Posted on 11/22/2004 9:29:20 PM PST by cgk
We all remember TRIANGULATION, right?
Not even a good dodge, when you earlier said "for those who left the GOP, their opinion means absolutely nothing concerning the GOP."
Kerry and Gore's percentages of the popular vote in 2004 qand 2000 were within a point of Clinton's in 1996. The reason President Bush won these most recent elections is because many Perot voters came home to the GOP. You think Karl Rove and President Bush didn't want and cultivate those votes?
There was supposed to be massive vote fraud this time around, but there simply wasn't.
That issue killed Spence Abraham here. He got doubleflanked(worst case scenario outside of a scandal).
I don't think Hitlary has the credibility to pull it off given Billy's stance. Gep could have done it, maybe Clark and Dean.
You are right Hillary is way too polarizing. Someone else could pull this off though.
"Rome wasn't destroyed by barbarians storming the gates. It was destroyed by barbarians who walked through the gates peacefully to enjoy the benefits of Rome."
Ronald Khol
Poll Schmoll. It doesn't matter. It's a done deal. We do not have the man-power to close the border even if the Powers-that-be wanted to. We don't even have enough man-power for Iraq ... let alone Lord knows how many other hotspots on the verge of needing attention.
Unless we have a thriving economy we will not be able to survive in these perilous times. We need the money to fight the wars we have decided to fight. So ... we must import the labor to kick the economy into the highest gear. Period end of story.
AND ... we need the younger generation to pay into FICA to support our welfare state. It takes five workers paying in to support one old fart sitting on his ass. You've heard you can't fight city hall ... well that goes times 1000 for the fed welfare state.
First of all, Malkin said the GOP should be very concerned about Hillary on the basis of her staking out ground to the right of the GOP on immigration. I agree with her.
On Hannity and Colmes tonight, Laura Ingraham made the same point and Sean Hannity as well as Democrat Pat Cadell both agreed 100%. I suppose to you that makes them vacuous or having no sense as well.
But what do Malkin, Hannity, Ingraham and Cadell know? After all, if they were so smart they'd be spending a bulk of their time posting on internet forums! (/sarcasm)
I think Hannity and Ingraham realize the importance of nominating a REAL conservative in 2008, rather than a RINO, because of issues like this. Hillary is cunning, and she will trample over a RINO with no principles, running to his right on some issues. I also wouldn't put it past her and Bill to surreptitiously back a third-party conservative to draw votes from a RINO, like Perot did in 1992. (The Dems may have had George Soros in 2004, but the Clintons could have Mark Rich in 2008.)
I am confident, though, that Laura, Sean, and Rush will use their programs as forums to make sure that we nominate a REAL conservative, and keep Hillary out of office.
Amen!
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