guy live on and does anyone beleive him? Is there one conservative on these forums who can defend him and his case against the liberal media?
 

BaliBabyDoc

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I thought about a "tribute" thread to DeLying but why bother with that turd.

Unfortunately, DeLay's exit from Congress came three years too late. DeLay was one of the chief architects of the Federal Bankruptcy Act of 2003 aka Medicare Modernization. His chicanery was pivotal in the passage of that garbage. It's a shame we cannot expunge that law along with this tool.
 

Darkhawk28

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Originally posted by: Todd33
I just heard the sound bite of Delay, he blamed the whole thing on the "liberal media", what planet does this guy live on and does anyone beleive him? Is there one conservative on these forums who can defend him and his case against the liberal media?

He also said he wanted "to spare his constituents an ugly 7-month campaign" and that he didn't want to endure the "Michael Moore's and Barbara Streisand's coming to Texas for his liberal democrat opponent."

What an idiot and the bigger idiots are his followers.
 

conjur

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And with his plans to move to Virginia, can he even do that since he's under indictment in Texas?
 

techs

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AS to why he dropped out now, after winning the primary, I wonder if he wanted the GOP bigwigs(including himself) to pick the replacement candidate instead of the citizens?
 

conjur

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Originally posted by: techs
AS to why he dropped out now, after winning the primary, I wonder if he wanted the GOP bigwigs(including himself) to pick the replacement candidate instead of the citizens?
Democracy? Whuzzat?
 

catnap1972

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Originally posted by: conjur
And with his plans to move to Virginia, can he even do that since he's under indictment in Texas?

Maybe he's planning to move in with his lover (P)Rick Santorum :D
 

BaliBabyDoc

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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: techs
AS to why he dropped out now, after winning the primary, I wonder if he wanted the GOP bigwigs(including himself) to pick the replacement candidate instead of the citizens?
Democracy? Whuzzat?

I can guarantee that will NOT sit well with voters in the district. DeLay partisans are trying to paint a picture of him falling on his sword but there's essentially nothing honorable about his departure. DeLay's district voted 64% for President Doofus but only 55% for him in 2004 and that was BEFORE the scandals. Further, Lampson is a much stronger candidate than DeLay's opposition in 2004. DeLay realized the odds were against him so he cut and ran.

He's moving to VA due to TX law about the ballot. If he leaves the state, dies, or is indicted . . . his name will be removed from the ballot. Two out of three ain't bad . . . but DeLay is still hoping he won't be indicted. He will need every penny of graft in his "legal defense fund." Granted, even after indictment (and likely conviction) he will still collect a ridiculous pension . . . just like his kindred spirit Randy Cunningham.
 
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Maybe his day-glo orange jumpsuit will help his political career. What a frog-eyed jackass he is. Enemy of the environment, ego the size of Alaska. Some parting quotes from a vile piece of maggot excrement.
It's never been proven that air toxics [sic] are hazardous to people.
From the Houston Chronicle [1990 October 27]

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
- 1999

have seen these liberal psychologists and sociologists talk about there is no need for the man in the family. The woman can't take care of it. A woman can't take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability.
On the role of women in the home. ~ From a radio interview. His wife, Christine DeLay quickly asked to "edit this out," then turned to Tom and said: "This is not a good thing for you to be saying."


And last but not least:
So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself.
On why he and Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam war ~ At the 1988 GOP convention


rubber hammer
 

CaptnKirk

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Whine . . .

"It's the Democrats fault that Tom DeLay and the Republicans are corrupt"

Whimper . . .
 

strummer

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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: tweaker2
i'm still in a mild state of shock to decide whether to be happy for the dems or really sad for the repubs. is this really a good thing for the dems?

whatever happens, it sure is going to be a lot of fun watching the fallout from this.

i find it hard to believe that delay would do this on his own volition. i get the feeling he got heavily pressured into this because this guy is not a quitter.
Well, considering DeLay handily won the GOP primary, his stepping down now *could* be a sign of impending indictments (considering a few of his aides have already been nailed). I think that would taint the GOP more than a new candidate coming in would help.

BTW,
Report: Delay to Resign From Congress
Texas Republican and former House majority leader announces his retirement rather than face a re-election fight that appears increasingly unwinnable. ?Staff and Wire Reports 10:25 p.m. ET

http://www.washingtonpost.com/



I think you're right. This is one of 2 things. First, Delay could be getting indicted in the near future in connection to Abramoff. Second, there may be internal polling showing how much Delay hurts the GOP nationwide. It is probably a combination of both.

I don't think he would've backed out of the upcoming election if it was just his seat in question, or in play. He probably would've gone to the mats with the whole persecuted Christian and victim playbook. He has been playing it for months now, and he seems to like the role.

The GOP will try to distance themselves from him, but it is not going to work here. Delay's tenacles are too deeply imbeded in the GOP Congress. They are corrupt and Delay was their corrupt moneyman.

In less the mood of the country changes appreciably in the next 4 or 5 months, there is going to be a tidal wave of new Democratic congress people. I will go on to predict that the contenders that are veterans of BushCo's Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) will be wildly successful. When they get out on the campaign trail after labor day Americans are really going to focus on Iraq, and that is bad news for the GOP. There isn't enough campaign money in the world for the GOP to successfully spin the Iraq fiasco.

 

Gand1

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I'm just hoping he will be in jail before he can start this crap....

Quote from Time magazine article/

vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government.
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
Originally posted by: Todd33
I just heard the sound bite of Delay, he blamed the whole thing on the "liberal media", what planet does this guy live on and does anyone beleive him? Is there one conservative on these forums who can defend him and his case against the liberal media?
He also said he wanted "to spare his constituents an ugly 7-month campaign" and that he didn't want to endure the "Michael Moore's and Barbara Streisand's coming to Texas for his liberal democrat opponent."

What an idiot and the bigger idiots are his followers.

OMFG Yes, I'd like to see any of the resident Republicans defend this especially since they have been winning total control using such said "Liberal Media" as well as not only suviving the Michael Moore's and Barbara Streisand's of the Democrats but destroying them.
 

magomago

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Well he is out...but what is to say that two or three years later he won't surface as a government lobbyist. I fear just because he resigned doesn't mean that his influence is elminated. Maybe in the short term...but the longterm it may hurt us more.

We need to have the option to exile people to some random Island in the middle of the Pacific or Atlantic.
 

DealMonkey

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Originally posted by: alchemize
Good riddance. Maybe Swimmer will go next to balance the Force.

I wouldn't mind that, however if you remember, "balancing the force" in the SW universe always seemed to mean the slaughter of the jedi (good guys) and the rise of the sith (bad guys). And thus I question your statement. ;)