Democrats Face Uphill Battle to Retake House

Washington Post ^ | April 13, 2006 | Jonathan Weisman

[Marine Inspector]

Wrong again. I voted for Bush Sr.

I've never liked Parot and I knew if he did get into office, he would accomplish nothing as he would have no support in Congress from either party.

That's why I won't vote third party now. Until a third party can get enough Congressional seats to make a difference in Congress, they have no shot at the White House.

What I will no longer do is vote for a RINO. If a true conservative Republican is not running, then I won't waste my time voting, as a RINO or a DEM is the one and the same.

As long as you folks keep voting in RINO's, the RINO's will keep acting like DEMS.

[WOSG]

"No, the GOP gave us 8 long years of Clinton."

Last I checked, the *VOTERS* decided who got to be president.

And a lot of conservatives got taken in by that larry King scam, called Ross Perot, so that Larry King's candidate, bill Clinton, would have a leg up. I guess it worked.

[NapkinUser]

"The Perot voters gave us 8 long years of Clinton."

That is such a common myth.

1. Exit polls showed that Perot took about equal support from both parties, though a little more republican. But the split was nowhere near enough to suggest that Bush Sr. would have won had Perot not been in the race. Bush Sr. would have gained votes, but still lost.

2. The American people did. They had the chance to throw Clinton lying carcus out in 1996 and they didn't.

[Marine Inspector]

Voting for a RINO is basicly voting for a DEM.

[FairOpinion]

" the idea that things would have been "little different" after eight years of Al Gore is so demented and demonstrably false, only a buffoon could believe it."

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You don't mince any words, do you? But you put it well.

[Marine Inspector]

Bush Sr. lost, because Bush Sr. thought he was a shoe in an ran a poor campaign.

[FairOpinion]

"What I will no longer do is vote for a RINO"

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You don't want to vote for a "RINO", but you vote for a leftist Dem instead?

[Darkwolf377]

You are correct. It's simple reality, while others--who crow loudly about election day victories "WE did it!" --are now backing off saying "Whoah, whoah, hey, it's not OUR fault..."

Success has a thousand fathers, etc.

We put them in office. We have to ride them hard. But anyone who wants to put these looney lefties in charge NOW just to have a hissy fit are fair-weather Americans. Yes, because this country needs us to stand by it and not let the dems slip in and screw it all up just because we disagree on some important issues.

[Lurker]

Has it become Law?

Did I miss a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden or something?

L

[Hong Kong Expat]

Yep. The dem's "advantage" is overblown. In Cali's 50th, they couldn't do any better than 44% after that POS Duke dragged good Republicans through the mud. We'll win in November, and we'll win in 2008.

[Darkwolf377]

Exit polls showed

We're believing those this week?

I know John Kerry still believes them, but I thought he was the only one.

[NormsRevenge]

You are doing more to destroy conservative unity at FR then unite it, imo. Keep it up.

[jpsb]

"Read my lips, no new Taxes"

Is what got us Clinton, no action on the bordern will have a similar effect.

[NapkinUser]

"You don't want to vote for a "RINO", but you vote for a leftist Dem instead?"

That is nowhere near what he wrote and you know it. He doesn't want to vote for a RINO. Big deal. Despite what you may want to believe, voting libertarian or constitution is not tantamount to voting for a democrat. Would you vote for Zell Miller or Lincoln Chafee for senate if they ran against each other in your state?

PS: I like my republican representative, and will vote for him in November.

[NormsRevenge]

As long as you folks keep voting in RINO's, the RINO's will keep acting like DEMS.

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Some folks just will not listen.

[LADY J]

We need a reality check!!

Does anyone have some of the horror that was going on during the 40 years the RATS had control?

We need a reminder thread devoted just to what the RATS really did during their 'glory' years!!!

Who can dig up some of that reality for us please?

[jazusamo]

[Voting for a RINO is basicly voting for a DEM.]

I don't agree. The individual might not be a whole lot different but even if the difference in the majority are rinos, the Repubs control the committee's.

[NapkinUser]

What information do you suggest I use?

If you have some kind of proof that about 85% of Perot voters would have voted for Bush Sr. had Perot not been in the race, show it.

[sinkspur]

You clowns that supported the jug-eared hand grenade with a bad haircut are what got us Clinton.

I've come to the conclusion that folks like you just like to bitch, and you engineer circumstances in life so that you can always be on the bottom, whining and crying that "the man" has his boot on your neck.

[Darkwolf377]

I don't think unity for unity's sake is necessarily a good thing, but I am astonished that the free-floating Michael Weiner-like "The Republicans are just as bad!" vitriol that spewed out during the Dubai thing has resurfaced. I think there are a lot of people who are forgetting just how many good things Bush has done for the country; we shouldn't excuse the bad things, but the idea that nullifying his final two years in office by giving him a Democrat Congress is going to do ANY of us any good is simply mind-boggling to me.

I hope some of these FReepers hang onto these posts of theirs, and come November have their heads clear enough to re-read them and say "What was I thinking?!"