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Gerry adams to go for election in louth

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  • #62
    wellboy76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭wellboy76


    alex73 wrote: »
    Can't Speak Irish (Correctly),

    Hasn't a clue of Irish polictics.

    No qualifications, no 3rd level education, no experience managing a real economy (not one funded by London)

    He has great grass root support, to to leave his ground for louth is a risk

    I bet he is sh1t hot at COD Black Ops though


  • #63
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Not sure if this is such a smart move for them strategically.

    I mean the dyed in the wool core Shinner vote will love it but thats hardly the point given that by definition their vote would go to Sinn Fein if they put a monkey up as their candidate.

    A parachute candidate from another part of the country isint going to have much appeal to the floating voter though.

    But to be fair I wouldnt give the Shinners the steam of my p1$$ nevermind a vote so Im hardly in a position to advise them on electoral strategy.


  • #64
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    I hope the Louth people elect Gerry.

    On behalf of the people of West Belfast, who've been without representation in Westminster for far too long, I hope this.

    Surely the people who voted for him knew of their abstentionist position.


  • #65
    wellboy76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭wellboy76


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Not sure if this is such a smart move for them strategically.

    I mean the dyed in the wool core Shinner vote will love it but thats hardly the point given that by definition their vote would go to Sinn Fein if they put a monkey up as their candidate.

    A parachute candidate from another part of the country isint going to have much appeal to the floating voter though.

    But to be fair I wouldnt give the Shinners the steam of my p1$$ nevermind a vote so Im hardly in a position to advise them on electoral strategy.

    Put the monkey in a Celtic jersey


  • #66
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    I don't like SF either. But he knows Louth well, and he has a large degree of personal charisma which would work to counteract those problems. Don't forget, there's a large Belfast-born population in Louth too. He'll have a good machine on the ground and I'd expect him to convert a few preferences if he gets out and meets the public. Like Paisley, he's great at the plamas.


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  • #67
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Surely the people who voted for him knew of their abstentionist position.

    A lot of it is a personal vote. He's charismatic and well-loved by the locals. Joe Shinner from the Falls won't do half as well, I suspect.


  • #68
    sligopark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    alex73 wrote: »
    Can't Speak Irish (Correctly),

    Hasn't a clue of Irish polictics.

    No qualifications, no 3rd level education, no experience managing a real economy (not one funded by London)

    but well experienced at organising riots through to a thirty year war - better placed than gombeen politicon men down here who are experienced only at filling their own pockets...

    similarily organised lots of folks kids into a war he didn't send his own kids into ..

    go on surrender monkey gerry ...

    should have fought the Donegal SW election at least your second home sits up there off gortahork

    gerry me feiner no different from ff fg labour gombeen idiot politicians working toward an agenda they haven't a clue of


  • #69
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    A parachute candidate so.
    Doesn't live in the area and no record of constituency work for the locals
    not1but4 wrote: »
    Never been a fan of SF but I would definitely urge people not to vote for him. He couldnt careless about representing the constituency.

    The sad thing is he will get in as their would be a lot of support for him for the wrong reasons. I bet when he gets in he wont even live in the area. I'd say Thomas Sharkey wont be too happy to hear this anyway.
    feelingstressed wrote: »
    I've little time for parachute candidates

    I remember Dana running in Galway and asked to name 5 housing estates for the area she was going to represent
    Couldn't even name one :rolleyes:

    Maybe someone should ask the same question to Gerry Adams.

    I see what ye mean, but what we have today is the other extreme. Gombeen politics where the TD's hold ridiculously-called "clinics" to help people skip the medical card waiting list and get potholes filled on some backward lane when they have actually been elected to serve as national legislators.


    Adams thing is a joke though.


  • #70
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    As I said in the other post, I haven't seen the word communist used in this thread, it probably should be


  • #71
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    As I said in the other post, I haven't seen the word communist used in this thread, it probably should be

    http://reallygoodmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture25_1.jpg


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  • #72
    bouse23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭bouse23


    a lot of these messages smell to me of middle class snobbery. eamon de valera represented a county clare constituency all his political career yet never lived there. about his education any person born on the island of ireland can run for the dail regardless of education. it wouldnt really be democratic to insist all candidates have a 3rd level degree would it and the so called economic experts in this country have led us into this mess


  • #73
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    I hope the Louth people elect Gerry.

    On behalf of the people of West Belfast, who've been without representation in Westminster for far too long, I hope this.

    I think then you don't speak "on behalf of the people of West Belfast" who in fact elected Gerry knowing full well he did not intend to take up his seat in a foreign government.


  • #74
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Gerry is a legend.

    Fúck the haters!


  • #75
    sligopark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Gerry is a legend.

    Fúck the haters!

    Traitors like Gerry are legend

    Fúck Gerry


  • #76
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    sligopark wrote: »
    Traitors like Gerry are legend

    Fúck Gerry

    Shut up Sligo. Nobody cares about you.


  • #77
    Lirange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,151 ✭✭✭Lirange


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Pighead should contest the seat.

    Or maybe Jim Corr? :pac:


  • #78
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Love him or hate him, we all will have to accept him.


    (he hasn't gone away you know!)


  • #79
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Love him or hate him, we all will have to acknowledge him.


    (he hasn't gone away you know!)


  • #80
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    hell walk it .

    Ahern will drop an enormous amount of votes. If ever there was a time for a animated character to go up for election...


  • #81
    sligopark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Shut up Sligo. Nobody cares about you.


    Thanks bud - think we'll soon find out that no one cares about a spoofer surrender monkey from the north (who involved everyones kids in the war but his own) with no economic knowledge and no real truth to tell about anything - unless of course gerry is asked to identify which beach in louth he actually buried jean mcconville on ...


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  • #82
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    sligopark wrote: »
    Thanks bud - think we'll soon find out that no one cares about a spoofer surrender monkey from the north (who involved everyones kids in the war but his own) with no economic knowledge and no real truth to tell about anything - unless of course gerry is asked to identify which beach in louth he actually buried jean mcconville on ...

    Please share with me, oh wise one?
    What have your contributions been to the peace process to date?


  • #83
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    sligopark wrote: »
    Thanks bud - think we'll soon find out that no one cares about a spoofer surrender monkey from the north (who involved everyones kids in the war but his own) with no economic knowledge and no real truth to tell about anything - unless of course gerry is asked to identify which beach in louth he actually buried jean mcconville on ...
    On the point of economic knowledge, you best do yourself a favour and dip your eyes into some of his books he wrote (here).
    His understanding of economics is huge (and if anyone bothered their backside to actually look into this matter alone, would see this - instead of making unfounded statements) and also its relationship to political aspects which effect economies and how they are used/abused for gain outside the economic market of states.


  • #84
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    With any of them that knock on my door looking for a vote, my main thing is how my sport shooting was shafted in the last CJ act. I would be interested in Gerry's viewpoint on our current firearms act:)


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