Posted on 10/11/2006 2:29:25 PM PDT by RWR8189
Wow! Must-read for all actual Christian/Conservatives!! BTTT
Bump for later.
Morning glory/evening grace BUMP
thanks, for the post...HH is great. :D
my take on it is slightly different..the foley mess reached it's zenith before chia hair decided to derail it with his folley..HOWEVER, I think it would have faded very quickly anyway with the aid of the dems..I think Pelosi et. al. decided NOT to push their luck with having to go under oath knowing the entire incident could have convincingly shown them to be intimately involved in holding the info, then releasing it at this time..the dems, more than anyone are responsible for this fast becoming a non-story..IMHO..
Hewitt is right, and he penned his column BEFORE the sad plane crash in NYC today, which will only remind voters what's REALY at stake in this election (hint: it's not about Foley). Even though the plane accident was probably not terrorism related, it will jar voters' collective consciousness nonetheless. Add onto it the N. Korea nukes situation and the Sandy Berger purloined documents story and you have the making of a GOP comeback from the dumps they were in a week ago.
Still time for more "October surprises," though. . .
Why does Hugh say that all the time? What does it mean? Is it funny?
Hugh, an Ohioan, never mentioned the governor's race.
Hugh used to be on in the mornings. He had a regular caller who would say "Morning glory, Hugh!" Hugh then adopted that as his intro.
Then he moved the show to afternoon drive, and he had a contest with his listeners to come up with a suitable counterpart to "morning glory," and thus was born "evening grace."
The OH governor's race is probably lost. Let's be fair about it. Hugh is realistically sizing up the GOP's chances in key close races, not engaging in wild pipe dreaming. We'd all love a complete GOP result in OH, but based on the numbers to date, that's not likely to happen. If DeWine survives, it'll be victory enough in the current political climate.
BTW, I love the GOP's publicized "firewall" strategy in the MO, OH and TN Senate races. While it leaves PA, MT and RI and other states) behind, it's focus on very winnable seats is admirable -- and smart. Too diffuse an approach might lead to losses across the board.
only problem is that Hugh is terrible at predicting elections. On the eve of the 2000 election, he was on PBS in L.A. predicting that Bush would comfortably win California. Result? Bush got trounced and it had nothing to do with the early CBS miscall of Florida. He's had many other overly optimistic predictions over the years.
AZ. also recall that Burns and Santorum have their own war chests, so they are not being thrown overboard. Rick has over 25 million alone
As had Charlie Cook( Speaker Gephardt?), Sabato/Zogby(Prez Kerry). Novak and others etc.. have all blown races nad trends
Hugh is generally an optimist concerning the elections. He was right on the money back in 2004 when many of his callers were down in the dumps about W's chances against Kerrey, and he was telling them do disregard the public polls. He had internal polling data that showed Bush was going to win.
Burns and Santorum have lots of campaign cash left. If 12+ years of incumbency can't protect them at this stage, well it was nice knowing them. I only wish Kean would be included in the firewall. It would be a slip in the face of the RATS "Culture of Corruption" MO.
hewitt is just amazing.
Every second of every day he thinks what can be done to move the ball to the right. He does so much good, he could be called mr. republican
The Dems released the Foley stuff because they sensed not just a defeat but a STUNNING defeat, losing perhaps 3 seats in the Senate and 5 seats in the House, if they didn't do something to break the momentum.
I think Foley bought them a week, but at the cost of being able to break open the Foley stuff 10 days out of the election. If I'm right, look for GOP momentum to continue to increase, and some of these "vulnerable" guys like Santorum and Chafee and Burns will move into the close, but win, column.
He will win.
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