Republicans are getting desperate

[KingFlorez]

They must be crazy to think the people of this district will give up a true fiscal hawk who has a ton of clout for some rookie Rove lackey. Desperation is setting in.


http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/12742997.htm


GOP strategizing to oust Spratt

TIM FUNK

GOP strategizing

to oust 12-term Spratt It looks like the White House may be gunning for Rep. John Spratt in 2006. If so, it's not hard to imagine what the TV ad targeting the York, S.C., Democrat will look like.

Picture Spratt standing next to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi -- a San Francisco liberal.

That could be a politically potent image in a South Carolina that seems to get more conservative and Republican every year.

But "equating me with someone else" is a losing strategy, insists the 12-term Spratt, his state's top-ranking Democrat.

"In the past, they tried to identify me with (House Speaker) Tip O'Neill (of Massachusetts). It didn't stick," Spratt, 63, said last week. "After 24 years, I'm pretty well known in the district ... I'm a centrist."

And yet, the GOP will doubtless point out, Pelosi -- aka House Democratic leader -- did name Spratt "assistant to the Democratic leader."

"She did that not because we voted alike, but because we voted differently," he said. "I am to represent moderate and conservative Democrats."

Spratt's re-election prospects came into sharp focus last week after state Rep. Ralph Norman, a Republican from Rock Hill, flew to Washington to meet with Karl Rove -- top political adviser to President Bush -- at the White House.

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1. I'd love to see the republicans, just once, run a guy on his own merits

instead of running a guy by saying who his opponent is.

[CitrusLib]

3. But to run on merit, you have to have some.

It's quite telling that they can't run someone on their merits. Now if the Dems could just figure out a way to get that through to John and Jane Q. Public, we'd have the majority in both houses.

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