Comments on: Democrats: We are beating ourselves

By: David W. Shelton

David W. Shelton — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:24:02 +0000

Hey, it works out for me – gave me a way to vote for the same person twice! Best part is – I only had to press one button to do it…

By: EricG

EricG — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:28:28 +0000

I don’t think Floyd so much missed your point as he disagreed with it. You started out saying that Democrat against Democrat was taking away from the energies which could be devoted to the presidential race but quickly devolved into a campaign pitch for Kurita.

Do you really feel someone should vote for Kurita because she’s a “Sure fire winning democrat incumbent”? Does integrity not play a part there? What if someone is a democrat but just doesn’t feel Kurita will represent their interests? Should they still vote for her becuase she’s a “Surefire win?”.

The Democratic party is not running a “Democrat against Democrat” race. The Democratic party has chosen their candidate, Tim Barnes. Kurita has chosen to run as a write in candidate.

In the interest of openness I am not a member of either political party, I will however be voting a primarily Democratic ticket in this election.

Thanks
Eric

By: Floyd

Floyd — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:35:17 +0000

Rosalind Kurita got kicked off the ballot because she broke the law. Turns out the party didn’t even know all the laws she had broken when they kicked her off. As they should have. She crashed a polling place. Her people told voters to vote in the wrong primary. Now it turns out that she’s illegally funding her campaign. This isn’t a Democrat on Democrat race. This is a Democrat on Law Breaker race. I’m against Kurita because she can’t be trusted.

By: Beth Robinson

Beth Robinson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:18:29 +0000

You’re missing my point entirely.

By: Bill Larson

Bill Larson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:45:41 +0000

Isn’t that the problem? We had one candidate who was backed by the Republican party which during the primary encouraged their base to cross over and vote in the Democratic party primary in order to select her as the Republican choice for the “Democratic party” candidate. Without this Republican support she lost the election, as was made perfectly clear by her slim 19 vote victory. The party leadership reacted to this overt attempt at electoral manipulation by the opposing party and corrected this abuse of the system in their overturning of the election and appointment of Tim Barnes as the candidate of the party for the seat. Since then Kurita’s campaign material is openly being made available in the Republican Party Headquarters, the Republican party leadership has thrown fundraisers for her campaign. People campaigning for Republican candidates frequently also display Kurita signs. It’s quite clear that SHE IS the Republican party candidate. How any Democrat can overlook all of that, and still vote for her is quite puzzling.

The time for Republicans to choose to support and vote for the Democratic party candidate is the general election, not during the “Democratic Party Primary” So is not Kurita acting in the role the spoiler here? Tennessee’s very own version of Joe Lieberman.