Why Stephen Colbert's Sister Was Pummeled

Why would I care? I want a competent adult legislator. Most of Congress is heterosexual and we already know how bad they are.

 

The claim the damage-control crowd for the Agenda is making is that this was a partisan victory. Completely ignoring mitigating circumstances:

To wit:

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My point was that his indiscretions don't really have anything to do with his legislative abilities, and, I suspect that is why they didn't affect him in this election...

As soon as you can stop trying to be speculative with no basis to stand on, the honesty will shine through...

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So, what exactly are these mitigating circumstances?

 

I clearly stated that the R in front of his name was the single biggest factor. I simply added that she also ran a pathetic campaign the left people knowing nothing about her outside of that some people find her brother funny.

And you are challenging me to be honest??

 

Drop the fraud card. No one cares anymore. We have tax cheats in the administration, Congress, state legislatures, etc. They get hand slaps and move on. 40 years ago, people like Rangel, Geithner or Sanford would have been run out of town on the rails.

 

Now Elizabeth Colbert Busch can "go back to wherever the hell she came from."

 

Ms. Colbert Busche had a big problem.

While her opponent had theoretically committed political suicide, she had a real collection of bagge of her own.

Since she is a Democrat and said nothing to repudiate the Democrat agenda the people of SC-1 could assume.

1. She faovrs gun confiscation.
2. She favors greater federal spending
3. She favors greater taxation
4. She favors more job-killing regulation
5. She has no problem with job-killing litigation

There's plenty more but you get the picture. Yeah Sanford is a louse but she ran with a whole squadron of albatrosses around her neck.

The people of SC-1 decided that a philandered is better than an Obama Democrat.

 

Because the idea of "family values" Republicans....is a hoax?

 

I was agreeing that they were ready to forgive him. I do, however, also agree with Sil. It couldn't have helped her cause.

I always think back to American Idol. The year Adam Lambert lost to Kris Allen. Adam was clearly the better singer. The problem is, his homosexuality was a handicap. Country/Western singers have the same type of handicap. They are not as mainstream as heterosexuals pop singers. Carrie Underwood won because she was THAT good. I'm still baffled. Adam Lambert was THAT good. Just Google his version of Mad World and see.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...nst-banning-any-weapons-in-gun-control-debate

http://colbertbuschforcongress.com/issues/fiscal-policy/

See above...

http://colbertbuschforcongress.com/issues/economic-policy/

Just figured I'd provide some insight for your post...

 

Well it is all about options. Sanford survived a 15 person primary, being dropped by the national GOP, defeated a candidate from the other party. So clearly the people of South Carolina didn't see the fraud issue as an influence. The thing though for me at least. What was the quality of the people running against him. On the surface it looks like Kermit the Frog could have won that election. So I have to wonder how bad the rest of field was

 

Odd then that you would leave the biggest and most important one off the list you just made. Gay marriage is a huge visceral issue. Never underestimate the activism of the voter who feels s/he has had the power to control her own social fabric ripped away from him/her by an oligarchy of bought and paid for politicians.

I'll take your miniature albatrosses one by one for comparison:

1. Most Americans and South Carolinians R & D were shocked by Sandy Hook and favor some type of gun control as a result.

2. Greater federal spending has been accepted by R Governors even when they said they'd refuse. Not a "strong" revolt there either.

3. Greater taxation is going to happen anyway, and even country bumpkin republicans know we need a fast fix for a sinking economy.

4. No job-killing could be greater than what BP did to Gulf fishermen. If you think S.Cians aren't concerned about pollution and their livelihoods, think again.

5. See #4. Many of the litigants getting squashed by BP stonewalling in courts are republican shrimp fishermen and other hard working southern boys getting screwed by BigOil in the Gulf.

This was about Colbert-Busch vehemently standing up for "full equality" for gays in marriage. People don't want this. They don't want their kids seeing AIDS-sex as normal. They don't like the people they vote for turning on their basic family values without permission. If a politician these days says they're for "full gay equality" in marriage, you'd better believe they are saying the same as "I will stand up against my consituents and push through gay marriage whether or not they want it". And perhaps people are scanning their prospective representatives more thoroughly as to this strange steamroller without brakes that is pushing it's way not just into marriage but into normalizing AIDS-behaviors in schools...

It's quite possible that practical and pragmatic ordinary people have equated the alarming rise in boys getting HIV directly to the push for gay marriage, ie: making sodomy normal by putting society's stamp of approval on it.

If gays were born that way and at a steady population of 2%, why the sudden 30% increase in boys ages 13-29? Because they were "born that way"?

No, people have common sense. And it is for this reason that Colbert-Busch lost. Dying children is an issue that makes all the others pale by comparison.

 

It's the fact that people have woken up to "gay friendly" politicians being highly susceptible to strategically-timed legislative coups to ramrod gay marriage... They recognize the trend. As bad as Sanford was, he was preferable to that. They know where he stands on gay marriage and they know he will not sell them out.

Pretty important stuff really.

 

Hot topic just ground to a halt. Have I said something?...lol..

 

We need folks like Mark Sanford to protect marriage lmao

 

I know, right? And still women voters in SC picked him over the gay marriage option. That should tell you something. Something about actual opinions on gay marriage vs "polling data that shows most Americans support gay marriage".

SC is a red state but hardly a hard red state like Alabama, Arizona or Mississippi.

 

Some posters here in damage control [what took you so long johnnymo?...lol..] have put out the notion that we should not look deeply into why Colbert-Busch lost at all.

Sure, democrats should just assume the sister of one of the most popular TV personalities lost to a homewrecking unapologetic cad, to women voters no less, just because and move on without a second thought.

I contend that would be a mistake.

 

Voters send another unstable (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) to Washington. The cesspool just got a little more stinky.

We are so bad at picking our leaders that it will soon be evident to all that we are incapable of governing ourselves.

 

for some people- anything- and everything- is about the 'Gay'.

LOL

 

The way I eead the coverage on the poll numbers: "we know these poll numbers are total bull(*)(*)(*)(*), but still present them in a desperate attempt to tilt the election our way."

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The polls snowed a big win for Democrats. Shouldn't people be surprised the polls were so wrong?

 

A big deal for sure, But not as big as the D beside her name. Please stop trying to make everything about gay people. Its sad really.

 

Ms. Colbert Busche's problem can be stated succinctly: She's a Democrat and SC-1 has no use for Democrats.

She didn't even bother to try to pass herself off as a blue dog. Liberal democrat top to bottom. Obviously unacceptable.