Wishful Thinking...
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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(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
GMTA! :-)
Handing the reins of power to Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank is hardly a housecleaning ...
It is like turning your child over to a pimp because she did not do all her homework.
If you hate your children or the Republic of the United States I guess you would see it as a housecleaning.
Hey...it's TIME......you forgot to add the BARF Alert!
More pre-election bull sh*t...
Wishful Thinking...
I really think the final straw will ACTUALLY be the signing of the Port Security Bill. It won't be the final straw for many conservative voters. It will however be the deciding factor for many fence-sitters due to the bill's anti-gambling rider. I myself am guilty of playing online poker for money, and have curtailed my play because it's not a wise use of my hard earned cash. I also was MAD when I heard the law had passed, essentially taking away my right to gamble.....even though I know it's bad. Given that a very small percentange of voters now decide the closer political races of today, I would say that many of the "swing" voters will be impacted by this law. Poker is very popular these days. Flip through the TV channels most weeknights and you will find it on more than one. Many if not most of these voters won't have the same moral dilemma as I do. The law is not a bad thing, it just came at a bad time. I hope and pray I am wrong.
After all it was Newt who cheated on his wife with his secretary. That is a man really dedicated to a cause...isn't it.
The fact is the people that replaced Gingrich wanted no part of his immoral staff or pollsters.
The truth is we won the 1994 election because of redistricting. There were a ton of 53/47 Republican districts that were not won because of the Perot idiots in 1992. But by 1994 Perot was no longer on the ballot and we won the House. Gingrich and his pollster knew exactly why the Republicans won. They also lied to the media and us and took the credit.
I was active in the Republican party in the 1960s when Ray Bliss came up with the Grass Roots party action designed to take the house in 1992. That required winning a majority of states and then gerrymandering them. That is what was done. But the Gerrymander had to be thin because there were not that many Republicans. So Perot delayed it two years.
This pollster just wants to discourage the Republicans so the current leadership gets defeated or removed. Then he hopes to return to center stage.
Fools fall for such people .... as they nearly always do.
Not one person I know even knew about the contract. None of them reads TV Guide. HA!
Which makes the efforts of the democrats to write up their own version even funnier.
Sinless isn't required. What is required is that someone in a position to see national security information is not subject to blackmail.
I'm away, on vacation actually, and left my decoder ring at home. Would you please explain what that means?
We're discussing an large percentage of the political elite, unfortunately. If you were around here back in the Clinton era, you might remember that the blackmail angle was a not insignificant concern. It remains so.
Oh yeah! It's time to abandon the Republican boat that fished us out of the Democrat's sewer of corruption, and jump right back into that sewer, to spite the Republicans because the stench of the democrat's sewer still assails our nostrils even here on the boat.
Only in the desperate dreams of delusional liberal democrats.
Here's a wee hint.....the Birchers were actually better than you lot and they were nutters and a bit weird.
Me, I'm partial to the Constimatooshunalist Party.
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