Fred Barnes: Turnout Is Destiny (Karl Rove's new assignment is to get the faithful to the polls)

The Weekly Standard ^ | May 1, 2006 | Fred Barnes

[kittymyrib]

Sorry...we'd like to go to the polls, Fred, but we can't afford the gas.

[Paladin2]

I'll heavily support the '06 elections to prevent a 'Rat impeachment run, but if things aren't turned around by '08, the RINOs will be hearded over the cliff.

[Nonstatist]

Absolutely nothing on immigration? Ridiculous, they're screwed...

[cripplecreek]

What's in it for me Karl?

[DTogo]

Republicans also need to stress the "culture of life" by noisily opposing abortion, cloning, and expanded federal subsidies for embryonic stem cell research.

Rubbish. Bush could do a LOT MORE for the party by dropping his Shamnesty proposal and enforcing exisitng immigration laws at the border and at employers

And perhaps telling the EPA to drop all the useless enviro-whacko rules on various gasoline blends, like he did temporarily after Katrina.

[cardinal4]

Sorry...we'd like to go to the polls, Fred, but we can't afford the gas.

You are kidding, right?

[jveritas]

The Republican message will be very simple in this year election campaign:

If the democrats win the House they will impeach President Bush in time of war.

This will bring Republicans and Republican leaning independents by droves to the polls.

[Mogollon]

If Rove wants to jack up republican turnout tell dubya to reverse his course on illegal immigration. The republicans, independents and reagan-democRATS will support dubya and the republican party if they really do something substantive on the illegal mess..

[bybybill]

Yeah, the Rinos will be hearded off the cliff in 08, just don`t push my country with them. WE can`t let the RATS win.

[FlashBack]

Ditto!!

[votelife]

well, Bush did get Roberts and Alito on the court...one more conservative and Roe is probably done. so Bush should stress the pro-life issue, he actually has delivered on it.

[Jay Howard Smith]

The Republican message will be very simple in this year election campaign:

If the democrats win the House they will impeach President Bush in time of war.

You beat me to it.....If the Dems take the house, Conyers and Co will ensure that W is impeached.....!

[RightWhale]

Voting is important. The Constitution of 1787 was adopted with a total of 160,000 taking part, including the voting state by state.

[EagleUSA]

Absolutely nothing on immigration? Ridiculous, they're screwed...
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Precisely. This is what has happened to what used to be the conservative bastion for America, the GOP. Not any more. They have lost all sense of AMERICA and focus only on votes and their empowerment, with absolutely no regard for the WILL OF THE PEOPLE. While we watch, out country is being given away to invading illegal foreigners and likewise trashed by a Washington cartel of selfish, myopic politicians who cannot see beyond the beltway.

[peyton randolph]

Tip to Rove: Try marketing the GOP in English to voters. Spanish is pushing it...and tell Bush to take off that damn sombrero.

[mmercier]

Republicans also need to stress the "culture of life".

Just deemphasize the fact that they intend to turn Every town USA into Mexico City.

[jveritas]

And that my FRiend must never be allowed to happen, never.

[FlashBack]

The gas stations that we stopped at this weekend were packed!
Both Sat. and Sun. on our way to and from the dtagstrip we had a tough time getting up to a pump...the pinch on the pocket book was felt to be sure (my setup gets a whopping 8mpg...but then again you can't tow a race car with a Yugo!) but I, and obviously ALOT of other folks were still getting to where we wanted to go.