Posted on 11/07/2004 2:26:57 PM PST by wagglebee
With the White House, the Congress and the Supreme Court nominating process under GOP control, Tuesday's election could lead to decades of Republican rule in Washington, Bush strategist Karl Rove said Sunday.
Asked if President Bush's victory has the potential to "give a governing majority to the Republican Party for decades," Rove told "Fox News Sunday's" Chris Wallace: "It does. We'll only tell with time."
"It depends on how Republicans act in office," the White House political guru said.
"Does the president pursue the agenda upon which he won this election? And do the Republicans in the House and the Senate work with the president and with Democrats to make some important changes in our economy and in our country?"
The democraps will go the way of Marx & Lenin. Dead thinking.
This will make the democrats cry. We'd better not tell them about this statement. Being compassionate conservatives and all that.
NOT!!!
it depends on the economy over the next 4 years.
Nah, that's just wishful thinking. Hitlery, as much as she's detestable, represents a clear threat in 2008 because of her popularity. Remember Hitlery, like Bubba, wears the teflon shield close to the body so that the negatives roll off without any impact.
I would hope this would signal the beginning of a backlash against the moral degeneracy that has overtaken this country since the 1960s.
I'd been thinking along those lines and that after suffering under X42 & hitlery, for eight miserable years, it's time for the GOP to reign for a thousand years. Will take that long to wash the clintoons out of our hair and the bad taste left in our mouths.
I hope the dems and the clintoons will fade off into the sunset and they just may well do that. If the Republicans stay in power for a long time to come.
(Okay, I'll settle for 50 years.)
Perhaps. I do see a huge change coming. The Dems as we know them will cease to be a major party.
I believe that folks such as Lincoln Chaffee, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Spectre, and other lib Republicans will migrate to a new liberal party, reclaiming what the baby boomer leftists have wrecked.
The DNC could crumple and the LP would still being in there fighting to be second place in the third party war.
I'm not sure of this. These presidential elections are a bear. The dems fight mean and dirty.
All the gnashing of teeth on DU is about their boy Kerry getting whipped. Wait 'til they realize just how much ELSE they lost on Tuesday. Firm control of Congress, the virtually-unheard of ouster of the Senate Minority Leader (aka Little Tommy Dashole), and a major step toward having super-majority control of the Senate. Kerry is insignificant in contrast .
"Nothing like the sound of DUmmies whining in the morning...sounds like Victory"
from Rove's lips to God's ears!
However I doubt the dems are going away anytime soon. They've been around for over 200 years and have weathered tougher times than this. I am also concerned about a GOP schism - the party had better not betray its base in 2008 and nominate Giuliani or Ahnold. Bush's re-election proves conservatism is popular enough to win - we don't need to nominate RINO's to win.
Success tends to breed softness, decadence, and corruption. If the Republicans are to continue to be successful, we will need more good people running for office. Honest politicians, in other words, who are never in great supply.
The biggest problem at the moment is, who will be the Republican choice for 2008? Unless we settle on a really good candidate, we could sink right back in the mire, the way the British conservatives did after Maggie Thatcher.
The dems will be reduced in power but be on guard for a schism in the GOP. The pro-life crowd is eying the GOP with distrust. A soft pro-civil union POTUS and a possible pro-choice chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the major split in the GOP in 2008 or 2012 is very possible.
Yep. this is the point I keep trying to make to the Moderate/Liberal Republicans. WE ARE ON PROBATION. WE MUST produce. The sneer and say "Oh what are the social conservatives going to do, vote for the other guy?".
NO, they will stay home. Judges, Judges, Judges. We MUST produce.
What Rove isn't saying, though he's thought of it often, is that once the GOP majorities in Congress become really concrete..then the real action comes in the GOP primaries, where the more conservative candidate will win. That's how we purge the party of all the RINOs..The House will lead in this regard..
This morning's sermon included the passage about Israel wandering the desert for 40 years. Hopefully this signals the end of our 40 years of social wandering since 1964.
As long as China and Japan keep financing our debt/deficit, we'll probably be OK.
That's what I see coming. After the civil war that the libs keep promising us.
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