Democrats on Wednesday celebrated a closer-than-expected loss in a special House of Representatives race in Ohio and called it a warning sign for Republicans entering the 2006 congressional elections.
Jan Schmidt, a former state representative, beat Democrat Paul Hackett by 3,500 votes out of more than 112,000 cast in the conservative and heavily Republican district, where no Democrat in decades had won or even managed 40 percent of the vote.
"Every Republican in Congress should consider himself put on notice," Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said of Tuesday's results.
Emanuel continued, “Because we plan on losing even more elections by potentially smaller margins, and we won’t give up until we have no more elections left to lose.” Even Hackett was quick to congratulate himself on a race well lost:
"Tonight was a victory for democracy," Mr. Hackett, 43, told supporters at a downtown Cincinnati theater. "People had a real choice." Mr. Hackett has said he expects to sign up for another tour of duty in Iraq, possibly next summer.
So true, brother Hackett, so true. People did have a choice, and well...they chose Republican. With continued victories like this, the Democratic Party will be extinct in no time. As expected, the Democrat’s more prominent election losers rallied to his support:
Among those offering congratulations to Hackett were Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee [and loser 0f the 2004 Democratice Primary], and 2004 presidential nominee [and 2004 election loser] John Kerry, who said in a statement that Hackett "talked about the issues that really matter and he wasn't afraid to speak the truth about his experiences in the war in Iraq."
Of course Kerry applauding anyone for telling the truth about their war experiences is like Lil Kim patting Rafael Palmeiro on the back for his great testimony. At least one Democrat is tired of all these “victories”:
Al Gore still holds a $9 million surplus from the 2000 election that is his and his alone. John Kerry holds a healthy un-spent balance (estimated at $25 million) and minor candidates, all Democrats, are now millionaires as a result of their failed runs for the presidency in 2004. It's true and it is a fact of life.
Howard Dean's pleas for bucks are beyond me anymore. He can call himself "Governor", or he can call himself "Doctor", he can even call himself "Chairman"; but in reality he is nothing more than another huckster trying to fleece a sucker. I am like too many other Democrats, tired of being that sucker. Howard Dean needs to understand it and so do the other so called leaders within the Democratic Party.
Our money needs to finally buy an agenda and a victory - any victory! The agenda needs to come first. We are far from that ever happening. Without an agenda, meat the voters can sink their teeth into, we are no better off today than we were in 2002 when the final shoe dropped and we lost the Senate.
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