Posted on 11/08/2006 8:49:43 AM PST by MNJohnnie
"2. The mainstream media trumps the new media: The MSM has the power of images, the new media has only rhetoric and the printed word."
Wait till youtube REALLY catches on.....
Amen, Rose. I believe that God had His hand in this and that He is 'punishing' if I can call it that, the right for not doing what they promised. We had a chance and we failed. God is in charge and that's the only thing that's keeping me from putting a razor to my wrist (smile). Mxxx
Not all Pennsyltuckians are thrilled about the loss of Santorum.
Some of us, including Rick, deserve better.
I agree.
So did mine. Makes it hard to respect the neighbors, doesn't it? (mine had larger Kerry signs out in 2004).
But where does criticizing the MSM get us?
They are always going to exist. We have won despite their influence in the past. But we need to offer real policies that can sell.
This President and his Secretary of Defense have tried to prepare the military for the next war.
The disrespect heaped on them is a disgrace.
Thank you for your service.
As for the rest, who cannot even honestly access what they themselves have helped bring about, I'm finished.
"Rather have a RINO, than a "conservative" Dem." ~ Sybeck1
Exactly.
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
Voters Say 'I Don't' On Homosexual 'Marriage'
Voters in seven states on Tuesday voted in favor of amending their state constitutions to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. That's in addition to the 11 states that voted in similar bans on homosexual "marriage" in 2004. Tennessee voters accepted their amendment by nearly one million votes, the widest margin of the six states. Other amendments in Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin also passed. Only Arizona...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200611/CUL20061108b.html
The Morning After in the House of Representative
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6020
Son of Senator Nelson Arrested in Florida
http://580wdbo.com/includes/news/indepth/00000_Son-Of-Senator-Nelson-Arrested-In-Orlando_084635.html
New Muslim body set
to sideline controversial mufti
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/new-muslim-body-set-to-sideline-controversial-mufti/2006/11/08/1162661760202.html
I don't know the answer to my own question, but if there is a SC vacancy (by death) is Bush required to fill it ? Better to have a 4-4 deadlock than appoint a squishy valueless moderate that you know will vote against you.
If I were Bush I would send up one Judge Bork after another knowing the rats will reject them, and I'd keep it up until 2009 when the next Republican president can appoint the ninth judge in a hopefully more conservative climate.
Next it will be Bush's end she'll call for. I absolutely can't stand this woman (sorry, ladies, I don't mean to insult you).
It was about Iraq. The above supported it, the conservative democrats were against it, plain and simple. Other than JoeMentum, who got the Republican votes, thats how it went down. The Iraq war is largely unpopular. I dont like it, I'm tired of it, I dont support a cut and run policy of course, but those who aren't as principled as I am (the 20% mushy middle/ aka "Swing" voters), voted for a change, but one that was fairly conservative. Look at all the states that banned Gay Marriage? That was a liberal debacle.
Get a life? Maybe?
Me too...I'm so TIRED of the negative returns...and Rush is right. Don't turn over your life to the government.
But last night really drained me in terms of hope and disappointment...
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