Posted on 10/21/2006 3:59:45 AM PDT by Oakleaf
-Snip- My guess is there are races like this out there being totally ignored by the Drive-By Media because they don't fit the action line.
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One more poll result, ladies and gentlemen. This is from Rasmussen via Real Clear Politics: "Montana Senate race, Conrad Burns (who is, by the way, "toast." To help you put this in perspective, Conrad Burns is toast. It's over. Fini. That's it.) has now moved within three points of John Tester, the Democrat in Montana. I don't know. I'm looking at all this, and I'm smelling movement of some kind, and I'm drawn also, ladies and gentlemen, to our astute phone call from yesterday, said these pollsters need credibility at the end of the day, and he fully expects all these polls to tighten up in the next two weeks or so as we get close to the election.
These wide spreads that we've seen up to now in the polls are designed to depress conservatives and Republicans and thus to suppress turnout, make it look like it's a lost cause. To help along this notion that it is a sweep across the board. I know, Republican pollsters are saying the same thing, Republican strategists filled with doom and gloom. This is the Washington crowd, folks. They're all drinking the same Kool-Aid. They're all subject to the same aura that is there inside the Beltway, but there clearly is some movement here, and it probably will continue. I was thinking more and more about this Republican base not showing up, anger and so forth.
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JMO, the liberal media skewed their polls and when the democrats lose, they will scream that the election was stolen, based on their previous phony polls.
Look, I'm just commenting on the earlier post. I'm just sayin'. There could be a silver lining in this cloud. Just imagine Nancy and Co trying to run Congress. Just thinking about it is funny.
The Dem House leadership is so far Left one of two things would happen, they'd move to the center left and tick off their base, or, they'd stay Left and lose the country.
I think the possibilities are interesting.
"I would like to see the Dems take over the House."
That makes you even lower than a RINO.
Nothing interesting about your taxes going up and traitors controlling the war funding and CIA funding!! Sorry, but I do not find disasters for the country interesting.
> Why would you want to give those traitors and tax raisers control of the house? You must be nuts or a DUer troll! Give them the house, tax cuts will expire and your taxes go up! Give me a break! <
LOL! You must not know how government works if you think the House alone can raise taxes.
FTR, I am neither nuts or a DUer troll, just someone with a more strategic perspective.
Your strategic perspectives are flawed.
Many tax cuts are still set to automatically expire!
One of the most arrogant breed of politician are US senators. My read is that Conrad felt he didn't have a race to lose and it took some good old fashioned political drubbing to wake him from the incumbent arrogance.
Wife and I voted absentee for him but,We need term limits on all politicians.
What we need are more contested primaries.
We need to find a way to open up and fund the primary process without allowing some multi gazillionaire to step in and control the election.
Due to The Stone Age Press we generally don't start moving until next week and will go 10 pts or more in the final week after our ads counter PravdABDNC. We have Just Begun to Fight.
Pray for W and The Election
You're wrong.
The House alone can refuse to vote to extend the tax cuts when they automatically expire. The increase in taxes will kill our economic expansion and increase unemployment.
Also, since all appropriation bills have to originate in the House, the House alone can refuse to fund the War in Iraq and cause us to lose the GWOT, just like it caused us to lose the War in Vietnam in 1975.
So your voting DemonicRat this election? The whole Rat ticket or just the House??
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
This is dangerous thinking. Minority power in Washington is no power at all. Add to that the MSM's efforts to spin the Dimms disaster into a positive, and Republicans could be facing a long time in the political wilderness. The last time Republicans were a minority in Congress it lasted forty years.
Never give away political power. Not just becaue you never know if or when you'll get it back, but you may not be able to undo the damage to the courts, economy, military and society.
I also believe the so-called investigation of Curt Weldon is getting the base really angry.
That's right.
The last time the Democrats had control of the House (from 1954-1994) they gave themselves all kinds of perks and franking privileges designed to keep them in power. It kept them in power for 40 years.
The Republicans couldn't even bring up bill for a vote without their consent, their staff was a third of what the Democrats had.
If they get the House back, the first thing they'll do is change the House rules so that a Republican will never be heard again. They won't make the same mistake twice. They'll try to guarantee that they never lose power again.
I no longer expect much from a nation that could give Gore and Kerry such numbers as they achieved, but if we do well this time around and Dem heads explode, I stand ready to do my part with the mop, bucket, and can of Schadenfreude.
The house, imperfect as it is, is the only reason we don't have the idiot shamnesty law in effect right now.
Do you think 12 million newly legalized mexican [read: Democrat] voters would be good for Republicans in 2008?
If you removed from the mix all of the illegal voters in CA, then there is no way Gore won the popular vote in 2000.
The Dems have learned some lessons. One is that, should they get the congress back, they will pass laws and rules designed specifically to block Republicans from ever getting a majority again. They will not leave it to the whims of the voters, you can be sure of that.
I'd like to add a senareo that is somewhat way out there, but considering what they have said so far, not as goofy as it sounds at first:
With Pelosi as 3rd in line to the POTUS, don't think some BDS loonies won't be thinking how cool it would be to take out Bush & Cheney in some kind of dual assassination plot.
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