Why The GOP Lost (Hey, Its The Trust, Stupid Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 11/11/2006 | Star Parker

[rippingmyhairout]

Well said...and it will be extremely difficult for the Republicans (I just can't seem to call them "conservatives")
to get it back. What a waste!

[verity]

"Now the task of conservatives is to find new leaders to rebuild the lost trust with the American people on behalf of the Republican Party."

The new leaders may have nothing left to rebuild.

[Tax-chick]

Great summary.

[prov1813man]

Star Parker is terrific and I agree with her writings almost always.

That being said, we lost by 5000 votes out of millions cast in a national election.

Where is all the "closely divided electorate" propaganda ? Where are the demands for "shared power" ? Why are less than average losses in a two term administration termed a "republican wipeout"?

The truth: MSM traitors who shaped the issues such that decent americans either didn't vote at all, or voted consistent with the wishes of our enemies, are now doing their "pravda thing" with smug confidence beyond even that which has guided them thus far.

The media lied and many will die.

[bilhosty]

it is called stagnation. don't deal with problems do business as usual and don't really have anything you stand for other than letting in ilegal immigrants and spending money you are probably gone.

[Tax-chick]

That being said, we lost by 5000 votes out of millions cast in a national election.

Are you saying that's the total margin in all the races Republican incumbents lost ... or what?

The media lied and many will die.

No argument there. One of our biggest problems in this country is the MSM, and the people who still believe them.

[prov1813man]

You are exactly right on. Bring back the sedition act.

[prov1813man]

Pick a senate race where losses were less than 5000 votes. All we've heard from skerry is how 60,000 votes in Ohio kept him from the Presidency. This constitutes a "razor thin" majority as the MSM would be saying were things reversed.

Now, even those on our side seem to be buying that this is a "massive rejection" of conservatism, or evangelicals, or the war, or (pick the bogeyman the left wants to neutralize).

We should, rather than drinking their kool aid and tearing at each other, be uniting in cold anger to call these traitors for what they are and demand an end to the unholy alliance between our enemies and our so-called free press.

[lsvf98]

You right not being conservative enough is part of the problem, but the house was pretty conservative at times and they still lost quite a few seats. I think it was the combination of seemingly doing nothing and the war.

The war is Bush's fault, not much congress could do to affect that. Seeming to do nothing, that's the Senate's fault. Pretty much nothing made it through that place unless Harry Reid agreed. Let's remember when the first time in history a federal judge was filibustered.

My question is, will the repays use the filibuster to the same affect? Dems would certainly complain, but hey is was them who made it part of everyday operations in the Senate.

[Tax-chick]

Very interesting points, requiring thought!

[DonnerT]

When a nation moves from apathy to tyranny the tyrant is usually government and media controlled by them.

We're moving to tyranny with the MSM controlling a complicit government. Where lies are the curreny of power truth has no value.

[VOA]

...unite immediately to stop the bipartisan Open Borders Lobby so that
we can EFFECTIVELY secure our borders from terrorists,

We had a Republican President, House and Senate, along with the provocation
of 9-11 and we still didn't get secure borders.

Sadly, it WILL take a proverbial nuke to cause it to happen.

Only problem is that at least one American city will lay in glow-in-the-dark
rubble when that happens, IMHO.

[100-Fold_Return]

"No argument there. One of our biggest problems in this country is the MSM, and the people who still believe them."

The lamestream mess hammered over and over and over again that there would be problems the Diebolds voting Republican instead of the chosen Dim.

Election's over. The dims win their mandate by 5,040 votes.

Not a solitary peep out of the lamestream mess about Diebolds screwing up votes.

Republicans have been scammed and are too stupid to figure how this mid-term election was stolen away from them. Dims snookered Republican, the term "sap" comes to mind.

[jwparkerjr]

I would like to see the total number votes we lost by across the nation in house and senate contests and then see that number as a percentage of the total votes cast in those elections. I suspect it would be a very depressing result. Had our leaders done ANYTHING in the last six years that would be considered governing as conservative the numbers would have been just the opposite. And before you go citing the two Supreme Court appointments, remember that we got those only after the Gang of 14 destroyed any chance we had of ridding America of the hell-based 60 vote majority needed for a judicial nomination. If the founders had wanted a super majority to be necessary to approve a nomination they would have said so.

Across the board, the largest problem I see is that we've let House and Senate rules come to trump the Constitution. The rules have been rigged for over two centuries now and they stand in the way of how the Founders set up our way of government.

[jwparkerjr]

re: be uniting in cold anger to call these traitors for what they are and demand an end to the unholy alliance between our enemies and our so-called free press

Absolutely! We are going to have to fashion a policy that recognizes just who are enemies are and how they're trying to defeat us, then devise a strategy to use their strengths to our advantage.

[Armedanddangerous]

Another thing that irritated me was in late 04 and early 05...when the assault weapons bill sunseted and attempts by the donks were made to reimpliment it, he kept saying, 'if they send me the bill, I will sign it" knowing full well that it would never get out of congress.

If he were a true conservative, he would have no problem in saying "HELL no I won't sign it. It's UNCONSTITUTIONAL."


And who was one of the ones who worked hardest..in vain thank God..to get it reinstated?

John Warner..a so-called pubbie.

[jwparkerjr]

re: We had a Republican President, House and Senate, along with the provocation of 9-11 and we still didn't get secure borders

Did you ever think you would live to see the day when over 3,000 people would die in America's biggest city and then a Republican controlled President and Congress just roll over and play dead?

[Phlap]

Why did they lose? Not enough votes.