Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Beat them ... beat them all

[UPDATE: list reformatted to improve readability]

Have I mentioned that there are scores and scores of Republican candidates for the House and Senate who richly deserve to go down in flames 13 days from now?  Here’s a selected list of some of the worst, in alphabetical order by state abbreviation:

Arizona:   Jon Kyl (AZ-Sen), Rick Renzi (AZ-01), J.D. Hayworth (AZ-05)
California:   John Doolittle (CA-04), Richard Pombo (CA-11), Brian Bilbray (CA-50)
Colorado:   Marilyn Musgrave (CO-04), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Rick O’Donnell (CO-07)
Connecticut:   Christopher Shays (CT-04)
Florida:   Vernon Buchanan (FL-13), Joe Negron (FL-16), Clay Shaw (FL-22)
Idaho:   Bill Sali (ID-01)
Illinois:   Peter Roskam (IL-06), Mark Kirk (IL-10), Dennis Hastert (IL-14)
Indiana:   Chris Chocola (IN-02), John Hostettler (IN-08)
Iowa:   Mike Whalen (IA-01)
Kansas:   Jim Ryun (KS-02)
Kentucky:   Anne Northup (KY-03), Geoff Davis (KY-04)
Maryland:   Michael Steele (MD-Sen)
Minnesota:   Gil Gutknecht (MN-01), Michele Bachmann (MN-06)
Missouri:   Jim Talent (MO-Sen)
Montana:   Conrad Burns (MT-Sen)
Nevada:   Jon Porter (NV-03)
New Hampshire:   Charlie Bass (NH-02)
New Jersey:   Mike Ferguson (NJ-07)
New Mexico:   Heather Wilson (NM-01)
New York:   Peter King (NY-03), John Sweeney (NY-20), Tom Reynolds (NY-26), Randy Kuhl (NY-29)
North Carolina:   Robin Hayes (NC-08), Charles Taylor (NC-11)
Ohio:   Steve Chabot (OH-01), Jean Schmidt (OH-02), Deborah Pryce (OH-15), Joy Padgett (OH-18)
Pennsylvania:   Melissa Hart (PA-04), Curt Weldon (PA-07), Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-08), Don Sherwood (PA-10)
Rhode Island:   Lincoln Chafee (RI-Sen)
Tennessee:   Bob Corker (TN-Sen)
Virginia:   George Allen (VA-Sen), Frank Wolf (VA-10)
Washington:   Mike McGavick (WA-Sen), Dave Reichert (WA-08)

Not that they’re the only ones, of course.  Not by far.

Vote for change.  Vote for responsibility.  Vote for accountability.

In other words, vote for Democrats.