Posted on 11/08/2006 4:50:12 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Why did Rick Santorum (rock solid conservative) lose?
Get ready. We are gonna get homosexualty rammed down our throats for the next two years. And they maybe we'll get Hillary.
I'm joining Butch and Sundance in Bolivia.
I tend to agree.
Glenn Beck has a similar take on his show tonight. Reruns at 9:00 and midnight (Eastern Time).
Probably bacause Casey is "pro-life". It gave a lot of conservatives an out to lodge a protest vote.
Finally Rush is making sense. Unfortunately, he basically admitted he's been whoring for the RNC and Bush for 6 years. Now he's been "liberated" (his word!) from his duties.
>>>Why did Rick Santorum (rock solid conservative) lose?
His loss was a political assassination by the media.
Losing is losing. You can't spin it. We got pounded.
I don't know about this. A lot of "true conservatives" got clobbered yesterday, candidates who were not shy about espousing their conservatism and offering it as a choice between them and their opponents. They went down to defeat.
We ran a "true conservative" for governor in Ohio and he got slaughtered by close to 20 points. Ohio sent a "true liberal", Sherrod Brown, to the Senate in place of a conservative-moderate Mike DeWine. Brown offered nothing other than "hate Bush" and "retreat from Iraq". Those two things won it for him.
A lot of other "true conservatives" got creamed as well. Santorum in PA for one. Others lost, not by much, but still lost. Northrup in KY, Talent in MO, Burns in MT, Allen in VA, Hayworth in AZ (I know these last three are still in dispute, but I don't have much hope). I don't know that Rush is right on this one. A lot of "true conservatives" ran as conservatives, and were rejected. My guess is that the overhang of an unpopular war, which is always a huge liability for the incumbent party, did them in.
Listen up, all you McCain and Giuliani campaigners here for the last 6 months!
Amen, Rush.
People, listen up.
The Exit Polls Were Correct. They had only a few percent of skew, but the important part of them was the question:
What issue was more important to your vote today?
Look it up. It wasn't immigration. It wasn't the economy. AND IT WASN'T IRAQ.
The #1 issue was corruption scandals.
Put all this talk about the party not moving far enough right or too far right away. This is a conservative country. It approved of the party's right/left position on the spectrum in 2004 and NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THAT.
The only difference in 2006 was the GOP had a ton of corruption scandals this very year. Not recently. Not in Bush's 2nd term. This very year. A conservative country will not tolerate corruption.
So hit the numbers and find those Democrats who took GOP seats in heavy red districts, find a squeaky clean candidate to target him or her and get them out of our seats.
Do Not Waste Time On Philosophical Introspection because the exit polls showed that's not what drove the vote. Get rid of corruption scandals, change nothing on any other issue at all, and we retake Congress.
You're right, but I think its appropriate to ask why we lost so we can readjust in the future
Bill Frist is/was a disaster, he let the Senate be controlled by the RINO's because he is one. And W never explained the death cult we are up against because he too God damned PC.
Without a McCain or Guiliani running for the Presidency, they'd have that too.
Yep, Rush is a fart smeller, I mean a smart feller. I think he's got it right. Conservatism first, principle before party. I actually voted straight R yesterday all the good it did. I had to offset the damage my mother (the former Republican) did. We've tried to tell some of these "Bush above all" people here but they don't listen. Principle first!! If they had only listened, we'd be in a far better position today. This will be the only negative post I make on what happened last night. Hopefully the one's who think the R behind the name is all that matters will also learn something from this.
One of the reasons Santorum lost is that conservatives have long memories, and when he supported Spector over Toomey in the 2004 primary he lost his base support. Plus, it was the 'throw the bums out' year, and some of the good guys got thrown out as well.
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