Harry Reid is “on the ropes”
Signs of real Hope and Change from Nevada!
Via the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters.
The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status.
Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.
Reid’s status makes him an icon of the Democratic Party and ties him to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Barack Obama, both of whom are losing ground among centrist and right-leaning voters in the country.
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Wee Weed your self all the way home, harry
I wonder if the distinguished Nevada Congressman is willing to put all his chips into “health care reform” and let it ride.
It seems like an easy campaign for the Republican candidate. Just run on Reid’s record. His comment about ‘smelling the tourists’ comes to mind. It should go over big in Las Vegas about now.
Makes a person want to move to Nevada just to vote against him.
Nevadans-Watch out for the acorns and other nuts.
Harry Reid is “on the ropes” is a good thing-getting him out of the Senate would be helpful.
Harry Reid at at he End of a Rope is the ultimate goal. They ARE coming for us-that is their plan and dozens of Obaminites in government have told us so, thousands of them in Edukation Land and the media. After all we are “Little Eichmanns”.
Revenge is a beautiful thing isn’t it?
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
It’s about time!
I choked on my coffee when I read that he was a “former boxer”. That must have been quite a chick-fight!
If Reid goes down, his defeat will reflect badly on the party that put him into the Senate Majority Leader position.
Methinks I will be making lots of popcorn on Election Night 2010.
It would be the best thing that ever happened to Nevada, and the US!
Let us not forget that the Democrat incumbents will want to keep their seats in 2010, and they will do whatever it takes to keep those seats.
God help the people of Nevada cast this “individual” out of office.
Harry was quick to throw in the towel for our boys in Iraq. I suspect that he will fit to the bitter end to save his own carcass.
Reid’s status makes him an icon of the Democratic Party….my (not so deceiving) eyes waking up saw “icon” as “loon” in the given font.
Still sounds more accurate.
*Harry Reid’s hopes will be Daschled, and that is a good thing; We must work diligently from now to Nov. 2010 to identify the Democrats and Republicans alike to be targeted for removal from office; Only a handful in D.C. can be trusted, with all others simply full-fledged rat bastards espousing nothing but bovine scatology to save their sorry butts come election day; We have the power to fire them all.
This is all part of a trend that looks very good for the Republicans. People say that it would be near impossible for them to get one or both chambers but I think it looks more and more likely every day.
There is nothing worse than being thrown out by your constituency. Couldn’t happen to a more pathetic individual. If he is thrown out he will go home and enjoy the millions he funneled to his son’s family businesses.
Oh yay! One more goodie to put in the “pros” column about Vegas area on my shortlist of places to go to when I flee the Socialist Republic of Kalifornia soon — No fool like Reid in office. Will be watching this one, for sure.
he may even if he is defeated he may still get some reward for his support of the dear leader…he may just become a czar of some sort…
GOOD NEWS: He is on the ropes.
BAD NEWS: We have to keep him there there for 15 another months.
We cannot relax for a moment, if we are going to rid ourselves of these people.
It’s a b*tch when you forget for whom you work. Barring voter registration fraud, or election fraud, his employer will fire him.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
What about all the hotel, restaurant, service industry type people living there? Wouldn’t they vote for him (or another dem) just because??
Danny Tarkanian played point guard for The UNLV Runnin’Rebels on the first UNLV team to be ranked number one. If he can pull this one out, it will be his most important victory. I hope his dad, “Tark the Shark” doesn’t have to chew up too many towels on this one.
He thought he was a mighty oak but he’s just a flimsy Reid.
This is wonderful Sunday news! I read someplace boxer is having problems also in CA. Please people vote these scum bags out in 2010.
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Can’t help it. It’s not about Dem vs Rep. It’s about voters vs the entrenched criminal class of elected weasels. If these weasels want to get re-elected, they will listen to us and there are more conservatives than anything else. We can control both parties without belonging to either.
Go Sarah!!!
I hope this assessment of Reid’s chances is accurate, but if John Murtha could win re-election, any democrat can. Every time I see an article like this my first thought it: time to re-double our efforts. Remember — the Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity.
BTW, here is my current 2012 nightmare: the RINO establishment decides that to win, and not appear right-wing, they must draft Jeb Bush.
2 words:
THANK GOD there’s a possibility he’s outta there.
Hopefully, it will be the first of many in a long line of congressional scum just like him to be removed come 2010.
NO! Michael Steele hear that? NO!
As much as I liked him, I’m not for 2012 Romney either. (Mass. health care.) Nope.
Nevada unemployment 12%
Las Vegas 13%
Obama vilifying the rich fat cat high rollers who go to Vegas.
Hope-n-Change.
Unemployment in Las Vegas is now over 13% You’ve got to wonder how that figure must strike all the SIEU folks there. One would imagine a huge cognitive dissonance – if they have any cognitive abilities left.
With NV unemployment in double digits I guess Vegas folk are actually starting to read in their spare time. Now they can find out for themselves what’s really going on instead of relying on the state media to tell them.
It’s unfortunate that some people have to be forced to start thinking.
Best NEWS I had this AM… Maybe he and MR. DASCHEL could form a consulting business… In LIBDOM, losers are always in great demand…
How could I have forgotten about that! thx.
Those sound bites should be included in every campaign commercial out there!
Unless Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden are real CONSERVATIVES, I don’t care about the Nevada senatorial race. I don’t want another McCain-Specter-Graham RINO in the Senate. The GOP establishment still sucks. No dollars from me, Mr Steele.
You would think that the “moderate” Dimocrats in the Senate would have gotten the idea a few years back that fronting for the Marxist/Leninists that really run the Dimocrat party is “sure fire” way to lose a Senate Seat in a moderate to conservative leaning State like Nevada.
I foresee an general house-cleaning in 2010- that The Chosen One’s super majority will evaporate like snow on a hot skillet.
So does “former boxer” mean that his real name is Harriett Boxer, sister of Barbara Boxer?
You beat me to it, but only because I was at church (or so my story goes).
Seriously, that is the Comment of the Day™
Harry won’t just tap-out that’s for sure. He will need to be choked-out and submitted by the folks in Nevada.
Tommy? Tommy? Tommy? I know his name but….
Of all the Crapweasels in D.C. he ranks wayyyyy up near the top on the all time list.
To bad Gitmo is closing that’s where this total piece of crap belongs.
Isn’t sen. boxer on the ropes as well? I thought I heard something like that.
harry is just so far over his head. he has exceeded the peter principle by at least three steps. door greeter at harrahs was one step beyond his sour puss ability.
I don’t care which party wins Congress…I want to see all incumbents voted out. We need them all gone, arrested, and put somewhere where they cannot harm our country, citizens, and Constitution anymore. They can take the Federal Reserve with them too. I’m sick of the whole lot.
Reid was a fighter? I know they have the heavy weight division, the lightweight division etc., but I had no idea that boxing had a panty-waist division. See…you learn something new every day.
I guess there is hope for a new career for LGM and the rest of the trolls as well.
How about we confine him to Yucca Mountain?
Since when does getting pounded by Alfalfa in a boxing match during an episode of The Little Rascals mark someone as a boxer?
And that line about icon? Do they mean Reid’s an icon because he posed as the husband in the American Gothic painting by Grant Wood? Who writes this nonsense?
The Won has just one year to make elections illegal.
In the battle for his senate seat will we hear Reid say again “This war is lost”? Isn’t there a Kennedy that want’s that seat now? One down, fifty plus to go.
I hope Reid loses, but Lowden is a cheating piece of garbage who shouldn’t be trusted.
maybe reid could fill a job at a vegas hotel cleaning rooms right along side the illegal aliens he loves so much..hope he’s fluent in spanish babel..lol
Good. Knock him out (of the Senate). Just like Daschle.
Boot all of the Socialists/Communists out of Washington, D.C.!
And don’t be fooled, there are plenty of Socialists/Communists masquerading as Republicans. Numero Uno is John (Juan) McCain, followed closely by his good friend Lindsay Graham. Take a close look at Dick Lugar, too. And of course the ladies from Maine.
Looks like ACORN is going to have to come up with more votes then voters again. Voter fraud is going to run rampant in this mid term election. Obama and his Chicago Mob have their work cut out for them. We can only pray for a honest election for a change.
Don’t celebrate yet: it isn’t over. That’s right. Democrats like to leave a year between their most outrageous conduct and the election. Americans are stupid and foolish and will readily re-elect Reid to office. In other words, there’s a long long time between now and Nov 2010, and things will change.
We cannot reject any Republican who has ever compromised in order to stop the Democrats from doing even worse. If Romney is nominated, then we will probably have to vote for him. We could do worse. We have been doing worse for quite some time (the last Republican nominee I would consider better than Romney was the gipper). I do not think Palin will go third party, and unless things change a great deal between now and then I hope she does not, since it would badly split the anti-Obama vote.
HOWEVER, like most posters here I hope Palin gets the Republican nomination and then wins the election.
I’m sure that when Obama barks, SIEU, ACORN, SOROS and the Liberal 527 Groups will all be bussed in with their shiny new signs to howl and bray for Reid. I’ll wait for the election results.
Harry Reid is “on
the ropesdope”They all must be high, Mandatory random drug testing for Congress. Nobody can possibly be that stupid on such a consistent basis.
I took a trip to Huff & Puff land. These people are delusional, they write comments about how 70% of Americans want Obamacare and that the Republican party is dead. The liberal twinged media is not doing them a favor, please MSM keep preaching to the choir. I am not so worried, after what MSNBC did with the 2nd Amendment supporters recently, they are not smart enough to turn anything around. Buh bye, Harry and from what I hear you are taking Boxer with you!! YES!!
Not to be a wetblanket,but people,let’s not count our chickens yet.Sure Dingy and Botox are down in the polls,but just like bad pennies,the worst of the worst keep coming back.
If there is anyone out there who hasn’t read Culture of Corruption yet,do so ASAP,and pass it on.
It’s hard to imagine a more slimy, crooked, and evil person to hold the office of Senator of the United States.
Actually, and unfortunately, it’s not. Mr. Reid has lots of competition for the title.
Getting rid of Harry would be wonderful but that would be a “small” step since he is only “very bad” as compared to Nancy. The only way to get her out of there is to win back the house.
If you factor in the discouraged and the underemployed, Nevada had a 12-month average of 15.2 percent joblessness in the second quarter. McDonald said he suspects the rate is even higher now — perhaps nearly double the stated unemployment rate, and certainly close to 20 percent.
I guess it’s the economy, you “stupid,” “un-American,” “Nazi,” “Mobsters.”
Unless I’m one of his lawyer sons, Harry Reid is one of the last people I would be looking at to create me a job.
It was only a matter of time until the sheep woke up. Let us hope that more voters will see where the bulk of the Democratic party is today.
I live in Nevada, and I’m soooo tired of this guy embarassing me.
Sue Lowden is totally ineffectual as the repub leader but Tarkanian seems impressive.
One way or the other, it’ll be an up-hill battle, because of the money and influence ‘DISMAL’ has.
Listen NEVADA, pound the commercials out on his record, “The war is lost”, “Surge won’t work”, or how about the immigration bill that just would not die. How many times did he bring that POS back to the floor?
And run only one candidate please. Don’t divide the vote, stay focused, counter every claim, with his record…
And don’t forget his PAC, look at where the money goes, and comes from.
No More Harry in 2010…
BrianNY,
Nevada can thank Blowhard Odopey for putting the crimp on that state telling everyone to stay out of Vegas….. lol, what a Dumba$$ and Tommy Boy Reid just let it pass for dear dumbo. These guys are so stupid it baffles my mind. Never, ever have I seen such a group of idiots like this.
Nevadans don’t have the cajones to drop Harry… this is only wishful bluster.
As a conservative Nevadan there is little I had rather see thaN Harry put out to pasture.
But the reality is that he has a war chest brimming with cash, connections in every corner of the state and friends in the ad business who are dying to get some of that money ginning up Harry’s campaign.
Harry has already been grooming his likely replacement little Harry, otherwise known as Rory Reid, ot be his eventual successor, perhaps after the governership.
These stories of Harry’s demise may be a bit premature. The seat in danger may MORE LIKELY be John Ensigns. As much as I wish it were not true.
And from my democrat friends the reason they are not happy with Harry is not that he is too liberal. They are pushing him to be more vocally, radically liberal.
And I know of no serious democrat challenge to his seat.
And with the srength of the SEIU inside clark county and the support of powerful dem groups outside the state, I will go on record right now and say, that we will not have a republican unseat Reid.
I do not mind wishful thinking, as long as it is grounded in reality.
I wonder if the distinguished Nevada Congressman is willing to put all his chips into “health care reform” and let it ride.
Sorry…Senator. No more posting before the first cup of coffee has had time to work.
Drudge Report:
Congressman Herger calls Obama plan ‘threat to democracy’
Gee, Congressman, ya think!?
Where has your head been buried these last few months.
I would love to see Sharron Angle beat Reid.
She lost to Heller in primary by only 400 votes – like him big fiscal and social conservative.
I find it very hard to believe this little nerdy looking dude was ever a “boxer”! REALLY?????
It really doesn’t matter to these people where they stand in the polls.
Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and Obama should have taught us that.
Get ready for Donk voter fraud yet again!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrpcker.com
Thank you for reminding me about Angle.
She is a great person. She lost to Heller, but Heller is arguably the best known and liked of several elected officials in Nevada today, so that loss is not exactly what it might seem to someone not knowledgeable in Nevada politics.
With more statewide exposure Sharron could win.
I do not know what her immediate plans are though. Can you add anything here?
Once we rid our selves of these traitors we have to be for ever vigilant that this never happens again. We will not be able to relax, going back to believing in our so called representatives.
After 2010 elections we need keep going in regards to regaining our government as laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Trim the size of givernment, all areas do away with departments serving no purpose other being a refuge for lazy incompetent bureaucrats…such Dept. Of Education(still can’t find that in the Constitution) and the Commerce Dept. Shed the givernment of these agencies, these employees will be needed in private industry after the rules are change so as to make America a bigger, more economically powerful country than is was in the past. These things we can do, and do for the country, which is the American citizenry.
As bleak as it may appear at times I have great faith in the country to come together, putting the left in position they haven’t seen in 70 plus years.
She has announced her run against him.
Here is Sharron’s web site.
I have volunteered for her since 2006.
Great person. When in the NV Assembly, she was the ONLY member to vote against a tax hike several years ago, and got so much attention that the Governor vetoed it. And it stuck.
Remember, EVERY citizen in the country can donate to her campaign.
All I can say is “Don’t hold your breath just yet.” I don’t trust the socialist Democrat party of ACORN and SEIU lovers along with their illegal alien buddys!
if this cretin is what dems consider an icon, they are without a doubt scraping whale excrement country. typical gutter trash has higher standards than this septic tank dweller.
Fred I live in Vegas
I will look into her campaign.
I really like the picutre of her at her desk with the Reagan pic on it.
And the Bob Beers photo also…
It’s a shame it’s taken the likes of Barack Obama to get people reading the Constitution again.
Hopefully it’s not too little too late.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
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HI PASADENA PHIL #26–I agree with you–the SARAH’CUDA (for POTUS) and JOHN BOLTON (for VP) are my choices. They seem like the only real conservative changes in the 2012 arena.
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I was born in Reno, Nevada, and lived there until the U.S. Army drafted me–I became a Texan after completing military service.
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However, Nevada has changed a lot over the years–it was very conservative in the 1950′s–most men served in WW2, Korea, or were drafted into the Vietnam era Army. Not many minorities were in the state–less than 10 percent Black, Hispanic, or Asian then.
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Nevada is a lot more liberal now–there is a very high percentage of Black and Hispanic residents now.
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Most of them sincerely believe that “democratic” / liberal / socialist / statist / marxist / communist President Barack Obama (PBUH) and his congressional minions will provide them better lives through his INCOME REDISTRIBUTION and TAX THE RICH schemes. The CLASS ENVY message is also working quite well there–they do not believe it will “come home” to them.
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Don’t count your conservative “chickens” yet–STUPID DOES AS STUPID IS! And it is still all the EVIL BOOOOOOSH and RICH REPUBLICANS faults. I know a lot of non-minority people who still like the Messiah and are in denial of what will come home to them soon.
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John Bibb
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“I will go on record right now and say, that we will not have a republican unseat Reid.”
I don’t think I would predict a Republican winning his seat either BUT, if the economy keeps going the way it is and impacting Las Vegas as it has, could be the “power” in SEIU’s power bag will be muted a great deal by the time the election rolls around.
Things are not pretty in Las Vegas.
Now is the time to start searching for details about the various land deals Reid was involved in before he became an important Senator. My recollection is that he was involved in trying to sell, very cheaply, some federal land (bordering Vegas, IIRC), to be converted from a wildlife refuge to tract housing, golf courses, etc. The land selling price was very low. I can;t remember if it happened or not.
Investigate the companies run by his friends. Some of them likely were burned or feel cheated. Also, look into water deals. With low and linking popularity, now is the time for people to talk.
My guess is that with some research, many things will wake up and haunt Reid.
Wish I’d thought of that! Good one!
Things are not as the numbers muight suggest either. SEIU has gained clout in this state in the past decade.
The construction trade in southern nevada is suffering, this will take time to work itself out. Nevada is small enough population wise to pick up quickly in even a small economic uptick.
A lot of our voters are retirees, who are active. The people most likely to be affeced by higher unemployment are newer younger transplants, who might not be reliable voters for either party.
If just the status quo exists until 2010,then Reid wins.
For Reid to lose he would have to alienate many more than I believe he has thus far. The liberals will never vote for a republican, the moderates are the key and right now Harry is playing the game of appearing to not appease the wildest eyed libs while quietly appealing to these moderate voters in the middle.
Conservatives like me will not vote for Reid no matter the name on the undercard. It is likely he will be squeezed this time, cost more money than usual to win, but in the end the papers will hail it as a storybook comeback for the native son.
You can see the template being devised now. He will appear the day after the election and say something about having learned a valuable lesson and promise to work harder than ever to regain the trust of Nevadans everywhere.
Politiics, watch enough and listen hard and you can see the set-up and the knockout.
Reid will be busy on the phone with Acorn, and reaching deep in his wallet. I wonder how many backroom deals will start developing. It wouldn’t surprise me, knowing Reid.
Nah, most blindly follow the SEIU.
“If just the status quo exists until 2010,then Reid wins.”
I believe that is the variable that will matter. The degree the status quo is or is not maintained.
When you have huge projects not completed in down town Las Vegas, the rank and file simply have to be hurting. AND moving out of state for work.
It will be interesting to watch.
I feared it … and it’s true.
Danny Tarkanian is the son of Jerry, the crookedest college basketball coach in history.
The apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Will the Stupid Party live down to its name again?
Betcha he doesn’t retire to Searchlight.
Nevada is a corrupt state…duh…it’s kinda like Illinois.
Both parties will trot out dirty pols to run in general elections.
It’s Chinatown, Jake.
And we can hope that the other 40 who signed Harry’s letter from the US Senate to officially smear a private citizen for telling the truth – will soon follow…
Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, Blanche Lincoln, Richard Durbin, Kent Conrad, Bob Menendez, Charles Schumer, Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray, Byron Dorgan, Bill Nelson, Daniel Akaka, Dianne Feinstein, Max Baucus, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Daniel Inouye, Jay Rockefeller, Barbara Boxer, Edward M. Kennedy, Ken Salazar, Sherrod Brown, John Kerry, Bernie Sanders, Robert Byrd, Amy Klobuchar, Debbie Stabenow, Benjamin Cardin, Mary Landrieu, Jon Tester, Tom Carper, Frank Lautenberg, Jim Webb, Bob Casey, Patrick Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Carl Levin, and Ron Wyden.
NONE of them belong in USA let alone in any position to run it.
Tora I understand the sentiment, but the reality is that politics is a tough business.
And it is a business. Nothing more nothing less. It is time everyone understood this and got involved.
Dances, and yet they do run it.
They are making a fortune running it and we are the worse for it. Since they are not leaving, what does that elave for us to do other than be involved, push back, and vote.
If republicans cannot do that, then the problem may not be the dems.
My collie says:
But as for my favorite topic, I see now that Drudge has pointed out the Guaranty Bank is on the failed bank list this week.
And that it has been sold to a large Spanish Bank.
Guaranty with branches in Texas and California was based in the liberal bastion of Austin Tx.
I believe it is called the “Nancy Pants division”.
Only if they are fighting little girls…