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Comment by Gail Louise Yost on May 18, 2011 at 8:39am

Well said....

Comment by michael gable on May 18, 2011 at 8:37am

What frustrates me is on our side we vote on our own initiative, period.  On their side, they round up people with no knowledge and no interest, haul them to to polls and tell them how to vote, of course with the incentives they provide thrown in.  This is not "democracy" nor is it legitimate "getting out the vote".  On the national party level, it's called "street money" that they provide for these efforts.  Paying people to vote and busing them to the polling places should be illegal.

Comment by William Korach on May 18, 2011 at 8:24am

We should request that the Republicans invest in a good team of lawyers to ensure a clean vote. I'd not like a repeat of the Norm Coleman defeat in Minnesota. Obama says the Republicans come with knives, then Democrats should bring guns. Let's be clear on the kind of people we are dealing with, and act accordingly.

Comment by Kurt D Wullenweber on May 18, 2011 at 8:02am

The tea party has to get in the media business or all is lost.

Without our socialist US media, from local to national, we WOULD NOT HAVE THE GOVERNMENT WE HAVE.

Comment by Kurt D Wullenweber on May 18, 2011 at 8:00am

Sarj,

I'm afraid it has to all collapse from the weight of what is impossible before the people of whom you speak will understand.

They have listened to liberal lies too long and don't want to accept that they have been lied to.

It is no different with government employees, especially union ones. They will not listen to the truth that their pension plans and benefit packages are not sustainable. They were lied to about what could be provided them: they listened, they believed and they will not allow their beliefs to be shaken by reallity. When the funds go bankrupt and they are left with nothing - then, and only then, will they listen to what we were telling them today. They will look back with many regrets that they could have settled for the truth and 80% of what they had been promised, but they insisted they could have it all no matter how the numbers really added up (didn't add up).

It is no different than governmnet employee union members looking around at the fact that nearly all private sector unions are gone. Why? Because the companies they used to work for are all bankupt and gone. It is a simple equation: one plus one equals two - but they refuse to see it. They want the good life without sacrificing for it and refuse to believe it's not possible. All they want is what the evil rich have sacrificed to earn.

So now we must all suffer through their terrible education.

History shows us it has happened before. It will happen again.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on May 18, 2011 at 7:57am

Sarj, nice commentary and a really sad, but you may be right that a good honest man who tells the truth can't win an election by being what he is and not playing dirty politics (but Hogan may pull this out of the fire yet, and I pray he does). 

Comment by Derby Ulloa on May 18, 2011 at 7:48am

I am very depressed about the election last night. HERE IS MY SUGGESTION: Since we know the media ignored and will not pursue the issue about Brown's background unanswered  questions, it is up to the newly elected Republican council members to go before City Council and DEMAND that these questions be answered by Brown in front of City Council. If he does not, or we can prove he lied, maybe we have grounds for impeachment. 

I am sure Matt Schellenberg is a great guy because the Tea Party endorsed him openly, but will he and Robin Lumb, etc. have the guts to do this? I will be waiting. 

WOKV and WBOB run conservative programing, but it seems they too do not have investigative reporters.  

 

Comment by Tom Wing on May 18, 2011 at 7:45am

Logically,  we should have easily won the Mayoral election.  Add up all of the pluses vs the minuses, and with informed voters it was a potential landslide for Mike Hogan.   However, we only appealed to logic with an unmotivated group of voters.   This has got to stop in the Republican Party.  We need a new oratorical leader with great charisma.  We must appeal to the emotional state of the average voter.  We do not need another McCain.     Remember,  Logic, like whiskey, loses its effect when taken in too large quanitites. (Dunsany)                 What appeals(motivates)  to the average unmotivated voter of today is quite different than when Ronald Reagan was elected President.   Is there an Allen West out there?    Get one great candidate,  Put all of the money, effort and time behind that One  candidate and appeal to emotional values, not logical values (you are dealing with an uninformed and unmotivated society).   Look at the current Republican presidential campaigning -  a recipe for disaster. 

Comment by Sarj Bloom on May 18, 2011 at 7:42am

I think that we have a lot to learn from this election.  The urban progressive people who want bigger government and entitlements are out in force and will be for the next national election too. Combined with the Unions and other community organizations The Tea Party can not compete. We need to organize more and we need allies. In our cultural circles that we live in day to day we feel like no one likes Obama and the Democratic Party's ways, but there are extreme numbers in our culture that love what they are doing and want more. Common sense means nothing to them because common is what they have and if it is threaten to be taken from them they get scared. They don't want the "Sacred Cow" destroyed. It's a real threat to them not just policy. Literal they feel as if you are taking away their way of life and food off their table and in some cases this is true. 

How do we fight this? I wish I knew because they don't realize they are being enslaved. Through out history people have been enslaved because of the need for security and this is no different.

Comment by Kurt D Wullenweber on May 18, 2011 at 7:26am

There is a sad truth here.

All J-ville TV stations, radio stations and the Union Times worked all out for Alvin Brown.

The Obama/Chicago political machine threw everything they could get to Jacksonville into this race.

They bussed Democrat voters to the polls and paid them to vote (if anyone was in any neighborhood resturants last night, they were full of lower income folks eating big fancy meals).

More than likely there was a fair amount of voter fraud.

Still...........the BEST they could do was get 95,000 people out of a city of over one million to vote for Alvin Brown.

 

The sad truth is there were also only 95,000 people out of a city of over one million who gave a damn that an anti-business, Chicago style political machine, Obama socialist was going to be mayor of their city. 

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