Posted on 11/08/2006 4:30:06 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
Watching in stunned amazement from the other side of the Pacific, trying to take in the electoral devastation meted out to the GOP, I have only one question (and my inquiry is genuine): How the hell was this allowed to happen?
It's the same country, but the rot at its core will accelerate with Dems in power.
It wasn't *allowed* to happen. It's tough when illegals and dead people vote and the other party still has some integrity.
All this could mean is that the government won't be able to do anything for the next two years; the president still has veto power, the dems don't have enough to override it, and after two years of this, it might be just enough to a Republican sweep in '08. Maybe it's not such a bad thing after all.
OTOH, maybe the end is near and God's getting ready to deal with the Sodom we're becoming.
Did you vote RAT? Are you glad this has happened?
I was thinking the same thing this morning. I don't thik I have been this depressed since the Toon won. The next two years will be just awful.
That is it in a nutshell. This is the election that the MSM won, aided by many Republicans - not all - who had little courage and sought actions that would bring nice editorials from the NYTimes. Republicans lost their way. They sought not to lead, as the House of 1994, they sought to protect their personal power and thus became much like Democrats. Combined with an unrelenting activist MSM, the outcome was near inevitable.
Welcome to FreeRepublic and thanks for the lecture.
Here's what happened in my district in Georgia. Did my property value just go up?
U.S. Representative, District 6
97% of precincts reporting Votes Percentage
Tom Price (R) 138,461 72.2%
Steve Sinton (D) 53,338 27.8%
Nonsense.
This war is three years old and you use words like "long time"
That is ridiculous.
Moreover, this war has been a huge success by any empirical standard. The media imposed a total blockade on positive interpretations of Iraq. Bush's comments were ample but always deprived of a context of supporters.
Republicans and conservatives have always been happy to collaborate with traitors at the slightest sense of offense (immigration).
Its too bad this McWar didn't meet your high standards.
The terrorists are celebrating this morning.
Yeah the Angry about Immigration people just fired the ONLY people, the US House GOP, who were fighting for their side. They just turned the whole Govt over to the Amnesty NOW! crowd
Man sure going to be tough for the Conservative team to ever win another battle when their squad spends all it time shooting it's leaders in the back instead of the enemy
The southern and red states will rally next election. The dems think they have been given a mandate, they will start by pushing their liberal agendas, this will anger the conservative bases in the red areas and we will rise again. Look at the elections lost, blue blood areas or areas where DNC focused their energies. THe RNC needs to clean up, and we will be fine. If anything it shows we need some party discipline, some good spankings here and there will get us to behave. Besides if I don't pull out my optimism I will drown under my depression. :)
Not now....not in this type of World.
With the MSM banging the dems. drum for a solid year, it would have taken an outright assault by Republican voters. Very sad day for America..sad indeed.
At any rate...we just got the government we deserve. It is said that many of the democrats who were elected were "conservative"..so we can hope that their influence will moderate the lunatics who make up the 'rat leadership.
Pray for the United States, God is still in control.
I think people began to question globalism and just exactly what that meant for the likelyhood of America remaining a free and independent nation rather than just a trade zone.
True...so true....
Which message was it, that we need to select more conservative candidates or more liberal ones?
Good question, I'm asking myself the same. I'm so disgusted. So disgusted!
It is pretty obvious to me looking at results that Libertarians got a protest vote in this election which would have thrown the election to the Republicans.
There are definitely people here at FR who participated in this ridiculous temper tantrum.
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