Posted on 11/09/2006 4:58:44 AM PST by Leroy S. Mort
When Ken "purse strings" Mehlman called me to donate, I gave him heck about pulling the old democrat trick of just trying to scare people.
The entire thing was just like the democrats saying " Republicans want to hurt women, children and the elderly".
His was "vote Republican or Nancy will be house leader".
He would not support most Conservatives.
I call for "Purse Strings" to step down.
Yeah, an if we had budget-balancing spending cutting Congress, we would have done better with the base and better with Independants. Instead the GOP was looked at like a bunch of big special-interest pork-barrel free spenders.
Wait until the Independents get two years of Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, and Hillary.
Rove's concept of "the base" (how do you say that in Arabic?) is flawed because his base is not now, and never will be a majority.
What's happened is that the Liberty voter has been pushed out - and somebody, preferably somebody other than Karl Rove, is going to have to figure out how to get him back.
Pelosi will certainly have to keep her troops disciplined so that the Crazy Aunts don't get out of the basement for the next two years. Should be fun to watch.
Not if the base continues to make the tent smaller.
This is a flawed analysis.
The independents WHO TURNED OUT were motivated by anti-war.
There wasn't a sizable block of independents WHO TURNED OUT that supported the war.
The problem wasn't LOSING support of independents, it was MOTIVATING independents to turn out based on 'no-pelosi'.
The anti-war (dem-leaning) independents were motivated, the republican-leaning independents were not.
Mehlman is gay, too, and I don't think he can be relied on to support DOMA and an amendment to protect marriage from the army of gay lawyers (there are hundreds working on this issue) who are trying to level it.
More pressing by far, though, is how to get the level playing field back. The Dems in the media just lied, lied, lied for three years about Iraq. That was their strategy from the first moment.
Now, what is the GOP going to do about that 'Rat monopoly in the MSM?
That's twice in 10 years the GOP has been burned, and burned bad in a national election, by MSM campaigning for the 'Rats.
Which independents were motivated to turn out this year?
When you try to stand for everything you stand for nothing. You lost because the RNC does not stand for anything.
The ones who voted for Democrats. We had these voters in previous elections for various reasons.
So the AP implies that Republicans were not Liberal enough and that's why they lost.
Interesting that despite all the "comprehensive immigration reform," the Democrats got an even higher percentage of Hispanic votes. What a waste of time the administration spent courting the votes of illegals and those that support them. If they started building a wall 2 years ago, when we had Republican majorities, they might have brought in "independent" voters instead of turning them away. Now the money earmarked for the wall will be spent on comfort stations in the desert for illegal aliens.
Democrats beat the bushes in more ways than one. While Republican voters yawned.
Simple: abandon all logic and put Party Uber Alles.
I think you make some good points about independents and the war. The war was a hard case to make when the media was atively working against it. I still believe it was the right decision and the middle east will be far better (as will we) if some form of representative government can be established there. Will we ever be able to win a war that takes longer than a year again? That is a serious question.
40-20-40...........
While Republican voters yawned? We YELLED AND SCREAMED! The RNC leadership did not listen........
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