"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
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.
Losing is losing. You can't spin it. We got pounded.
Well, just from my experience and talking with folks, I'm inclined to think that most Americans really have a conservative leaning.
If you look at all the initiatives, gay marriage, parental notification on abortions, immigration, you see that they generally get voted on the conservative side. Not ultra conservative, maybe, but further to the right than anything in the current Dem center.
The ultimate failure was having a time projection on Iraq. People need to know. They want to at least know what is a measurable, quantifiable reason that we can think we are succeeding there. Something.
But IMHO all we keep getting is we will "stay the course". We will "stay as long as necessary"... to do what, exactly? Stop sectarian violence? Unless we partition the country, that ain't gonna happen.
I don't see the Dems as being traitors. I think it does a disservice to America to equate them with Al Queda. Dems are perhaps more idealistic than pubbies with their heads in the clounds, and alot of foolish ideas and methods, but ultimately we want the same things. Peace, security, a growing economy, stable families and educational opportunities.
So now a new day is coming about. Odd, but in a certain sense, I think the system worked. I have enough faith and give enough credit to the American people to believe that they WILL NOT LET THE DEMS GET AWAY WITH ANY STUPID SHENANIGANS.
DeWine lost by 13 points, Santorum lost by 18 points, Steele by 10, Keane by 8, and Chaffee by 6. What do you consider WIDE margins?
Sorry but I fear you are very wrong, see the Main Stream Media has been declaring all day long that the Dems have a supreme mandate from the people.
Republicans lost because they didn't tie Iraq and Terrorism to Conservatism.
Values voters voted Conservative. They just didn't vote for the candidates. What no one is mentioning here is the numbers who went to the polls and the disparity of how many went to the polls compared to how many actually voted for a candidate..
I voted and if there was a candidate I wasn't happy with or didn't know, I didn't vote for them. None were Republicans. However, how many did the same thing I did, voted for the issues, but not the candidate.
There was a protest. It was a no-vote, not a vote for the Democrat. It has always been my contention that if Hitler was running as a Democrat, they would still pull the lever for him because of the "D" next to his name.
Conservative voters do not do this. We lost for the same reason we will lose in 08. If the candidate is not a Conservative, we just won't vote for them because those are our values. We abandoned the Republican party last night because that's what they did to us over the last 6 years.
Now is the time to regroup and start promoting conservative candidates for office over the next couple of cycles. Like Rush said, we are liberated.
Ken Blackwell lost by 23 points in a state that elected Voinovich by 30.
Bush lost conservatives when it became apparent that he wasn't going to do ANYTHING about the border. I voted, but it was like, "What's the friggin point?"