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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You are absolutely right on the money! Good response.
Frank Luntz has always seemed like a pollster with an obvious agenda. I would bet he is mostly wrong with his prognosis of results, while he is mostly right with assessing "the mood" of the voter.
You speak for Jim?
Nope, do you?
"Maybe 2 years of Democrat control of Congress is exactly the thing to bring both parties back into line."
"Nothing becomes law without a President's signature on it. Do you think Bush will sign into law Amensty, Tax increases etc?"
How many times has he exercised his veto power?
In a word, #$*%$#! How can anyone read that sentence and think that Republicans are going to hand over our country to Democrats! The only point you could possibly give to this guy is we are tired of war. The rest of the reasons are every reason why we will fight not to let Democrats gain control again!
0 i think.
The DemocRATic party IS THE TALIBAN. They despise America every bit as much as Osama Bid Laden. We don't call the DemocRATs the "hate America first" party for nothing. The top party leaders are immoral, corrupt in every way, and communists. In fact, they have been for decades.
I'd like to address something you wrote about the "most likely" scenario:
Some leftist legislation gets passed and signed. No conservative legislation gets passed and signed.
I believe that this is what will happen regardless of the outcome of the election. GOP holds both houses, it will happen - as has happened for six years. GOP loses both houses, it'll still happen. GOP loses one, wins one, no functional difference. Either "choice" leads to the same result. Voting for one or the other endorses this. In good conscience I cannot endorse this as I believe it leads directly to the destruction of our nation. Thus I can see no other option, in expressing my preference through the ballot, than voting for none of the above.
One more point with regard to impeachment, forgot to add - I am increasingly seeing impeachment as a "red-on-red" scenario. As you noted, the President sympathizes and agrees with a lot of the leftist agenda. I no longer see him as "one of us", not after years of appeasing Islam and working for Mexican interests above American interests, not after years of spending that would make even the Dems blush, and not after his enactment of the prescription drug program, a socialist abomination the likes of which we had not seen created since the days of Lyndon Johnson.
The nastier it gets, the less chance of any legislation being passed at all. Since any legislation that does get passed will almost certainly be bad for us, this is the best possible scenario I see going into 2006. Furthermore, impeachment attempts will backfire onto the Democrats, probably worse than it did when we impeached Clinton, so I say, let them try.
"Anyone who would vote for a Democratic Congress is a traitor to the United States and deserves the punishment due to traitors."
A night in bed with Nancy Pelosi.
Frank Luntz is a dunce.
Yeah, that's what amazes me when he's ID'ed as such.
I will vote for every conservative that appears on my ballot. And thus, it will be blank.
I agree the Republicans should have shut down the McCain wing of the the Party, and they should have struck back at the MSM rather than trying to get along with them. More Republicans should have told the media off like Zell Miller did Chris Matthews. He made Matthews look like the idiot he is and more of the media should be told off publicly. Republicans have been attacked constantly by the Democrats and they need to attack back. I don't believe the Democrats understand anything about fairness and honesty, so I would give them a good dose of their own medicine. I'd bring charges against Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for doing damage to our military with their loose lips and lies, and I'd go after a few more of their dishonest members. I'd call them on their lies and point it out every time I was interviewed. The Democrats need to be taught a lesson and be held accountable for their actions. Kennedy, McDermott, Franks, Studds, Hillary, Bill, and others have never been held accountable for their criminal acts. Whatever happened to the 'bouncer', Craig Livingstone, Hillary hired and lied about? Someone needs to find out what he did with the FBI records he confiscated for Hillary! We never got the answers from the Clinton's we were entitled to. To this day, Bill Clinton has never made his medical records public! Before we dis the Republicans, let's put the Democrats through a few hoops and see how they fair when the pressure is constantly on them.
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