Meet [Indy’s] new Indianapolis Mayor, Greg Ballard. He has won the Indianapolis mayor’s race with little to no help from his fellow Republicans. Ballard or Peterson – I’m pretty sure I’m just glad I moved out of Indianapolis some time ago. Good luck down there.
Doug,
This certainly does not bode well for any “establishment” candidates from either party on the ballot in 2008. One of the things that sank Bart Peterson that the stridently pro “Open Borders” Indy Star will refuse to mention was intense public sentiment against a decade or more of Indianapolis’s “santuary” city policies.
Another example, look at what happened in the Frankfort mayor’s race. Gee funny how the Indy Star got the mood of the town completely wrong a couple weeks ago when it published a glowing article on the favorable contributions of thousands of “undocumented” workers were having on Frankfort and the surrounding county.
Did you see the articles published about the memos Rahm Emmanuel and Carville’s consulting firm have been circulating lately. They are trying to cover their asses a year in advance. Typical of profiteering scum like DLCer Emmanuel and professional political hacks like Carville, they give horrible self serving advice for years, then when the possiblity of the shit hitting the fan comes up, they turn around and start saying “Well I told you so”. Now their million dollar advice is to warn that Democrats who backed “Open Borders” policies, “nonimmigrant” “temporary” visa programs that they should be expecting the wrath of the electorate in 2008. Gee it looks like the Democratic strategy of opening the borders to a flood of Hispanics the last 20 years in hopes of gaining a huge political Democratic majority via future mass amnesties is now blowing up in the Democrats face. The 20-30+ year Cheap Labor for Cheap Votes dance with the devil bargain the corrupt establish DLCer Democrats made with the greedly Bushco Republicans is now falling apart. The sad thing is that is the clueless Democrats were too late to catch on and now they are most likely to face to brunt of the political backlash.
The DLC and the far far left Open Borders interests are nothing but a pathetic revisitation of the wildly corrupt Tammany Hall/Grover Cleveland Democrats and the batshit crazy Wobblies of hundred years ago.
Why am I not a million dollar a year political consultant? I have been giving out the same advice for free all over the web for almost a year now. It would have been nice if Carville would have shared these pearls of wisdom to the Democratic leadership. They might have at least discouraged Pelosi and Reid from completely throwing away any and all crediblity the party had with its working and middle class base by, instead of going all out to end the Iraq war or at least attempt to impeach Cheney if not Bush, making 3-4 insane attempts of making nice with Bushco inorder to pass the wildly unpopular “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bills and several other smaller illegal alien amnesties.
Like I have been saying here Doug. These elections are just one more indication that if the Democrats nominate a wildly corrupt “Open Borders/Free Trade Fundementalist/World is Flat Globalist/Cheap Labor” corporatist DLCer like Hillary for the presidency next year, the Democrats will suffer a Dukakis style trainwreck. As late as last night Hillary was on Lou Dobbs trying to make excuses of Elliot Spitzer’s driver licenses for illegal aliens fiasco. Seriously the woman is that clueless.
Rudy could campaign the whole month of October next year in drag and pulling a wagon containg a hundred new aborted fetuses and still kick Hillary’s ass. All Rudy would have to do is make a barely credible case that he will end the current pro-Open Borders Cheap Labor for Cheap Votes agenda of the current Beltway establisment. Rudy’s advantage of not being the Washington Beltway establish candidate is that huge.
Here is to praying that Democrats walk up before it is too late and at least give the nomination to the populist Edwards over Hillary and the DLC-lite Obama.
Talk to you more in the morning.
Thanks. That clears it up for me.
This guy rides llamas? Doesn’t he know they come from South America? Or is that the point???
Good luck to Frankfort, they’re gonna need it…
I like the \”Good luck . . . you\’re going to need it\” comments from Doug and his friend.
Sore losers?
Not at all. I wasn’t invested in the Indianapolis race. To the extent I paid attention to him at all, Peterson left me luke warm. And, the City County Council was looking awfully dysfunctional. Because he was unsupported by the local Republican machinery, Ballard has an opportunity to be his own man.
That being said, Indianapolis has some big problems and Ballard doesn’t really have a track record. Maybe he’ll do an outstanding job. Nobody really knows at the moment.
With respect to the Indianapolis election, what I’m most concerned with is that policy makers might be tempted to draw statewide conclusions from an election that hinged on a lot of factors that were peculiar to Indy.
Hmm… says,
You can’t ride a llama. They do not have the back or temperment for it. If fact simply making eye contact with one for too long will get you spit upon. Something my brother and I learned as children when getting to close to the fence of a neighbor on Indy’s Southside who kept a pet llama.
“llamajockey” is simply an absurdity like the Neil Young song, “Ride My Llama”. Kind of like the idea of influencing public opinion by commenting on the internet.
Doghouse Riley,
I gather from your blog that you do not take very seriously the impact of the immigration retrictionist vote. I see where you have attempted to make light of Hillary’s disasterous triangulating over Spitzer attempts to grant driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
Look when opinion polls are showing around 70% of New York Democrats do not agree with Spitzer on the issue. in spite of mostly unanimous MSM support. The Establishment Democratic leadership is simply wildly out of touch of immigration related matters. There is simply no other way of putting it. The Emmanuel/Carville confirm what many grassroots Democrats have been saying since 2004.
My point still holds combine Bart Peterson’s defeat with Nikki Tsongas by a finger nail victory last month in a Massachusets congressional race in her dead husband’s former district and the now infamous Emmanuel/Carville memos indicate that immigration policy will be huge factors in the 2008 elections. The Democratic party’s wildly out of touch “Open Borders” policies are setting the party up for unprecidented defeats in 2008.