Posted on 10/25/2006 8:12:42 PM PDT by neverdem
I like the title at the Minny Red Star better.
Nope, even if we win this one, we got one more to go.
We've got to face The Beast in 2008.
Then we nominated Bob Dole.
Apparently the author knows nothing of Rove's weather machine.
IF we ALL get out and VOTE and each bring 3 people along with us, I think the dems would be pretty much done and a new "liberal" party would be formed.
LBJ's toliet paper is right about one thing: if the Dims lose, they will go crazy.
I don't buy into this premise. the only reason the Democrats aren't polling the the mid-teens, is the fact that 90% of the media is whoring for them
The folks that are dead are the wacko anti-gun crowd with the tax raisers close beind. No rat,with half a brain, is going there.
GOP fortunes lie with the independent voters. In a mid term election independents will come out if they think the country is in a world of hurt and they are personally suffering (i.e financially). If gasoline prices go low and the economy is strong, why should the independents come out? If that is the case, then it all comes down to which party can turn out their voters. If I hear that we have heavy turn out in my district, then the independents are motivated to come out in a midterm election (meaning bad news for the incumbent).
I almost hope that the dems get their act together a little. If they weren't anti-gun and anti-defense, a lot of folks could vote for them (not me) and this would force our party to the right. With the above scenario, we are going to have to hold our nose and vote for many cycles.
I'll take it! :)
I'll take it! :)
I did not vote for Arlen Specter in '04. But if I lived in N.J. or R.I. I would likely vote for the RINO just because of this possibility.
I think base turnout is big also.
Have no fear. The Great Vast Right Wing, even as we speak, is preparing the main entree, ala The HildaBeast! On stage 1, David (what's his name?) Rosen, on stage 2, Vincent Foster ( where are the car keys? ), Mark Rich (beg your pardon), and a further cast of dozens...coming soon to a TV near you.
Passing over the silliness of "incompetent conduct of a needless war" (which I can because the Dems have yet to propose a better alternative) and the fact that the evidence of congressional corruption that is mounting seems stacked disproportionately toward the Democrat side of the aisle, we are left with the real message - if this much work by the media over this long can't boost the Dems back into majority then nothing will.
It's an entirely mistaken conclusion. What will be shattered by a loss or even a mixed victory is the strident left wing of the party that makes for such great press and lousy politics. What will be strengthened is the conventional party machinery and those who control it. This is not accidental, it is absolutely by design, and the beneficiary is the Presidential candidate waiting in the wings. The wingnuts are screaming now but they'll be voting for her as their only alternative if this election isn't the crushing breakthrough everyone in the MSM seems to be predicting. The problem with overblown predictions is that when they don't come true even a minor victory is profoundly unsatisfying.
And the media absolutely will climb aboard. Sensation sells copy but nothing seduces like power. The Democratic party isn't really in much danger here. The country may be.
It's kind of like the polls that show the majority of people are fed up with Congress and want a change...but don't disclose that many of those same people intend to vote for their incumbent.
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