Posted on 09/03/2006 1:12:40 PM PDT by Treize
The other day I watched a panel discussion about the forthcoming congressional elections. The panel's conclusions ranged from Bob Novak's grim report that some believe the GOP could lose as many as 30 House seats in November to John Fund's suggestion that all is not lost (maybe), to Human Events' John Gizzi's fear that Republicans will sit out the election to National Review Kate O'Beirne's less gloomy outlook.
All, however, agreed that the key to this election is Republican turnout.
If GOP voters, angered with their party's failure to live up to conservative principles, elect to stay home, Election Day in November will be an absolute disaster.
Most of the pessimists — and that includes just about every political guru around — insist that Republicans will sit it out, thus handing control of the House at the very least, and maybe even the Senate, to the Democrats. I'll accept that view only if Republican voters prove to be either politically suicidal of just plain stupid.
The concept that it's a good idea to wreak vengeance on the Republican Party by standing aside and allowing Democrats, who will proceed to wreak havoc on the nation, to take over Capitol Hill, is nothing less than a death wish that borders on insanity.
Getting even with congressional Republicans for failing to live up to your expectations by throwing them out of office is on a par with killing yourself to get even with your doctor because he failed to cure you of a bad cold while you are still suffering from a chronic disease that requires constant medical care.
The mood among conservative GOP voters may be sour, bitter, and resentful, but I can't believe that when Election Day rolls around and they recognize the consequences of staying home and handing the Congress over to the thoroughly demented Democratic Party, they won't bestir themselves to go out and cast their votes for their Republican incumbents or candidates, even if they have to hold their noses while they mark their ballots.
It is, after all, better than the alternative which is just plain unthinkable.
Think about it.
As the results in the recent Connecticut primary once again proved, the Democratic Party is in the hands of its now totally deranged, MoveOn.org wacko-left wing.
Democrat Chairman Howard Dean made that clear when he pronounced the leftist victor Ned Lamont the party's man of the future. The Party is now so far left that that they even dumped a certified liberal such as Joe Lieberman who votes slavishly for every item in their leftist agenda, for apparently not being liberal enough on the Iraq war.
What rational, sane, intelligent conservative Republican would want to see a congress that from day one would set out to destroy everything they stand for and for which they have fought so hard? We have an economy that is thriving, and it's booming thanks to the Bush tax cuts that took money from the spendthrift federal government and gave it back to the people who earned it and know best how to spend it.
A record number of taxpayers received and average of $2,100 tax refunds on their 2003 tax returns. They spent it, pouring billions into the economy which then took off like a rocket. The Democrats want that money back. They think it belongs to them.
Those tax cuts helped to create millions of new jobs, spark the establishment of job-creating new businesses and put more spending money in taxpayer's pockets. (And even vastly increased federal tax revenues along the way.)
All that would go into the trash can once Democrats got back in office and raised taxes, as they promise to do. Give them a full term on Capitol Hill and the economy could take a nose dive, unemployment skyrocket and scores of small businesses go under, driven down by new taxes and the kind of strangling government regulations Democrats just love to hang around our necks. Any new jobs would be with the government.
Look at the record:
After all, there's all those millions the trial lawyers give to the Democrat campaign treasuries.
In 1950 there were 16 workers to support every single Social Security beneficiary. Today it's just 3.3 workers supporting every beneficiary. Under the current system, today's 30-year-old worker will face a 27 percent benefit cut upon normal retirement age.
In 2017, 11 years from now, the government will begin to pay out more in Social Security benefits than it collects in payroll taxes — and shortfalls will continue to balloon with each passing year.
In less than 20 years the government will face having to come up with an extra $200 billion annually year to keep the system afloat. By 2033, that annual shortfall will be more than $300 billion a year — money that will have to be raised by huge tax increases. By 2041, when workers now in their mid-20s begin to retire, the system will go bankrupt — unless we act now to save it. Yet Democrats refuse to act, preferring to keep Social Security as a political issue they can exploit by misrepresenting GOP efforts to save the system.
They have also made it plain that they will attempt to de-fund the troops, thus forcing their withdrawal, exactly as they did during the Vietnam War, condemning millions to death or the slave camps.
Here's some of what allowing Democrats to control the House would mean:
Pelosi has also promised to harass the administration with countless investigations and subpoenas.
That would be an unlikely promotion for the man who, not so long ago, was known mainly for the fact that he was one of only six judges in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate.
The teachers unions, the abortion Industry, the labor union bosses, the trial lawyers of America, and the ACLU would be running things behind the scenes on Capitol Hill.
America is currently watching the sheer insanity of Democrats attacking one of the nation's most popular institutions - Wal-Mart, where 127 million people shop every week while enjoying the lowest possible prices.
This stand puts them at odds with the very people they hope to herd to the polls — middle class Americans. And why would they do such a crazy thing? Well they do it because big labor demands it. Big labor hates Wal-Mart and pours millions into Democratic campaign coffers. Big labor provides workers at the grass roots during elections.
What big labor wants, big labor gets from the Democrats.
You could say goodbye to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Mike Reagan, Bill Bennett, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, and Laura Ingraham. CBS, NBC, and ABC would be back in the saddle.
Only Republicans willing to see the Congress of the United States turned over a party now controlled by left-wing lunatics could stand by and allow that to happen simply to satisfy a desire to get even with the GOP for not doing everything they should have done to control illegal immigration and out-of-control government spending. And if they think things are bad now, wait until Speaker Pelosi takes charge in the House and Senator Harry Reid gets to run the Senate.
Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think when the chips are down, the majority of conservative Republicans will swallow their resentment and go to the polls in great numbers and vote to keep the barbarians from taking over and once again pillaging the United States of America. And don't forget, Karl Rove is at work, quietly doing what needs to be done to get our folks to the polls.
Oh how sweet that would be.
Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s.
He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
There's always time to repent and return to the true faith.
Who was it who said how can you say conservatism won't work when it has never been tried?
Aint gonna happen.
Just to play devil's advocate, what would REALLY happen if the Democrats won back the House in 2008?
President Bush would still be president and would still be able to veto any bill that did not pass his muster.
The RINO Senate would probably moderate any extremism from the House.
The GOP will be sent a lesson that ignoring the conservative wing means loss of power, just as much as ignoring moderates.
The Democrats will have lost a campaign issue for 2008 when they would try to argue that a GOP-led Congress is leading us down the road to ruin.
The mainstream would get a quick reminder, just in time for 2008, what unstable kookballs now run the Democrat party.
While nobody wants Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers or Alcee Hastings running the House, a quick taste of what it looks like might be the very BEST thing that could happen to reawaken the conservative base and drive them to the polls in record numbers.
Personally, I love not being ruled over by the king of England. Not knowing history, one may wonder whether a monarchy has ever been tried.
Ideas often work only when you don't notice them. How does one recognize non-government, aka "freedom"?
Oops. Major correction here.
"What would happen?"
The war on terrorism would be seriously damaged by congressional investigations more numerous than maggots on rotting meat. No intelligence type would dare risk there neck trying to stop attacks on the US.
no, the house must be held as well.
This is just an amazing piece of truth - I hope everybody who has any relative who is even considering staying home on election day will send them this article - it might help to wake them up.
The RINO Senate would probably moderate any extremism from the House. RINO's are not doing a decent job now. I doubt things would improve if Repbulicans lost some seats.
The GOP will be sent a lesson that ignoring the conservative wing means loss of power, just as much as ignoring moderates. Awful tough lesson to learn. What if democratic success carried through to 2008? Can you say President Hillary?????
The Democrats will have lost a campaign issue for 2008 when they would try to argue that a GOP-led Congress is leading us down the road to ruin. Now that could happen. After all, Americans usually blame the ruling party.
The mainstream would get a quick reminder, just in time for 2008, what unstable kookballs now run the Democrat party. Yeah, like the mainstream would ever learn (or even admit) that kookballs are runnig the democratic party. While nobody wants Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers or Alcee Hastings running the House, a quick taste of what it looks like might be the very BEST thing that could happen to reawaken the conservative base and drive them to the polls in record numbers. Again, I would worry that an '06 victory would transfer to an '08 victory.
And in a sense, it will. If Republicans can keep a majority, then that will be enough to move ahead to 2008. But if democrats win now, then......
Don't worry, be happy. :>)
"The concept that it's a good idea to wreak vengeance on the Republican Party by standing aside and allowing Democrats, who will proceed to wreak havoc on the nation, to take over Capitol Hill, is nothing less than a death wish that borders on insanity."
He nails it.
And EXCELLENT article!
Kudos to Brennan and thank for posting it.
And what's jeopardizing the turnout? This delusional and suicidal madness for amnesty and open borders by the President, Rove, Mehlman, McCain, et al.
These "leaders" are trading away our culture and our adherence to law and order for some imaginary votes 30 years down the road. They give loyal conservatives the choice of letting the Democrats take over now and lose the War against Islam (honest definition), or continuing with those Republicans who want to turn the country into a third world Tegucigalpa a few years down the road. great choice!
Come out strong against amnesty and the southern invasion and you will get the 63 million who turned out in 2004 and more. Or continue on the current path and lose.
And don't blame the no-shows. Blame yourselves. The election is in your hands. Don't be stuck on stupid!
You are advocating for a Dem takeover of the House, making it sounds as if it were no big deal.
Last time they took power, they kept it for forty years.
Trying to advocate that losing is winning is insanity.
Democrats have big plans if they take over in Congress
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694596/posts
"Democrats will press to get out of Iraq. They'll mount investigations into the Bush administration's record that could rival those of Presidents Nixon in Watergate and Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair. They'll push a boatload of social-welfare legislation, such as raising the minimum wage, that reflects their pent-up priorities, while blocking the Republican agenda on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion and religion. "
Is that what you want?
PING to an interesting and insightful article -- maybe some of them read your posts from a while ago, on the subject.
"Most of the pessimists — and that includes just about every political guru around — insist that Republicans will sit it out, thus handing control of the House at the very least, and maybe even the Senate, to the Democrats. I'll accept that view only if Republican voters prove to be either politically suicidal of just plain stupid.
The concept that it's a good idea to wreak vengeance on the Republican Party by standing aside and allowing Democrats, who will proceed to wreak havoc on the nation, to take over Capitol Hill, is nothing less than a death wish that borders on insanity.
Getting even with congressional Republicans for failing to live up to your expectations by throwing them out of office is on a par with killing yourself to get even with your doctor because he failed to cure you of a bad cold while you are still suffering from a chronic disease that requires constant medical care.
The mood among conservative GOP voters may be sour, bitter, and resentful, but I can't believe that when Election Day rolls around and they recognize the consequences of staying home and handing the Congress over to the thoroughly demented Democratic Party, they won't bestir themselves to go out and cast their votes for their Republican incumbents or candidates, even if they have to hold their noses while they mark their ballots.
It is, after all, better than the alternative which is just plain unthinkable."
John Conyers as majority chairman of anything things me.
I'm not staying home, but I didn't plan to either.
John Conyers as majority chairman of anything scares me.
I'm not staying home, but I didn't plan to either.
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