Six Reasons: Why Tuesday wasn't that bad.

The Weekly Standard ^ | 11/10/06 | Noemie Emery

[southernnorthcarolina]

Yeah, it wasn't that bad.

Well, other the fact that our young men and women fighting for us in Iraq (including my nephew) and elsewhere got their teeth kicked down their throats by the electorate, who evidently have as much respect for the troops as Senator Kerry.

Of course, our allies will now have good cause to doubt our resolve. Not to mention our enemies. Pfffft. Who cares?

And so it's now open season on the unborn. Big deal.

Naturally, we can forget border security. What a silly, outdated concept in this "one world" era. A wall would, you know, offend the illegal immigrants.

And of course, massive wealth transfers from society's achievers to society's leeches isn't that big a deal, is it? This won't affect the entrepreneurial spirit, right?

A new Supreme Court vacancy soon? Cool! Teddy, Hillary!, Boxer, et al have effective veto power with respect to the replacement. Anyone have a problem with that?

Welcome to New France.

[bill1952]

A centrist conservative who is stylistically different from

Oh, horseh*t. Just come out and say McCain.

This writer piles it up so fast you need wings to stay above it.

I also don't see a peep about amnesty and it's effects on the political mix. Hmmm.

[The Duke]

... 7) Freepers will start kickin' butt again! (Remember the "Freeper Air Force"?)

[ANGGAPO]

The bottom line on the boondoggle in Washington is that any politically action that prevents us from protecting ourselves such as monitoring off shore phone calls, harsh interrogation of captives, etc is not open for discussion.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

It may be about the party, but I doubt it. If Baker gives us a method out of Iraq, getting out will be construed as a defeat for the USA. We may have lost more than the election. In short, we will have turned over the life blood of Western civilization to Iran. Iraq cannot defend itself and I am not sure it wants to now that it is predominently Shia. If we leave the sunni will have their heads drilled by their friendly Shia neighbors. We will lose presence in the middle east and a potential balance to Iran (although I wonder with the Shia in charge if they would ever oppose Iran). Now with Nancy in charge, we can say "let the genocide begin" as they follow their Vietnam formula for foreign policy and that will only be the beginning of troubles for the USA. The level of brutality we needed in Iraq to properly pacify that land is something you cannot gin up in our PC environment. The Army makes a lousy police force.

[bill1952]

Don't know about that. Lamont was a loon, to be sure, but the dems DID kick Lieberman's ass right out of the party, and it was those voters other than just the dems who put him in office.

You just aren't going to see that massive cross party voting anytime else, unless Micheal Moore happens to be running in an area where no member of the GOP can aspire to a higher office than municipal trash collector.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

We have only one hold card, the Israeli nuclear inventory. Under the demoncrats the US will be unable to project power once the military is sufficiently weakened by our "can we all just get a long friends, like Dingy Harry".

[seasoned traditionalist]

NOT THAT BAD???

HAVE ANOTHER GLASS OF KOOL AID AND CALL THE MORTICIAN IN THE MORNING!!!

Didn't bother to read this.

All I needed to know about the elections and who is now in(scarry and disastrous) power, I learned back in the early 70's after serving in Nam for 18 months and seeing how they (the same LEFTIST-SOCIALIST-BLAME-HATE-AMERICA-Party and Mindset) stabbed the S. Vietnamese (as well as 2 1/3 million Nam Vets) in the back.

THEY ARE ALL:

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[Goreknowshowtocheat]

They kicked Lieberman and he wants more. What a idiot that guy is. He runs right back to the guys that beat him up.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

They do love their genocides..

[plain talk]

What a dumn-ass article. Trying to pretty up a pig. It was a wuppin' and our boys got spanked. Now its time to regroup and fight back.

[longfellow]

the sears tower is an eyesore anyway.

[TET1968]

The ultimate pony finder.

[CometBaby]

As for me, I am sick about what happened in this election. The Dems never did say what they were FOR because if they had, the swing voters would not have voted for them.

Today we read about what they are FOR. And this is only the beginning. It's going to get a whole lot worse.

Here is the positive I see .. if they do what they say they are going to do .. they are going to loe in 2008. Problem is who is going to run as a Republican? I would have to hold my nose to vote for McCain. I would though. I would do that before I allowed my lack of voting get us Hillary.

[Harrius Magnus]

Balances - let's balance our fine people getting killed because the enemy runs to the Mosques & thumbs their noses at them. Let's not do anything here in Mosques or schools where Muslims are told how the infidel must be eliminated & then hear your president tell you that Islam is a religion of peace. A War Terror - tell me when you leave the borders unsecured & won't profile. Now, you tell me who is playing with our security.

With all due respect to MNJohnnie, this retort is the reason that I love FR!

[Owen]

No one has to guess or try to figure out why voters voted as they did -- Given That They Told Us In The Exit Polls What Determined Their Vote.

Why are people burning up time trying to deduce something that there is numerical data on. The #1 reason was corruption scandals.

Not abortion. Not immigration. Not the economy and NOT IRAQ.

The data is on record. It is clear. It doesn't need analysis.

It was corruption scandals. Get squeaky clean candidates with no change of philosophy at all and in 2008, those seats become GOP again.

[kabar]

A stupid article. I wonder if the Dems wrote such articles when they controlled the House for 40 straight years and 58 years out of 62 during the period 1933-95. Or the Senate for 54 years out of 62.

Harry Reid talked today about checks and balances. I wonder if believes the Reps should win the Presidency in 2008, since the Dems now control Congress. This is all crap and rationalization. If the Reps think that this can be easily reversed, they are in for a rude awakening.

[JasonC]

Narrow parochial partisan horsefeathers. Iran won this election and by the time we have recovered from it will have nuclear weapons. That sort of adversity most emphatically does not "rock".

[RetiredArmy]

Musta been a misprint. Rudi and Johnny McScream: RINOs extreme.

[JasonC]

There aren't enough pols that squeaky to fill a yellow cab. In the entire modern world.

No, the press screamed long enough, and as a rule the people demand not "steadfast policy" but achieved victory.

Our enemies know how to read it. America can fight for 2 years, America can occasionally fight for 4 years, but under no circumstances even with the greatest odds and the lowest losses can America fight for 6 years.

They now have our number, and they will proceed to ring us like a bell.

Watch, grasshopper.