While Democrats Fiddle...

USNews.com ^ | 1/18/04 | Gloria Borger

[Texas_Dawg]

Just one more example of why Bush will win in a rout in November and why the paleo misanthropes around FR are so ridiculously wrong about everything.

[Texas_Dawg]

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[prairiebreeze]

Best to not get cocky IMO. But I hope the article's correct.

Prairie

[T Lady]

It may well depend on who the Democrats decide to put up for the nomination. The party bigwigs are trying their darnedest to oust Howard Dean, rightfully believing he could torpedo any hopes of a White House win; Gephardt would probably present somewhat of a threat for Bush, especially if the economy doesn't remain in an upward trend. And even if the knuckleheads do go with Dean or even Clark for that matter, we as Republicans cannot just sit on our backsides; we all know too well how the 'RAT smear machine works. But I indeed share your enthusiasm and support for our president.

-Regards, T.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Just one more example of why Bush will win in a rout in November and why the paleo misanthropes around FR are so ridiculously wrong about everything."

The rout I do not doubt. Some policies executed on the way are troublesome.

Bidding for the center with liberal policy may make a larger party, but the right wing on which I sit will crumble from underneath. Y'all can have your liberal Republican Party. I'll find other vehicles for conservatism.

(BTW - If you wish to attack, please justify the $2,000,000,000,000.00 Medicare Drug Entitlement for Rich People. Otherwise, I'm ignoring you.)

[Texas_Dawg]

Bidding for the center with liberal policy may make a larger party, but the right wing on which I sit will crumble from underneath. Y'all can have your liberal Republican Party. I'll find other vehicles for conservatism.

You win those people to the GOP forcing the Dems to come further to the middle/right to get them back... the whole spectrum shifts to the right. This has been happening for a couple decades now since Reagan. Spending has gone up (so has the GDP) but taxes have gone down, business restrictions down, concealed carry gun laws spreading everywhere, abortion attitudes have shifted greatly to the right, etc, etc. The GOP is winning by being smart with the field they have been dealt. Being radical isolationists does nothing for anyone.

[Uncle Miltie]

(BTW - If you wish to attack, please justify the $2,000,000,000,000.00 Medicare Drug Entitlement for Rich People. Otherwise, I'm ignoring you.)

[Texas_Dawg]

(BTW - If you wish to attack, please justify the $2,000,000,000,000.00 Medicare Drug Entitlement for Rich People. Otherwise, I'm ignoring you.)

A move to take away a Democratic issue that will win voters to the GOP and ensure all the other conservative issues they support. Let me ask you... are you going to be paying more money this year from your paycheck for this hike? Or are you paying the federal government increasingly less money under GWB? If you are paying less, why do you care?

[Zechariah11]

This is a great article. I was surprised Bolger could be so astute.

[Zechariah11]

It's Borger. Use the "Preview" next time.

[Choose Ye This Day]

he didn't attack. He merely clarified.

You're right: I think the Prescription Drug thing is bogus and shameful. I'm also hacked off about illegal immigration. So what are my choices?

1) Sit out the election--which basically becomes a vote for the Dems, especially in Stalinist Minnesota.
2) Support a more conservative 3rd-party candidate who has no chance of winning, basically becomes a vote for the Dems.
3) Hold my nose, vote for Bush, but raise as much hell as I can with my Congressmen that they had better take spending and immigration seriously, and put a rein on Bush's irrational exuberance.

None of the three choices are great, but if it's a tight race, I've gotta go with Option 3.

You do what you want, and I won't attack you for it.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is a remarkably accurate article for a national magazine. Especially telling is the statistic near the end of the article that Democrats have shrunk to 49% of the state legislatures. There are 7,400 state legislators, and when you add the fact that some of these are southern Democrats (people like Zell Miller), the bottom line is clear.

The Repubs now control the "farmk teams" of politics. The legislatures are the breading grounds for future state and federal officials. This is very good news.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread).

[Richard Kimball]

He was always smarter than he let on.

[Jorge]

First, there's the extraordinary unity among Republicans when it comes to George W. Bush: They don't just like him; they love him. By some accounts, more than 90 percent of Republicans approve of the way President Bush is doing his job.

Can't be 90%. According to some disgruntled posters Bush has lost his conservative base over the immigration proposal.

[Texas_Dawg]

According to some disgruntled posters Bush has lost his conservative base over the immigration proposal.

Funny how you can lose a "base" that never voted for you in the first place.

[KC_Conspirator]

Then: "Ask not what your country can do for you" Now: "You sit down. You had your say."

LOL! Ain't that the truth.

You know I heard Gloria Borger saying the exact opposite of what her article here is saying just 2 weeks ago on Matthews' show. I wonder what made her suddenly realize that Republicans won congress and a majority of state and local seats for the past decade?

[quantim]

Anybody getting anxious for the next one?

[expat_panama]

45.2 percent of voters lean toward the Democrats and 45.5 percent lean toward the Republicans

Dang!  This is BIG!  Think about how the constant barrage of propaganda from the NPR, NYT, and ABCNNBCBS has been unable to persuade even half the voters. 

It doesn't stop there.  We got the fringe loonies that are still trying to say the nation's doomed by immigration, foreign trade, and entitlement spending.  Once again, MOST people know that the recovery was not jobless-- and that even if it were, our first priority is safeguarding the population from violent attack

I for one am elated to see that most people are able to ignore the loonies, and that's not easy considering how loud the loonies can be. 

[Former Proud Canadian]

Bolger is NOT ASTUTE. Somebody probably wrote it for her. I will never forget a panel show several years ago when, during a discussion of China she actually asked what the "PLA" was. People's Liberation Army for the G. Bolger fans.

She is and remains an ignorant liberal. Is that redundant?

[Uncle Miltie]

Heck, I'M voting for Bush. I'm just saying that I greatly dislike the Republican shift to the left. The national party has decided to chuck conservative principles for votes. It will be effective. I don't have to like it. I understand, I've been told to go pound sand, and there's not much I can do about it.

What I can do is change where my money goes. No party organization will get my campaign contributions until they repeal Drug Prescription Entitlement. I actually expect they will, around 2014 when it is clearly too expensive and seniors don't like it. In the mean time, Club For Growth is the only really fiscally conservative organization who isn't trying to spend my money like a drunken sailor.