Posted on 11/10/2006 5:22:19 PM PST by You Dirty Rats
Since Tuesday almost all of us have been saddened and angered because we lost Congress to the 'Rats.
Why?
How did our united, magnificent victory in 2004 end up achieving so little and lead us to defeat in 2006?
There are many reasons, but tonight I focus on ONE.
IMHO the term "RINO" is overused. While looking at an ACU rating list I noticed only one Republican Senator with a score below 50 and below any 'Rat Senator - Chafee. I felt he was the only Senate RINO.
But there is another -- far, far worse. He had a lifetime rating of 80 -- yet he is the ULTIMATE RINO!!
Freepers, many of us have been upset the past two years. For some, it was Terry Schiavo. For others it was when Voinovich stabbed Bolton in the back late. For others it was the border issue.
But for me, and I suspect many others, there was another moment that ended our 2004 victory and began our 2006 defeat.
We all don't think alike and in 2004 we worked hard to re-elect GWB for different reasons. One reason I believe at least 95% of Freepers share -- JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS!!!
And here -- The President kept his word. His nominations, on current evidence, are better than any other President. Yes, he goofed on Miers -- but he corrected that error and it all worked out.
For YEARS, ever since Bork and Thomas were humiliated, we Conservatives waited and worked for victory. We reached 55 Senators and had the "nucular option" ready. We were all set to blow the 'Rats judicial obstruction to hell. I, like many Freepers, was on the Live Thread waiting for the moment when the 'Rats had to step aside or be blown to hell. Victory was at hand ...
... and then that grandstanding jackass whose bitterness at losing in 2000 ate away at him decided it was time to rain on our parade and form the infamous Gang of 14.
Freepers, isn't THAT the moment in the past two years when we threw away our victory? Isn't THAT when Republican turned against Republican and our unity died? Isn't that moment when our fate this Tuesday was sealed?
And WHO LED THIS???
MCCAIN!!!!
MCCAIN is the ULTIMATE RINO -- not because of his voting record, but because he stabbed the President, Bill Frist and all of us in the back!! It was horrible that the President and Frist caught flak from some conservatives on this when they were victims of McCain's Mutiny!!
AND NOW THAT DIRTY BACKSTABBING RINO WANTS TO BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IN 2008? HE DOESN'T HAVE THE DECENCY TO WAIT A FEW WEEKS AFTER TUESDAY??
Freepers, I urge all of you -- DO NOT SUPPORT THIS STINKING RINO!! He has wrecked our Party and should be shunned, not supported for President!!
The way I feel today, I might actually stay home if McCain faces Hillary -- because I can't support a candidate of our Party who turned on our Party like that.
MCCAIN, YOU DIRTY RAT!! YOU WILL NEVER GET OUR PARTY'S NOMINATION! DON'T GO AWAY MAD ... JUST GO AWAY!!!
LOL! Brief and direct!
No way would I reward McPain-in-the-a$$ by voting for him. If it were between him & Hillary - we would deserve to get Her Hindness.
exactly....a bad mccain is better than a good hitlary any day of the week!!
Some one will step up to the plate. Who of us had even heard of GW Bush before 1999? Not many of us.
McCain is facing a greater challenge than anything political - his own mortality. Even though he's declaring his candidacy for President he knows he is gravely ill and just wants to go down fighting. Anyone who compares his state of health to just 1 year ago can see his is markedly declining.
I knew it in 2000 when I supported GWB.
Point is, what consequences had HE suffered? His own ally DeWine is gone. Bush is damaged. The Iraq war will suffer. But him? He's out there putting together a committee for President.
If he shows his face here in Cincinnati I'm going to Freep his sorry ass. He's skated by while causing disasters to his supposed friends -- like the Republican version of Bill Clinton.
Yes! yeahh I second to that I'm pi#$ed very much as you are I just see that sucker and I fell like if I'm looking at Bill Clinton Grrrrr. I will be very pleased when I see that sucker not making it past the primaries.
>Okay, not McCain, not Guliani....WHO?<
Ummmm, W?
MSM will take care of McCain.. especially if he is up against Hillary. If these two turns out to be our only choice.. I'm voting Liberterian.
Save your efforts. John McCain will self-destruct all on his own.
He has a history of it.
Shot down twice, had one plane blown out from under him while he was sitting on the flight deck. It's absolutely dangerous to be within 10 feet of the man, really.
Nope, left to his own devices SOMETHING around John McCain is bound to go "BOOM!" eventually.
Hopefully, it's the "Straight Talk Express" this time.
Neither do I. But the Gang of 14 was a surrender for no reason. McCain is a weasel. I'd trust Bill Clinton before I would trust that weasel.
Thank you YDR, McCain MUST pay... F'em
Could be the one...wish his resume had some military experience.
Looking back over the past year and a half at the "accomplishments" of the Republican congress such as the Schiavo debacle, the inane attempts to amend our Constitution for completely meaningless issues, the corruption, the House action to force the President to cancel the Dubai Port deal (which would have added substantial security), the withheld nominations of the President for social issues like abortion stances, and the debacle of all debacles, the refusal of the House to meet in conference and construct a reasonable immigration package, it seems that the only meaningful accomplishment was the confirmation of a host of judges and 2 USSC justices....the work of the infamous Gang of 14.
"But the Gang of 14 was a surrender for no reason."
You forgot "Campaign Finance Reform" which was three lies for the price of one, and which equates to tenure for elected officials. Biggest asault on Free Speech since the British banned assemblies in the Intolerable Acts.
Why is it no one seems to remeber this often enough?
The ACU ratings aren't necessarily a gauge of conservatism, I mean, McCain and Graham both got 80 or above.
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