Posted on 01/08/2007 8:42:14 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The last election told us many things. One thing that stands out above all others is that the number of people who actually understand what is going on in our country today is frighteningly small.
A small group who “get it”
Just half of Americans are registered to vote, so right off, we know that half of America doesn’t care what happens to itself or the rest of us. They live in a different world. You know who they are so it is not necessary to expand on this point.
Of those who are registered, on a good Election Day, sixty percent vote. That means that only thirty percent of Americans are heard, and even a large percentage of them are ill informed or willfully blinding themselves, even as they cast their ballots.
Of this thirty percent, about fifty percent vote Democrat and by doing so show us they do not understand that the Democrats are a party bent on surrendering our security to our terrorist enemies. To be sure not all who vote Democrat want this result, most of the others vote Democrat because they want socialism, gay marriage and dumbed down schools and/or open borders.
That leaves only fifteen percent, or about 1 in 7, of Americans who understand that we are the only hope our nation has.
This bares repeating: Only about 1 in 7 Americans seems to understand the true murderous intentions of our enemies and/or the destructive nature of socialism.
Nevertheless, in the last election, a certain percentage of America’s 1 in 7 voters, people who should know better, voted in a way that showed they were willing put their own demands for single issue purity over the safety of America. This is the reality of what these voters have brought about by their foolish demands that politicians suddenly toe their line totally or be thrown under a bus along with our nation.
The ill informed nitwits that vote Democrat in a knee jerk fashion, the socialists who, though born here, hate America – they are what they are. They must be fought at the ballot box every two years. They are almost like evil little children who will be what they will be, but the, “ I’m staying home because I’m so much more conservative than you, so much smarter than you..” 1 in 7 voters must be held to a higher standard. These voters can not claim ignorance. They willfully handed the reigns of power and responsibility for America’s safety over to the Democrats. There were just enough of these willfully “blind” “single issue purity” voters to hand the Democrats 16 of their 36 victories; this figure being derived from the fact that for the want of just 63,000 more votes spread across these races, America would not now be in the danger she is in.
These people should have known better. They took their own narrow agendas with them on Election Day. They played “make believe” with America’s future and safety. The bought into the Democrat controlled media’s lies that we can’t win the war, the economy is tanking, and open borders would somehow be less threatening if only the Democrats controlled both Houses.
Now these 1 in 7 voters are trying to explain what they did by wringing their hands and complaining about not wanting to “vote for the lesser of two evils.” Apparently it does not occur to this group that the choices we have are really just the choices we have. They don’t understand that failing to vote for the “lesser of two evils” guarantees that you will get the greater of two evils.
These people fancy themselves as so much smarter and so much more conservative than the rest of the 1 in 7. They are nothing more than “conservative” useful idiots.
They, and unfortunately us, now have to live with the disastrous consequences of their self delusions that they would somehow get from a Democrat Congress what they couldn't get from a Republican congress, but that would be the only difference. We will all now have to deal with Democrats who will be as disappointing on some issues, but terrifying on other issues, lots of other issues.
These are a series of headlines. This piece is not written to anyone who needs to have them explained. It is written to the “conservative” useful idiots among us who have joined the fools and socialists to “teach” someone a lesson. Here’s the first week’s “lessons”.
January 1, 2007 to January 8, 2007:
"Dems Prepare Slew of Oversight Hearings"
"Democrats push for Alaska drilling ban"
"Pelosi, Reid Oppose Iraq Troop Surge (Letter Sent To Bush!)"
"New Muslim congressman avoids loyalty questions"
"Socialism on the move: Edwards pushes Universal Healthcare"
"SEARCH ON FOR TOUGH NEW WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL; expected avalanche of congressional committee investigations..."
"Pelosi's new image as Italian Catholic mom -- more than a 'San Francisco liberal'"
"'IMPEACH!' is message at Nancy Pelosi beach (San Fransicko Alert)"
"What Americans MUST Know About the Incoming Senate Intelligence Chairman"
"(Mother") Sheehan Right to Demand Democrats Act on Iraq (Susan Estrich Barf Alert!)"
"House rules change clears way for tax increases"
I agree with majority of your post .. though I would change the "(mythical) Republican" part ...
There were many conservatives .. whether they were Constitutional Party, Libertarian Party, Reformer or Independents .. they were very influential to many of those "I feel" voters that you mentioned
Before the election I laughed them off and did not take their threat seriously
I can guarantee, I will not make that mistake again
Yeah, and voting in the big spending Democrats sure sent that message to the Republican party, didn't it? :::Sarc:::
Says the king of the "blame conservatives" crowd.
Right. That's precisely why this country had no business sending those troops to Iraq in the first place.
Here is the concluding paragraph of the article I referenced above:
In any event, a coalition’s strength is partly a function of the force and quality of its opposition. The fissures and conflicts within conservatism are getting so much attention now because conservatism is still, intellectually speaking, where the principal action remains. So long as the Democratic party continues down the road it has been following, led by its aging left-wing lions and lionesses, funded and directed by the most extreme and irresponsible elements in its ranks, and finding clarity only in discrediting George W. Bush and regaining office, conservatives will always have plenty to unify around. For their own part, so long as conservatives are able to remember Ronald Reagan as a leader who not only embodied the distinctive characteristics of American conservatism but who finessed its antinomies and persevered against the contempt and condescension of his own era—including among some of his allies—they can yet regain their bearings and prevail.
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The big tent of conservatives in the US has allowed much more independence of expression than the Dem party of lockstep speech. This election demonstrated the disillusion of enough people who had chosen, for whatever reason, to vote for the Republican in 2004, to let the Republican lose in 2006. Example: Webb beating Allen in Virginia.
My point is that we cannot persuade anyone to our perspective if we talk past each other with parallel languages.
What are you gonna do, dream up even harsher words to alienate them?
From November 2004 to present.
Wrong. We stayed steadfast for conservative principle and won every statewide and federal election in my state.
Let me make things perfectly clear, because you seem to be exceptionally refractory to reality:
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
Amen to your post #58.
As the Emperor of the "true conservatives" states wearing no clothes.
(Try to say that quickly five times!)
Good post. If ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.’ Edmund Burke. While I appreciate some of our apprehension in supporting less than perfect conservatives, abstaining from voting is not the way to do it. Obviously, independents broke heavily for the Dems, but I think that the GOP could have done a better job getting out the base. I for one had the option of voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor. He wasn't my favorite ideology, but I voted for him anyway. Why? Because I support everything he's done? Absolutely not. But I supported him (as well as a less than perfectly conservative Republican member of Congress) because I know that the alternative, in this case Phil Angelides, was simply not an option. I also didn't vote for some hopeless independent candidate, either. Fortunately, in my case, both Arnold and our member of Congress won.
That's obvious, isn't it.
Hopefully you'll still be asking that on April 15th of next year. I fear you'll have your answer in black-and-white (or red-and-white).
I agree. And if you insult these "conservative useful idiots" long and hard enough, maybe they'll go away and get their own candidate like a Ross Perot. That'll show 'em! Keep up the insults, buddy!
Suddenly, he's a patriot?
Ingraham bashing the President non stop, other talk show hosts wanting to punish the President.
Faux patriots all.
Suddenly we are hearing how important it was to vote Republican???????????????????
I have one issue. Winning the WOT
Go right ahead. You'll spend the next forty years trying to get back into a majority just within the GOP, and the country will lurch so far to the left that you'll spend those years being regarded as escapees from the loony bin.
Mark Levin is a FReeper. Maybe you should ping him if you're going to trash talk him.
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