“Any Democrat is an improvement” may be true, but…the way things are now, it’s pretty easy for a candidate to be an improvement and still be totally unacceptable. I realize we’re talking about Congress, but I think the Presidential race is a perfect reductio ad absurdum — ANY of the Republican frontrunners would be an improvement over Bush, but they’re still totally unacceptable.

As for me, I’m in AZ5 and I am hugely disappointed in Harry Mitchell, a man I’ve voted for for some office or other in every even year since I turned 18. So far he’s voted for the war resolution AND the wiretapping law, and if he votes Bush another blank check later this month, I’m going to find it pretty damned difficult ever voting for him again. Even in the likely event that he’s running against someone worse, I think I’d rather leave the box blank than support someone who votes like Mitchell has.

This labeling is over the war, and well over half of the Republicans want us to get the fuck out.

These are people who because of cowardice or stupidity are taking the course that makes them less electable.

The phrase “too stupid for congress” applies.

I worked for NASA in Clear Lake, near Galveston Bay. What you forget is that this area was a seprate (and more Dem-leaning) district before Delay’s vile redistricting scheme (or as I like to call it, the Texas Anschluss), which annexed this area to his home district further north in the Sugarland area. Now Sugarland is about as far right Bible thumping la-la land as you could want. By his illegal actions, Delay effectively stripped me and people like me in the Bay Area of representation, by insuring that I’d be in a “permanent minority” in his new Republican Reich.

Now I remember having discussions at Bay Area New Democrats about Lampson even during the Morrison campaign. I think if it weren’t for the fact that the Bay Area has to be stuck with the Sugarland theocrats in its representation, TX-22 could be a more progressive district (maybe not San Francisco, but better).

Another thing worth remembering that the Bay Area is the home of the wretched Bob Perry, Swift-Boat funder extraordinare, apparent backer of the slimy California vote initiative going on now, and corruptor of the Texas legislature and Residential Construction Commission. I participated in a protest at his home in 2004. It was great talking to neighbors who despised him for ruining the neighborhood with his ridiculously extravagant and out-of-place McMansion. The neighbors agreed to let us protestors stand on their property if Perry or local cops hassled us for being in the street! It is pleasant to think of the vicious scumbag Perry being represented in Congress by a Democrat!

Fortunately like most tinpot dictatorships, without their Fuehrer Delay, the Sugarland Republicans are a confused and desperate lot. They’ve had constant vicious infighting as to who the Republican candidate should be for the district. The unbelivably incompetent and haughtily arrogant Shelly Sekula-Gibbs is the best campaign aide Lampson could have!

Harold Ford could not get elected since the voters could not see the difference between the Repug and Dem.

Progressive Dems got elected in the South, in conservative districts precisely because the voters saw the the difference in philosophy