Posted on 10/04/2006 4:18:15 PM PDT by Uncledave
Lanny Davis Warns Democrats October 4, 2006
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RUSH: I checked the e-mail during the break. Dear Rush: You said in 1998 there was overwhelming anger at Clinton and it would drive conservatives to the polls. It was even the cover of your newsletter that month. We lost seats. Sorry, Rush, I'm hoping for the best, but I'm expecting the worse in November. This is from a man named Edgar in Atlanta. Okay, so I went back and I turned back the hands of time, the little gray cells here, millions and millions and millions of them all firing neurons at light speed as my memory was being researched. What was the circumstance, what were the Republicans talking about in 1998, during the midterm congressional elections? Yeah, there was overwhelming anger at Clinton, but what was it about? If you go back and look, 1998, was the entire Republican message not focused -- I don't want to ask it as a double negative. It's confusing to people in Rio Linda.
Do you remember the entire Republican message in 1998 being focused on Clinton's sex scandals and the resulting impeachment? And everybody was saying, where's the outrage, where's the anger, how come nobody's mad about this? And the Republicans had a singular message. We were flabbergasted that during all of this Slick Willie's approval numbers were still in the sixties, and we were agitated and irritated watching all these Democrat strategists go on television at night and 'splain it, make excuses for it and so forth. I don't recall that the Republicans in 1998 were talking issues, and also in 1998 we didn't know of the terrible terrorist threat that we faced as we know today. So I think circumstances are somewhat different. In fact, Lanny Davis was on Larry King Alive last night, and King says, Lanny, can we compare this to Clinton-Lewinsky?
DAVIS: It's about a private behavior situation, and I think Democrats have to be real careful not to try to turn this into a political partisan issue.
RUSH: Stop the tape. They already have Lanny. Listen to the rest of this.
DAVIS: It's about children, it's about why the Republican leadership took so long. We have to ask for an investigation and get the facts out and stop and be quiet. I'm an admirer of Howard Dean, but the Democratic National Committee puts a press release out today, it's a purely political organization. That's what we should not do. And we have to be very careful about not allowing this to be exploited politically. Of course we need to ask questions and have the facts speak for themselves, but that's about it.
RUSH: So a little warning out there from Lanny Davis. You're going overboard, my friends, he's saying to Democrats. Politicizing this, calling for Hastert's resignation before the investigation is complete, doing all this. He's worried, too, about it going overboard. He's been there, on the other side. And I'll bet you that if Lanny had the chance, he would say, yeah, the Republicans' singular focus on Clinton's sex and sexcapades and impeachment and so forth made it easy for us. And if you look, the Democrats, whatever the issue is, they fire everybody they've got, they overdo everything. The pattern has been that it all backfires on them at one point or another. For example, what if at some point in this whole saga it's learned that this is a Democrat dirty trick? Democrats are so confident that even if that is proven to be true, they're not worried about it. They don't think it will matter. Lanny Davis does. I'm talking about the guys engaged in the effort itself, the strategic political maneuver.
And every other dem october surprise timed to suppress turnout has failed. Bush's DUI story? Failed. And that was a 'scandal' about the actual candidate - and a presidential candidate at that.
I've already had a few liberals get irate because I said the Foley scandal doesn't have any effect on how I intend to vote in Michigan.
The Reeps need to point out that the Dems never purge their's.
Just remind the 'rats to go to the polls on WEDNESDAY. It's their special day!
National Air Guardgate?
Uh-Oh! Looks like Lanny has spotted the ultimate Rove plot!
What about these two Clinton scandals that DO involve minors?
News on the President's Secret Son - the scandal involving an underaged black prostitute
Clinton and the surveillance pimps FBI documents show that Clinton's Secret Service reviewed information obtained from (underaged)prostitutes whose clients were foreign officials.
Imagine if the D's and press get tagged with a trumped-up scandal just weeks before the election?
Respectfully disagree, the target was pressure on the Speaker to step down causing turmoil. The average Joe and Jane voting dim muttering, "anything else has to be better than what we got now."
Dhimmocrats and assorted leftist-grievance-societies turned to the Dark Side long ago. Their rage, their hate, their fury is all that they have.
They're quickly becoming the modern-day Whigs. And History will not judge them kindly...
Rove.
Ethics Probes Decline On Hill Parties' Truce Leads to Inaction
An End to Ethics Truce? Democrats Hint at Imminent Filing of Complaint a
sure are alot of new FReepers lately...
"This whole Foley flap is purely designed to depress conservative turnout and it's not going to work."
I agree - let's face it. The Dems have Barney Frank, Clinton, the Kennedy's, etc. If we are going to go into moral issues, the Dems have Pubs outnumbered 5 to 1. Dems can throw all the mud they want but the difference is that the Pubs get rid of their trash while the Dems turn theirs into their biggest stars.
Been awhile... I'm still struggling with the ol' ticker, so I don't get here much any more. But this has me furious!!! Any Democrat idiot that thinks this Foley deal is going to keep conservatives home has no understanding of the conservative passion. Bad heart or not, I WILL be at the voting booth, dragging every friend, neighbor and family member I can reach with me, forcefully if necessary.
I will not take this obvious vicious attack from the left sitting down. There's no way I'll sit by and let that pack of self centered power mongers take over and ruin the futures of my grand children.
The Democrats, not the Whigs, were then as now the party of rage and hatred and fury.
LOL!
They wont listen to Lanny. They are ridiculing him on DailyKos. The Foley War will set the "gay" movement back decades. It will be glorious to behold, as the RATs eat their own, and Americans respond by demanding that the homosexual agenda be kept out of their Congress, their schools, and their workplace.
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