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He is part of a Party that is run by the Liberals.
Also, that is why Republicans need to stop whining about 'RINO's'.
To be the Majority Party you are going to have those in it who are not part of the mainstream of the Party.
The Democrats were the dominant Party by having a large conservative wing but pushed a liberal agenda.
The Republican Party will have a liberal wing, but will advance a conservative agenda.
What the Democrats learned was patience, and built the welfare state little by little.
It must be disassembled the same way.
Just voted.
Here in Indiana (and I here in Ohio too) you have to have a picture ID. I did. Then I had to sign my name and it had to match.
I also wish the RNC had run some ads highlighting all the dirty campaigning by Democrats, such as the theft of Michael Steele's credit report, the hacking of Gov. Schwarzenegger's computer, the harrassment of Senator Allen's mother, etc.
Yeah, Riiiiight
Don't forget terrorists, morons, hanging chad artists, multiple voters, and the deceased...
Ping. Thomas Sowell column here.
" Democrats are getting people to vote for moderates in order to put extremists in power." ~ george76
As always. The tactic works because a large part of the electorate is naive and uninformed.
Why Party Trumps Person. bttt [excerpted]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1733872/posts?page=123#123
A time-honored cliche heard every election year goes something like this: "I'm an independent thinker; I vote the person, not the party." This pronouncement is supposed to demonstrate open-mindedness and political sophistication on the part of the pronouncer. It's your vote, cast it any way you like - or not at all.
But idealism and naivete about the way our electoral process and system of government works shouldn't be mistaken for wisdom or savvy.
For better or worse, we have a two-party system. And party trumps person. Either a Republican or a Democrat is going to be elected... No one else has a chance.
..not the Libertarian candidate, nor the Communist, nor the Green. Minor party candidates are sometimes spoilers .. but they don't win.. elections. Ross Perot got 20 million popular votes in 1992, and exactly zero Electoral College votes.
In Europe's multiparty, parliamentary democracies, governing coalitions are formed after an election.
In our constitutional republic, the coalitions are formed first.
The Republican coalition includes, for the most part, middle- and upper-income taxpayers (but not leftist Hollywood millionaires and George Soros), individualists who prefer limited government, pro-market and pro-business forces, believers in American exceptionalism and a strong national defense, social-issues conservatives and supporters of traditional American values.
The Democratic coalition is an alliance of collectivists, labor unions (especially the teachers' unions), government workers, academics, plaintiffs-lawyers, lower- and middle-income net tax-receivers, most minorities, feminists, gays, enviros, and activists for various anti-capitalist, anti-business, anti-military, anti-gun, one-world causes.
...party trumps person because [regardless of the individual who wins an election] the coalition will be served.
.. After the individual members of a new Congress have been seated, a figurative nose count is taken and the party with the most noses wins. That victory carries with it control of all committee and subcommittee chairmanships, the locus of legislative power.
Now, let's say you're a registered Republican voter who clearly prefers the Republican philosophy of governance. And you're a good-natured, well-intentioned person who happens to like an individual Democrat, a Senate candidate, who's somewhat conservative. You decide to cross party lines and vote for him.
As it turns out, he wins, beating a Republican and giving the Democrats a one-vote majority, 51-49, in the U.S. Senate.
Congratulations! You just got Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein and Hillary Clinton as key committee chairs, and a guarantee that your Republican legislative agenda will be stymied.
That's the way the process works.
Does this mean that in a two-party system like ours it comes down to choosing between the lesser of two evils?
You bet it does.
That's not to say that either party is really "evil," that's just an expression.
If we had [300] million custom-tailored minor parties, everyone could find his perfect match.
But that's not practical.
You can be a purist and cast your vote symbolically with a boutique party, or be a player and settle for the least imperfect of the Republican or Democrat alternatives.
Your vote, your choice. ~ Mike Rosen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728426/posts
I think I COMMITTED VOTER FRAUD...or will. I voted absentee but my boss came in and said to us that if we want to leave an hour early to vote---to go ahead. I said OK. Am I going to hell?
Democrats pretending to be conservative is the only way they have been able to win since the '70s. The problem for them is that that they manage to fool the people and win a term, but when they return to their far left roots, they face the consequences come election time. Look at Clinton. He ran as a "moderate." But once in office, he turned hard left, raised taxes, tried to socialize healthcare and bam, his party got hit hard.
I think we will see the same thing happen here. The Blue Dogs may put the dems over the top, but the second Speaker Pelosi accepts her crown, she will start her far left agenda and, yep, try to socialize healthcare, raise taxes, cut off funding for the troops, impeach and endlessly investigate the President, and institute the fairness doctrine. Of course, I could be wrong. The blue dogs may reach accross the aisle and form a coalition. But I doubt it. They hate Bush that much and will not be able to help themselves.
"Getting people to vote for moderates, in order to put extremists in power, may be the newest and biggest voter fraud."
It just shows how extreme left the party has become, because the tactic is a specialty of the left and has been used by every set of Marxists who have come to power anywhere in the world - deny the meaning of their true identity, get stand-ins who know nothing to get elected as their willing stooges and then solidify the power they gained through non-democratic means.
Even now in Nicaragua, a Sandista is campaigning as a born-again Christian. Maybe Hillary will divorce bill and try that route in 2008.
Perhaps but those same moderates cannot go completely liberal if they want to keep their jobs.
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The sad thing is, the media has been helped this time by conservatives themselves who wish to send a message. They will get the message alright, but it won't be one they wanted.
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