Posted on 11/08/2006 3:58:41 PM PST by pissant
History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after the election, accusing it of rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.
So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.
Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by pretending to be against all three.
Jon Tester, Bob Casey Jr., Heath Shuler, possibly Jim Webb -- I've never seen so much raw testosterone in my life. The smell of sweaty jockstraps from the "new Democrats" is overwhelming.
Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction is how long it will take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to be fitted for leotards.
Now that they've won their elections and don't have to deal with the hicks anymore, Tester can cut lose the infernal buzz cut, Casey can start taking "Emily's List" money, and Webb can go back to writing more incestuously homoerotic fiction ... and just in time for Christmas!
But according to the media, this week's election results are a mandate for pulling out of Iraq (except in Connecticut where pro-war Joe Lieberman walloped anti-war "Ned the Red" Lamont).
In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" -- especially in the sixth year.
In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.
In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.
In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.
In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.
Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.
But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to six Senate seats in a sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. Only for half-brights with absolutely no concept of yesterday is this a "tsunami" -- as MSNBC calls it -- rather than the death throes of a dying party.
During eight years of Clinton -- the man Democrats tell us was the greatest campaigner ever, a political genius, a heartthrob, Elvis! -- Republicans picked up a total of 49 House seats and nine Senate seats in two midterm elections. Also, when Clinton won the presidency in 1992, his party actually lost 10 seats in the House -- only the second time in the 20th century that a party won the White House but lost seats in the House.
Meanwhile, the Democrats' epic victory this week, about which songs will be sung for generations, means that in two midterm elections Democrats were only able to pick up about 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate -- and that's assuming they pick up every seat that is currently too close to call. (The Democrats' total gain is less than this week's gain because Bush won six House and two Senate seats in the first midterm election.)
So however you cut it, this midterm proves that the Iraq war is at least more popular than Bill Clinton was.
In a choice between Republicans' "Stay until we win" Iraq policy or the Democrats' "Stay, leave ... stay for a while then leave ... redeploy and then come back ... leave and stay ... cut and run ... win, lose or draw policy," I guess Americans prefer the Republican policy.
The Democrats say we need a "new direction" in Iraq. Yeah, it's called "reverse." Democrats keep talking about a new military strategy in Iraq. How exactly is cut-and-run a new strategy? The French have been doing it for years. The Democrats are calling their new plan for Iraq "Operation Somalia."
The Democrats certainly have their work cut out for them. They have only two years to release as many terrorists as possible and lock up as many Republicans as they can. Republicans better get that body armor for the troops the Democrats are always carping about -- and fast. The troops are going to need it for their backs.
Why are you posting when you should be digging your bunker, canning food and cleaning your weapons? You say we're headed to the dark ages and want to protect your family yet you are here posting. Hint: FR isn't going to do a damn thing for you when the dark ages come to get you.
Bunker's been dug long ago (I was a survivalist long before it became trendy in the late 1970s), food's already canned, and I keep my weapons in ready condition at all times.
Hint: FR isn't going to do a damn thing for you when the dark ages come to get you.
Hint: I'd like to have some non-familial associates that aren't suffering from radiation poisoning.
"Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction is how long it will take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to be fitted for leotards."
Every Coulter column has a gem and this is it
Except that in the sixth year of President Clinton's presidency Democrats gained seats in the House and there was no change in the Senate (a fact that Ann has to engage in some pretty fancy footwork to avoid mentioning later in this article.)
Consider me slow, but will you kindly explain this to me?
Thank you.
While for the most part the GOTV effort has been extraordinary over the last couple of cycles, this is one place I think there has been a major error. The GOP is relying FAR too much on absentee ballots that are never counted, because some statistical model of the walk-in vote says they won't make a difference.
Either make it mandatory that ALL ballots have to be counted, even if the result might not change, or get the broken glass GOP to show up in person at the polls. Early returns are based on these votes, not the mail-ins, and the Dems almost always lead the early returns, due to the NE being first and Dems being day voters. This leads to the depression of the faint-hearted voters later in the day.
Hastert's cozying up to William Jefferson, D-LA, had a lot more to do with it.
Thanks Mitch.
Exactly. The Secretary of State is saying that many people requested these "mail-in" ballots and ended up bring them to the polls on election day. They were just set aside and ignored until J.D. Hayworth demanded that they be counted. 230,500 BALLOTS in Maricopa County alone! That's outrageous!
"Dems being day voters."
Because they don't work and get welfare checks.
Or are students, union workers with a voter holiday, govt. workers, etc. Whatever reason, GOP tend to vote absentee, early morning, or late in the day.
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Specifics please. I have never read anything in her columns that could lead to such a charge.
The press wanted to spread the meme that Republicans were divided, dispirited, and disorganized. Little Miss Ann Coulter supplied them the pull quotes.
Amen.
Aha! We arrive at the crux of the matter. So you are going to pee in the ear of everybody to get even. Even those that supported you and your effort through all these years. Thank you for your service.
As a Conservative, I feel everyone is responsible for their own actions. Miss Coulter is refreshing and amusing, but hardly the source of the GOP loss they themselves worked so hard to earn.
The phrase, "Where are they going to go?" resonates badly with any individual that feels Conservative personifies responsibility.
Get a grip, Ann is not the problem, nor is she the solution.
Helping stab the troops in the back is now "refreshing and amusing." So long, America, it was nice while it lasted.
Well they have a Man-Date now! Don-cha-know?
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