Posted on 05/19/2005 4:49:03 AM PDT by conservativecorner
How many presidential and senatorial elections must Republicans win before the Democratic Party accepts the fact that elections have consequences?
George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000. Four years later, with the prospect of several Supreme Court nominations an issue in the campaign, Mr. Bush increased his vote total by nearly 25 percent, winning re-election by more than 3 million votes.
Meanwhile, in 2002 -- for the first time at least since the 17th Amendment in 1913 provided for direct popular election of senators -- the party holding the White House recaptured majority control of the Senate in a midterm election. The party holding the White House party usually loses Senate seats in bunches in midterm elections. Four years on, after the Democratic minority had systematically engaged in obstructionist filibustering of 10 appellate-court nominations, Republicans swept five Democratic seats in the South on their way to increasing their Senate majority from 51 to 55 members. In a race in which the primary issue was Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's role as chief obstructionist to President Bush's judicial nominees, Republicans defeated the three-term South Dakota Democrat.
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We need to elect conservatives not republicans.
Exactly! Dems can't win by running as Dems, so now they run as "moderate Republicans".
Conservatives and libertarians (small L....I don't like that party)
The only way this is NOT going to go our way is if senator mcpain( media) AZ and his imp from Nebraska stop it. Otherwise Bill Frist will bring us home.
"We need to elect conservatives not republicans.
Exactly!
Dems can't win by running as Dems, so now they run as "moderate Republicans"."
Question, what about Republicans that are not Conservative? This will be the fight in the next election. A moderate Democrat and a moderate Republican teaming up as a third party can give the Whitehouse back to the Dems. Look what Perot did.
How many elections must Republicans win before they act like winners, and kick Demoass with vengeance???
How many elections do the Republicans need to win before they start acting like a majority party and stop being apologetic about winning???
Well said. Further, we need to find some actual Conservatives to run for office. Let's start the Common Sense Party and reach out to the folks in America with some sense. Screw the rest of them.
In the current configuration of modern American politics, the natural home of conservatives IS the Republican party. What's the alternative? The Constitution Party? Libertarians? Don't make me laugh....
There is more fundamental issue at bottom in this. The Senate is now and will always be an "Old Boys' Club" of political hacks who are tired of politics. Where do little Senators come from? The vast bulk of them come up from the House side of Congress. They "move up" to the Senate as a sort of old-age, superannuated beach party. Thus, go along to get along, collegiality, and yuking it up with each other at the bar afterwards.
The fires of ideology (and I mean that in the best way -- as a source of ideas) burn brightest in those institutions closest to the people, in the case the House. What's going on in the Senate isn't anything new -- they've always been the study, ponder, pontificate, and wait side of Congress. It was built to be that way.
That is a very good question and one that I have asked of the NRSC on several occasions. It makes me sick to think of all the man hours and money that were donated by loyal Republicans in helping to elect more Republicans in the senate. THIS IS OUR THANK YOU!
You hit the nail on the head with that one!
Cinc..I bet you believe there are two major political parties in this country or am I wrong????
Yes, and what better place for Liberals to infiltrate in an attempt to destroy conservatism. Last time I checked, I thought Zell Miller made a damn good conservative...
Am I mistaken?
I was chatting with a priest the other day who told me and encouraged me to stick to my principles on this one. He is doing the same thing.
There are at least two of us, I've sent two "survey" envelopes back with a note saying, "This could have contained a check for $50 but will continue to be a blank piece of paper until the Democratic Fillibuster is broken.".
Make it three, and I'm sure there are thousands out there doing the same thing. If we lose this fight on Jurists and the Constitution, I will NEVER give them one dime to fund a campaign.
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