Posted by
The Eagle's Quill on Friday, November 10, 2006 4:03:37 PM
Democrat candidate, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Brad Ellsworth, who campaigned as a conservative on many social values enjoyed an
easy victory over Republican incumbent Congressman John Hostettler in Tuesday's election.
Sheriff Ellsworth positioned himself as a "pro-life, pro-gun, pro-Israel, pro-traditional marriage, pro-House immigration bill, anti-federal funding of embryonic stem cell candidate, who doesn't want to cut and run in Iraq." Indeed, such stands would garner him the moniker of "arch-conservative" by activists in the national Democratic party.
What probably is most amazing in this year that everyone understood would be a good one for Democrats, and in which Representative John Hostettler was seen as possibly the most vulnerable Republican Congressman in the nation, is that the Democrats were maneuvered into choosing a congressional candidate who was
conservative on many
social issues.
There will be many important early tests for the Congressman-elect. Among them will be what kind of pressure he can bring to ensure that Rep.
Alcee Hastings, impeached by the US House of Representatives and convicted by the US Senate for bribery and other crimes when he was a judge is not appointed chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.