Posted on 08/10/2006 9:48:23 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Many Democrats may hate the war in Iraq and itch to dump the president, but a new GOP survey shows that Republican base voters stand ready to jam the November polls to return their team to Congress. A three-page-survey memo obtained by Washington Whispers reveals that despite reports of some dissatisfaction with the economy, the war, and President Bush, 81 percent of Republican voters are "almost certain" to vote and an additional 14 percent say they are "very likely." It goes without saying that they'll vote Republican: By a margin of 84 percent to 6 percent, they will pull the GOP toggle switch in the voting booth. And here is something you don't hear very often: 88 percent of Republicans approve of how the prez is handling his job. What's it all mean? Analysts say that GOP voters are ready to dig in and play defense against the charges Democrats are tossing at Republican candidates.
The memo also helps to define what issues work for Republican candidates. The survey--officially tilted "Base Mobilization Survey Finds and Conclusions"--divided the issues into foreign and domestic. On the foreign side, it's all terrorism and war with polling that finds GOP voters back the war, worry about Democratic attacks on the fight against terrorism, and think the Patriot Act, moves to tighten the border, and even telephone surveillance are good things. And their favorite domestic issues aren't a surprise: They are pro-tax cuts, big on cultural values, and worried that Democrats want to put too much bureaucracy in healthcare. Another nonshocker: They don't like the media's war stories, thinking that they are too negative. Some 60 percent of the GOP base expresses "extremely high dissatisfaction" with the coverage of the war.
Then you are an idiot.
Texas? I thought you were from North Carolina? Isn't that what you said upthread?
The nitwit is willing to swallow the MSM bias. Yet, this article is not believable.
This is the typical response of a fraud with selective amnesia.
I debated these morons in 2002 and 2004.
I joined freerepublic in 2005 to speak with intelligent people. Fellow Conservatives.
The occasional nitwit is necessary in order to make sense of the totality of the political reality.
Good News is only Bad News to hate America leftists.
We're interested in using Free Republic as a networking tool to find others throughout North Carolina who are determined to take our country and the Constitution back.
What an odd, sterile comment. Like something a communist recruiter would say ...
His arguments are at the level of John Kerry......contorted and confused.
And he has all the arrogance of John Kerry as well, staying here to make fun of dozens of people who have cleaned his clock in this argument......apparently not bright enough to know how badly he has lost this little war.
I maintain my original position that he is a leftist plant saying words that he thinks are 'conservative,' but not really being one, and therefore unable to keep a consistent argument.
It's been instructive and amusing, IMO.
And I am encouraged about this article. Republicans are, by and large, intelligent, patriotic people. We won't risk the very survival of this country by giving it to the anti-American left.
The fact that because of Clinton we got the 1994 Congress is pretty thin soup in light of all that damage Clinton was able to do anyway:
Chicoms got the technology they needed. Islamofascists read America as weak after Clinton decimated the military and treated the bombing of the World Trade Center as a law enforcement matter.
It allowed him to ship Elian Gonzales (at gun point) back to Castro.
It allowed Janet Reno to torch a religious cult near Waco.
It allowed Bill Clinton to claim a huge chunk of Utah as a national monument...a decision that sucked so bad that he had to conduct the ceremony in Arizona.
He was able to gut the Justice Dept. by calling for the resignatyion of all U.S. Attorneys so he could get his own people in. He laid the groundwork for 9/11 by displaying weakness and refusing an offer to take Osama Bin Laden into custody when that was offered to him on a silver platter.
Hey....no harm done....right?
The circumstances must be highly extreme to not vote for the GOP candidate.
I've only seen it maybe a couple of times in my lifetime.
Any other choice is the same as voting Dem.
And in doing that, you will be selling the soul of this nation to the Godless, immoral, baby-killing left.
For a Christian, there is NO choice. It's a matter of survival.
Everyone needs to give beeler a hand and a thank you for his efforts today. He's done yoeman work. Had it not for his coming on the thread at post 11 around 11:55 am CDT and keeping the activity going this thread would have been lost amongst the terror/airports/planes events of the day.
So beeler..... thanks and keep up the good work as the Republicans are going to win this fall. Your efforts in keeping this thread alive have allowed many more to catch it in the lastest comment sections through out the day.
This one, not realizing what was happening, took his shovel and dug himself deep.
* Kinda' like "Journey to the Center of the Earth".
Amen.
They tried to send the survey to me.
I told them to get lost.
Then again, I am a Libertarian.
I was a pubbi poll-watcher last election, and was one of the 537 folks who voted for Bush during the algore thing.
Pubbies spend money like drunken sailors.
THANKS, BEELER!!
Your crazy troll rantings did us CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS good today!
I am as against defeatism as anyone else, but it's not fair to Freepers or other conservatives to create false hope. Although there is time for things to turn around, it doesn't look good right now.
And it's proof that, contrary to the naysaying malcontents on this forum, that the President has NOT lost 'his base.'
Because WE are his base. WE are conservatives. And WE are with him.
It doesn't look good if you watch CNN........
I'm not wondering, at all! Disgusting fifth columnists!
So will I and it won't be for 'cut and run' Democrats or 'crybaby' third parties.
Oh man, that one has me trying to explain to my wife why I'm laughing so hard. Good one!
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