Posted on 11/08/2006 4:50:12 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
The "I can't wait"....part was 100% sarcasm...of course.
Take a look at my tagline. Mark Sanford fits the kind of leader you are hungering for. He just won re-election as SC Governor. Says he's not interested in the WH yet but I think with support from conservatives we might be able to recruit him.
http://www.petitiononline.com/msan2008/petition.html
I really don't see anyone better for the job out there right now. Congresscritters don't win POTUS elections from what I've heard so we, the grassroots conservatives, are gonna have to find our 'man of the hour' so to speak.
We lost because Senate decided to act like dems. Specter and Mccain and Kennedy bill.
I am in Italy right now, did Specter, Hutchison win?
I hunger for a leader who when confronted by the press and dems about panties on the heads of prisoners, says "It's war, sh** happens."
"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."
Sorry, but your political analysis here is simplistic and naive. Corruption was but one small part of why Pubs lost in the mid-terms.
"The GOP needs to get behind Mike Pense."
Oh yeah, that's right, back another illegal alien amnesty proponent. Great.
So? There were still not narrow losses.
It doesn't matter why the Republicans lost. You better all start looking into NBC gear for the homefront. The Dems will cut the funding for the Iraq war next year. We have to leave then. Al Queda regroups and brings the fight here, with whatever they have gleaned from the WMD shopping spree over the last 5 years. We are in a WAR folks and the other side doesn't care who won they want the USA gone.
JFaron
Hutchison won. Specter wasn't up. Santorum lost - a real bummer!!!
I think you're onto something there. I'm sick to death of all this 'compassionate conservatism' crap. I've been griping about it since 2001, now the chickens have come home to roost.
George Allen did NOT run a bad campaign. He used one word that was jumped on by the MSM as being racist and then he was continually pounded into the ground by that same media on a daily basis. Other than that, you tell me how he ran a bad campaign. Give me some specifics. He was beaten by the media and by a faux conservative Dem candidate running against him, while Allen was excoriated for supporting Bush on the Iraq war.
Hayworth was defeated in AZ because again the MSM and Dem pro-immigration groups pounded him continually, ran another faux Dem candidate against him, and his district is changing due to the influx of liberal Californians moving to Arizona to get away from the mess they created by their leftist philosophy there, and exporting it to AZ so they can louse up that state too.
We're building a paintball field at my church, and the youth group is learning tactics from a local SWAT officer. just in time?
The dems won because the public has had it with the war and the only way they have to express their will is by voting Republicans out!. Bush had better listen to the public within 1 year or Republicans will have NO chance in the presidential election.
When you see the illegal immigration reform bill that passes the Democratic Congress and is signed by Bush, the Pense plan will be looking damn good. Pense put forward what he thought was the best plan that could actually pass.
"Pense put forward what he thought was the best plan that could actually pass."
Yeah, just another amnesty bill with a twist.
They were narrow losses in blue states.
Hillary took New York by getting 67% of the vote.
Hillary won by 34 points.
Rock solid?
He endorsed Specter over Twoomey.
He went waaay too far to the corporatist side of the GOP - being rabidly corporatist is not the same as being pro-business - corporations love erecting hurdles to competitors through government action.
He did stupid stunts like trying to get the NWC out of weather forecasting to benefit Accu-Weather.
And he only maintained a facade of living in his home state - his official residence was an empty house.
Those hardly sound like conservative traits to me - and especially traits that endear voters in his home state.
Throw in the fact that the Dems were smart enough to nominate a pro-lifer this time (taking away his main advantage in prior races), and he was doomed. But a large part of it was his own doing.
And Nelson twins won by 22 in Florida and 28 in Nebraska, both solid red states. Conrad won by 40 freakin' points in North Dakota. And your point is? As the president said, the GOP got thumped. You can try and put whatever spin you want on it if it makes you feel better, but it isn't going to change the results.
Couple that with the DBM/DNC focus on casualties only, no successes and Joe & Jane Sixpack that don't dig deeper will ask "why would we want to stay on this course?". Yes the President made some wonderful speeches to expand the topic. But they got 5% of the coverage of daily IED / car bombing.
I think that Arizona also has a higher percentage of AARP dinosaurs. Other than that, I think that you are probably right.
Many have voted straight democratic all their lives and continue the routine year after year after year... Because we have so many oldsters (who remember the good old days) they actually thought they were voting for Bob Casey (not Junior).
One of the first things I learned, when I first began to study National political alignments years ago as a teenager, is that Pennsylvania is a Political Anomaly -- "Pro-Life Democrats vs. Pro-Abortion Republicans" (Bob Casey vs. Arlen Spector, Tom Ridge, etc.).
Pennsylvania Democrats (at least the broad majority outside the Liberal hub of Philadelphia) are practically the essence of the old "Reagan Democrats" -- Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Socially-Conservative blue-collars who nonetheless favor Unions, Protectionism, high Minimum Wages, "soak the rich" Taxes, and Government Welfare.
Sheesh -- Bob Casey, Sr., was practically a communist on Economic Issues; but he was well to the Right of Reagan on Social Issues (and we in Operation Rescue loved him for it). His son, for better or worse, inherits much of the same goodwill.
Santorum was identified as a blue-blood "Rich Man's Republican", completely beholden to George W. Bush (ties to Bush have been a clear and absolute negative in this Election). By comparison, Bob Casey, jr. could actually run to the RIGHT of Santorum on Abortion (and he "deceived" no-one -- the truth is, Bob Casey, jr. favors only the "Life of the Mother" Exception; whereas Santorum has previously supported "Rape and Incest" Exceptions, albeit as a compromise -- but moral compromises have a nasty tendency to bite you in the ass, eh?), while running to the Left of Santorum on all the Economic issues the old-line "working class" Pennsylvania Democrats favor.
Bob Casey, Pro-Life Socialist -- that spelled Santorum's doom.
Truth is, as long as the Casey Dynasty remains Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, and Pro-Socialism, anyone named "Bob Casey" will be very, very hard to beat in Pennsylvania.... honestly, I'm almost surprised that Santorum did as well as he did.
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