Posted on 10/08/2006 5:27:03 PM PDT by quidnunc
Had enough?
America has. Anyone who reads the polls accurately and honestly will acknowledge that the Republican Party is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives, the so-called "People's House." The Democrats maintained control for 40 years. The Republicans, just 12.
What went wrong? Why do Democrats finally appear to be heading toward electoral success and Republicans back into the political wilderness? In a word, fatigue. Americans are tired of the war, tired of watching illegal aliens race across our unguarded borders, tired of high energy costs, tired of wasteful Washington spending, and tired of story after story of political corruption and misbehavior.
As a pollster, my job is to tap the public mood. As a linguist, my efforts are focused on the words of the electorate and how best to communicate a set of priorities and principles. For the past three months, in focus groups literally from coast to coast — and a dozen states in between — I have heard the constant grumblings of Republicans that their party didn't do enough to follow through on their promises and the anger of Democrats who felt the G.O.P. went too far. Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
And the language voters now use to describe Congress can only be heard after nasty divorce settlements and in the subways of New York. I've had voters spit on me as they emphasize the "d" in "do nothing" and the "c" in "corrupt."
Who can blame them? The Republican Party of 2006 is a tired, cranky shell of the aggressive, reformist movement that was swept into office in 1994 on a wave of positive change. I knew those Republicans. I worked for them. They were friends of mine. These Republicans are not those Republicans.
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And to turn the Congress over to the Party of Treason, at this critical period in history?
Anyone who would vote for a Democratic Congress is a traitor to the United States and deserves the punishment due to traitors.
I had enough after reading the first sentence.
Fortunately for the Repubs, the RATS are overreaching.
Again
That's the spiral we fall into. The GOP has lost touch on the borders and spending, but rather than offer real solutions, the Dems continue to run screaming to the left.
This has to implode sooner or later. We have to have a real choice somewhere, eventually.
American had to suffer with Carter before it was ready to vote for Reagan. Perhaps history is repeating itself.
I don't think they're overreaching at all, but I still think we hold both houses of Congress. I think we'd have tremedous success if Republicans actually fought back, and shut down the McCain wing of the Party.
I think you are smoking something. We will lose the House and we may lose them both.
Read FR and see how many who once grumbles, are now voting straight GOP this year, even though they are going to have to find an extra-strength clothespin for their nose. We might be angry at the GOP, but the Dems went WELSTONE FUNERAL, with the Foley thing! This is a case of unintended consequences, but there it is and Luntz is so out of the loop ( as usual ), that he's at least 1 week behind.
It's really strange. When Studds was boinking a 17 year old page it was no big deal. Foley sends a page a perverted email and it's the end of the world. Too many "Americans" are doing too many recreational drugs.
Riiiight. The Democrats will stop the flood of immigration across the border. Riiiiight. Now he's some magic sand I've got to sell you.
The advantage would not be in how a Dem congress would repulse the electorate but in the fact that it would allow the GOP to sweep out some dead wood, something long overdue.
There is still time for a change in the wind. I hope good ole Kim tests his bomb.
As they say in the media "Perception is Reality!"
It is beginning to look like the Republicans will be spending the bulk of their time and money now on the defence on this non-issue.
I'm Still waiting for the so called October surprise that was supposed to be comming to save the day.
I agree.
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