Posted on 10/20/2006 7:05:29 AM PDT by Interesting Times
Has it ever occurred to you that it is the crappy job of observing that is your problem? You are not even half right.
agreed
I have feelings similar to yours. Here in Tennessee I supported Ed Bryant, a fine conservative and a Christian, for the Republican senate nomination and was deeply disappointed when Bud Corker got it.
Then I looked at Bob Corker's opponent, Harold Ford, Jr.
Except for Slick Willie BJ Clinton there has never been a slicker, more vile DemonRat politician. Ford consistently runs lying ads where he portrays himself as the next thing to a conservative Republican and NEVER even mentions that he's a DemonRat. He's also said he's a lawyer even though he flunked the bar and hasn't been licensed anywhere. In addition to that he's the most liberal Congress critter from Tennessee. The one thing we can genuinely count on him doing if he's elected is abandoning all his "conservative" talk and becoming just as much of a moonbat leftist as his predecessor, Al Gore.
Seeing all of this totally changed my view of Bob Corker. I voted early yesterday for Bob, have contributed to both the Republican Senatorial Committee and the local Tennessee Republican party, and will volunteer to help the Corker campaign. The survival of the country is riding on this election. If we don't win slick Harry Ford and the other DemonRats will destroy this country for the benefit of their subhuman Islamofascist terrorist friends and allies. We MUST contribute, work, and vote for a Republican victory. The alternative is terrorist nukes exploding here in America.
The mistake the Tennessee republicans made was letting Corker get through the primary. Corker just looks lost and gives the impression of being tired and old. It doesn't help matters that Ford is young, very well spoken and slick.
Someone like Corker is the absolute last person you want running against someone like Ford.
Still, I think that Corker might pull it out. It just depends on how motivated Tennessee republicans are as midterm elections are all about party turnout. In presidential election years you have to worry about convincing the undecideds but those people don't even vote in the midterms.
The Florida republicans letting Harris get through the primaries was another huge mistake. Those are two senate seats that were easy wins that the GOP primary voters threw away.
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Nevertheless, compared to Ford, Corker's the Second Coming.
He is to hardcore conservatives but not to the people of Tennessee as a whole. It is so crucial that we don't let a guy like Ford get his hands on any sort of power as he could easily turn out to be another Clinton. He is far more of a threat than Obama.
This is where the FR strategy of voting for the most conservative candidate in the primary and the for the Republican in the general election really falls apart.
By not considering who is electable, hardcore conservatives can produce a candidate that is totally non-electable in the general election.
Tennessee and Florida should have been easy senate seats and the primary voters in both states really screwed things up. Let's hope that Corker can pull it out as his race is more of a toss up at this point.
It will break my heart if Democrats gain control in November.
Our military men and women will have died in vain.
Millions will suffer when the tax cuts are repealed.
Tens of millions will suffer when activist judges are emboldened by the Democrat's socialist/Marxist agenda.
"How about the mistake of 1976! Jimmy Carter is the American most responsible for the rise of Islamic Fascism. We cut and run in Iran, turned our backs on the Shah and look at the mess we have today." ~ jimfrommaine
Exactly.
Miami Herald
Opinion - Posted on Sat, Jul. 08, 2006
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14992603.htm
Jimmy Carter damaged our nation's security
While visiting relatives in Davie over the holiday, I read Jimmy Carter's July 4 Other Views column, Our nation needs fewer secrets, about the Freedom Of Information Act.
The U.S. government is the most transparent on the planet -- by light years. Carter's accolades for some of the most oppressive regimes is pure wishful thinking and blind assertion.
As someone who spent a military career in service to my country for four years under his tenure, I am insulted and infuriated by his self-serving claims of his exploits on behalf of tin-horn governments. All the while he exposed military secrets and applied an ax to the U.S. military to further his pacifist fantasies.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are attributable to him. His failed policies encouraged the shah of Iran to flee into exile in the United States. This act put in place a radical, fundamentalist Islamist government that killed all those friendly to our country and loyal to the shah. In appreciation of Carter's ''good works'' these radical Islamists stormed the U.S. Embassy and held its personnel hostage for more than a year.
To further ensure his legacy, Carter -- in league with his director of Central Intelligence, Admiral Stansfield Turner, and Sen. Frank Church, of the Senate Intelligence Committee -- decimated the CIA's human-intelligence capability, using the bogus rationale that we had technical means that made human presence obsolete.
In another act damaging to U.S. national security, Carter exposed the top-secret development of the Stealth cruise missile as rationale for terminating the B-1 bomber. Then he returned the Panama Canal to Panama so that the Chinese could take over management of this strategic canal.
The list goes on and on.
LEONARD GATO, Cape Coral
Yes, Peach....I am afraid all of those things will happen.
But, I think that a lot of the deaths that are happening now to our troops is because of the dems and their anti-Bush rantings...and anti-war propaganda...that is FEEDING the terrorists with the impetus to kill as many American troops as possible, before the election...
They KNOW that they may be able to sway the elections.
I saw that most amazing headline on an artiticle last night...something like, "Spain's elections may have been swayed by the train bombings by the terrorists"...
WELL..DUH!!!! WE all knew that the day the election results came in and Aznar LOST!!!
It not only worked recently, for al-queda, but, the KNOW our Vietnam history!
Have every intention of voting a straight Republican ticket.
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Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for posting this great article.
Fabulous post devolve, Hillary is 'reining' over them all!!
Abramoff? Sheesh, Reid got more $$ from Abramoff than anybody else by far.
Plus, Reid has his own scandals. As well as Jefferson. And, of course, Menendez.
Cunningham and Foley left before anybody knew what was going on. Ney is gone now. A scandal isn't when someone is discovered and then quits, it's when they or their party can't let go.
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