gosh, he's SO smart. Glad he's our governor. Can't believe regurgitating advice from an ex-president doesn't qualify someone for mensa. Go Martin! Use that big ole brain.

HAHAHA. Petty, much?

Please... PLEASE campaign people.... please let me be more positive... You know, like I have been to Pat Jessamy....

Strange how none of these posters got elected Governor. . .

Word on the street is that O'Malley may have won the battle with Ehrlich but lost the war. He's now been damaged way too much politically from all the turmoil and problems that he had for 7 yrs as Baltimore Mayor, e.g. 7 police chiefs in 7 year. The rap on O'Malley is that he's a good campaigner but a horrible executive. I suspect that he'll be a mediorcre governor just like he was a mediocre Mayor.

Poster Rob is still angry that Bobby Haircut lost. But, Ehrlich lost because he was mean and petty. O'Malley won because the people saw that he actually cares about people.

It truly would be hard to be more meciocre than the guy who's leaving. Being Governor will be easier by far than being Mayor of Bloodymore, Murderland.

And good execs get rid of people who won't do the job.

It looks like the working men and women of Maryland are being set up for a sales tax increase which was not mentioned in any campaign TV ads. That tax increase will be a slap in the face every day and in every place of business.

It's time to Mr. Ficker to crawl back under his rock. It's two more years before you get to waste our time on another useless campaign - so leave us alone for now.

No way do we need a sales tax increase.

O'Malley is about to be exposed for what he truly is -- an incompetent moron. He will run Maryland into the ground over the next 4 yrs with skyrocketing budget deficits and do nothing to cut crime in Baltimore or the rest of the state, just like he failed to do when he was Mayor of Baltimore. Alot of Marylanders gave him a free pass in 2006 but will not do so if he doesn't deliver the goods he promised by 2010 (and he made hundreds of millions of dollars worth of promises, by the way, which won't be met).

poor pathetic tim....his world ended on November 7th and he has only his delusions to comfort him.

Baltimore Voter-- Only time will tell how good or bad a Governor O'Malley proves to be. We'll just have to see, but based upon his track record as a very mediocre Mayor don't hold your breath for him to do well. Happy Holidays.

Tim - O'Malley's track record as Mayor was excellent. Crime down, record investment and construction, more efficient city services.

Ehrlich's track record....not so much. That is why he lost. Except it and Happy New Year.

If he raises the sales tax, you can stick the fork in the turkey; for, he is done.

What do you expect from a Baltimoron?

They can barely speak English, let alone write it, hun. Or is it hon?

Can you believe Lieutenant Governor-Elect Anthony Brown is asking for a fundraiser if you want his recommendation for a job in O'Malley administration? The Post reporters should also report about the new corruption.

Baltimore Voter-- Two things. First of all, fyi, you incorrectly spelled "except it" when you shoul have written "accept it." Maybe you should pick up a dictionary for Christmas. Second, the rap on O'Malley is that while he's good at campaigning, he's absolutely horrible at governing. That's why he went through 7 police chiefs in 7 years, more than any other Mayor in the United States during this time. And that's just one example. I could list dozens but it's the holiday season so I won't. Cheers.

This is great, the Republicans still haven't realized that spouting the same mindeless Bill O'Reily/Carl Rove mud doesn't work anymore. For proof see most recent election returns....

There is an interesting book by a famous Historian named Barbara Tuchman, a brit, called the History of Stupidity, on her definition stupidity is the inability to change tactics even when it is obvious that the current tactics aren't working anymore. I.e. being so tied to a certain rhetoric that one ignores the facts.

The Republicans in this country are at just such a point, for 6 years their genius was their ability to completely ignore the facts, Carl Rove's secret was 'Say the same thing 10 times and like mesmerized children watching commercials the american public will believe it.' Get some other mindless dolt to repeat the same thing, over and over as well, and what do you have whallah, a country of mindless dolts ignoring the facts and repeating what they heard Bill O'Riley or the Washington Times say.

The funny thing is that at some point the public wised up, i.e. you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time. The realization that the Republican rhetoric actually had nothing to do with anything real, other than mesmerizing people into voting for them, was a shocker to some of these people, who suddenly woke up from this bad dream, were mad and voted the Republicans out of Office in a landslide, and I do mean landslide.

The good news is that the Republican leadership is betting on the same strategy, you are getting very sleepy, repeat after me......and still don't care about the facts. The problem is it won't work, not many people want to go on the Kool-Aid...

And the Republican's thinking the same thing will work again, well thats just stupid.

DC Dave-- What on earth does your post have to do with this topic of O'Malley sharing his advice???? You really need to pay more attention to the threads if you want to participate in any meaningful dialogue, otherwise everyone will just your posts as chilish and empty.

DC Dave-- What on earth does your post have to do with this topic of O'Malley sharing his advice???? You really need to pay more attention to the threads if you want to participate in any meaningful dialogue, otherwise everyone will just dismiss your posts as childish and empty.

O'Malley is off to a horrible start. Check out the start by Elliot Spitzer, the newly elected Dem Gov of NY (and the guy who has brought corporate America to its knees). Also Deval Patrick, another newly elected Dem Gov from Mass, is off to a great start. O'Malley needs to follow their models. O'Malley is already making excuses about running budget deficits, that's not good and it's not what he was elected to do.

Maybe O'Malley should take a page out of Barack Oboma's pagebook not Bill Clinton's. Obama is the new star of the Dem party, Clinton is yesterday's news.

You mean instead of taking Clinton's advice about interns, O'Malley should do what with Obama's pages?

My point was a general one, since this thread is kind of about how national politics effects local politics, so I thought sharing my views might be informative.

Specifically I was refering to poster 5, in the local market, that paragraph shows how Maryland Republicans are using the Rove playbook, i.e. this is the 'word on the street' that O'Malley is damaged goods. This will be repeated over and over again but is not factually true given the fact that he just won an election against a popular pragmatic Republican governor who I have to say turned out to be a much better politician than I thought he was. I.e. the hope is to start damaging him now and spinning everything he does so that by 2010 he will be damaged.

Personally I see it as a strategy that makes the Republicans easily beatable, i.e. instead of talking about the issues they repeat viscious and unsubstantiated rumors over and over again trying to raise Democratic Candidates negatives so high, that voter turnout gets suppressed.

Look at the crack about Obama and the pages, now you can't tell me that there is a shred of truth to that, after the Foley thing, in a Republican controlled Senate, anything substantiated at all would have come out.

The good thing about Republican mud is that it washes off pretty easy right now, and the mud being slung at O'Malley right now after he hasn't even taken office is going to wash off easiest of all. :)

What will not wash off is the grand incompetence that O'Malley brings to the office. All we need to do is record all the mistakes that are coming.

After this great upcoming legislative session where O'Malley rebuffs many of the legislature's calls for tax increases, gets the budget under control, and still moderately invests in important domestic priorities (education, living wage, higher emission standards), we will see the emergence of O'Malley as one of America's top Governors. Count on it.

MD GOP enjoy the wilderness because we are going to put an end to you. I can't wait til we redistrict 1 of your 2 GOP congressional seats into a Dem laning district. Its coming.