1
zing!

2
3 in a row bitches!

3 I want Odumbass to save the election for the democrat by taking a trip to Hawaii to campaign for them.  Afterall, he's got a perfect track record so far.

4

Let it chaos be done.

FIFY, Ace.

The last one sounded too...Picardish.

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I can't find a date for the election? Is it in April?

Put me some f'n knowledge here, morons.

6 I want Odumbass to save the election for the democrat by taking a trip to Hawaii to campaign for them.

He'd endorse both of them, wouldn't he?

7 All for Djou embarrassing the Dems & Obarfa.

BTW... Colleen Hanabusa is yet another uber-lefty Japanese-American elected official. Has anyone ever seen a Japanese-American run as a Republican? Between Mike Honda and the Matsui family, I'd say they have a pretty good claim to being a party-line socialist voting bloc.

Full disclosure... my future wife is Japanese and I suspect we have many political arguments in the future. Yay.

8 Is he a crypto Jew...Djou...Jou...Joo!

Hah! Got him.

9

Hawaii has no special primary elections, and all candidates run in the general election.

Wow, that is some strange election law.

10 Kong advocates creating coral reefs out of submerged hippies.

11

In effect, the HI-1 special can be likened to NY-23 in reverse, with Ed Case occupying the unenviable "Scozzafava" position and Hanabusa representing the base of the party. Like Scozzafava, Case has depended on crossover Republican votes to win elections in the past, support that is likely to evaporate once voters know there is a real, electable Republican candidate in the race.

While what the GOP Establishment did in NY-23 has earned them tarring and feathering and running out of the party on a rail, just how large are the patriots in HI-1? And how "Blue Dog" is Ed Case?

I lived in HI-1 for a while in 1993, and while the military voters are patriots, the "Hawaiian Soverignty" hate-the-haole Commiecrats are numerous there, as are the Lavender Left Mob who moved in because they found San Fransicko too cold.

If Djou realistically can pull it out, God bless and let's get them Commiecrats. But Damage Control is important.

12 In related news David Frum endorsed Ed Case, the Scruntaflava Democrat in the race

13 What might help Djou is democrat voter apathy. Having lived in Hawaii, it has been run by the democrat machine for almost 50 years, and takes a lot for granted.  Let's hope they do this time, too.

14 There are Republicans is Hawaii?

15 Pulling a "Reverse Scozzafava" was always fun at the frat house.

16 I'd like to do a reverse Scozzafava with a half twist.

17 VOTE KONG, makes a nice poster

18

In related news David Frum endorsed Ed Case, the Scruntaflava Democrat in the race

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying be a Crummie Frummie. But there *is* a big difference between having your own GOP Establishment shaft you (as they did in NY-23) and having to choose the least loathsome of the most likely to win (as appears to be the case in HI-1). 

But God, someone needs to change those election laws. Closed Primaries are a must. Hawaii voting seems as fouled up as Louisiana voting.

19 As one of 7 Republicans living in Hawaii, I'm encouraged by this news.

20 It isn't really reverse Scozzafava as she was the "official" Republican candidate in a general election.   Hoffman had to buck the party to get on. It should be noted that he wasn't the best R candidate, but he was the one to buck the "no running as an independent" pledge when Scozza got nominated.

This is just a cattle-call election, which in the case of NY-23 would have left Scozza in the cold since she has no genuine constituency with someone to both the left and right of her running.  The Rs might have split the vote in that case.

21 The win by Republican Charles Kong Djou in heavily Democratic Hawaii, is directly the fault of Hawaii's special election no primary system. It is not a rejection of President Obama and his agenda. That is all.

22 If Kong Djou wins, the Media Silence will be deafening ( except on Fox ); if he loses, Olberman wil.........beat his Meat like it owes him money, right there on nationwide TV ( that no one watches )

This is exactly what the Repubs need:  grabbing 'seats' while the Demo eat their own.  Hell, send Megan McCain, Lilly Graham, Newt, anyone........

23 20 It isn't really reverse Scozzafava as she was the "official" Republican candidate in a general election.   Hoffman had to buck the party to get on. It should be noted that he wasn't the best R candidate, but he was the one to buck the "no running as an independent" pledge when Scozza got nominated.

Well, yeah, but nothing is actually anything else but it's close enough to Metaphor, compare, contrast, and learn from.  The Song Remains the Same:  As the Demos split over their own sick version of ideological purity, Repubs can sneak in like Cats & Dogs to win a seat. 

The resulting Gnashing of Teeth will be a wonderful sight to see.  It raise the blood pressure and Stroke Possibilities of many O-bots

24 I actually like cattle call voting, as opposed to closed primaries or any primaries. There are no real logistics issues associated with ballot size or accounting with today's technology that are amplified by the number of candidates. Let the most focused and organized candidate win.

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I actually like cattle call voting, as opposed to closed primaries or any primaries. There are no real logistics issues associated with ballot size or accounting with today's technology that are amplified by the number of candidates. Let the most focused and organized candidate win.

Ewwwww. Does the name David Duke ring a bell? This kind of voting can be so manipulated by sleazy politicians (as it was in Louisiana by the crooks slime Evan Edwards).

26 Although in fairness that was one big open primary clusterf***, followed by a general 2 candidate election.

27 Curmudgeon, you think the LA primaries are clean?

28 This 'First' shit had better stop.

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Curmudgeon, you think the LA primaries are clean?

My point exactly, as the slime Evan Edwards proved when he discreetly moved to "help" David Duke take second place in a "cattle call" primary. Had LA been a closed primary state, Buddy Roemer would have won the GOP primary, and then probably the election.

Now if HI has just *one* election where whoever gets the plurality wins, well, it could be like the Florida Primary of 2008, where those disgusted with John McLame couldn't agree on a single opponent and split their votes, leaving McLame with the plurality and the win.

 

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But we do note that the Democrats' ability to consolidate around a single candidate is clouded by the presence of two well-known Democrats from different factions of the party who are unlikely to drop out and endorse the other.

Well, the Democratic Party might just be smart enough to give lots of money and throw their support behind one and only one candidate.

And by "smart" I just mean less likely to shoot themselves in the foot as another party I could name.

31 I'd say he has a kong of a resume.

So does a reverse scozza make you a 10.

32

Won't happen....It'll be Hanabusa. Why, because the people in the "state" of Hawaii are drooling, union-fed, pidgin talking retards thats why.

Where else could Kucinich pick up a primary win?

 

33

Cool. Another race to donate to. This not giving to the party thing is beginning to be more fun as I get to pick and choose the candidates that I like rather than throwing away my money on RNC-endorsed RINOS.

Checkbook democracy!

34 Now if HI has just *one* election where whoever gets the plurality wins

Only for special elections.  They're special for a reason, so I don't get fussed too much because a bad system, whether it be NY-23 or HI-1, for picking candidates only effects us every once in a while.

35 Kong will be King if he's well Hong. Just another Scott Brown moment.

36 #19 My family and I are out in Ewa Beach. Plenty of active and retired military around here, all Repubs. Looking forward to voting for Djou in May. Already donated and will certainly be helping out with the campaign in the coming months. I am hopeful Djou can pull this off!

37 Perhaps Republicans could organize (secretly) "Smoke Lotsa Dope Day" on election day and then DemocRATS would simply forget it was election day.

38 I actually like cattle call voting, as opposed to closed primaries or any primaries. There are no real logistics issues associated with ballot size or accounting with today's technology that are amplified by the number of candidates. Let the most focused and organized candidate win.

Meh. Not a fan here myself. 

"Non-Partisan" elections are a huge boon to incumbents as they tend to depress voter interest and turn out.  No one is really motivated to find the candidate that most closely aligns with their interests, rather, the independents and moderates get sucked in to the whole "non-partisan" vibe and wind up repeatedly electing the same dumb-asses whose names they vaguely remember as advocating for/against (don't remember which) a monorail on the teevee 4 years ago.

Plus, the fact that the Democrats, with their coalition with the public sector unions, are just better at gaming local elections than the Republicans, who tend to be clueless and lazy when it comes to local government anyway, leads to results that are let us say less than optimal in polities where this type of system has held sway for any length of time.

39 How power-hungry do you have to be to want to quit repping "the area from Waikiki to Hawaii Kai on the Honolulu City Council" to go to craptacular Washington, DC?

Either that, or he just loves America that damn much.  I hope it's the latter.

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BTW... Colleen Hanabusa is yet another uber-lefty Japanese-American elected official. Has anyone ever seen a Japanese-American run as a Republican? Between Mike Honda and the Matsui family, I'd say they have a pretty good claim to being a party-line socialist voting bloc.

Dude, one of the greatest Senators of all time, S.I. "Sleepy Sam" Hayakawa was a Republican.  Google it!

41 The Wrath of Kong. I like it...

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Dude, one of the greatest Senators of all time, S.I. "Sleepy Sam" Hayakawa was a Republican.  Google it!

Bingo. Hayakawa rocked. Sadly, too many Japanese Americans are marinated in lefty lib brainwash. See also Jewish Americans.

 

43 Scozzafava beans!

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Bonus: His middle name is Kong. Kong. How can you not?

Isn't that Dick Cheney's too?

45 Sadly, too many Japanese Americans are marinated in lefty lib brainwash.

You'd think that 70 years after FDR locked up all the Japanese-Americans they'd avoid Democrats like the plague.  (And also given the generally shabby treatment of Asians in academia).

46 Just more evidence that the Republican party is being taken over by the Djou-o-o-o-o-s!

47

Prediction:  If the Republican wins, Pelosi and Co. will chalk it up to "local issues" and/or "a bad candidate", and NOT a referendum on Obama or the Democrats.  If a Democrat wins, this same bunch will say that it is clearly an endorsement on the Obama/Pelolsi/Reid agenda.

Think about it.  They told us that the NJ and VA outcomes were decided on "local issues", and that the MA Senate race was decided because Marcia/Martha/Marla/whatever was a bad candidate.  In each of these cases, we were told, there was no national statement being made.

However, with NY-23, we were told by MyDamn Speaker that that race was indeed a referendum for Obama and against the GOP.  HI-1 will be no different in that regard.

48 Charles graduated from Punahou School and earned both a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, graduating magna cum laude with distinction.
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