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6 Reasons Why Republicans Lost
Election Returns | 11/07/2006 | Self

Posted on 11/08/2006 8:58:05 AM PST by Positive

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To: I see my hands
How do you make the box, with a table?

41 posted on 11/08/2006 9:17:18 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( Creationists are as smart as Macroevolutionists.)
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To: I see my hands
"One reason: Accommodation of domestic enemies."

Rodney King Syndrome? (Can't we all get along?)

42 posted on 11/08/2006 9:17:37 AM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: flashbunny
I wonder if people will take the hint, or try to run more 'moderates' like rudy in 2008.

The RINO-coddlers are already screeching that we lost because we didn't go liberal enough. How's that for insanity?

43 posted on 11/08/2006 9:18:07 AM PST by Prime Choice (We lost because we lost our way. It's time to purge the party of all RINOs now.)
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To: Terabitten

Opinion: 6. Having the media work against them, and people naive enought to trust the media.


44 posted on 11/08/2006 9:18:29 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( Creationists are as smart as Macroevolutionists.)
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To: The_Republican

Macaca (picky).


45 posted on 11/08/2006 9:19:33 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( Creationists are as smart as Macroevolutionists.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
The Talent commercials I saw were odd. Except the negative ads which were on message. The others were either promoting something liberals would like or declaring he was not and has not "rubber stamped" the President. Okaaaay. Yawn. So what.

I believe I read somewhere that those ads were due to fact that he was hurting among women, especially surburban Republican women he needed to win. Sure didnt do anything to gin up the base but i believe the base turned out. It was just independents turned against Jim (probably because R after his name)

46 posted on 11/08/2006 9:20:21 AM PST by Dave S
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To: delphirogatio
I am concerned that the problem is actually more insidious than that. In fact, the democrats never offered a single plan for Iraq.

Like it or not, neither did our side. We kept playing grab-ass and repeating the "stay the course" mantra long after we should have adapted our game plan. What's worse, we fought this war like we were somehow entitled to win it and never made any decisive blows on our enemy's will or capability to fight. And then our "leaders" totally screwed the pooch by letting the likes of Moqtada al-Sadr go free when we had him on the ropes and then, mere months later, al-Sadr and his goons went right back to killing our troops.

In light of those colossal screw-ups, the Democrats didn't have to offer the voters anything apart from "We're not those guys."

47 posted on 11/08/2006 9:20:55 AM PST by Prime Choice (We lost because we lost our way. It's time to purge the party of all RINOs now.)
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To: Prime Choice

The RINO-coddlers are already screeching that we lost because we didn't go liberal enough. How's that for insanity?

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There was a lot of that going on at 4 a.m. on the big election thread.


Conservatives don't get elected. They get re-elected.


48 posted on 11/08/2006 9:21:08 AM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: 84rules
OK but...

"...Denny Hastert Bill Frist..."

Remember those two "wastes" were put in place by their colleagues.

49 posted on 11/08/2006 9:21:17 AM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Positive
I have 6 real reasons:

1. out of control spending
2. size of government doubled in the last decade
3. do nothing party about illegal immigration
4. pork spending transparency
5. bridge to nowhere
6. all the while concentrating on issues that won't win elections: (abortion, gay marriage, flag burning)

good enough for you??? GOP lost because of their own stupidity, the voters didn't fail them, the GOP failed the voters.
50 posted on 11/08/2006 9:21:47 AM PST by Element187
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To: Positive
THE BORDER!
51 posted on 11/08/2006 9:22:24 AM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: MadeInAmerica

BINGOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!


52 posted on 11/08/2006 9:22:40 AM PST by fairtrader
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To: Element187

Did Irey beat Murtha?


53 posted on 11/08/2006 9:23:15 AM PST by LYSandra
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To: MadeInAmerica

You mean No Borders.


54 posted on 11/08/2006 9:23:28 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Terabitten

Hell, if you ask some of the RINO-coddlers around here, we should be voting for big-spending liberals just because they have an 'R' by their names. That 'R' will make those liberals magically support conservative issues, y'know! (/SARCASM)


55 posted on 11/08/2006 9:23:39 AM PST by Prime Choice (We lost because we lost our way. It's time to purge the party of all RINOs now.)
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To: MadeInAmerica

Funny you mention this........ I was telling my democratic neighbor that his party left him years ago but he still votes for them. Most of the main characters beliefs in the democratic party is no way near to my neighbors beliefs but they still stick with them.

I'm beginning to wonder if you aren't right, they (Republicans) don't represent our beliefs anymore. I think their biggest problem is they have no backbone. Look at all the wrong things the Dems do and they are still there yet, the Reps do something half as bad and they give up.

I just read where Faith Hill made a statement that she did not get pissed when they anounced the winner of the top female vocalist yesterday and yet, I saw a video of her showing her emotions, bet she will get away with her answer (which was "it was a joke", where have we heard that before.) I don't know what her party affliation is and don't really care but its a case of getting away with a lie.


56 posted on 11/08/2006 9:24:02 AM PST by depenzz (When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you have something to watch)
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To: Ingtar
And so America voted in bigger spending, bigger government, and bigger borders. Is this a great country or what?

how else are you going to get the message across.. congress never returns emails or phone calls.
57 posted on 11/08/2006 9:24:38 AM PST by Element187
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To: Hones

Mogadishu, Somalia - cut and run. This convinced Bin Laden the Americans were paper tigers. Attack on 5 or 6 foreign American instillations or the Cole. We did nothing in response. Attack on World TRade towers - killed 3000. We respond to Islamofascism with attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. 8 months later the American will is atritted. It takes 3 more years effect the governing body of the US....Now the policy demanded is to do the same thing as we did in Somalia....We wait....for an attack...and deal with our law enforcement problem of the murder of perhaps tens of thousands or millions of Americans. So.....WE WAIT.


58 posted on 11/08/2006 9:24:41 AM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: Positive
Remember those two "wastes" were put in place by their colleagues.

And people wonder why I won't support RINOs. There's two reasons right there.

59 posted on 11/08/2006 9:24:48 AM PST by Prime Choice (We lost because we lost our way. It's time to purge the party of all RINOs now.)
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To: adorno
It's just 2 more years to the next election cycle

Maybe they'll learn something in the next 2 years.

60 posted on 11/08/2006 9:25:22 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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