But that being said, Bush’s policies regarding the rule of law in immigration matters duplicates Obama’s, Nappy’s and that of the Maricopa County B.O.S. which is bound and determined to have a sanctuary entity to match that of the cities.

Mr. Davidson: Matt Salmon made the critical strategic mistake of refusing to a run clean election campaign. He had a very difficult time trying to raise money from the usual sources, and as a result didn’t get his message across until October.

On the other hand, Napolitano’s folks initiated a massive T.V. blitz in August and September pilloring Salmon on his Social Security votes. He was never able to effectively respond due to cash shortages and the retiree community vote went up for grabs!

Matt entered August with a 10% lead in the polls and by early October was down about the same percentage.

Another factor was the reservation vote. In an attempt to solidify a wary “religious right” crowd, Salmon campaigned to renegotiate Indian Gaming rights and put the issue back to the square one of 1992. All that did was stir up a hornet’s nest and guarantee the largest reservation turnout in modern AZ politics.

In fairness, Salmon wasn’t the only GOPPER to committ suicide over this issue. Steve Largent turned what should have been a pushover to the Oklahoma Statehouse into a defeat that year!

Beleive me, our guys don’t need others to screw them over.

We’re not referred to as “The Stupid Party” for nothing!

LOL! The FBI investigation of Arpaio started under Bush!

Did Salmon beat Salmon? Maybe, but that’s not how I see it. Big Sis could not win if she showed her true colors as a liberal Democrat, so she faked it and claimed to be a centrist. The newspaper’s echo chamber picked it up and she got a transplant from liberal to centrist. RINO Joe’s endorsement and commercial for her validated the phony transplant. She won by 11,000 votes and change, out of more than a million cast. That’s about a tenth of a percent, and it took three weeks to find out who won.

Could she have won without RINO Joe’s support? We can never know for sure, since it was a road not taken. My opinion is that she would have lost. You see it differently. Okay, we disagree.

What we do know, however, is that RINO Joe wanted her to win and campaigned for her to win. So he got his way, to the vast disappoitnment of us conservatives.

So she got Burke appointed, and she dropped RINO Joe like a hot potato.

As I wrote before, he made his bed. Let him sleep in it.

I hate to kick over your hobby horse but Matt Salmon beat Matt Salmon in 2002. He didn’t need assistance.

Unfortunately, we haven’t had a Republican candidate for Governor run a competent campaign for at least 18 years!

Horst:

If you continually spend your money on Republicans who govern like Democrats and share their ideology and social beliefs you’d better expect opposition within the party as you’re getting this time around.

Travis: In your case an open mind, turns into an open mouth with little of substance coming from it. Vapid blatherings regarding those with whom you disagree instead of principled criticism indicates a basic lack of intellectual depth!

If you don’t like the political or philosophical stances of the blog’s contributors, by all means, you should start your own. Horst will fork over the finances!

“How ’bout ‘Rinos n’ Hacks United”?

As for the matter at hand regarding the Fed Atty for Arizona, this should come as no surprise to anyone!

Joe and Andy have alienated a goodly portion of both Democrat and Republican establishments for having the temerity to enforce immigration laws.
Ah, the HORROR of it all!

Why, if not brought to heal, they just might preclude the Dems from getting these folks on the registration and welfare rolls and prevent another California.

And damn, they might force our Hoteliers, Restaurant Owners, Developers, and Burger Barons to employ genuine Arizonan citizens, and ugh, pay them living wages!

Jeeez! We might even have to extend benefits to them and not let the taxpayers pick up the slack and furthermore Joe and Andy, if left to their own devices, will close off another source of wages for our help by denying them the privelege of “muling” for the coyotes who brought them here!

No, Joe and Andy must go….And let Arizona be Arizona!

Yeah! That’s the ticket!

Maybe if RINO Joe had not betrayed us conservative Republicans and put Big Sis in the Governor’s chair in 2002, Burke would be just one more liberal Democrat wannabe. But since RINO Joe put Big Sis in the Governor’s chair, she was able to put Burke in the US Attorney’s chair.

If RINO Joe had not betrayed the rest of us in 2002, Matt Salmon would have been Governor, Big Sis would have gone back to law practice, and Dennis Burke never would have left it.

RINO Joe made his bed. Let him sleep in it.

It’s hard to feel sorry for a turncoat.

So you are a 1L at 45? Just curious as someone who went straight after undergrad to law school, what made you decide so much later?

Also Burke was born in 1962 so couple years older than 45.

This looks like the same issue to me, but when it is a democrat in the role of investigator the media doesn’t question their motivations

Also first year law student,

If you are in law schools odds are you are between 23-30 so of course you have nt given as much. Burke is a tad bit older and has made more money in his career than you.

While I appreciate the comment I don’t go as far as you. I understand where DSW he is very open and let’s people like you and I who don’t agree with him on everything post. This is all I can ask for.

Please don’t question the veracity of a post by an anonymous author as a guest editor from a biased blog posing as a fake newspaper column. Just play along.