Posted on 11/08/2006 3:58:41 PM PST by pissant
From the comments here at Free Republic, all she needed was blond hair and a short skirt.
I was speaking ideologically, not literally.
The GOP deserved to lose. Although it would most likely have been in the country's best interest for some of the GOP congresscritters not to have gotten what they would have deserved, they made a number of mistakes that probably cost them a fraction of a percent here, a fraction of a percent there, etc. Sheer stupidity. Why, for example, did they squeeze in that "internet gambling" nonsense? There are enough on-line poker players, many of whom would have voted Republican, that such a boneheaded move could easily have cost the Republicans 0.1% of the vote. Sure, that's not much, but when a race is going to be close a candidate shouldn't throw away votes like that.
Ironically, my biggest concerns are about whether Republicans will fumble after their loss, and whether our enemies will pick up a dangerous message from the election. The loss of power itself doesn't concern me nearly so much.
Indeed, if it weren't for those issues ("Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?") this loss could actually be a good thing for the people in Iraq. The Congress doesn't have the authority to yank us out of Iraq instantly, and giving the Iraqis a warning that they must become self-sufficient within two years would be better than having us win this one bug lose the presidency in 2008 (in which case the Iraqis would be left stranded without warning). Unfortunately, I fear Bush et al. may be tired of having to support the war effort when they're being undermined by enemies within the U.S. Can't say I necessarily blame them, but the Iraqi timetable is probably going to be rushed too much as a result.
The old goats should retire at reasonable ages, so ambitious conservatives don't have to run as Dems to get a chance. I wonder if we will be as unrelenting ridiculing 90 year old Big Daddy Byrd as they were about our old coots ion 2000?
No, they just have the authority to require it as a precondition of critical spending bills that cannot be vetoed.
I'm sorry, but Ann you are a bloody great soldier and you have my undying respect!
Love her to death. She's the best there is at driving right at the enemy.
And God Bless her for it!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
She cannot put a happy face on this
the GOP was spanked thoroughly
they went from clear majorities in the house and Senate to being a minority in both (probably)
they lost the majority of governorships and the number of state legislators that are dems is now a clear majority for them too
this was after intensive redistricting to ensure a republican majority---in those other years Democrats had control of the redistricting. Republicans that should have been safe are now out on the street
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
W & Co lost because they tried too hard to finesse too many issues. Ann really had nothing to do with it.
Bullsh. She was cheerleading the idiot wing of the party off of the cliff.
By this I guess you are implying that the most conservative segment of the party stayed home.
And I would ask you for proof of this assertion.
Ann's tone is wrong. It's just the usual. I would like thoughtfulness instead of firebombs just for oh, a change.
It's cotton candy. All fluff and invective.
First of all, I'd guess that the "Internet gaming" ban probably had more to do with Republicans' losses than Ann Coulter. So would you accuse the ban's sponsors of treason?
Secondly, Ms. Coulter's statements tied in with a paradoxical conundrum illustrated by The Maltese Falcon. The villain is threatening to kill Humphrey Bogart's character if he doesn't tell them where the Falcon is. Bogey points out that if he dies, so does the secret of the Falcon. The villain suggests to Bogey that while that's true, he doesn't always behave rationally (and thus the threat is still real).
Conservatives want their congresscritters to actually behave like conservatives. They threaten to withhold support if they don't. The congresscritters contemptuously threaten that if they're unelected the conservatives will suffer, so it would be irrational for the conservatives to carry through with that threat; they thus feel they can ignore the conservatives.
What would be nice would be if we could show the Republicans that we were willing to withhold support if they go too far left, without our actually having do so. Unfortunately, that isn't possible. Our apparent unwillingness in the past to act against left-leaning Republicans has made them oblivious to any such threats.
IMHO, the major goal of many people stirring up conservative discontent was to try to convince Republicans in Congress that they needed to acknowledge their base. Had the Republicans done so, conservatives would have rewarded them with support and everyone on the right would have benefited.
Oh well--too late now.
Just like Ann...
Didn't say that. I said "the idiot wing." They're the ones who think they're conservative. Problem is, they also think Paul Craig Roberts is a conservative.
I dare call it treason."
Helping a party you don't like win a national election is treason? So many freaks on this site...
The Dumbass Dimwits in Cleveland didn't know how to operate them.
No, it was to sell magazines and newspapers. Hope she doesn't spend her 6-10 Sieverts all in one place.
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