Comments on: Tom Delay An Unlikely GOP Comeback Kid?

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:18:00 +0000

I think that conservatives should be cautious about criticizing a federal judge who actually sticks the the letter of the Constitution when ruling.

As a resident of CD 22, I want a new Republican on the ballot as much as anyone, but I have to admit that after reading the opinion, Judge Sparks' is correct in his interpretation, and it would be judicial activism for him to rule otherwise.

It will be interesting to see if DeLay can repair the rifts he caused here when he threw us in this mess. I think a lot of people feel a little betrayed down here when he ran in the primaries without being committed to run in the fall.

By: Patrick McGuire

Patrick McGuire — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:38:05 +0000

Oh, I love the delicious irony of it all. The Republicans wanted to put someone else on the ballot but it was the Democrats who prevented it from happening, probably expecting the GOP ticket to be empty or, with Delay on it, the same thing.

Now they have forced the issue and might end up bringing back their own worst nightmare into Congress again. Ya gotta love it.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:07:40 +0000

The law is to clear on this. As near as I can tell, the judge is basing his decision on the Texas law having a 2 to 2.5 month deadline for different things you can do about the race. This is seen as a residency requirement. If upheld, then any states filing deadline before the election day (the residency requirement in the US constitution) would also have to be thrown out. Now that's a bit of "imaginative" judicial reasoning.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:08:39 +0000

Mac: The reason it's amusing is that the Republicans really wouldn't have much of a choice: vote for DeLay or give the seat up to a Democrat. DeLay stepped aside but a judge is trying to force the GOP to run him.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:05:40 +0000

I don't find the idea amusing at all.

As a conservative, and someone who's very concerned with reclaiming my party from the Gordon Gekko wannabe's and K-Street sycophants, the very IDEA is a personal affront to me.

If the Republicans were stupid enough to allow it, they would surely get everything that was coming to them for it.

I guarantee...

and I'm not even a Cajun.

-Mac
http://www.brownsludge.com

By: Rhymes With Right

Rhymes With Right — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:04:36 +0000

Delay Redux?...

I've noted more than once that Judge Sparks' ruling might mean DeLay coming back to Texas and making the run for Congress. Well, look at Time Magazine. A source close to the ex-Congressman tells TIME that DeLay is planning an......

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. Political junkies will want to bookmark Congressional Quarterly's CQPolitics.com, a site for breaking election coverage, that includes insider updates, maps and a scorecard for key races. James Joyner on the strange judicial ruling that might put Tom DeLay back in Congress: "It strikes me as quite bizarre that a candidate who has withdrawn from a House race on grounds that he is moving out of the state, has in fact moved to another state hundreds of