Posted on 10/17/2006 2:12:22 PM PDT by PghBaldy
The progressive lamestream press says that democrats are poised to regain political power this November, for the first time since removed from power in 1994. Conservatives across this land are worried that they could wake up to Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and/or Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. Something worthy of worry for sure…
But Democrats know a few things that many conservatives fail to grasp.
--Democrats must win in November to avoid a complete collapse of their Party.
--Democrats can’t win without the help of Republican voters.
--Secular Socialist Democrats control the DNC, but are a small voting minority.
--For Democrats to win, Republicans must stay home or defect.
--Democrats can only win by default.
For Republican voters to help Democrats into power, they must be tricked into helping. No conservative could ever vote for a modern secular socialist democrat, so their vote must be against something else.
There’s no getting around the fact that very real Bush administration failures such as inadequate border security, continued illegal immigration, record social spending and a stumbling commitment to victory in Iraq has left the door wide open for Democrats to regain power. However, there is a bit more to it than that.
In order for conservative voters to defect, or even stay home, they must believe that Democrats would do it all better!
Now even the most naïve conservative could never believe such a thing. Democrats are the social spending experts. Even though Bush has outspent all previous administrations, Democrats are campaigning on the notion that he still didn’t spend enough.
Although Democrats attack Bush’s lack-luster border security, they campaign on the notion that there isn’t even any such thing as illegal immigration, seeing no difference between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. They even campaign on promises of federal handouts and civil rights for illegal immigrants and open borders period.
And though few Americans feel like we are being “all we can be” in Iraq, conservatives are angered that we have not lowered the boom in Iraq, not that we have failed to cut-n-run!
It’s a case of does two wrongs make a right? Conservatives unhappy with the Bush administration are looking for someone more conservative, not secular socialists even further left than Bush and Co.
In a presidential election, a minority party can win by simply recruiting a strong third party conservative that will divide the conservative vote, creating a numerical majority win by default. In 1992, it was Ross Perot who provided that divide, leaving Democrats in a functioning majority, even though Clinton was elected by substantially less than 50% of the popular vote. Perot provided the divide again in 1996 and Clinton won again with less than 50% of the popular vote.
But in a congressional mid-term election, it isn’t quite that simple. They have to win more than one race. They must divide a nation, not a voting bloc. They can’t win by third party divisions. They must win one race at a time, one district at a time, in multiple districts in order to shift the balance of power nationally.
To do this, they need mass numbers of opposition voters to either stay home or defect. Not defect to a third party alternative, but all the way to the other side. While many angry conservatives might like to vote against liberal republicans this fall, any vote against a liberal republican is in fact a vote for a socialist democrat. Voters must defect from the right, all the way to the left…
The notion of any middle ground should be effectively put to rest by now. Show me a moderate in either political camp, and I’ll show you a politician without power. You won’t even recognize their name. They are sidelined, sitting on the bench, ineffective and unable to make any difference at all. They are waiting for their term to end to go home or planning their defection to an Independent status, like Joe Lieberman.
So the question isn’t - are conservatives less than impressed with the current republican leadership. The question is – are they angry enough to defect all the way to the dark side? Are they disenchanted enough to stay home in November, handing victory to their arch enemy on the left by default?
Democrats and their lamestream press are clearly banking on disenchanted conservative voters this fall. Without the help of angry conservatives, democrats have no chance of regaining power.
Will their efforts to paint every republican a pervert via the Foley case work? Will they be able to convince pro-life, pro-military, pro-security, pro-sovereignty and pro-capitalism conservatives to stay home or vote for a secular socialist? I just don’t see it happening…
A drive up the road will convince you that conservatives are not happy with their current leadership. Most of the yards usually proud to display their party campaign signs are empty this year. But even though they don’t have the typical campaign signs in the yard, the same principles are still in their hearts and still on their minds. Come Election Day, sign or no sign, they will be in the voting booth and they won’t be pulling the lever for people they have fought against all their lives.
Progressive political operatives masquerading as news anchors can predict all they want on the basis of their slanted polling results or the signs they see in the yards across America. But they can not predict how people will vote when they step into the booth and face the decision available, semi-liberal republican leadership or full-blown socialist leadership.
Conservatives are not known for their ignorance, nor are they known for being passive by nature. They don’t usually march in parades, attend sit-ins or burn flags to make their point. They go to the polls at election time and make their statement. They are often referred to as the silent majority because they are usually too busy with productive lives to sit around pontificating with their liberal friends. But that silent majority has been speaking loud and clear in every election since 1994, and I don’t expect that to change this November!
Conservatives have nothing to fear but their own apathy or appetite for vengeance. If they vote, they win!
Works for me; and getting even is NOT helping any Demrat; either by not voting and/or . . .voting for one.
Good grief. . .just heard on Fox the speculation that Dems may fare better; because they have more 'good looking' candidates.
That surely is novel for them; but ANYone who decides on a candidate because of his looks. . .deserves to be hit by truck on their way to the polls.
Don't want them injured. . .really. . .just not able to get there by closing bell.
HELL YEAH!
I do hope that the Christian conservative community can see what is obvious; that the media has launched a deliberate campaign to demoralize them, and to depress their turnout. There is absolutely no excuse for those concerned about values sitting this one out in some misguided attempt to punish the GOP and send a message. Justice Stevens or Ginsburg could very well retire in the next two years, and that would mean we have a chance to (if Roberts and Alito turn out as promised) finally right the Court. If however, the Dems control the Senate, then a conservative nominee will be filibustered. And even if the GOP retains a slim majority, a filibuster may still succeed, though at least then we'd have a chance.
And all those concerned about President Bush and the Senate's far left immigration agenda should remember that the only reason that awful McKennedy bill isn't law right now is because of the steadfastness of the House.
Yes, the GOP has screwed up a lot of things. Yes, power corrupts, but the alternative is sufficiently frightening, and they have done enough good things, to warrant conservatives and Republicans sending them back to Congress.
The DNC has a better chance of winning the mega-lotto.
I'm ticked off, but not blind. This ex-democrat green can see quite well that the democrat party is far, far, far worse than anything in the GOP.
(It's a Hobson's Choice at best..)
I smell fear in the air and I'm thinking the GOP is going to wipe the floor with the dems in a couple of weeks. Then I wonder what the MSM will try to spin?
And I should have pointed out that even though the Senate did pass the awful amnesty bill, almost all of the opposition in that body came from conservative Republicans, like Talent, Santorum, and even Burns. So losing them would almost certainly mean three less votes to make the superior House approach law.
They must be banking at a savings and loan.
Good post!
Noone could possibly match my ANGER as a Republican. I am so ANGRY I could spit nails. While our sons and daughters bleed and die for our liberties and freedoms, the DEMONCRATS try to spin their BULLSH*T, and are helped by the ILL-LIBERAL MSM. All for the sake of reaquiring some power they think is OWED TO THEM by the American People, just because they are who they are. Each time they open their mouths our enemies salivate in anticipation of the division that is being created by these cretins. Each new trashing of America comment that flys out of their ignorant mouths helps our enemies and hurts our troops. As far as I'm concerned, they should all rot in hell for committing treason against our great nation. If they don't like what this country stands for, they can leave and go find the peace they seek with their Islamo-facists friends (and I'll help them pack).
"...GOP is going to wipe the floor with the dems in a couple of weeks. Then I wonder what the MSM will try to spin?"
Easy. The Diebold lie.
Thank you Soldier Dad, I am applauding you right now!
Oh, yes -- the voting machines from Venezuela with no paper trail and no verification on how they were programmed! Thank God we are not using them here. We use the old fashioned fill in the circle with a black marking pen and run through a scanner method.
"Easy. The Diebold lie."
After having their empty heads filled with this for going on four elections now, they're going to go completely over the cliff ... I'm thinking riots. Seriously.
They are d**n right I am angry. But I am angry at the Democrats for doing nothing but attack Bush.
The Dems have made me very angry -- at THEM. My anger at the MSM is almost as HOT!
Broken Glass!
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Hey, SoldierDad. My nephew just returned from his second tour in Iraq. We're very proud of him. Good for you for having raised your children right.
Whatever happens, I do hope the pubbies get the message and get back on the conservative track. The drunken liberal policies they have pushed the last 6 years is THE reason why the base has become so disgusted with the party.
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