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A needed pep talk and reality check for dispirited and/or angry conservatives.
1 posted on 05/18/2006 5:02:19 AM PDT by maica
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The GOP needs to get out the vote, but they aren't exactly exciting the base.

They'll never get us out by telling us what they did over the course of the last few years.

Whether some want to admit it or not, the illegal immigration issue is the issue of this campaign.

They are in control and are giving the entire issue to the democrats, lock, stock and barrel.

Sounds incompetent to me.
2 posted on 05/18/2006 5:06:17 AM PDT by Preachin' (Enoch's testimony was that he pleased God: Why are we still here?)
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"Frustrated conservatives should aim their fury at the real culprit -- the 45 Democratic senators who have the means and motive to block most conservative initiatives."

Not to mention the RINO turncoats like McCain and Hagel!


3 posted on 05/18/2006 5:08:31 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Let's all leave the US and return as undocumented trespassers....uh, immigrants)
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To: DrDeb; Freee-dame; ColdSpringGirl

This article lists so many accomplishments of the past 5 years, and speaks candidly about the reality of a need for a 60 seat majority in the Senate. Andres praises the House for the many initiatives that they have passed.


Remember my axiom: Look for what is NOT being reported. What drive-by media ignore is where the important news is located. The many conservative bills passed through the House is one more example of this truth.


4 posted on 05/18/2006 5:09:50 AM PDT by maica ( We have a destination in mind, and that is a freer world. -- G W Bush)
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Frustrated conservatives should aim their fury at the real culprit -- the 45 Democratic senators who have the means and motive to block most conservative initiatives.

This is a lame but standard excuse among Republicans (and we have several extremely noisy and annoying exponents of that excuse right here on FR).

Here's my advice to Bill Frist and the other transparently spineless Republiucan leaders on Capitol Hill.

Make the Rats filibuster every time they threaten to do so. That doesn't mean back off, it doesn't mean stand down, it doesn't mean "negotiate."

It means to let Reid, Kennedy, Feingold, and Feinstein spend their hours, days, and even weeks doing nothing for their constiutents while exposing in full public view the reprehensible values they stand for. Make them defend immigration amnesty, a decaying Social Security system, their plans for Iraq and the war against global jihad. Make them stand before the American people and explain themselves.

5 posted on 05/18/2006 5:09:52 AM PDT by angkor
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"Frustrated conservatives should aim their fury at the real culprit" -> the politicians who claim they are conservative but vote like hyannis orcinus.
6 posted on 05/18/2006 5:10:30 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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This place is turning into "Republicans Gone Wild.com"


7 posted on 05/18/2006 5:10:53 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Kowtowing to the Bush haters ends now)
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I do think that thanks to the tireless efforts of people like Sessions the immigration issue with have an "acceptable to most" resolution.

I am one of those discontented conservatives and I have to say that there are most definately some republicans who "get it" they are working tirelessly on our behalf and I think it would be a mistake to pull the rug out from under them because a few rotten apples keep gumming up the works. The answer is MORE republicans being elected not less.


9 posted on 05/18/2006 5:13:03 AM PDT by Prysson
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We're about 20-25 seats away from a solid conservative majority in the house. This is "doable."

My communist congresscritter has gone over the edge and is now representing illegal aliens and Marxists in the California Sierra Club. This is the year we throw him out.


14 posted on 05/18/2006 5:23:16 AM PDT by sergeantdave (And though getting up in the world attracts attention, it does not establish solid worth.)
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The Iranian regime (and its agents) use a technique of distraction in order to pull people away from the real story or situation.
The dems (and msm) are using this technique too. And the republicans are falling for it.
All of the hearings and investigations are pulling peoples' attention away from the accomplshments made and are also stalling and preventing more accomplishments from being made.
The republicans in congress and senate need to say "no" to all these distractions and get on with their business.


16 posted on 05/18/2006 5:25:54 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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What it all shows is that you can't fool conservatives, like you an liberals.


20 posted on 05/18/2006 5:29:15 AM PDT by Brilliant
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I couldn't care less if the Republicans lose everything this fall as long as the Democrats don't win anything either.


23 posted on 05/18/2006 5:33:10 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: maica; Preachin'; NRA1995; angkor; Darkwolf377; JohnLongIsland; Beth528; nmh; thoughtomator; ...
A modest suggestion: Like 1994, Nationalize the '06 Congressional Elections with a clear 'contract with america'-type effort: The Republican Agenda or The Pro_American Agenda....

Candidates could be signators to the Agenda or not as they like. Rather like 'The Pledge' here in New England against any tax-raising, administered by CLT (Citizens for Limited Taxation).

Agenda to perhaps include: End illegal immigration; End racial and gender preferences in law; Oppose Predatory Trade with an Adjustable National Tariff/Import Tax; Increase the Standard Deduction for Federal Income tax; Build 3 to 5 Oil Refineries to reduce gas prices; Build 3 to 5 Natural Energy electricity production facilities; Support Traditional definition of Marriage; End ear-mark tack-ons to appropriation bills; Reduce Federal spending by .5% per year;...

Something like that.

30 posted on 05/18/2006 5:45:31 AM PDT by ProCivitas (Qui bono? Quo warranto? ; Who benefits? By what right/authority ?)
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I agree, but it is virtually impossible to get a 60 vote working majority in a Senate with so many RINO's. Last night I watched C-SPAN's replay of the amnesty debate. Louisiana's David Vitter did a great job in deconstructing the deceptions in the bill, but then came McCain and his stooge Hagel. After paying tribute to Ted Kennedy, they fell into rants full of sanctimony and outright lies.
36 posted on 05/18/2006 5:52:31 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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BTTT


46 posted on 05/18/2006 6:03:08 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Peggy is already on Prozac, I'm thinking.


47 posted on 05/18/2006 6:04:41 AM PDT by pissant
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People have a short term Memory, I guess they forgot, what it looked like with a Democratic Controlled Congress...and Democrat in the White House.


48 posted on 05/18/2006 6:04:47 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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"...he suggested only Prozac might lift conservatives' gathering gloom."

Maybe not so coincidentally, Prozac is linked to suicides.

52 posted on 05/18/2006 6:06:27 AM PDT by DaGman
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[Frustrated conservatives should aim their fury at the real culprit -- the 45 Democratic senators who have the means and motive to block most conservative initiatives.]

Come on, Senate Republicans should have rolled over these guys. The real problem is the rinos on our side, we already have the majority.


55 posted on 05/18/2006 6:08:01 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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Frustrated conservatives should aim their fury at the real culprit -- the 45 Democratic senators who have the means and motive to block most conservative initiatives.

Right on.

81 posted on 05/18/2006 6:27:51 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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I don't need a pep talk. I need leadership. If the GOP can't give us that, it's time for a house-cleaning.

Step one: Conservatives should make it a rule not to vote for a liberal--even if he's running as a Republican.

We will make no progress in this country until the RINOs are replaced by Conservatives.

Linc Chafee, this means you.
85 posted on 05/18/2006 6:45:15 AM PDT by Antoninus (The Da Vinci Code is the religious equivalent Fahrenheit 911.)
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