Posted on 11/06/2002 4:31:08 AM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!! Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
THE SENATE HAS BEEN LIBERATED!!!
THE DASHCLEAN CAPTIVITY HAS COME TO AN END!!!
In the pre-game analysis yesterday, the media pundits, the media talking heads, the leftist prognasticators who are all visionary gave the following pronouncements:
The demoflops would either take control of the House or reduce the GOP majority.
The demoflops would hold on to, or increase, their majority in the Senate.
The demoflops would take a majority of the state houses.
The demoflops would win in the state of Florida.
Now that the game has been played, and the contest settled, it is time to look at the scoreboard.
The headline in today's Washington Pravda says it all:
1. House - demoflops FAILED. The GOP has at least maintained their current majority. The current status is:
GOP - 226
Criminal Party - 204
Can't Decide Which Party - 1
There are still four races that have not been decided. These are:
CO 07 - GOP leading 48-46% with 88% counted
LA 05 - headed to runoff, 3 GOP candidates with 66% of the vote
NM 01 - GOP losing 49-51% with 98% counted
TX 23 - GOP losing 47-52% with 74% counted
2. Senate - demoflops FAILED. The GOP has gained absolute majority. The widow Carnahan has lost her race, so applying Missouri law, Daschle is no longer the Illigitimate Majority Leader, and resumes his correct title of Minority Leader.
LATE BREAKING - MINNESOTA CALLED FOR COLEMAN!
GOP - 51
Criminal Party - 46
Can't Decide Which Party - 1
There are still two races left to call:
Louisiana - headed to runoff, 3 GOP candidate with 51% of the vote South Dakota - Thune(R) leads by 949 votes with 99% counted
3. Governors - demoflops FAILED. The GOP retains a majority of the state houses.
GOP - 26
Criminal Party - 19
Can't Decide Which Party - 0
There are still five races to decide:
AL - Incumbent demoflop leads by 3,139 with 100% counted. Likely recount.
AZ - GOP losing 44-47% with 99% counted. Likely recount.
OK - GOP losing by 6,357 votes. Likely recount.
OR - GOP losing 47-48% with 76% counted.
VT - GOP leading 45-42% (13% for 8 minor candidates) with 96% counted.
The demoflops hoped to legitimize Carnahan. They failed.
The demoflops hoped to win in Minnesota with Mondale. They failed.
The demoflops hoped to cashier Jeb Bush in Florida. They failed. JEB WINS BY SEVEN POINTS! NO RECOUNTS, HANGING CHADS, OR MISSING ELECTRONS HERE!!
The demoflops hoped the voters in Northern Virginia and Tidewater Virginia would willingly vote to raise their own taxes. They failed - on both counts.
The demoflops hoped to make the election a referendum that would denounce the President. The President picked up the gauntlet. THE DEMOFLOPS FAILED IN EVERY CATEGORY POSSIBLE!
IT IS A COMPLETE DEFEAT FOR THE CRIMINAL PARTY.
Tomorrow - we get down to business. But...
TODAY - WE RELISH OUR FULL VICTORY.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Maybe the jet on their plane will fall off???
I'm in Maryland!
Yeah, right! The Republican majority (man does it feel excellent typing that!!!) should give the RATholes the same level of cooperation and consideration as they gave us....zip, zilch, zero, nada!!!
The American people, with the help of the Lord above, took a giant step towards reclaiming our country from the forces of evil.
My thanks go out to each and every one of you for your tireless efforts, your patriotism, and most importantly your faith.
Just got off the phone with a friend in Tucson. We are bummed that Matt Salmon looks like he's not going to win here in the governor's race, but our state house and senate are gonna stay republican, so that Clinton-clone socialist Napolitano will have a very tough time pushing new taxes on us. And of course, the sun is shining on the Senate again!! We are just amazed because even HAWAII went Republican for Governor. Here in AZ, we have had Republican governors for quite awhile, so alot of people wanted a change and fell for the slick Napolitano campaign.
I'm not sure how the left can analyze the election and conclude the GOP should cooperate with the demoflops.
HA! I interpret it quite the opposite. America was fed up with the demoflop brand of leadership, and they wanted something different. They put pubbies back in charge in the Senate. I think they've wanted that all along, it's just the GOP has tried to "get along" before, and the Daschlean Captivity was the result.
No, I think the electorate wants the GOP to LEAD! It is up to the demoflops to get along with US - not the other way around!
If I ever run into tom strickland, I'm going to ask him if he thinks it was hopelessness and despair that hijacked airplanes and flew them into buildings and fields.
This man was nearly elected to the U.S. Senate.
In Colorado's new 7th District, which includes me, the race is not over, and I am very concerned. Bob Beauprez, a fine Conservative Christian man, is only leading the reprehensible mike feely by 48% to 47%. feely is another democrat that Hugh Hewitt not only quoted for the last 2 weeks, but was also ripped to shreds by Hugh during an interview on Hugh's radio show. feely clearly SHOT OFF HIS HUGE ORAL ORIFICE about "Chickenhawk Republicans running for office who haven't served in uniform." Hugh confronted feely with this and it was obvious that feely could not defend it and had thrown a temper tantrum when he had said it.
Apparently, thousands of mail-in ballots had the wrong due date on them and the results are uncertain. I'm VERY concerned that this horrible democrat party is going to figure out a way to steal this and I'm going to go from Tom Tancredo's representation to this shooting-off-at-the-mouth, temper tantrum throwing adolescent democrat.
I'm not sure when we will find out.
As great as the victory was for us Republicans and for America, I am still EXTREMELY CONCERNED. The reason I say this is because so many races are so close, when they should be landslides for the Republicans, or, if they are close, that's close between the Republican and the Libertarian, or close between the Republican and the Constitution Party Candidate, or even close between the Republican and the Green Party Candidate, or even close between the Republican and the Reform Party Candidate, or close between the Republican and the Independent Candidate, etc., but NOT the democrat. It greatly concerns me that after those horrible 8 years and after 9/11 and after the amazing leadership of President Bush, the VAST MAJORITY of the American people still don't get it.
Just as slavery was ABOLISHED, the democrat, the party of bill clinton, the party of algore, the party of terry macauliffe, the party of jesse jackson and al sharpton, the party of robert byrd, the party of tom daschle, the party of ted kennedy, the party of larry flynt, the party of al-Qaeda, the party of Commmunist North Korea, the party of Saddam, the party of lies, filth, race-baiting, lawlessness, socialism, treachery, perjury, obstruction of justice, abuse of power, obfuscation, confusion, pornography, hate, and death, should also be ABOLISHED.
The analysis of the past elections led Rowe to believe that what they needed was precinct workers on the ground going door to door. It seems someone told Rowe about "nuts and bolts" politics. The Republicans organized volunteers to go door to door and make personal phone calls to their own neighbors in selected precincts in 41 states. Most of the seats at the Bush rallies were reserved for these volunteer workers. They think the volunteers increased Republican turn out in the areas it was done by about 5.2 percent. They will know more as they get into the precinct by precinct analysis.
The fact is they got out the vote the same way the Democrats have always done it. The truth is the Democrats did not get out their core vote. What we saw here in Ohio took place almost nation wide. Let us say it took place where it was most needed. In precincts where it counted we out hustled the Democrats for the first time in recorded history. Make that recorded or unrecorded history.
It turns out that in many states the McAuliffe and Clinton crowd turned their backs on "nuts and bolts" and went with media. Their turn out was down 5 or 6 percent from normal off year elections. Races that were expected to be razor thin turned out to be blow outs because the Democrat turnout was light and the Republican turn out was heavy.
There is all the talk that Bush will have to court the Democrats. Kiss that goodbye baby goodbye... The Democrats in the senate will look at what toeing the leftist line did for Cleland. It cost him a sure thing. That will not be lost on Democrat Senators that have to run in 2004. Bush has coat tails that rival or exceed FDR's coat tails. Cross him and he will come to your state and defeat you was the message from last night. Over and over there will be a dozen Democrats telling their leadership that they dare not cross Bush.
There will be 10 or 12 Democrats who will just simply tell their leadership to shove it. Their object at least until bush's popularity falls, will be to convince BUSH that he has zero reason to pick them out to be defeated in 2004.
Bush is at least two 800 lb Gorrilla's. And many democrats will be trying to vote on key issues it so he has no reason to go after him.
This electin was a the way this game has never been played. Bush put his entire store of political capital at risk. It did not turn out to be the risky investment the Democrats thought it was. There was not much rish and it paid 3,000 Percent Interest in just 3 weeks. Bush now has FDR sized political capital in the bank. The democrats don't have enough to get Bill Clinton a Big Mack if they were on sale. They certainly couldn't aford the fries with that.
How many people will follow a Daschle or Gephardt in an effort to challenge George Bush. Only those Democrats that got elected last night and will not have to run again with Bush on the ballot or in the White Jouse.
Lots of people were critical of the Republicans in the Senate. They thought Hastert and Lott were doing it all wrong. They wondered why Bush was trying to reach out. Why he was trying to offer his hand as Daschle slapped it?
We got the answer last night. In bad and dangerous times the voters want leaders who will work together to solve problems. Leaders that won't get defeated. Bush, Lott, Hastert et all were constantly trying to work out the problems. Even on the Judges Bush was trying to find common ground.
Severl times I mentioned in my posts that in times like these the candidates and party that is trying to work together and fix things prevails. I think that is true.
Tto those that thought bush was doing it wrong. I would ask.
This is 100+% correct!
And this message needs to be hammered at Trent Lott early and often!!
True. But it misses a point.
The math.
The evening started with 14 governorships not up for election. Of these 8 were demoflop, 6 were pubbie. This, of course, means there are 36 races that are in competition. It also means we started the night two in the hole, so to speak.
When the dust cleared, of the races that had been decided, the GOP had won 20 of those 36 races, or 55.5% of the contests in which they fought. (This calculation does not include Vermont, which looks like a GOP victory.)
So, even spotting the demoflops two governor slots (call it election affirmative action - they'd love that!), the GOP STILL ends up with a majority of the state houses.
The math favored the demoflops, and they couldn't capitalize!
It seems the libertarian in SD cost Thune that race.....took around 3,000 votes from him..
I couldn't agree with you more. But that is for tomorrow (the literal tomorrow). Today, we celebrate!
the DU?
Yesterday was fullof voters in my precinct. We (officers) kept looking at each other saying "This is supposed to be an "off" year. Look at how busy we are!" The voters just kept coming and coming and coming. It was quite exciting to see!
The Criminal Party - always with the dirty tricks.
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