Posted on 11/09/2006 9:58:04 AM PST by meg88
We need to salvage MI, WI Ohio and PA on the local legislative/state. Twelve years of work went down the toilet on Tuesday. If we dont want to get screwed over with reapportionment in 2010, we need to move and repair. If we are not on board we are screwed.
I agree. I don't think this will last for long. The New Democrat idea with Clinton ended, just like our four years or so of real conservative Republicans (well, at least socially so) ended after 2004.
They won't be moderate forever. Eventually here, they will go lib on us. They are promising investigations into Iraq, and no doubt we will see some loonies on display there.
Conservatives need to shut up while the Reps in Congress go along with a few things in order to take the liberl wedge issues off the table in 2008 and beyond. These will include raising the minimum wage and providing limited funding for ESCR. Republicans got hammered on those and Democrats are expecting to use them again and again. If we take them off the table Dems have nothing to scare people about. Conservatives and Republicans need to focus on the big things that really matter, namely immigration and the border, fiscal discipline, no tax increases, judges, and winning the war. These are issues where the large majority of Americans are with the GOP. They will pick up seats in 2008 and retake the Congress in 2010 if they just stick to these issues and stop walking into liberal traps on wedge issues like stem cell research and the minimum wage.
Agreed! The fool Republicans in Pennsylvania threw away their majority by ramming through a pay raise which they promptly had to rescind. Now they are within one seat of losing the majority in the House and Democrats are threatening lawsuits and recounts over the last GOP seat that was decided by around 300 votes. If Bob Casey comes back and runs for Governor in 2010 he will win and Republicans could lose another 3-4 seats in PA through Democrat gerrymandering.
Fool me once ...
We can no longer afford the illusion of trying to out-liberal the Dhimmicrat liberals. That only succeeds in dumbing our side down to their level where they beat us with experience.
Thanks to Tancredo "I want it all or nothing man" many went out to "punish" the GOP...now, with the dem majority you can bet illegals will be here in droves taking even more money out of my pocket.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Several words, Primary RINO Hunting. It is time for the FR to focus on every primary across this country.
Americans support enforcement in the abstract.
Once you get down to something that's bad for Juan who cleans the pool or Maria who wipes the baby's ass (not to mention Sean who paints the house or Siobhan who does the wash), forget it.
Amnesty is the only possible, politically acceptable solution and those whoopposed it last Tuesday got their asses handed to them.
Yes, we can see the proof of that in the great success of the Social Security reform.
Sadly, you are dead on.
The time for a Republican majority may be passing, fading from sight. It will be MUCH more difficult to garner a majority with all the newly-legalized Mexicanos (and others) as a gigantic bloc of Democratic voters. And of course, there are millions more waiting to come - for the NEXT amnesty after this one - from south of the border.
Pat Buchanan documents this inescapable reality with facts and figures in his book, "State of Emergency".
The demographic (and, thus, political) trends in America seem bleak and irreversible. For every illegal already here, there are no doubt several more waiting to cross (perhaps dozens or hundreds more).
We are going to be swamped. Like the gash in the Titanic, the flood waters are rushing in, filling each watertight compartment, dragging the bow down - we will see successive states "tip" from red to blue as their population becomes less "Euro-American" and more "multicultural".
And, as with the Titanic, I have a "Titanic theory" regarding Euro-Americans. Recall that as the Titanic sank bow-forward, people congregated ever-rearward on the rising stern, fleeing towards the last spot that would be above the waterline.
So it will go with America. We will see increasing numbers of Euro-Americans (is it ok to call them "white folks"?) leaving the browning, multicultural states for the last few "refuge states" that will longest resemble what American _once_ was like. Call this racist if you wish, call _me_ a racist and xenophobe, for it makes no difference what you call me, that which is happening is happening. We see it today, as whites move out of California and as the illegals move in.
For the life of me, I can't understand anyone who might think of moving to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, or California. This is Atzlan - not yet, but it will be in 25-50 years, especially after amnesty.
The future doesn't look good for the Republicans as a national political force (and I have voted Republican for years). Eventually we may become as marginalized nationally as we are in states like New York, Massachusetts, and California.
Stated plainly, the demographic numbers are turning against us.
And also stated plainly, the so-called "Republicans" down in Congress are going to do everything in their power to give the other side the weapon with which to shoot us: amnesty.
We are digging our own political, and cultural, graves.
- John
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