Posted on 05/10/2006 6:06:18 AM PDT by Small-L
With six months to go until Election Day 2006, are Republicans doomed to defeat? And what of President George W. Bush: If the Democrats win back the congressional majority, will they seek to investigate - even impeach - him?
The answers to these two questions are linked. That is, Republican voters, angered, in particular, over Bush's shilly-shallying on the immigration issue, are inclined to let the GOP suffer a little in 2006. But they don't want to see the 2004 presidential election results overturned. After all, this is a conservative country; Republicans have won seven of the last 10 presidential elections. Not since 1964 has a Democrat won the White House on a liberal platform - and even that Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, was from Texas....Democrats would probably win more than the 15 seats in the House needed to make Pelosi the speaker of the 110th Congress...
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The conservative mantra should be "fool me for fourty years, shame on you; fool me again, shame on me."
Note to GOP: STOP pandering to liberals, armed guards on the border, STOP pandering to liberals, NO amnesty, STOP pandering to liberals, pass HR4437, STOP pandering to liberals!!!
WinWin in November, very simple.
I do believe the repubs will hold on to both senate and house, if by smaller margins. it seems to me that every election as far back as i remember dems seem to poll well early but end up losing the election. Yes, the repubs have not been all we hoped to be, but the idea of a san fransisco dem in charge might be a motivator in itself
Conversely the "hope of defeat gives true conservatives reason to vote third party".
While I refuse to vote for a DemonRat for any office, just who will I vote for? Hmnmm, I just don't know, I damn sure am not happy with the Republicans including Pres. Bush. I've never thought that way in the 23 years that i've been voting, but there handling of just about every issue is pushing my limits. Get rid of the damn illegal aliens, that'll be a good start.
Except for '74 and '94, non-presidential year elections have not been "national" elections. They have been local referendums on a specific Senator or Congressman.
Speaker Hastert is a vulnerable in his solid R district as Phil Crane was in his solid R district and as Dem leaders Daschle and Foley were when they were voted out. The difference is that nobody has organized the disgruntlement with Hastert in his district and the Dem candidate is a joke. (Their strongest November candidate lost the primary to a DU ideologue.)
In the contested 6th R-Roskam vs Dem-machine-Duckworth and in the 8th R-McSweeney vs finger-to-the-wind-Bean the elections are strictly local. The good and bad of Bush is irrelevant. I suspect the same is true in other districts.
Look at Ohio. Blackwell, Schmidt, etc have more to do with what is happening in OH than what is happening in DC.
All politics is local.
Nothing.
Fear is the great uniter. If the gop leadership can create enough dread and enough uncertainty in the future, they believe that the weak-in-the-knees "party faithful" will once again hold their noses and vote republican.
How far will this bunch go to scare the electorate?
It really doesn't matter...the Democrats, under the leadership of Kennedy and McCain, are running the country anyway. The Republicans have not set the agenda since Newt's "Contract with America" in 1994, and they failed to carry that out. They are too weak, no match for the Democrats and their attack dogs in the media. Only a few, like DeLay, tried to speak up, and the Democrats managed to destroy him...thus providing an example by the Democrat Mafia as to what happens to uppity Republicans.
These are the fruits of the seeds sown by a Republican party of no convictions and no backbone to stand up for what's morally right for the good of the country. I don't want to see the liberals take control again but the writing may already be on the wall. I'm certainly fed up with the lackluster performance of the GOP. I don't believe the administration has done anything deserving of impeachment proceedings but there's another element of the the fear campaign being waged by the 'Rats.
All politics is local, indeed.
Those so hopeful of teaching the "Republican Party a lesson" almost certainly live in a district where the GOP candidate is safe.
The party in power usually does lose a few seats in off year elections. This is normal. The key this year is to hold that loss to a minimum. The way to do that is to find the vulnerable districts and send money and volunteer your time to the GOP candidate in that district, who will certainly be more conservative than the Democrat.
And if you are an immigration zealot, that is your right. The way to blend both imperatives if to find vulnerable districts or states where the GOP House or Senate candidate shares your view and focus your money and time there.
This year we'll hear how they fully intend to do "something" about the borders, like "enhanced enforecement" or something, and they need more time in office to do it. Just wait for it and lap it up like good little boys and girls.
"I damn sure am not happy with the Republicans including Pres. Bush. I've never thought that way in the 23 years that i've been voting, but there handling of just about every issue is pushing my limits. Get rid of the damn illegal aliens, that'll be a good start."
I think it is simple: Vote for any of the over 200 Republicans who voted for the Sensenbrenner bill in the House, and vote for any other Republican who isnt a RINO on the issue. Ditinguish between good republicans and not-so-good ones.
Why would I punish my rock-solid COngressman, who has been good on immigration issues for over a decade, because of,say, John McCain?
It makes no sense, lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater. OTOH, it will be an effective message if all conservative GOP folks get re-elected but a few RINOs run into election trouble.
I am not scared of the Democrats controlling Congress, what I am scared of is the Democrats controlling Congress and the White House. If Democrats had the Presidency and a majority in both houses they would do something with it like reward their liberal base with every program they have been promising for decades. They understand a moment where you control both two branches of government has become quite rare and they would make the most of it. As a Conservative and member of the Republican base, I am still waiting for this President with a majority in both houses to push forth the agenda I thought would be acted upon when He and is Party were given the helm of the Ship of State.
Hopefully, some of them realize this and get a spinal transplant, as well as a "truth detector" that shocks them when they stand before us and it shocks them when they tell us yet another lie.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I can accept the fact that Republicans are weak, but to say the Democrats are stronger is just completely wrong. They have the media backing them, but a liberal, by definition, is a wimp.
Men with testosterone in their veins are not liberals.
I know man, i'm just steaming mad with all the Bull$hit that my elected president is behind. I mean I support the war even though i'm sure that Iran & North Korea should have been on the hit list first. I support him on the right to tap phones of out of country originated calls & the Patriot act etc.... But I'm finding it harder & harder to keep supporting him especially in his handling of our borders & the illegal scumbags clogging our streets demanding this & that.
No true conservative could hope for a Dem win in November.
Bush's tax cut would be revoked.
His No Child Left Behind would be gutted (except for the money to the schools) guaranteeing ignorance from public school graduates.
The Medicare plan would drop private company's participation and be totally government run and funded, just as Gore wanted.
There would be no chance for additional conservative judges to be appointed for any level, much less the Supreme Court.
Repeal of Roe v. Wade would be impossible.
Illegal immigrants would be given amnesty and citizenship, guaranteeing Dem control of many southwestern states. No wall, no nothing!
America would turn tail and run from Iraq, making OBL very happy, and letting the rest of the Muslim world know we are the wimps OBL says we are.
Iran will get a nuclear weapon.
Israel would be abandoned in favor of Palestine.
No new refineries, no nuclear plants, no drilling for oil or gas in the continental US would be allowed.
Labor unions will be running homeland security.
We can watch while every moonbat charge of the last six years is investigated by Congress....tying up the Administration and the military testifying.
Anyone on this forum pushing for a Dem win in November to punish Republicans is a fool.
Think of those cliffhanger votes to confirm Justice Roberts
or to deafeat the renewal of the AWB.
This is no time to get stupid. The worst RINO is better than
any Democrat because the Dems *will* vote to take your guns, to surrender to the terrorists, to pick your pockets.
Picture Pelosi as SOOH. That should scare everyone.
"They have the media backing them, but a liberal, by definition, is a wimp.
Men with testosterone in their veins are not liberals."
I would call FDR, Harry S. Truman and JFK men with plenty of testosterone in their veins who were all liberals, at least in their day.
Of course THAT sort of liberal, today...looks like Ronald Reagan (a great FDR Democrat in his day).
Trouble is that liberal has ceased to mean simply "socialist". In the past, there have been plenty of tough-as-nails socialists who could be counted on in a knife fight.
TODAY, though, being an American liberal means being a socialist AND a pansy.
Harry S. Truman was a socialist.
He nuked Japan.
"Liberal" used to not be synonymous with "pansy".
Today, well...
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