if we nuked tora bora and fallujah, there may have been extremely nasty international backlash and protests at home, but we would be looking at expanding our majority in the house by 10-20 seats and have gained 5 or 6 senate seats...
This is the biggest bunch of tripe that I have read in a long time.
1000%
This was all about Iraq.
The president is the defacto head of the GOP. The GOP failed to maintain a majority. If not Bush, who would you blame? Conservatives?
WTF? There have been plenty of instances where the sitting party in the oval office loses seats in second term elections.
Yes, Bush and this past few Congresses have stunk on some issues and also on getting the message out but I am not going to ignore history either.
We managed to pull off things here in TN. We might have even improved our position in the State Legislature. It appears more to me to be a whooping in blue states that used to have more semi-Republicans in Congress. Some good ones went out with the bad. But look at the CNN House map and how little changed in the South and West. Allen and Talent ran stupid. We can still pull out a good last two years. I just don't expect the Congresscritters to show the spine to do it. Though the Rs do better as the minority it seems.
Well, its Iraq. Everything else is second. Was the invasion of Iraq a mistake? Maybe. Should we have played to win? Yes. Do we have the stomach to win now? I am afraid to ponder an honest answer to this question.....
I haven't heard the President talking about this, or focusing efforts. It's like the catastrophe dropped off the map. I can't but think this help sink the whole 'Pubbie side.
I've said it once, I'll said it dozens of times, I'll say it again, and maybe this time you'll believe me: Karl Rove isn't now nor ever was a genius.
This should be fun. You should draw a whole army of bots for this one.
To echo these sentiments, I zipped this off to Rush and other talk shows tonight:
Dear Rush,
Well, we reap what we sow - You (and I do mean you, Rush, and others) anoint a moderate buffoon to the White House (who I too voted for twice as the lesser of two evils) because of expedient politics instead of on honest Conservative values and real leadership…
Add unqualified political appointments that result in bad politically-correct military tactics and policy on the battlefield, poor politically-correct management of our borders and illegal aliens…
Add Republican empty suits in Congress, beholden to traitorous out-sourcing / open-borders big multinational corporate money, betraying the conservative revolution of Newt; Too busy enjoying being in control spending our money, while trying way too hard to be nice and bipartisan to enemies on the other side of the aisle and in their midst…
Which leads back to the main offender - The utopian moderate in the White House (nice honest guy though) which also lacked the spine and leadership, and yes – ruthlessness, to keep Congress in line (or to decisively win a war).
The Result = The Socialist (Communist) Party (PC term: Secular Progressives) now control Congress – The worst of the worst; the far left will now hold key positions.
Bravo, Rush…this country is now officially screwed. While more honest Conservatives like Sean Hannity and Michael Savage tried to warn Republicans on a whole host of important issues, you continued to narrowly parrot the official Republican line…yes, you would allude to it on occasion, but just couldn’t say Bush by name. Well continue to run your funny parodies, which I’m sure will be even more funny with Pelosi in charge now.
PS: I voted for every Republican on the SC ballot today…no problems here this time (except for when Lindsey Graham comes up for re-election, who will not have my vote).
I take it you don't like Bush. Perhaps he and Cheney should resign and pelosi could then be President???
I dont want to blame Bush. I have supported him all the way. However! The Iraq situation is A) as the media portrays it or B) we are winning or C) somewhere in between. I would guess C. I think some General(s) should be fired. Haditha, Ramadi, Baquoba, areas should have been Fallujahed. Sadr's militia. I know there is a Iran-Syria component as well. We have to militarily defeat the enemy before a political settlement can be arranged. It seems we are trying the political before the military. But maybe this is all academic, since Iran is next. Bush will take them out and soon I think. Then maybe we can eliminate Sadr.
George Bush did not lose this election and the Rats did not win this election, the media won this election for the Rats. When Americans are spoon-fed propaganda every day and night by a traditional media that has abandoned all sense of balance, fairness, and decency, who should be surprised at the election results.
Until the GOP takes on the media full force and starts calling these scumbags on their lies and blatant partisanship we will always be at a disadvantage. It's way past time to go after CNN, CBS, and CNN for their pathetic, disgraceful behavior.
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William Kristol was just on Fox braying about the need to send many additional troops to Iraq. Ain't gonna happen, folks. Tonite was primarily, though not exclusively, the result of the Iraq war and it means that James Baker will come up with some "bipartisan" solution, whereby the US will leave semi-gracefully and things will fall apart rapidly. No Republican will want to run with Iraq in the background in 2008, given what's happened to their colleagues tonite.
All the GOP leadership, and lack therof, is to blame. Mostly though I blame the congressional, not the White House leadership. The House has been relatively conservative on the WOT and somewhat less on immigration, two huge issues. They have been basically democrats or "moderate" on most other things.
Over in the Senate though is where the big problem lies. On judges, gitmo, NSA surveillance, and the WOT, EVERY single time the democrats painted themselves into corner, RINOs/moderates/triangulators, usually led by J.M., bailed their sorry rear ends out by co-opting their position to a degree just enough to take the all the heat off of the D-team.
Weak leadership and utter weakness in the media, some from bias and some from just being pansies, adds up to this devastating loss.
Let's stop all the finger pointing...i agree with many of the things you say....but folks, we have to remember that we are considered extremely well informed just by the mere fact that we frequent this site...the average Joe doesn't know a 10th of what we know about politics....the pubs have been in charge for 6 years now and many folks don't like the direction they are going...whether us freepers like it or not.
now just stop and think about it...to say it was the Bushbot nut huggers fault or the incessant whiners(which includes me) is not going to get us anywhere....i am going to stay positive and hope that now the pubs will get back to being pubs and eating on the dems asses on a daily basis...like they did back in the early 90's.
This may turn out to be a good thing folks...let's move forward and prepare for the many threads that takes the starch out of Pelosi's face....it could be fun!
side note: if this pushes the pubs to the left...well then i will hang my head....also...i have to admit it to all...i voted straight pub ticket even though i swore to my wife i wouldn't.
How about blaming liberals and fence-sitters for not understanding what's going on in the world?