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The Coming Permanent (?) Electoral Disadvantage
self | 11/12/08 | crusher

Posted on 11/12/2008 8:09:25 PM PST by crusher

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1 posted on 11/12/2008 8:09:26 PM PST by crusher
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To: crusher

Wow! Thanks for cheering us up!


2 posted on 11/12/2008 8:12:39 PM PST by April Lexington
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To: crusher

All ten points are perfectly true.


3 posted on 11/12/2008 8:12:55 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: crusher
Warren Zevon summed it up:

Lawyers, guns and money.

4 posted on 11/12/2008 8:13:54 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: crusher

I fear you are right, particularly regarding the illegal aliens.

Sure there may be a traditional voter backlash like we had a couple of years ago, but by the time the next election comes around we won’t matter, because all of those illegals will be voting.

I’m not big into the whole doom and gloom thing, but we could very well be finished as a relevant national political power.


5 posted on 11/12/2008 8:16:01 PM PST by KoRn
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6 posted on 11/12/2008 8:16:37 PM PST by zeebee
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To: crusher

Very good points. Out situation has become ......beyond disgusting.


7 posted on 11/12/2008 8:17:53 PM PST by unkus
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To: crusher; Chet 99; DesertRhino; ExTexasRedhead; Frantzie; GOP_Lady; HamiltonJay; impeachedrapist; ...

United States of America,

Born: July 4th, 1776

Died: November 4th, 2008

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

We lost it.


8 posted on 11/12/2008 8:18:02 PM PST by Perdogg (Gov Sarah Palin - President 2012)
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To: crusher

To be frank, I think you’re an optimist.


9 posted on 11/12/2008 8:21:08 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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All of this is a very plausible scenario if everything goes perfectly for the Democrats in the next 2 years in power.

All we have to do is to look at the Republicans when we had control of the legislature and the POTUS to see that things don’t always go the way you have planned.

Things will happen that no one has prepared for that if we respond the right way we can be back in a more favorable position with gains in the Senate and House in 2010.


10 posted on 11/12/2008 8:22:19 PM PST by Moconservative
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Where you go wrong is if there are no jobs for them ... then what? Remember Carter got the unemployment rate up to 8% in short order. Economists are saying we should top Carter highs in 2009. Carter was also famous for stagflation, with inflation headed up at about 12%.

Reagan suffered the worst as unemployment continued to go up during his first two years, before finally beginning to come down.

We are currently pushing up towards 7% unemployment. Don't need people to do the jobs Americans won't do, anymore.

11 posted on 11/12/2008 8:26:27 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: Old Sarge

Bump.


12 posted on 11/12/2008 8:30:19 PM PST by Styria
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Number 3 alone is enough.

McCain won 55 percent of the white vote. With that, he probably would have won the presidency in say, 1980. But the new nation we've immigrated in place of the one that elected Reagan won't elect conservatives.

The Electoral College map says it all. With the Southwest and Florida flipping blue or should we say “azul” (and even Texas will too eventually) the Presidency is being put out of reach of Republicans.

The fact that even a fanatic open-borders idiot like McCain can't sway the new nation, so long as he's the R in the race, would be funny ...were the consequences of permanent leftist rule not so devastating.

13 posted on 11/12/2008 8:34:27 PM PST by Dagnabitt (What (child) Would Mohammad Do?)
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To: crusher

Some folks think they can act with impunity, and there won’t be consequences.


14 posted on 11/12/2008 8:35:04 PM PST by BigEdLB (Six months from now there will be 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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He nails it.


15 posted on 11/12/2008 8:35:05 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: TheWasteLand

To be frank, I think you’re an optimist.


I couldn’t agree more.

The whole situation is deteriorating and the sheeple

aren’t to be relied upon for any improvement.


16 posted on 11/12/2008 8:35:58 PM PST by unkus
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To: Dagnabitt

That’s it.

I’m starting a plan to move to Alaska


17 posted on 11/12/2008 8:36:28 PM PST by IOWAfan (Still smiling -- Iowa 24 - Penn State 23)
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To: crusher

11. Obama’s promised 95% tax cut which is actually a socially engineered redistribution of wealth will add another 10% of voters who do not pay any federal taxes. Wanna raise taxes on everyone else? No problem. The 50%+ who don’t pay anything will keep them in office.


18 posted on 11/12/2008 8:36:52 PM PST by DrewsDad
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I believe this is the last election for a long time. ACORN is so well organized and has been going on for so long with everyone being aware of the organization and not taking it seriously. The apathy on the republican side is embarrassing. Obama will stack the courts with thug judges and the thought of a civilian brown shirt military force absolutely terrifies me. I do believe before that happens though the people or at least 50 million who actually work will just boycott and not work and just bring the country to its knees. Not a pretty picture but I think we are heading in a direction of anarchy!


19 posted on 11/12/2008 8:38:31 PM PST by classified
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Imo, unemployment is worse than 7% when you factor in the underemployed. You get let go from a sixty thousand dollar a year job to work as a Wall Mart greeter doesn’t even factor into those statistics. :( People are hurting.


20 posted on 11/12/2008 8:38:58 PM PST by Texas_shutterbug
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