I can't agree that this is good news.
Winning is stength, losing weakness---this is the GOP mantra. Until Delay is out of office, or loses a race, he will remain a titan in Congress.

True Steve.
People over at mydd.com are lamenting the loss tonight by Ciro Rodriguez (there still is a chance of a run-off) but don't seem to realize that Cueller may still return to the House but the best way to make a DINO a real Democrat is to get a Democratic controlled house. Dems like Cueller will then have less incentive to be caught spooning with Bush.

The focus should be beating Rethugs not other Dems.

Hopefully, for the Republic, both of them, DeLay loses a general election.

I don't believe Delay won the GOP primary anymore than Cueller will be legally elected ‎as the democratic candidate, within districts that were outlined and designed by Tom ‎Delay. The elections were fixed. We're using electronic voting machines in Texas. People ‎across America are really going to have to come to terms with the fact that our votes are ‎easily subverted --- regardless of "paper trails."

Perhaps, a good reason why Republican members of the House and Senate don't really ‎feel that they need to challenge Bush is because they've already prearranged their election ‎victories.

Oh --- PS... That "Tom DeLay has beaten three primary challengers tonight in Texas ‎elections -- and this is actually good news for Democrats who want to run against DC's ‎structural corruption" is really not good news for Democrats because it isn't good for America. ‎Indeed, the fact that Americans actually voted for Tom Delay's casual displays of ‎immorality, corruption, and dishonesty does not bode well for our country.‎

A Delay loss would have emboldened Democratic candidates across the US.

Unfortunately, now we'll have to rely on Democratic leadership (is that an oxymoron?).

The fact that DeLay won is proof positive that too many Americans aren't paying attention to what's happening in their government while their freedoms are slowly erroded and given away by a congress that isn't worth a damn.

And given yesterday's vote on the so called "patriot act(s)", you can forget the seperation of powers of the president, the senate, the house of representatives and the supreme court.

This country is on a downhill slide, gathering speed, and it isn't going to recover either.

What once was a great nation "with freedom and justice for all" doesn't exist anymore.

If the voters in his district elect him to the House again in November (and I don't know they will) - they can never, ever, ever complain about Congress again.

As for the Republicans that voted for him - you get what you deserve if he wins.

Turn it around, and imagine Delay lost---what kind of message would that send to Republicans?
A terrifying one, obviously.
They feel safer with a Delay win.
I think even if he has to resign because of corruption charges, the Republicans will be in a stronger position now, because they can always tell their idiot minions that the legal process is corrupt, and that Delay is a fine, upstanding Christian caught in the crosshairs of a Democratic-run investigation. Voter loyalty was tested, and found adequate last night.
For shame.

isn't there something to be said that there were 3 other GOP candidates who stepped up and took on "The Hammer"?

And that one of them got almost 30% of the GOP vote?

What if Delay is no longer the lion, but he's just a wounded wildebeest, trailing blood, just waiting to be taken down by the predators...

I suppose it is good for the Dems that DeLay won the Republican primary but it is still awfully dismaying to see that many fellow Americans still stupid enough to vote for that corrupt megalomaniac.

The vote in the Senate Intelligence Committee has shown that there are no actual "Republican moderates." If they're unwilling to challenge the White House on such a blatantly violation of law, and (worse) on the administration's claim of a right to ignore the law when it doesn't suit them, then there is no sense in which they pose any kind of alternative to the administration's extremism, corruption, and cronyism.

There is no such thing as a "moderate" Republican -- you keep drinking that kool aid, you'll be doing the lockstep to the Cheney camps soon enough. Do stop wishing for it, dreaming that Delay's victory is perversely a victory for moderates. When push comes to shove, there are two kinds of Republicans: traitors to the Republic like Bush and Cheney, or quizzlings like Snowe and Hagel. Each and everyone is an active or nascent threat to national security, economic prosperity, and social/political liberty. Clear and present dangers, the lot of them.

Where do Republican moderates meet? Bitburg?
Philadelphia, miss? Anteatem?

DeLay's win points to low turnout by Republican voters. They are not hopeful or excited enough about their own efficacy to purge congress.

Such apathy will likely help the Lampson come November. AND if this election's results were in part derived from a national gop malaise, then it signals more good news for the dems.

I wonder if this guy really has a chance when things get serious?
Raymond B
www.voteswagon.com

Soon it will be time to exterminate the exterminator.

Make . . . lemonade, oh, right.

It is especially good news if he is convicted between the primary and the election. Then the Democrat will run unopposed. In any event, when he is convicted, it will be such an embarassment that it can't help to have a negative effect on Texas Reublicans.