LIVE THREAD: ELECTIONS 2006

[Dog]

Please Mods can we have one central Live thread ...its tough jumping from thread to thread to get results.

[dfwgator]

Uhh, no offense, but he presided over one worse than this, much worse. He lost the Senate and greatly increased the Democrat majority in the House.

Thanks for injecting some much needed perspective on this thread.

Guess what folks, the sun is still going to come up tomorrow. Life goes on. We'll pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and go on to the next battle.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I cannot get myself to utter the words Speaker Pelosi, I just can't. I'm almost crying.

I can think of one Democrat who agrees with you....Hillary! She now has to run against her own party. Maybe God really does work in mysterious ways?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Tonight's results mean only one thing:

Learn to speak spanish!

You can learn to speak spanish.  I refuse to throw in the towel so easily, and I ain't gonna go out and buy a stinkin' prayer rug either. 

[Cold Heat]

The public, and apparently yourself, do not understand the nature of the war, or conflict that we are involved in.

It is not a offensive war, like WWII. It is a longterm defensive/offensive chess game that will last for decades.

Each potion of it has differing goals. Victory in Iraq offensively was achieved long ago. We are now doing nation building, which is difficult at best, and often impossible, but we have no choice.

If we pull out, we will be going back in within a few short years, and this time, we will have no allies, and no countries that will even pretend to share the burden.

The Democrats do not have a plan. They will not be able to change anything in any significant way. This war has from the beginning, been conceived and executed by the best military on the planet, and it does not get any better than that.

If the public loses faith in the necessity of what we are trying to do in Iraq, and subsequently causes us to withdraw before we achieve our goals, it will leave us with no defense against what Iraq will become, and our economy will suffer. This means everything to us, and when this happens the public will be asking for nuclear retaliation, when all it needed to do was stay the course in Iraq.

We are nearly done there. The worm will turn within the next two years. If we do something stupid now, we will pay dearly for it down the road and so will the global economy and the rest of the planet.

There are some very high stakes here, and few people really understand just how high they are.

It would be a travesty to learn how high the stakes of failure are as a result of failure, but some are thick headed and require learning things the hard way.

The problem is that we all will suffer for it, if it happens.

[Arizona Carolyn]

We were beat by a flagrantly biased MSM... the best thing we can all do is swear never to let our dial touch CNN or MSNBC or buy the WaPo or NYTimes in the next two years... turn them off and tune them out.. don't even look out of curiosity.

Second, we were beat by piss-poor communication in the house and the senate... day after day Pelosi and Reid march out to the cameras and tell the world how horrible GW Bush is and how horrible the war is, and how horrible Rumsfeld is, etc.. and what do we do? We turn the other cheek.

Bill Frist didn't run for relection because he wants to be President. I, for one, would not vote for him because he is a wimp. We can still be Christians, but we damned well better grow a spine... and soon!

[nitejohnboy]

Of course, I've heard that an overdose of Botox can be fatal.

[Cold Heat]

The public, and apparently yourself, do not understand the nature of the war, or conflict that we are involved in.

It is not a offensive war, like WWII. It is a longterm defensive/offensive chess game that will last for decades.

Each portion of it has differing goals. Victory in Iraq offensively was achieved long ago. We are now doing nation building, which is difficult at best, and often impossible, but we have no choice.

If we pull out, we will be going back in within a few short years, and this time, we will have no allies, and no countries that will even pretend to share the burden.

The Democrats do not have a plan. They will not be able to change anything in any significant way. This war has from the beginning, been conceived and executed by the best military on the planet, and it does not get any better than that.

If the public loses faith in the necessity of what we are trying to do in Iraq, and subsequently causes us to withdraw before we achieve our goals, it will leave us with no defense against what Iraq will become, and our economy will suffer. This means everything to us, and when this happens the public will be asking for nuclear retaliation, when all it needed to do was stay the course in Iraq.

We are nearly done there. The worm will turn within the next two years. If we do something stupid now, we will pay dearly for it down the road and so will the global economy and the rest of the planet.

There are some very high stakes here, and few people really understand just how high they are.

It would be a travesty to learn how high the stakes of failure are as a result of failure, but some are thick headed and require learning things the hard way.

The problem is that we all will suffer for it, if it happens.

[WoodstockCat]

hurl insults?
who started it?
Want to check what percentage of us in GA on the RR pulled a lever today before you label us all the problem?
grow up...

[Yaelle]

Any insights or predictions on which segments of Republicans sat this one out?

Not the ones tuned into the internet or talk radio.

[Blackirish]

Even if it is a socially conservative and fiscally moderate or liberal Democrat versus a libertarian hawk Republican who is socially liberal

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Your the problem. You fear a gay dude more then an islamist dirty bomber. Yo have discredited the conservative movement.

[NorthWoody]

We can still hope!

Tomorrow is another day, and I'm done for tonight.

The talk radio airwaves will be buzzing tomorrow. Got some heavy listening to do, and I need my rest. :-)

I hope Bush, Hastert and Frist are feeling this one on their chins bigtime tonight. Not that it will change anything, I just hope they realize how bad they messed up certain things to cause this to happen.

[nopardons]

None of whom are from BORDER STATES; sweetums.

[freedomdefender]

I don't know what the GOP expected with 500,000 illegals here in Arizona. Did they really think this would remain a red state?

Please explain why the president supports amnesty? Doesn't he realize these immigrants vote Democrat?

[SeaBiscuit]

I wonder how many voted.. maybe they ought to check out those voter registrations.

[Heartofsong83]

CT and RI were solid blue states, and OH had a scandalous GOP state-level regime, even if DeWine was an innocent victim :-( (the Governor switch I expected for sure)

DeWine, like Santorum, will be back.

[fatima]

They have the gavel ready:)She just had a facelife.Gotta be ready for superstar:)

[oceanview]

I'll go you one better - we may need a McCain/Rudy ticket.

[Windcatcher]

I don't know about others here, but I'll gladly take a Rudy over a Hillary any day. A face-spiter I am not.

[sonic109]

That's more of a reflection on a lazy, entertainment-oriented cultre with atrophied critical thinking skills
Well said my friend, The general public in this coutry are morons.

[penowa]

All those conservative Dems like by brother and sister-in-law just loved "coming home" voting for Casey and Altmire - the first Dems on the national ticket they voted for since Reagan won them over. The conservative movement, what there was of it in PA, is worse than buried because they are so brain dead they won't even notice when both of them vote to keep partial birth abortion.