I'm Bursting (Hugh Hewit on R's winning Tuesday)

Hugh Hewitt ^ | 11/4/2006 | Hugh Hewitt

[Just_an_average_Joe]

My homeys at the Weekly Standard have published their election predictions, and they range from dire to calamitous. Meanwhile, I’m merrily skipping about Soxblog Manor (in a completely manly way, mind you) whistling a happy tune. I expect Tuesday to be an extremely successful day for the Republican Party.

[NEPA]

The liberals I know were perfectly likable prior to 2000. Now they suffer from BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) and are perpetually cranky.

They have a sense of entitlement that they should be in control and damn those morons who vote Republican.

[LibLieSlayer]

No, I don't have many dims in my area so it makes it easy. I don't want their evil money. I have 31 years if success following my philosophy.

LLS

[alicewonders]

Yeah. In a way, liberals remind me of the Shakers.

What a dumb idea to start a religion where no one could marry & procreate - perfect recipe for dying out.

What a dumb idea to have a political party made up of old, dried up hippies, gays and women who abort their offspring - perfect recipe for dying out.

[Arrowhead1952]

The urban sprawl here is because all the Republicans moved out of Austin. Most of the city is liberal, and the outlying areas are basically Conservative. Every time the city decides to annex more subdivisions, urban sprawl starts up again.

I lived just inside Williamson County up until 1990, and then moved further out, but back into Travis County. I wish we had stayed there, but the schools lacked the quality we wanted for our only daughter, so we moved to a smaller town a few miles further out.

The small town I live in, voted about 70% for President Bush in 04. There were very few john/john yard signs in our area, but plenty of Bush/Cheney signs.

[pollyannaish]

Thirty-one years of success sounds great!

Sometime you'll have to live in a Blue State for a while. I'll take as much of their evil money as I can and rework it for something good. True, honest, money-laundering. Comes out clean as a whistle. ;-)

Have a great day, LLS!

[dforest]

Same here in Indy. However dem control of the city is dragging it down. We did finally get rid of a Dem governor and got Mitch Daniels. He is bringing a lot of jobs and a big boost to our ecomomy. You know, the dems are so backwards and gripe about every new opportunity arising as if it is BIG Government. You give them jobs and opportunity and they moan that the people that are doing this are big oil, big drugs, big auto. Can't have it all. But at least we got rid of those that were keeping our state in the stone age. For the time being.

[Timeout]

...the guys at Weekly Standard have pretty good sources who would not seek to minimize the republicans' chances, so I too am getting very nervous, or at least "cautiously pessimistic".

This cycle I've refused to devine the entrails of every poll, looking for a silver lining.

In the weeks just before the 2004 election we all waited breathlessly for the next poll to come out. At the end, this was especially true of the Washington Post multi-day poll. In September, early October Bush was up nicely: from 9+ to 15+ in some polls. Then he flubbed the first debate and the numbers started going south. By 2 weeks before the election it was neck and neck with Bush slightly ahead.

Then, on the Wednesday before the election, Kerry started gaining, giving the MSM their "momentum" theme. "Undecideds are breaking for Kerry! Yeaaaaaaah!". All through the weekend, he kept gaining. By Monday,the MSM was giddy! And the Weekly Standard wrote Bush off!!! Then came the exit polls. Well, you know the rest. It was real misery.

I won't put myself through that again (well, til the next prez election anyway!). Whether it's bias or arrogance, pollsters just can't seem to figure out how to measure GOP strength.

So, like Hugh, I remain rather optimistic. I just wish we could get across to all the fence-sitters: try to imagine the SHEER BLISS of watching the MSM if the GOP holds on to both houses!!!!

[LibLieSlayer]

You too poly! I used to live in Austin so I know!

LLS

[waimea.man]

...I think Al Gore's meltdown & refusing to concede the race poisoned their minds. They are bitter, irrational people now & most of them...

Great post. You're absolutely right. Another case of a Dim only thinking of himself and not doing what's best for the country. Gore should have been an American after the election and conceded graciously. Instead he was a a-hole and inspired a lot of anti-Bush, anti-American sentiment that still carries to this day.

[Bonaparte]

"... Larry Sabato, declared during 2004 the result was WRONG since the EXIT poll said otherwise."

IOW, he's saying the media, not the people, should choose our leaders. Of course he'd be the media's darling!

[Prost1]

A local paper is reporting 44% of ballots already submitted in Calif.

Absentee Ballots. This means the actual vote wont be known for a few days unless there are large margins from the voting booths.

I would not be surprised that hard-working professionals have voted absentee. I do not because I believe in voting at the booth.

In California, large numbers of public employees get time off to vote and even many public offices close on election day.

I wonder how these facts are being reflected in the Walmart polls reported by the 'professional pollsters'.

[kuma]

I think it bombed because some people suspect that it is a film that attempts to give a demoralizing view of the patriotic nostalgia that surrouds Iwo Jima and WWII.

I know that I have had mixed feelings hearing the reviews but I'm not one to go to theaters anyways. Still I'm not all that sure I want to rent it on DVD either.

[Arrowhead1952]

You know, the dems are so backwards and gripe about every new opportunity arising as if it is BIG Government. You give them jobs and opportunity and they moan that the people that are doing this are big oil, big drugs, big auto.

Yeah, I hear that so often as well. Big government is the only way to go for the libs. Make sure you keep the "dependents" on the government's teat.

My response to the libs has been, "When was the last time anyone on welfare, or other government giveaway program offered you a job?" That'll shut 'em up every time.

[Dick Vomer]

Flags of our Fathers wasn't very good is why it bombed. If the movie would have focused on the actual battle for Iwo Jima instead of the guys who toured the nation it would have done better.

thanks for your review... I was thinking about going to see it but am ambivalent. Saving Private Ryan had about the most realistic combat sequence (except the smell and body thumping of artillery) and was an action/moral story.

Guys like to see war films in order to fantasize that maybe they'd be brave enough to partake in the action or to see what "war" is like.

Most that have been in combat know that depending on your training and mindset, no movie can realistically show what it feels like to lose your friend or kill somebody.... or the sheer joy and happiness of being alive..... and then poof, time passes and it's over like a dream.

[jocon307]

On another thread you asked us to bump the positive threads, so I'm bumping this one and pinging you to it. Click through and read the (reasonable short) piece, it is pretty optimistic.

[dforest]

We have this toll road in Northern Indiana, It was a losing and costly venture for the state. Daniels sells rights to operate it to the Aussies for 3 billion. The Dems are all up in arms. Now all those roads they were whining about are going to get fixed. State no longer has to pay for the toll road and what do they say? We "sold" the toll road to foreign interests.

[soccermom]

Haven't you learned anything from the last 3 election cycles in Washington State? McGavick has to win by at least 5% points to win that election. Democrats have a way of "finding" votes in King County during recounts.

[unlearner]

"This is not Repubclican year - 'Flags of Our Fathers' is a Box Office Bomb... FOF is a GREAT movie"

My father, a veteran, has rarely gone to the theater. In my whole life I think I could count the times on one hand. But he asked me whether this one might be worth going to see.

After all, Spielberg is a great producer, and Eastwood is a talented (though not conservative) director. I was interested too. But after reading up on it, I have decided to wait for the DVD if I watch it at all. My father also decided to pass.

I learned that this is probably the most violent war movie ever made. I have no problem with that. War is violent. In this case it is not gratuitous like horror flicks, but graphically demonstrates how evil the enemy was and why they had to be defeated, and at the same time shows the depth of the heroism of our troops. However, some people (my mother is one) could not stand to see the violence in Saving Private Ryan. Apparently this one is even more violent.

What is more troubling to me is that the politics are muddled. Some of the more accurate views expressed are done so by less sympathetic characters.

And this adaptation of James Bradley's book leaves out the religious and spiritual content which played an important role in the original story. It does contain a certain kind of spiritual content though: the wrong kind. Of the more than one hundred profanities, God or Jesus have their name abused or used as a swear word over forty times. That isn't necessary. And I am not going to be among those who vote for this by buying high priced tickets at the box office so that Eastwood and Spielberg can make more like it.

[Chunga]

Are you saying DeWine has closed to within two in a Zogby poll?

[Arrowhead1952]

We are getting toll roads here too. Several parts are already open, but tolls won't be charged until sometime next year. Not one of the roads will help me, as all are further out than I normally drive.

I will sign off for today. I'm getting ready to head home from guard drill for the day. I may check in later from home.