Open Thread: Reconciliation in Nebraska
It's become quite a bit of a refrain among liberal journalists that nefarious conservatives are unwilling to compromise and unite with more moderate GOPers in order to "get things done," yet in many cases, the very opposite is true. In several recent elections, conservative unknowns have scored the primary victory (think Sharron Angle) and gone on to receive only tepid establishment support despite calls for "unity." That does not appear to be happening in the state of Nebraska after Deb Fischer defeated two better known candidates, Jon Bruning and Don Stenberg, to receive the Republican nomination for that state's federal Senate race.
Instead of whining like Indiana Republican Dick Lugar did after he went down in defeat, Bruning and Stenberg are banding together to support Fischer's candidacy:
Attorney General Jon Bruning and State Treasurer Don Stenberg stood behind state Sen. Deb Fischer as she accepted kudos for her big upset Tuesday night in the U.S. Senate primary and vowed to defeat Democrat Bob Kerrey in November
Republican Party Chairman Mark Fahleson acknowledged the rough campaign, but said primary battles prepare candidates for the bigger battle ahead.
“Republicans believe that competition is a good thing; it makes us better,” he said.
GOP headquarters was filled with public and party officials such as Speaker Mike Flood, who supported Bruning. Also there: national committeeman Pete Ricketts, whose father bankrolled a last-minute blitz of TV ads blasting Bruning and boosting Fischer. And there was Gov. Dave Heineman, who didn’t endorse anyone.
Heineman said he didn’t endorse a candidate in the U.S. Senate race because Stenberg, Bruning and Fischer are “three very good friends” and he wanted to be in a position to unite the candidates and party “so we can go forward to defeat Bob Kerrey in November.”
Bruning and Fischer both looked bleary-eyed and even teary-eyed at times during the press conference – with Bruning looking off to the side during most of the press conference, avoiding eye contact with the roomful of observers and reporters. He and Fischer embraced at one point. Asked what he thought of the election results, he declined to comment, saying everything was water under the bridge and “This is Deb’s day.”
“I’m 100 percent behind her,” Bruning said. “This is about how we can get together and beat Bob Kerrey.”
With much-lower name recognition than Kerrey, Fischer has her work cut out for her. As it stands, this is a seat that the GOP has a chance to flip to its count, however.
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Excellent~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:11am.
Very refreshing.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Finally!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:39am.
Maybe the GOP can end their habit of conducting circular firing squads.
Unlike the worst recent bad example:
Submitted by needle on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:57am.
Lisa Murkowski
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
needle~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:14am.
For sure. The ones who act like that are all about me, me, me -- not what's best for the country. We hardly need more of that!
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
I would love to see Alaskans
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:58am.
I would love to see Alaskans demand a recall vote on that harpy. A very ugly RINO who needs to be put out to pasture.
MMM MMM MMM
Submitted by CJohnson on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:10pm.
Alaska is the first truly Socialist State, not California, yet it was ruled by the GOP. Alaska is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with the Media, the Moochers and the Murkowskis.
Perhaps the time. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:13am.
. . . will come when the paradigm will shift and "reaching across the isle" will cut both ways. (Sound of me slapping my forehead). Yea, right. What was I thinking. . . .
Score one for us
Submitted by ladeflippinda on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:16am.
I'm glad for the Nebraska voters they get a quality candidate that can hopefully help turn this country in the right direction.
Here's a headline for ya:
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:40am.
Not sure if it's the AP or Yahoo! (probably Yahoo!) but how's this grab ya?
As I posted yesterday, the
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:01am.
As I posted yesterday, the Commiecrats are going after her big time. It seems they have started early. Nebraska has more registered Republicans than Commiecrats. So we'll see how this turns out.
➚ Ain't that a shocker?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:39am.
Americans actually voting their values?
It's not like the conservatives are going to some foreign country like Hawaii (a whole 'nother continent) to find Manchurians, is it?
Move along, nothing to see here
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:10am.
Lapdogs will go out of their way to avoid reporting signs of "unity" among GOPers.
Concerning NE Senate primary, late reports brought Deb Fischer to the top, those familiar with the state would have known that if she was close in the early returns(eastern NE) she would likely win given her heavier support in western NE.
That said, I saw one headline, I kid you not:
"Kerrey wins Primary"
Thanks for the newsflash
New Unemployment Numbers
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:23am.
unchanged at 370k after last week's claims were revised up to 370k -of course.
This, from an unbylined piece by the AP:
I think MS Online has a Word template you can download that has this already in it. You just need to insert the date from a drop-down.
Awesome Chucky Schumer
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:27am.
is at it again.
Attorney General Jon Bruning and State Treasurer Don Stenberg...
Submitted by Conservator on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:28am.
...and all members of Nebraska's Republican Party deserve accolades from the rest of the RED nation. Dick Lugar lost a reelection bid after serving for some 30 years and runs to moan with lefty Democrats. Thus, he also lost his reputation among conservatives and his many accomplishments while in service to stand by Pres. Obama - give me a break.
The Dem'o Publican combine
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:33am.
The Dem'o Publican combine has led us to deficits, wars of aggression, big bureaucracy and dictatorship by executive order. The RINO Lugar was one of those isle crossers that was more interested in making the Libs in the Dem Party happy than keeping his oath of office to the Constitution.He is gone perhaps to follow in the footsteps of Trent Lott to lobby for Liberal causes like promoting the Law of the Sea Treaty that Lugar loved so well.
If Fischer beats the Democrat in November we shall see how well she does at upholding her oath to the Constituion.
Will Smith is the latest
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:07pm.
Will Smith is the latest entertainer to WANT higher taxes. Apparently, he doesn't want to pay too much in taxes.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/smith-baffled-proposed-french-tax-inc...
"I have no issue with paying taxes and whatever needs to be done for my country to grow. I believe very firmly that my ability to sit here—I'm a black man who didn't go to college, yet I get to travel around the world and sell my movies, and I believe very firmly that America is the only place on Earth that I could exist," Smith said. "So I will pay anything that I need to pay to keep my country growing."
That's sweet, Will, but how much would you be willing to pay???
"That's when the interviewer mentioned that France could have a 75 percent tax rate on income over 1 million euros.
"Seventy-five?" Smith gasped. "Yeah, that's different, that's different. Yeah, 75. Well, you know, God bless America."
Welcome to the reality of socialism, Will, glad you could join us.
This is great
Submitted by mmilesll on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:15pm.
"For the first time I am proud to be a/an American/Republican". Hate to put Fischer is the same phrase as mooshel, but this is the way people who really care about the party and America should act after a primary. Lugar has always been a pompous ass so I wasn't surprised with his childish reaction.
Fall network schedules
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 1:03pm.
The schedules for the fall line up on the networks are out. ABC has a new show Don't Trust the B*&^% in Apartment 23. What is it with ABC and the word bitch?
CBS took off CSI: Miama. That along with Blue Bloods, CSI, and CSI: NY were the only shows I watch on network TV. The Closer has only 6 more episodes to run. Alas the shows on USA, TNT, History, ID and Discovery will still be there. Can't wait for Rissoli and Isles, Burn Notice, or Top Shot.
If any of you watched Swamp People, you are familiar with the Grist brothers Mitchell and Glenn. Mtichell died this week from a heart attack,
http://www.beauregarddailynews.net/news/x1986335722/Swamp-People-cast-me...
By the way the line ups look like the same old crap just on a different times
Ricklail~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 1:04pm.
I love "Rizzoli and Isles."
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
OT Madness: Jeopardy
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 1:10pm.
OT Madness: Jeopardy Questions for Libs:
Just to lighten things up: Here are some Jeopardy questions that Liberal ‘Journalists/Power Players’ might be able to answer:
Category – “Color Perspectives”
Q: “It is the color of the horse in the novel “Black Beauty””
Q: “It is the color used to designate “Red-State Republicans””
O: “It is the ‘Somewhere over the ___’ referred to in the song “Somewhere over the Rainbow””
Category – “U.S. Vice President’s”
Q: “U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is currently the Vice President of which country where B.H. Obama is the President?”
Category – “Pardon my French:”
Q: “This country, where Napoleon Bonaparte staged his power base and which lies between Spain & Germany, begins with the letter ‘F’ and ends in ‘rance’ and has a name similar to a famous brand of mustard recently changed Presidents”
- Double Jeopardy question
Q: “Kim Jong-un replaced Kim Jong-il who replaced Kim Il Sung as the First Chairman of the Defense Commission, First Secretary of the Workers Party, and Supreme Commander of the Peoples Army of what country that lies to the North of South Korea?
(Alternative correct answer for liberals: “Who is Kim Kardashian?”)
- Grump :o)
Well now, ain't this interesting!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 2:17pm.
Just popped up on Drudge:
OBAMA BORN IN KENYA, AND RAISED IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Ob...
Newsbubba~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 2:42pm.
Yes, pretty darn interesting.
The whole problem is what is stated at the end of that blog/article -- that we'll never really, truly know so many important things about this man in the White House. Who is he, really? The story of his life is always half-baked and with miss ingredients to boot.
In large part, I do blame the media and other protectors/cover-uppers (whatever you want to call them) -- people who promote his advancement and his vision of what America should be. Really, O is like a chameleon, and that's the way the media and those who advance his causes seem to want it.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Georgia, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 4:31pm.
... if I hear one more Republican/conservative say, "If President Obama says that he was born in Hawaii, then I accept him at his word."
Why would ANY sane, thinking person accept ANYTHING that this guy says?
I'm totally baffled by the way "race" has buffaloed the Right. Totally!
memba this?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 4:53pm.
Remember when Bubba Jay was on trial for perjury? His lawyer asked "why would the President lie?"
-Jon
Arrest the bogus POTUS
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 5:30pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Loving the conservatives beat
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 4:09pm.
Loving the conservatives beat on the libs on Twitter. If Twitter was not blocked by my work computer I would post some of the tweets by Noel to Donna Brazile or Karen Finney. I am also liking Brad Thor pound on them and you have got to follow David Burge aka Iowahawk, he is hilarious!!!!
Buffet will ruin my paper
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 4:12pm.
Bufffet is buying up newspapers. As far back as I can remember I have read the Hickory Daily Record. When I was in the Army my mom would sent me a copy when there was something in it she thought I might like. The paper has been conservative again for as far back as I can remember. I pay 4.95 a month to read it online. If Buffet changes it then I am dropping it.
Now the term "leap frog" is derogative
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 4:24pm.
To the les francais!!!! I'm sorry, this is just PC run amok.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Well...
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 5:19pm.
Leapin' back-to-front speed intervals!
Yeah, on the PC stuff going overboard. Shouldn't people at least ask the supposed insulted community/group of people first, to see of they are even offended or give it a thought? How many times have we read that a specific supposedly insulted group found no problem at all with things that others outside that group were in a tizzy about?
Like I come from Scandinavian stock. But it doesn't offend me in the least that they used Rose on the "Golden Girls" to make Scandinavians sound like dimwits. I thought her airheaded ways and hometown stories were funny. Unless complaints are flooding in, the PC Police need to lighten up!
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan