Posted on 05/19/2007 6:24:48 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Whatever
And if Bush signs amnesty and that tears apart the GOP (and no less a figure than Rush says that is a distinct possibility), it STILL won't be their fault.
Agreed.
But sometimes on a thread, that is all you get.
“Thanks to the dopes that stayed home”, & BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...
So, I thought I’d just ask the question and see what pops up for answers.
I cajoled, begged and pleaded for folks to get out and vote to keep the GOP House in place. But at the end of the day, when you have Hastert more concerned about an FBI raid on a corrupt Dem congressman’s office than pushing core GOP principles, the GOP really didn’t give swing voters much of a reason to vote for them.
Why don't you spew that crap where it belongs, against the Politicians who are causing this. Or are you one of the elite that thinks the Politicians are not to blame?
Not just that, some of the RATS ran to the RIGHT of the Republicans (Schuler and Ellsworth come to mind) because the Republicans were so pathetic.
So tell me, then - if Bush signs this abomination of an amnesty bill (one made possible by an alliance with Ted Kennedy and the Dems), would he bear any responsibility for the damage that will cause to the GOP?
Shall we post all the hundreds of threads, Conservative media articles, and comments by radio hosts who demanded that we punish for Foley, Hastert, Delay, spending, illegals, Iraq, Macacca, Santorum supporting a RINO, and on and on and on?
It has been every man for himself here for a long time now.
But look on the bright side, Bill Clinton as First Lady will be a hoot.
And President ObamaOsama will build a mosque in DC, and we will be as enlightened as Europe!
Anyone arguing the validity of the "stay at home" factor in 2006 and 2008 need only read the comments posted on this thread.
You can argue, but the marks on your screen will defeat you.
Very poor analysis of why they lost. The ONLY people who voted for them were the conservatives. The wussy moderates went with the “moderate” democrats.
Santorum got CRUSHED. Are you telling me there was another 200,000 conservatives available who sat home. Nonsense.
It looks to me that conservative turnout wasn’t the reason Santorum lost. It looks to me that the only midterm that conservatives skipped in recent years was Hafer in 1990.
2006: Casey Jr. 2.36 million, Santorum 1.66 million
2006: Rendell 2.43 million, Swann 1.60 million
2002: Rendell 1.91 million, Fisher 1.59 million
1998: Ridge 1.74 million, Itkin 0.94 million
1998: Specter 1.81 million, Lloyd 1.03 million
1994: Ridge 1.63 million, Singel 1.43 million
1994: Santorum 1.74 million, Wofford 1.65 million
1990: Casey Sr. 2.07 million, Hafer 0.99 million
1986: Casey Sr. 1.71 million, Scranton 1.63 million
1986: Specter 1.91 million, Edgar 1.45 million
I'll agree... but at least when the Republicans were in control, there was no way a shamnesty bill would pass. I know that the Republicans from 2001-2007 spent and grew government like Democrats... but all of us knew the Democrats would be worse, especially in terms of shamnesty. Ergo, do-nothing Republicans are preferable to screw-the-country dems. Now, all doubt has been removed.
ANd conservative Jon Kyl and conservative John McCain were the co-authors of this.
George Allen? Don’t you know Democrat Jim (my aides only carry firearms to shoot cockroaches) Webb is in there now?
How dare you! Disagree with nonsense.....that's their real problem, no one is buying the RINO talking points any more and it makes them crazy.
Funny, isn't it, how ALL the anti immigration propositions passed in the last election. But they can't admit the obvious.
One more time.
The lie, "anti-illegal immigration people cost the repubs the 2006 election!! The truth:11.5% of all Republican seats in Congress were lost as Democrats took back control of Congress But only 6.7% of the Members of Tancredo’s Immigration Reform Caucus lost their seats.AND- one of them was Hayworth who voted against HR 4437!
# 9.6% with an A grade lost
# 25.0% with an F grade lost
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/electionanalysis.html
Actually "conservatives stayed home" because they were concerned about a possible asteroid impact. There, that's my theory. It's just as good as yours and I have just as much evidence.
Great point new yorker 77! I love the sarcasm. Reminds me of how Rush will make a point. Thanks to all the idiot Republicans who stayed home the last election. They have nobody to blame but themselves for all that has happened and is going to happen.
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