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Townhall ^ | 11/3/06 | Mike Gallagher

Posted on 11/04/2006 4:52:13 AM PST by Molly Pitcher

This is it. The final days, the home stretch. We head into the weekend and then to the polls on Tuesday for what might just be one of the most important elections of our lifetime.

I don’t ever remember feeling so tired.

I’m tired of hearing people try to make excuses for people like John Kerry. I’m tired of hearing pollsters and pundits project a big victory for Democrats this Tuesday. I’m tired of hearing the vicious, bitter attacks on our President’s character by the likes of people like Keith Olbermann, a pseudo-intellectual Manhattan elitist who appears to be having the sort of on-air meltdown that the fictitious movie newsman Howard Beale of ‘Network’ had. I’m tired of the mainstream press relishing every bit of bad news out of Iraq or about the economy, while virtually ignoring all the positive stuff.

Most of all, I’m just tired of fighting.

But I’m not close to stopping. The stakes are too high. There might just be enough people on the fence that could be persuaded into doing the right thing on November 7th. And so I’m going to try.

Like it or not, political parties are defined by their most prominent members. We Republicans have had our share of headaches and embarrassments. Neither party is without its gaffes.

But at the end of the day, I’ll put the prominent Republican leaders up against the Democrats of 2006 any time. And we’ll all be able to agree that there is a world of difference between the two.

Just consider the people who help to make up the heart and soul of the Democratic Party: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, Keith Olbermann, Alcee Hastings, Marion Berry, Rosie O’Donnell, Barbara Boxer, and Barbra Streisand.

Compare that list to some of the more notable Republicans: George W. Bush, Denny Hastert, Bill Frist, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Sean Hannity, Rudy Guiliani, George Allen, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dick Cheney, John Cornyn, and just about every country music singer in America.

C’mon, it’s not even a close call. Face it, the Democrats are a bunch of angry, bitter, cynical people with no direction, no strategy, and certainly not a whole lot of positive things to say about the USA. The Republicans just feel like, well, the grown-ups.

A war is a very grown-up thing. It might not be as exotic as worrying about what global warming is going to do to snail darters in Antarctica, but terrorism threatens us all. Personally, I’d prefer to take my chances with the ozone over a bunch of angry fanatics who think chopping off my head or blowing up my airplane will send them to heaven.

We have to act like grown-ups. It might seem intriguing to fret about diversity, but our children and our children’s children are counting on us to keep our country safe. And we are in way better shape with the grown-ups in charge than handing over the keys to the car to Ted Kennedy.

I was fascinated by the way Americans reacted to John Kerry’s incredible slur against our troops this week. Sure, there was anger and passion and plenty of hurt feelings. But do you know what didn’t really occur? Hate. That blind, red hot hate that so many Democrats have for honorable people like George W. Bush.

It appears that Democrats made a decision to make our President the focal point of most of their smear campaigns. They figure that if they can attack Bush while running a campaign ad for Congress, voters will be inspired to vote for the Democrat.

Well, as he once famously said: Bring it on. I’ll stack his integrity and guts up against most of these folks on the left any day of the week.

I’m just not willing to believe that voters will be so gullible as to let the Dems win next week.. I can’t accept the possibility that we’ll allow the hateful, vengeful Democrats to gleefully attempt to turn our country into an unholy mess for the next couple of years. No matter what anyone thinks of President Bush’s decisions, I just refuse to think that we’re ready to stomach a party that might just very well try to impeach our commander-in-chief during wartime if they take control of the House and Senate.

Like most Republican leaders in America today, I believe in my country. I have faith that we’ll do the right thing next week. I am proud of our troops, I pray for our President, and I love the United States of America.

We’re a nation that has witnessed a lot of miracles. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll see one more this coming Tuesday.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 06election; congress; johnfkerry
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To: Poor Richard
"I’m not voting."

You're a phony.

61 posted on 11/04/2006 11:33:17 AM PST by Chunga (Conservatives Don't Let Democrats Win Elections. They Vote Republican.)
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To: Poor Richard
Everyone whom you don't agree with is a troll?

I never said that, so don't even go there.

You fit the profile for trolls, and your absurd post at #6 of this thread, with all of your self-righteous posturing is nothing more than an over the edge portrayal of how the left defines evangelical extremists. You overplayed your hand bud.

We're done here.
62 posted on 11/04/2006 11:34:00 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: Chunga
"I’m not voting."
You're a phony.


"DING DING!!"

We have another winner! :)
63 posted on 11/04/2006 11:42:52 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: mkjessup

That's okay, I don't post much anyway. I usually just read what's said here. I rarely feel compelled to post. Usually someone expresses what my thoughts are anyway, so there is no sense in posting.


64 posted on 11/04/2006 11:54:41 AM PST by Poor Richard (Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. - Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: Poor Richard
I rarely feel compelled to post.

"A man's got to know his limitations."
- Clint Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan in 'Magnum Force'
65 posted on 11/04/2006 2:16:13 PM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: Poor Richard

Funny that you only decide to post during election time, and always try to badmouth conservatives. The fact that you waited between 2004 and now to start spewing your crap is the key piece in the puzzle. You're no Evangelical, or even conservative, but you think you know what buttons to push. You are a troll.

Away! Back to your mother's basement!


66 posted on 11/04/2006 3:21:17 PM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: Molly Pitcher; Liz; Howlin
I’m tired of hearing pollsters and pundits project a big victory for Democrats this Tuesday.


67 posted on 11/04/2006 3:31:16 PM PST by Libloather (*Bubba & *Hillary - hardly innocent until proven completely guilty...)
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To: Poor Richard

Apparently you live in a glass house. Careful of throwing those stones....

BTW, I think you're a fake. Have a nice day.


68 posted on 11/05/2006 4:26:50 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Nancy Pelosi only deserves to be Speaker of the Barn.)
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To: Poor Richard; All

"I'm not voting and I'm putting my faith in the ALMIGHTY."

Your quote above from your #12 post,reminded me of a previous post of mine from a Sept.06 thread concerning your "non-action", and waiting for the ALMIGHTY to "take care of things". Below is that post:


Posted by musicman to rlmorel; All
On News/Activism 09/13/2006 12:50:59 AM EDT • 154 of 214

"I am all for praying, but I keep in mind that God helps those who help themselves..."

I heard Red Skelton tell this joke, and it kinda fits.


A gentleman was rocking on his front porch in a very hard driving rain, that looked like it wasn't going to stop any time soon. The water was up to the height of his porch.

A police car drives up, and through the speaker says to the man:

"The rain is going to crest the river upstream 15-20 feet over it's banks, and we are here to evacuate you!!"

The man replies:"No thanks, the Lord will provide !"

The police leave. The water then gets so high, that the man has to seek shelter in the second story of his house.

A police boat approaches the man, who is looking out of his second story window, and with a bullhorn, shouts to him:

"Get in the boat and come to safety, the water is going to drown you !!"

The man refuses, as he replies: "The Lord will provide!"

The boat leaves, and within mere minutes, the water has reached the level of his roof, leaving the man to climb to the very peak of it, with him still waist deep in the rising water as a rescue helicopter shows up overhead.

The crew of the chopper shouts to the man: "Put on the harness in front of you, and we will take you to safety !!"

The man says "The Lord will provide!", and again refuses the help, and the helicopter flies off to rescue others.

The man finally drowns.

His next stop finds him in front of Jesus at the pearly gates.

The man cries: "Lord, I was taught all my life that you would provide my needs for me on earth. Why didn't you help me? Why did you let me drown??"

Jesus replies; " I did help you !! I sent you a police car, a boat, and a helicopter !!"



Please rethink about "not voting" on Tuesday. The Lord is providing you the chance, and, IMHO, the alternative is MUCH WORSE !!


69 posted on 11/05/2006 4:57:01 AM PST by musicman
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To: Poor Richard
I'd vote for my one-eyed gimpy-hipped bulldog, if he represented the Republican party, before I would sit home whining and not vote. This country was under the thumb of a Democratically controlled Congress and SCOTUS for more than 40 years. They succeeded in eliminating prayer in our schools; permitting the desecration of our flag; providing federal funding to the ACLU and other subversives; and, the willful destruction of millions of innocent babies through abortion, not to mention fostering a belief in at least two generations of Americans that the MSM and Hollywood elites are competent political analysts.

We've had a Republican majority less than 15 years and you want to cut and run. You cite the behavior of certain Republicans; however, you fail to note that none of them ever allowed a young woman to drown in order to protect their political future. According to the scriptures, murder is a sin, just as adultery and sodomy are sins, but the ultimate judgment for all of those sins is to be left in the hands of the Almighty on judgment day.

If I didn't vote for any other reason on Tuesday, I would vote because I support the troops and and their commitment to serve our country. I strongly believe we owe it to them to keep their fate out of the hands of people like John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Charles Rangel and, you can rest assured, my list is hardly complete. Every one of the aforementioned are salivating at the thought of pulling every dollar possible away from the defense budget so they can increase the giveaway's that help buy them their votes in every election. Every vote for a Republican is a vote against the dems.
70 posted on 11/05/2006 5:32:25 AM PST by steppinhi (God Bless & Protect Our Troops and their families!)
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To: Poor Richard
We do not live in the Millennium.

Our nation is better because the GOP controls the Gov't.

The moral ills of this nation will not be healed by Gov't but by a return to morality by the people.

All the Gov't can do is give us the environment of freedom to make that choice.

71 posted on 11/05/2006 5:50:31 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal.4:16))
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To: Poor Richard
I’m a values voter

If you value your pocket book, then you will vote so that taxes don't rise.

If you value finishing the job in Iraq, then you will vote.

If you value non-socialized health care then you will vote.

If you value border security, then you will vote.

If you value.....etc.

These were all flawed men before this election. Did you vote in 2000? 2002? 2004?

72 posted on 11/05/2006 6:13:16 AM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: BelegStrongbow

What are the chances that the Prez could call a "Press Conference" or a "Presidential Address to the Nation" on Monday night to discuss the Saddam verdict.

And, hey, if he gets some plugs in for not giving power to the Dems, so be it.

Whaddya think?


73 posted on 11/05/2006 12:12:29 PM PST by no dems (Duncan Hunter for Prez / Tony Snow for VEEP in '08)
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To: no dems

I think it'd be all right, so long as he studiously does not mention the Democrats once but only goes over the PG-13 version of the Saddam facts, giving a 10-minute history lesson for the Rio Linda types who can't remember who won the World Series, much less who Saddam Hussein might be (other than that distincly manly guy who keeps shaking his fist at the camera and yelling in tongues).

Might be just what the Democrats would need: a few dots connected. One dot might be to remind people whether Saddam was Shi'ite or Sunni, where in Iraq he came from, that kind of thing.

That's what I'd do, anyway.

Cheers.


74 posted on 11/05/2006 1:41:19 PM PST by BelegStrongbow (www.stjosephssanford.org: Ecce Pactum, id cape aut id relinque)
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