Posted on 07/14/2005 2:49:38 PM PDT by rhema
(By the way, I am a neo-con. It's a life of persistently rooting out vestiges of liberalism.)
"Where else are we going to go?"
They might be surprised. Remember, Bush 41 and his advisors snubbed gun owners back in 1992, and had that same feeling. They were completely blindsided by Slick Willie, who immediately posed in hunting clothes with shotgun in hand. Then enter Ross Perot, and the rest is history. Enough gun owners were fooled by Billy Jeff and voted for him, voted for Ross Perot, or sat on their hands. The same thing could happen to the Republicans in 2008 if they forget their base.
If, if, if ...
Yes, I think we can beat Hitlery. But the fact that we're even worried about her -- as we have every reason to be -- just shows how strong the Rats still are among the stupid public.
I don't want to get rid of you. I do want to get rid of your veto in the Senate.
I know about this, and it's one thing that has kept the GOP alive.
But as has been wisely pointed out: The left doesn't need children. It has students. We do the hard work of raising them, then the liberal teachers and professors and entertainment industry propagandize them. A pretty good deal for the left, really.
"Fried Ocra" will keep the blue staters out of my neighborhood and possibly the whole state :)
The Lord's work. But keep in mind that we're really talking about Blue people. Red refugees from Blue dictatorships should be welcomed.
Well I certainly would like to git summa that "red shift" here in the formerly "Golden" state!!!
Some of it may be happening, but it's like watching paint dry. Countervailing any trends in our favor: Certain of the nicer suburbs have a lot of Republican traitors, and of course the south-of-the-border influx is hurting us, too. As is outmigration to saner states.
"a good deal" that is fraying at the edges - see the rising Young College Republicans surging across our campuses; see also David Horowitz Academic Bill of Rights initiative. Vouchers, Home Schooling, etc. All the new ideas, initiatives are coming from the Right, from the Young, & from the former Insiders who know the left better than you & I, and now having seen the light (Horowitz) are nailing their asses to the wall on it. In contrast, the left defends itself, viciously to be true, but strategically on the defensive.
The paradigms the left bases their strength upon; unquestioned assumption of the rightness of their definition in our language (me "progressive, mainstream, moderate" - you "radical right"), mass media delivery of their double-think dosages, unquestioned obedience/goose-step voting patterns from the two largest minority groups in the country... all these are not so monolithic as they once were.
The trend is away from the me-first, if-it-feels-good crowd - getting less crowded because they don't like children - and moving more strongly towards our Conservative views.
Adelante hacia la Victoria!
Alot of New Yorkers moved to the Pocono Mountains to escape the sewage from the city. (ABC's AM 770 Ron Kuby, the liberal attorney who shafted Bernard Goetz is among some who live there now). The Poconos has already started to de-generate into a cesspool since that happened. Higher proposed property taxes, outlandish envoronmental policies, and an increased need for permits for this and that. Thanks New Yorkers!
We're seeing that in Pennsylvania. Liberals move out of Philadelphia into small, conservative towns because they can't stand to live in the cess pool they've created. They then continue to vote for leftists and push the political center to the left.
I think if there were a real movement in a conservative direction, Kerry would not have won 48 percent of the vote. Yes, there are trends in our favor. There are also trends that are going against us.
My conservative family left CA for AL and while we have not learned a correct drawl yet, we agree with the politics of our new state. We were always out voted by our neighbors in the SF Gay Area.
My mother's ancestors moved to the South from Massachusetts in the 18th century. My wife's grandmother moved to the South from Iowa at the beginning of the 20th century. Most Southerners have origins elsewhere.
In my work I visited the South several times, living in Austin for four nice years. It did not take much to decide where to retire to. The first decision was easy, Is it California? No, OK. We split our time between AL an TX, both great states.
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