Posted on 05/29/2006 11:56:39 AM PDT by jmc1969
Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking - each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.
Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking - each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.
First step: Voters must focus on the national landscape on Nov. 7 rather than local issues and personalities that usually dominate midterm elections.
That would sting Republicans, who trail badly in national polls.
Second step: Voters must be so angry at Washington and politics in general that an anti-incumbent, throw-the-bums-out mentality sweeps the nation.
That would wound Republicans, the majority party.
Third step: Americans must view the elections as a referendum on President Bush and the GOP-led Congress, siding with Democrats in a symbolic vote against the Iraq war, rising gas prices, economic insecurity and the nagging sense that the nation is on the wrong track.
That would destroy Republicans, sweeping them from power in one or both chambers and making Bush a lame duck.
Less than six months out, most Democratic and Republican strategists say the first two elements are in place for now - a national, anti-incumbent mind-set - and all signs point to the third.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortwayne.com ...
More from the "unbiased" MSM.
In my case, disdain and disgust.
More wishful thinking from the Associated Press.
I've noticed they usually go into bipolar optimism-mode right before an election. I'm convinced it's their way of revving up the fools so they'll vote.
Ron is a well-known lunatic Dem cheerleader.
More from the "unbiased" MSM. If the GOP had a brain, they would start pushing ads showing that the only reason the 'RATS want to regain the Congress is to impeach the president for engaging the enemy in the war on terror.
You have to have something to beat nothing. Republicans only need to draw a pair of face cards. The Democrats are trying to fill an inside straight. A bluff only works if it is credible.
Once again, AP gets it wrong. Looks like the Dems will fumble, they can't even mention the Number 1 Issue in the nation today. The illegals.
They can eye it all they want.
Money talks and BS walks.
AP is dreaming again as usual...they actually believe their own polls in which they over sample rats by 15% points.
Crap. More AP BS. The Democrats are in just as much trouble if not more than the Republicans. The number 1 issue is II and the Democrats have shown they're willing to give away the country to the illegals. Voters are PO'd but it doesn't take much of a mind to know that some of DC crowd needs to be pitched and some doesn't. Democrats will be more of a bullseye than Republicans.
Shouldn't this be titled...
Democrats eye November Mudslide?
The muck will be flying as thick and as fast as the media
can throw it.
I'm not giving up yet, I'm voting and taking my first time to vote kid with me. I'm not going down without a fight!
Democrats are morons.
This country doesn't admire Murtha and the economy is fine. Gas prices will stay the same because they along with RINO's won't do what it takes to correct them. The country is registered on wrong track because we have fools on both aisles calling the shots.
The country doesn't want them and they don't want Republicans. The fact they register Democrats is because they don't have a third party to try out, which they sort of admit later in the article. If they win it isn't a national referendum on acceptance for their policies, rather conservatives sitting out the elections which is the ONLY way they can in races that geographically favor the GOP. Or, rather, conservatives.
"They know that Republicans are in charge," the grim-faced presidential hopeful said of voters. "But I just want to emphasize that we have six months, and we can turn this around."
Listen Maverick, you are the reason this mess largely exists. So long as Rockefeller's run the party they will lose. It's why you were the minority for decades. What YOU have never understood is that conservatives AREN'T confined only to the GOP. A lot of them still register as Dems and as Independents. I'm registered as an Independent. If the GOP doesn't present conservatism, Democrats stay in the Democrat party and Independents either split for Dem or stay home.
People can appeal to conservatives with threats as if by default they are Republicans, but that just isn't so. Who do folks think Reagan Democrats were anyway? That's right, conservatives. And they don't jump parties to vote for Liberals.
The republicans do have something to worry about, but it's just the opposite of what this idiot is talking about.
It's because they're acting like liberal democrats!!
Let 'em keep up this delusional thinking...a sure win for the good guys.
Just wait until ALL THE DEMWIT SCANDALS HIT...coming very very soon...they'll be so bad...it will deafening!!!
RON FOURNIER
LOL
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