Posted on 11/09/2006 6:09:52 AM PST by indcons
Conservative commentators were bloodied but unbowed Wednesday.
After a day in which Republicans lost their grip on the House and before Democrats were declared winners of the Senate, too, some of the right's most prominent voices found little cause for discouragement.
"Democrats, in my mind, don't have a mandate because they stood for nothing," radio host Laura Ingraham told her listeners Wednesday.
"Republicans lost last night, but conservatism did not," Rush Limbaugh said on the 600 stations that carry his program. "The Democrats beat something last night with nothing. They advanced no agenda, other than their usual anti-war position."
Two distinct camps quickly emerged among the columnists, talkers and bloggers who spent much of the past six years defending the administration. One carried an air of defiance, the other a mood of resignation that what President Bush on Wednesday called an electoral "thumping" was perhaps deserved.
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You left off one important point--for the most part, the Democrats who won did it by making conservative noises. Which should shut up those who try to argue that the Republicans would have won if they'd only been "more moderate" (aka liberal).
Wrong kind of troops (we need more Special Forces) and refusal to use all of the weapons at our disposal (such as refusing to bomb the Triangle of Death), as well as prosecuting our own guys on the word of the enemy for doing their jobs too well.
Thanks for the break out. However, the Republicans lost seats in the NE and mid-West which they are not likely to make up in the South.
Excatly.
Why did he reach to black voters?
Every year we hear that this is they year we make
inroads with black voters. And every year we get 10%.
Fools
Oh, we have a number of new Jewish faces in Congress. I'm sure they'll seize the banner of protecting israel and rais it high. (s/)
Barf, you actually watch him? It's like he went to Comedy Central and said "can I do a piss-poor parody of O'Reilly after the Daily Show?" And they thought "Stephen, you magnificent bastard!"
"Am I going to fight the democrats? Damn right I am. "
I agree. They'll get the full wrath of the American people once we get attacked by terrorists again on home soil. Just a matter of time, even the rats agree on that. The rats are too PC and don't have the will to fight to keep us safe. I expect a lot of troops will bail out of the military once they can.
Bush never had control of the band of RINOS in Congress, both chambers. And since he wasn't a true conservative, he couldn't go on any longer the way things were.
The only part of this I truly despise is knowing that cankles will be our next POTUS.
Amen to that...where is our next Ronald Reagan? We never needed a rock-solid conservative more. Looks like we have a GOP party of RINOs mostly. It is scary.
All states that have suffered loss of manufacturing jobs.
I'm defiantly defiant.
Yeah, it's funny. I like to laugh. I know he's a Dem and is joking about it, but he spends the whole show slamming Democrats - like when he beat up a DNC pinata with a baseball bat. Slamming Dems is funny to me.
O'Reilly gets a kick out of it and said it flatters him. Stewart however I don't watch for obvious reasons.
I saw that, it was very funny. Colbert was going bonkers!
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That's the question we should all be asking today.
Excellent!
I've never laughed harder. He exaggerated everything we were feeling and I needed the release after Tues night.
That is overly pessimistic. We do need a strong standard bearer in '08, and a much stronger slate of candidates in contested races. How on earth, for example, is Max Baucus running an easy race in Wyoming? How are we running a sloppy drunk in Montana? How can we lose by 20 points in Florida to a guy who no one likes?
2008 looks like tough sledding in the Senate. If we have a great candidate at the top, maybe we can get the Senate back, but more likely it will not be this time. The House is also going to be tough sledding to turn around in one election--unless the Dems really mess it up, which they might.
So, the Congress may not come back in '08. But it will still be close. If we lose the White House, too, then your worries will be justified. A President Hillary, with a Dem Congress that is far more left wing than the one in 1992-1994, and far more willing to let the ends justify the means, will do a lot of things to prevent the GOP from ever coming back. Motor voter will be nothing compared to what they cook up.
Priority no. 1 right now is the war. But...priority No. 1-B is immigration. If amnesty passes during these two years of Bush/Dem government, then conservatism will be done for at least 2 generations, once the citizenship kicks in. It will be 1932 all over again, because 12 million will become 40 million in about 20 years, and Dems will be harvesting those votes for 50 or 60 years, until the Mexicans become wealthy enough to start voting GOP, at which point the Dems will bring in Malaysians or something. Irish and Italians went through this pattern, but we absorbed them in much smaller numbers, and they skewed local politics, not national elections.
Start right now putting together a list of conservatives in the Senate who will filibuster amnesty and work like hell to get it to 40. Unfortunately, I don't think we have more than 30, but maybe some can be persuaded. Make a list of Republicans in the House who will stand together to vote against amnesty. Not likely, but we might get 20 dems to vote against amnesty and stop it in the House. No matter what, it must be stopped, or we might as well give it up, close up FR, turn off the talk radio, and go live our socialist lives quietly and placidly, because conservatism will be dead as a doornail and people who think like us will be targets.
great post.
Thanks for the head slap.
Just venting.
No offense but i think you are overly optimistic.
Illegal immigration is not a campaign issue.
Neither party cares and the media will not cover it.
The media is emboldened and will be 24/7 Bush is bad, Dems are good. And they two more years to promote. The sheeple
will beleive it lock stop and barrell
Take out Foley, and I agree totally with your post... IMO, Foley did that all by himself, and deserved/deserves everything he got/will get... Be it from Republicans, or Democrats... The difference, and maybe this is what you were pointing out by putting his name on the list, is Republicans showed him the door because it was what they should've done... Dems did it for political gain, because behind closed doors they'd probably encourage that behavior...
Lord we pray for the media to get saved a speak YOUR truth - not man's truth; and if they won't get save, let them speak YOUR truth - in spite of themselves! Amen!
Also -
Re: "I pray for our president, that he will demonstrate true leadership and avoid falling into a quest for a legacy."
Two things - he has been battered daily for the six years in office - so he has been humbled more than once! I doubt if he would do that now!
And he is too great a man in his core being to act like Clinton - who only is out to leave his legacy -
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