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!
Your post is right on the mark. If we as conservatives are unhappy with our general election choices, then we didn't work hard enough to support true conservative candidates in the primaries. Still, we should support what we have.
I have a feeling that Nov. 7th is gonna be like the Bears/Cardinals game last night. 2nd half is just about to start. Get ready for the ride.
BTW. My heart goes out to you "Arizona Carolyn". As a Bear fan from Chicago, I can sympathize with a team that has a habit of choking when the talent is there. God knows we have been there.
But on Nov. 8th, I will have no sympathy for the Libs. That would be like having sympathy for the devil.
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LOL! If this is what the DNC is basing their campaign on, they are sure to lose.
A long time ago, when I was young, not yet voting, I attended a speech at a New Orleans church by Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for President. He was so friendly and convincing, I told myself I would be an American Socialist.
Sometime shortly thereafter, I watched a TV interview with the libertarian philospher Ayn Rand. I fell in love, bought all her books, and told myself I was a American libertarian. Still didn't vote.
Then one day, Ronald Reagan came to a college center in New Orleans and spoke for Goldwater. It was all over. I became a true American, a Republican. I then voted. Ayn Rand taught me a lot, but Ronald Reagan taught me what I needed to know. Of the real choices we have in front of us, the best is to keep all three branches in the hands of Republicans.
Oh, I'm angry. Angry enough to be sure to get out there and vote for Rick and Lynn and every other non-Democrat I can think of and to urge every Republican I know (sadly, not many) to get out and do the same. To the Dems further discredit, they've run a negative, mudslinging campaign from the beginning this time. Where are the words to sway us, to inspire us that they're here to help? And Rendell? Puh-lease. He should be running on the strength of the positive changes he's made in the last 4 years. Cue crickets. Awkward pause. All he has is mud. Hmmmm...
Yep. Funny huh?
Yes, vote "R" but then keep the pressure on them.
You can't just vote and think you're done - not in these dangerous times. If we controlled the media and the schools maybe we wouldn't have to work so hard but we don't ... yet.
I have to go out and buy a clothespin to put on my nose when I vote for Lincoln Chaffee......as bad as he is he is nowhere near as bad as Sheldon Whitehouse.
Not disenchanted with all the GOPers. Think Bush/Cheney/Rummy are doing a mostly great job. Applaud the House for taking the lead on a border fence w/o the "comprehensive" baggage, and think Senators like Sessions, Santorum, Cornyn, Brownback and a handfull of others are fantastic.
Meanshile, McCain, Chaffee, the Maine dingbats, etc can move to France for all I care.
OK so what exactly are the Democrats running on let see Change thats their platform change everything that the GOP did. Usijng hypnosis on America.. look deep into my eyes... things suck, America sucks, America is hated...Bush is bad, Cheney is the devil.... blah blah... Now what exactly does that platform mean..
1. No attacks since 911 because of Bush policies, Homeland Security and Patriot Act. Democrats will reverse those policies and we will be attacked again.
2. Thousands of Terrorists caught since going to Afghanistan and taking it to Al-Qaeda in Iraq... Dems say Bush bad job so all the terrorists go free. Dems treat future attacks like law enforcement. Tens of Thousands of U.S. Citizens next time.
3. Saddam Hussein deposed dictator by Bush... Dems will Re-install him back to power in Iraq.
4. Iraq and Afghanistan freely elected governments because of Bush. Dems reverse it they want those countriess back to tyranical regimes.
5. Economy booming even after mega disasters 911/Katrina... Dems raise taxes, kill economy, Depression sets in.
The question voters need to ask is do we really need change???
You're damned right I'm angry. I'm angry that the republicans didn't outlaw and do away with the traitor rat party in 1865!!!
I am angry.
Angry that the pubbies spent like drunken sailors.
Angry about the bridge to nowhere.
Angry that SS was not solved.
Angry that bush vetoed exactly ONE bill, and that was stem cells, of all things.
Angry that bush does not support the fence, until his feet were held to the fire.
I am supposed to be a poll watcher for clay shaw, but I don't feel like it, and don't feel like voting.
And I was one of the 535 broken glass types who put bush over the top, so long ago.
Let's see if bush has the balls to veto anything when pelosi and reid are in charge. If he does, nothing will change. In other words, we might has well have had them in charge for the past 4 years.
If he doesn't, well, we know it is time for another party.
Which is going to be more and more "vote third party" trolls.
If third parties were inteligent, they are not, they would realize that the death of the democrat party means third parties more up to second party. But there is a reason they are third parties and and democrat trolls get the naive to vote for the third party.
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Democrats need Stupid Republicans to win.
GREAT point. If it weren't for Perot, Clinton would have lost. Somehow, the media neglects to mention that. Perot got 19 million votes.
You said what I believe, much better than I could have. Thank you.
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