Posted on 11/07/2006 7:07:08 AM PST by IrishMike
A series of late-October, early November surprises has turned the midterm elections into a real horse race. The bullish stock markets of recent months have been saying all along that a Democratic tsunami will not materialize, but now even a decent Dem wave seems a long shot.
First we have the John Kerry blunder: The Massachusetts senator badmouthed American troops in Iraq as a bunch of uneducated losers. This was typical anti-war elitism from Kerry, but his timing was impeccable. In a scorched-earth negative response, undecided and independent voters are flocking into the Republican camp, according to late-breaking polls from Pew and Washington Post/ABC.
Just as Walter Mondale infamously became the face of the Democratic party on the eve of the 2002 midterms when he replaced Sen. Paul Wellstone on the Minnesota ballot (Wellstone was killed in a plane crash), John Kerry has become the face of the Democrats on the eve of the 2006 vote. It’s a disaster for the Democrats — and they know it. “Kerry’s Blunder, Wall Street’s Gain,” read one financial headline.
Then we have the blockbuster 4.4 percent unemployment rate, the last major front-page economic statistic to appear before the election. Jobs in the U.S. are booming, as government revisions clearly show. Corporate payrolls are rising at nearly 150,000 a month, but the more accurate household survey — which measures the number of people working — rose 426,000 in October, 420,000 per month over the last three months, and 226,000 monthly across the whole year. Meanwhile, wages are growing at 4 percent — almost twice as fast as the 2 percent inflation rate, which itself has been cut in half with plunging gasoline prices.
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Good hearing from you,
funny as ever.
Lol...that's a great cartoon...
Lol...that's a great cartoon...
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Yes, the cartoon says it all, but left out some things...the libs are morons, dangerous, anti-American, anti-Constitutional morons....let the voters beware. (har!)
Mike, the rats were predicted to win in 2000, 2002 and 2004, and we made those predictions look as silly as the rats are with our votes.
Lets do it again.
But I thought it was just a "botched joke"...as in JOhn KErry...
The tag line is a killer.
George W Bush = DRat Killer
GW has been killing the wet dream fantasies of the Rat Party for a long time when the elections finally happen.
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JOHN KERRY =
Pictures of vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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THE SOLDIERS BEHIND THE BANNER
Photo of Troops "Terrorizing" Iraqis (#128 is a must see!)
Video Shows American Soldiers ABUSING Iraqi Children.. ** DO NOT RELEASE TO MEDIA **
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