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?
One vote was lost everytime a top Republican said, "Islam is a religion of peace", or "we need a comprehensive, compassionate immigration policy."
Additional votes were lost every time world opinion or Democrat party operatives were allowed to interfere in or influence the conduct of the Iraq war.
sigh....yep.
My state had similar results. of our 7 reps. only one democrat and that's because of location. Artur Davis is more conservative than some pubs though.
I think Boortz says it best:
One thing is certain. The Republicans worked very hard for this defeat. They've earned every lost seat. The Republican majority that was sent packing yesterday bore little resemblance to the Republican majority that rode to power 12 years ago. In 1994 we were promised less government. Over the next 12 years the Republicans more than doubled the size of the government. We were promised control over runaway spending. In the last six years discretionary spending has doubled. We were promised fiscal responsibility. We got a bridge to nowhere in Alaska. We were promised the elimination of the Department of Education. After all, educational achievement had been on a steady decline since education was federalized under this Department. In no time at all the Republicans doubled funding for the Department of Education. In the meanwhile America continues to slip on the international scorecard of educational achievement.
Especially since he just voted for the first 700 miles of the stinking fence and the Angry about Immigration crowd fired him for it. This goes beyond cutting off your nose to spite your face. That is ripping out your tongue to piss off your Brain level stupid.
The real losers yesterday were the Border Security crowd. The ONLY people fighting for them in DC, the US House Republicans, just got fired. To spite their party, they just turned the Govt over to the Amnesty Now! crowd. Good luck to them getting ANY thing done now.
Hey, Horse,
Thanks for your service!
Wrong!!! The RATS just did it.
First. I voted. I voted a straight Republican ticket. I did this with one hand because the other was holding my nose shut.
Second. Republicans have been acting like Democrats in many ways for some time now. Immigration is a good example. Our 'leaders' mostly wanted to give them amnesty.
We demanded a fence instead. Our 'leaders' passed a bill authorizing a fence, but with NO MONEY to build it. A good many Republicans saw through this lie and were so disgusted that they stayed home. I am not one of them but I can't blame them either. They have a right to not vote. They are NOT slaves of the party.
Third. Credit where it is due. The democrats and thier mainstream media bumboys did a pretty good job of suppressing Repbulican voters. The recent scandals in high places caused many to stay home. They also are getting better at getting out their voters, legal or not.
We survived eight years of KKKlintoon. We will survive two years of this.
Afterwards, if Republican politicians can remember that they are supposed to REPRESENT our wishes in congress instead of patronizing us, they may get back in office. If not, not.
control federal spending, weed out the corruption; and concentrate on wining Iraq....
My point is this... most Americans do not know that we have a permanent military presence in Greenland. Why assume that they have remembered Serbia/Bosnia?
If the American public wants to duck and run out of Iraq, which is VITALLY important, how do they rationalize continuing the presence in parts of the globe that are NOT hot beds of terrorism?
Their only response is... "But young kids are DYING!" That response is not good enough for me.
How many Americans died in a car accident in the last three years? Using numbers alone, the casualty statsitics are not as dire as the liberals want you to believe.
War is WAR. And people die. Liberals need to get over themselves and LEARN about the world around them.
Hasert and Frist had no backbone and Bush was the compassionate conservative.
Pretty hard to win a battle when 40% of your squad spends all it time shooting it's leaders in the back.
...agreed. I voted for one reasonable anti-illegal-immigration measure and against another one. The one that I voted against passed overwhelmingly. It's a Referendum for my State to sue the Fed. for not enforcing immigration laws (a huge motivation for the Pres. and Congress to pass an amnesty bill).
Newt was proven right yesterday. 1994 still speaks.
Hopefully, the GOP will flush these moderate idiots out of positions of influence and we can get back to smaller government. Unfortunately, our soldiers will have to suffer through this Dem victory. They deserved better.
Let me hazard a counter what is becoming the CW here, that we lost because "Bush or the Repubs in Congress ABANDONED their base and Conservative principles."
My counter is:
To SOME extent that may have caused enough Republican voter erosion, but the REAL reason we lost as I look at the breakouts state by state is:
This time out we lost a VAST MAJORITY of the so-called INDEPENDENT Voters (yes I know many believe they are a myth), the same INDEPENDENT voters who voted enough WITH Geo Bush in '04 to get him elected.
And the main reason we LOST substantially more independent voters this time out is simple: The ongoing quagmire in Iraq.
The independents seemed to vote much more as an "anti-incumbent, anti-Bush" block this time than 2 years ago.
Plus, this is the vaunted off-yr election in year 6 of a two term Prez, and historically that causes erosion.
But if the KosIdiots and the lefty blogosphere is gloating that this was a vote against Iraq, well... I think they may be right, at least among the swingvoters who really did swing.
Republicans lost because in spite of the "New Media" hype, the old media still has a LOT of power. With an economy firing on all cylinders and the Iraq situation not half as bad in reality as it's portrayed, the Democrats and media got enough people to vote for "change". No matter how undefined.
Meanwhile the primary Republican strategy was try to use fear of Democrats to win. Neither party had much of a strong appeal to a majority of voters.
Carolyn
You didn't answer my question.
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