Posted on 11/08/2006 8:58:05 AM PST by Positive
The Six Reasons Are:
George "Macaca" Allen
Linc "libidiot" Chafee
Conrad "Loose Mouth Abramoff" Burns
Mike "Useless" Dewine
What's His Name "What'd he do" Talent
Rick "Maybe he's in a liberal State" Santorum
You're right - as much as I hate to admit it too. If nothing else, Iraq provided the "honorable" reason to vote Dem rather than "we just hate bush."
You mean No Borders.
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Well, that is what I was saying. Big, wide open borders.
The GOP lost because they...
A) Spent money like Democrats
B) Wimped out under anti-war pressure and failed to fight the war aggresively enough
C) Paid lip-service to the illegal alien crisis until it was too late (and too little, too late)
D) Became corrupt with power
Most of the freepers understood you.
So we cut off our noses to spite our faces. Brilliant.
1. Failure to win in Iraq - or have any measurable success in sight.
2. Failure to seal the borders or pass meaningful immigration reform.
3. Failure to limit the size of government.
4. Tolerance of corruption.
5. Failure to have a coherent energy policy.
+1
President Bush is not a good 'television' president. I support him (except for his immigration stand), but find it painful to watch or listen when he is on the tube.
I was talking about the msm. I didn't think that their constant negative reporting would have hurt us as much as I think it did. We obviously have a long way to go and I honestly thought that the general population was better informed then apparently they are. FOX News was even a major disappointment this election cycle.
You know...we need to stop blaming everyone else for our problems...we remind me of my 6 year old. "IT's not OUR fault...it's the liberal MEDIA!!! Yeah...it's THEIR FAULT!"
How's this for a notion: If we didn't hand them box after box of ammo...they wouldn't have near as much to fire back at us!
Don't blame the rabbid dog for biting you when you stick your hand in it's cage. This is a mess of our OWN doing. Stop trying to blame everyone else like the GOP leadership is innocent. They are not. They are at fault...the drive-by media were just willing accomplices. We are at fault for not purging our RINO's during the primaries (like people on here suggest ALL THE TIME but never happens) so those republicans who don't want to vote Dem-light wouldn't have to. IF we would police our own...then some people wouldn't have to make a choice on whether to vote or not. The media just goes along with the ammo we give them...and we have given them plenty to work with over the last 4 years.
"Don't START nothin'...won't BE nothin'"
Actually it only takes two words:
Bush
Iraq
What an unmitigated load of bullcrap.
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Prove it.
And the drive by media made sure everyone knew what failures the Republicans were...over and over and over and over and over........on ABC,NBC,CNN,CBS,MSNBC....over and over and over and over........
People only know what the press tells them, and boy, did the liberal press go out of their way to make sure it showed up in peoples nightmares! They made sure "hate Republicans" was seared, SEARED into their memories.
Their constant propaganda was even posted here ..over and over and over and over and over ....
It was a left wing media coo. The left wing media won this election.
Mark "he's just a friend" Foley.
That doesn't matter, the Republicans deserve what that got. We needed to clean house anyway, and this was a great catalyst.
Bush
Iraq
Well looks like he'll fix that...Bush will announce in an hour or so that Rumsfeld has resigned...
Bingo.
"of"? I plead typo. That should read "on."
I found the Dan Simmons "Time Traveller" piece very good. If you haven't read it, and I suspect you have,
(http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm) it is worth it.
Well, now they have a Muslim in Congress. Perhaps the Mouth of Sauron will put him on Defense and Intelligence...
Most people aren't political. They watch the news. Have you EVER heard the press attack a political party the way they did this time? They didn't even hide it.
That's what the voters heard.
He who controls communication controls the world.
"Bah, only 1 reason Repubs lost. They no longer represented the actual Repub voters.
Big Spending
Big Government
Big Borders"
Exactomundo!
Without the media, you'd never know that, would you? Or are you psychic? You got your info from the media, didn't you? 77% of all media reporting was designed to be anti-Republican. You listened to them.
Why not vote Republican and demand a change? Why let those who'll be the exact opposite of what you want take over? Does that make sense to you? It's self defeating, but that's how the press told you to think, and you did.
Repeat a lie often enough and loud enough and people will begin to believe it.
Reasons I see that we lost.
1. People do not like a 4.4% unemplyment rate.
2. The electorate doesn't like low taxes.
3. The electorate doesn't like the fact that there have been no further attacks on our soil in five years.
4. People don't like low inflation.
5. People don't like high GDP growth.
6. People on't like that fact that we have freed 52 million peopel in the lst five years. They quail at the fact that it is taking more that three weeks to clean out the riff-raff in Iraq.
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