Posted on 11/08/2006 5:27:18 AM PST by teddyballgame
It's the fault of the GOP in general, not President Bush's fault in particular.
Bottom line: Repubs campaigned as moderates and lost. We DONT WANT guest work programs, open borders, PC Iraq war, getting along with dems, moderate judges....
This election was lost in the individual races. Corker won as a traditional Republican. Allen would have too if he could have kept his fool mouth shut. I don't know why Talent lost though.
You are right in this and in all your other points. Democrats played on people's ignorance and gullibility (don't they always?) 9/11 was a wake up call, but memories are very short. People gradually become lulled into a false sense of security until the next tragedy occurs. I don't think this is something that can be changed, nor can the negativity presented by the DBM. It's something that has to be acknowledged, dealt with and turned around to our advantage. Newt and the GOP Congress did that with welfare reform and Bush did it with tax cuts. Someone resourceful can do it with the WOT.
I've a feeling women who once voted for Republicans, voted for Dems overwhelmingly this time. Hope to see a breakdown soon on this.
You are absolutely right. This election is something which really is "Bush's fault." He and his father destroyed the conservative movement with their non-confrontational approach to the Demonrats. The face of the Republican party in recent years has been not Ronald Reagan but Gerald Ford: superficially conservative, ineffectual, not very bright, lacking principles, mentally wimpy country-club Republicanism. Many of Bush's top people, like Cheney and Rumsfeld, are relics of the Ford administration. Condy is actually a disciple of Kissinger, IIRC. I began to get a bad feeling about W when he turned the last nat'l convention into a showpiece for RINOs like Schwarzenegger and Guiliani. Bush is completely out of touch with the average voter. His obsession with open borders and free trade with enemies like China betrays the big-business, country-club Republican orientation we should have expected from his MBA education.
President Bush would veto such a bill, and his veto would stick.
It's the arrogance and hatred like that is being spouted in this thread that lost this election.
If this is indicative of the Republican party, then we will lose for a long time to come.
Excuse me? These dems have and will make us less safe and take MORE money from me...and you want me to LIKE THEM? I don't think so. Also, the DEMS DESPISE REPUBS! And the won, didn't they?
What it is is democracy. Believe it or not, the system still works.
So you want to bow to their level then? How does that make us any better?
You do realize that the same people that put the Republican party in power (swing voters) are the same people that took us out, don't you?
We have two years to make them trust us again. Better start now.
Agreed. By 08, I predict the mushy middle again will be sick of the party in power and vote them out.
Also, Hillary wont get squat. I still firmly believe she is basically as electable nationally as Ann Coulter is.
"The problem is that too much of the general population is too easily swayed by the media hammering them with negative news and opinions on the war."
If a truthful history of the Decline and Fall of America is ever written, the most important factor will be identified not as political strategy or this or that election result. It will be the systematic takeover of the media and educational establishment by the Left. Traditional Judeo-Christian ethics are being swept away by popular entertainment, the children are taken away and brainwashed that Western culture is evil, and the sheeple are swayed by propaganda at election time. I'm old enough to remember when we had Republican newspapers and magazines among the mainstream media. Why don't we now? Why don't conservatives found their own educational schools and media? (Yes, I know the Christians do, but they are a small minority now.) No conservative should send his kids to a Leftist govt. school, or to his good old Ivy League alma mater, which is now a factory for Leftist indoctrination. Conservatives have to quit focusing on making money, while leaving intellectual matters to the Left. Our civilization is in mortal peril, guys. Wake up.
I'd just like to say at this point that, with very few honorable exceptions ('sup, Mr. Steyn?) I think the conservative commentariat has been largely feckless over the last year. So frankly, I think their first priority after the election is to go get fecked.
Bullsh!t. Any one of these freshman so-called "moderate Dims" who doesn't strictly follow the extreme-left party line as laid out by Pelosi and her minions will have a very unpleasant single term in the House. That fact will be made crystal-clear to them in the coming days and weeks by the Dim leadership.
I've already been rumors that the Democrat who won Delay's seat is going to switch to the GOP because he knows he doesn't have a chance in hell of winning re-election there as a Democrat.
I agree with you. The unfortunate reality is that it's going to take another serious attack for the dims and their followers to get their heads out of their arses and recognize the terrorist threat for what it is.
Dont be so sure. Remember, George Bush I, "No New Taxes". He threw that pledge away to get democrat support for the Gulf War. I would not bet a plug nickel but that GWB will do the same thing to get funding for either the continuation of the Iraq War or some other spending program. After all, now he is attempting to give himself some kind of legacy and he has flubbed up his conservative legacy big time, the only legacy he can get now is with some kind of left wing agenda.
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