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"
You have no facts to back up your assertions in that post.
Don't be obtuse. The writer was spot-on. The blame for how someone votes is their own. No one was at the voting booth with a gun to their heads saying, "Vote Democrat to send a message to the Republicans you don't like, or die." Nope, the responsibility lies with the voter. Trying to blame someone else for how you voted is a form of liberal, Oprah-fied insanity. Tell me how "I didn't want to steal that money, but I am a victim of society" is any different from "I didn't want to vote Democrat, but I am a victim of the Republican society."
What do you disagree with?
Well, you may have a point, technically. There are many with the Republican label who never had any conservative principles to abandon.
Carolyn
Well, start with some proof that conservatives in any numbers that matter didn't vote.
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To all those on this thread who say "pick yourself up, and look forward, instead of whining." here is my suggestion. We have to learn the above sentence by heart, and we have to learn how to reach the reachable voter by speaking the "feelings" language. They do not hear or accept our logic and common sense arguments, so we have to talk "feelings"
Example:
Instead of "what do you think of illegal immigration, (or any variation of those words)
"how do you feel about out-of-state kids paying in-state university tuition?"
If they express disapproval, agree with them and then say "how do you feel about people visiting the US signing up for food stamps?" [This is the principle of using baby steps - don't use the example of illegals getting maternity care - no one can 'feel' good about refusing maternity care.]
If they say they feel that visitors should not be eligible for food stamps, you can say, "yeah, I feel the same way, I wish our govt. would improve the laws for making sure that everyone in the US is legally entitled to be here.
We want to be able to have a dialogue with Oprah and The View watchers, and they do not react well to 'thinking' questions. Feelings are deeper and more personal than thoughts, so will trump thoughts in many person's brains every time.
Names and principals please.
If these principals are Communists, they deserve being abandoned! On a desert island even. We can run our schools without them!
I voted Republican, and I'm upset with those Repblicans who stayed home, but I understand why they did. And I fear that the more we blame those "teach a lesson" conservatives, the more likely it is that our Republican leadership will do nothing to fix the problems of the party.
Agreed. The problem is the party leadership. We got rid of those clowns, but I despair that the new set of clowns isn't much better.
Why don't you present such evidence? All of the "conservative opinion makers" I know advocated for no such thing.
Now, you may find words from some disgruntled conservative somewhere, but your broadbrush assertion is a slander against conservatives.
Why do people like you, who obviously have such a deep distaste for conservatives, even post here?
You renounced being a Republican in 2005; therefore, you have no basis for calling anyone else a RINO. Feel free to petition Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid for your wishes, and leave the grownups alone.
Schwarzeneggar. Bloomberg. Giuliani. Romney. Pataki. McCain...et al.
Pick your conservative principle, these guys have come down on the side of the radical Left.
No, no, no.
Your "We" should just stick with common sense logic like this...
He wants Hillary to win! He wants Pelosi as speaker! He wants to turn it over to the Dems! I can't believe he said that! I've known he was a BircherBuchananiteDUTrollDemInfiltratorMobyStormfronter all along! Are you kidding me! Reagan hardly ever balanced the budget! Reagan didn't control the border! Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal aliens too! You can bet Hillary won't control the borders or balance the budget!! You can bet Pelosi won't control the borders or balance the budget! We're at war! He's supporting the terrorists!! He wants to turn it all over to the Democrats!!! When campaigning, President Bush never said that he wanted absolute control of the border! He's unappeasable! What a malcontent!! He's a racistxenophobantihispanicnazibigot who hates Mexicans!!! He's a secret member of Stormfront!!! He's never been a real conservative!!! He hates Bush!! He wouldn't say any of this if he wasn't a Bush basher!!! He hates Republicans too!!! What does he want, for everyone to vote third party!!?!! Shut up, Go away!!! We don't need your support anyway!! We don't need the votes of the so-called "conservatives" that you're talking about because they're just a bunch of moronic, right-wing, extremist, fringe whacko, malcontent, unappeasable, fake conservative, democrat loving, stupid hicks who want Hillary for President and Pelosi for speaker!!! They probably never voted for Republicans in the first place! They're just Democrats trying to ruin our chances! The polls are lying!!! Look at their sign up date, anything after mine is suspect. The site has been infiltrated by BircherBuchananiteDUTrollDemInfiltratorMobyStormfronterracistxenophobantihispanicnazibigots and all they do is whine and bitchbithchbitchbitchbitch all the time.
It's sure to be winner. Next time.
Principles!!!!! (Better?)
"Can you explain how voting Republican in the last election would have made America a stronger and more prosperous nation?"
Sure. That's easy.
1. By maintaining GOP control in the Senate, the next judicial appointments (with one or two possible at SCOTUS) would not be in jeaprody of having liberal "compromise" appointments forced on the President. The affects of that loss of control in the Senate will be felt for 10, 15, 20 years; not simply the next two. And with two possible SCOTUS appointments, the "precendent" setting affect of rulings in the next 10 years will have ramifications far into the future.
2. The out-going GOP majority in the House was willing to force needed compromises on the imperial-Roman Senators on the issue of "immigration reform". That loss means we are likely to not only not get any compromises against the disasterous Senate bill, but we are now likely to get even worse provisions added to it from the new Dim House majority. Immigration errors, once implemented are harder to repeal than it is to pass the originating act. The previous generation of Kennedy-esque "immigration reforms" have led to the current immigration mess, while the new ones are even more disasterous and will greatly weaken the nation and increase the social-economic push for more and higher federal government entitlement programs.
3.The Dims plan to repeat, in Iraq, the treasonous 'defeat' policy they gave South Vietnam, will untether the United States from any meaningful role in the Middle East, as it did in Southeast Asia, leading to Cambodia style disasters in the Middle East and ascendancy of Iran with no counterweight in the region. Iraq will become worse than Afghanistan ever was and lead to possible joint Iranian-Turkish invasion of the Kurdish area of Iraq, with the Dim appeasing Congress doing nothing but holding the United States to no more than an observer on the sidelines. It will become a situation that neither Saudi Arabia or Israel can survive under without taking the offensive, which they will, and drag the US back in, with the effort requiring many times over what we have already invested in Iraq.
4.The present Dim majority will seek to "legalize" terrorists of all kinds, removing them from any "prisoner of war" status and turning all adjudication of terrorists and terrorist suspects to civil courts, public trials, release of secrets in order to "prosecute" or failure to prosecute in order to retain the secrets and thus jeaprodizing the war on terror at every turn. Add the courtroom circus to the "last helicopter from Baghdad" scene and you can figure 9/11 as firecracker demonstration of what will become of the Dims "brave new world".
People at my office are going to stare at me, since I'm standing on my chair and cheering out loud for your post.
Funny thing is .. the bragged about sending a message before the election
But now they are running at high speed and denying it
Assuming those above have NO conservative principles, you would vote for their Democrat opposition?
But now they are running at high speed and denying it
Exactly.
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