Posted on 11/10/2006 4:29:40 AM PST by Molly Pitcher
They also can't be against everything now.
In the end, the Republican "revolution" ran out of gas and out of vision. Too many congressional Republicans appeared to care more about maintaining power than using power to implement an agenda, which they also abandoned.It's an interesting theory, and one that many of us conservatives are clinging to, but how does it explain the election loss of Rick Santorum?
(Just asking.)
But that's to be expected. They provided little or no content during the campaign, so even the wrong agenda wlll provide some ideas for the Rs to bounce off....who must also become more content-driven.
"Republicans lost a significant part of their base in this election. Exit polls revealed nearly one-third of white evangelical Christians voted for Democrats, mostly because of perceived corruption in the GOP. They will continue to exercise influence within the Republican Party, but their days of veto power over policy and candidates may be over."
Bad logic. If anything this was an exercise of 'veto power' by the "white evangelical Christians". The only way the Republicans will have "lost a significant part of their base" is if they don't pay attention to the 'veto'. The GOP didn't lose the base, they ignored it.
I read yesterday that a number of GOP candidates that lost didn't even realize they were in trouble until a week or so before the election. That's an indicator of a failure to pay attention.
Soon, single payer health care. We are going to be taxed to death.
Santorum went in in 94 on an ant-Clinton wave. He was always to liberal for PA.I do not believe white Evangelicals voted for Dems. I believe people lie to exit pollers. Evangelicals can never vote for Dems because of one issue-abortion period. It would be a sin to vote for the party of murder.
I think it was a combination of his own falling out of line with his constituants - unfortunately cause I admire him so much - and the Dems nominating a familiar name and alternative.
There are "conservatives" here on Free Republic who actively sought to purge Santorum because he didn't endorse their boy in 2004. I'm hoping that when the Islamist nukes arrive here in America, those "conservatives" catch a 400-600 REM dose--so that they can die slowly and painfully in their self-righteousness.
The American people have chosen to once again dishonor their warriors and to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And there's the scam, these "new" democrats will vote the radical left pelosi line.
The evangelical Christians got damn near everything they wanted, and then turned traitor. They stabbed the troops in the back because they didn't get every last little bit of what they demanded.
Let them ask the Democrats--the pro gay-marriage, pro-abort, Christian-hating Democrats--for political favors from now on. They have made their bed. Let them lie in it.
Nah, he's figuring out how to work with the liberals in both parties to get his shamnesty passed. So much for that.
Why did we lose?
My opinion, after seeing exit polls, is the "Soccer Mom", again.
Big majority of women voted Democrat. I think maybe they cant take the body count on nightly TV. I also think they truly believe the Katrina Hurricane disaster could have been avoided.
The Soccer Mom has kids getting old enough for war, and they do not like it.
Santorum is a unique case within the election. Pennsylvania is a very strong pro-life state, even within the Democrats. Santorum got that vote the last two elections. This time, the Dems nominated Casey, who is pro-life and the son of the last staunch pro-life Democrat. And Santorum could no longer count on that vote.
Throw in some stupidity of his own (such as not living in the state but having the state taxpayers foot the bill for his kids cyber-schooling), along with becoming more and more corporatist within a very blue-collar electorate, and he was doomed.
I had heard that many conservatives did not support Santorum due to Santorum's support in the primaries (2004) for Arlen Spector instead of Spector's opponent who was a conservative.
Do they really think that the jihadis will simply go away? Do they think that their children will be any less dead if it's of radiation poisoning here in America instead of over there, fighting the enemy?
This is the best argument for the successor state to America--whatever survives the coming harvest of Islamist wrath and Ahmadinejad's madness--to deny women the franchise. They simply cannot think.
When I read the headline I thought December 1944, the Battle of the Bulge.
It is now time for General Georgie Patton to readjust the direction of his attack and destroy the enemy. In the snow on impassable roads in gloomy weather he pressed the attack and prevailed.
Winning is not the objective. The complete destruction of the enemy in the field is the objective.
Who is our General Patton?
There are "conservatives" here on Free Republic who actively sought to purge Santorum because he didn't endorse their boy in 2004. I'm hoping that when the Islamist nukes arrive here in America, those "conservatives" catch a 400-600 REM dose--so that they can die slowly and painfully in their self-righteousness.That's a tad extreme, BeHoldAPaleHorse. Just a tad.
Santorum is a unique case within the election. Pennsylvania is a very strong pro-life state, even within the Democrats. Santorum got that vote the last two elections. This time, the Dems nominated Casey, who is pro-life and the son of the last staunch pro-life Democrat. And Santorum could no longer count on that vote. Throw in some stupidity of his own (such as not living in the state but having the state taxpayers foot the bill for his kids cyber-schooling), along with becoming more and more corporatist within a very blue-collar electorate, and he was doomed.That answers my question. Thanks.
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