Posted on 09/07/2007 10:54:26 PM PDT by LdSentinal
I can’t either. As one who barely escaped “Red” indoctrination in public school, it is especially galling. Maybe strike one up for the stupid party again. If we can’t even win battles like this, it doesn’t look good for the long term. :-\
Don't let the door hit you on the ass you Rino nitwit.
Your work along with Olympia Snowe on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee was shameful.
You can leave office knowing you helped the Democrats play search and avoid with documents you knew existed connecting Saddam with Al Qaeda.
“Psych warfare”? Come on. Going through life paranoid and delusional is sad. Well there is warfare out there all right but it has nothing to do with what color code is used on a electoral map FCOL.
You just don’t get it.
“Hoohah! Two RINOs - Warner and Hagel GONE! Things are looking up. “
ONLY IF WE WIN THESE SEATS!
The Dems will be putting Mark Warner up perhaps in VA and maybe Bob Kerrey in Nebraska. It won’t be a cakewalk to defeat them.
A LOT WILL BE RIDING ON THE 2008 ELECTIONS.
12 years is long enough. Hope this trend can spread to official democrats as well.
The Red state/Blue state thing only took hold after 2000.
Why?
Very simple - when Clinton won ... HE WON. The media didn’t waste any time mentioning that the majority of states voted against him. The media didn’t waste any time mentioning that he didnt get the majority of the vote. The color map was shown the day after the election and then filed and forgotten for the next 4 years.
The Red state/Blue state is all about the liberal media carving an identity that clearly pointed out that liberalism was not dead. It started as a poke-in-the-eye to Bush to tell him that half the country wasnt behind him. (recall the media nonsense about ‘lack of mandate’ etc.) IMHO, the color is less important than the POINT of the division - “our nation is divided” it screams, thus denying Bush the credit of being the President of all of us.
I’ve seen Red states used for Dole, but I doubt we saw the term “Red State” or “Blue State” until after 2000. And of course, with each election, the states shift so the concept is hardly valid...
Dole is red:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1996
Dole is blue:
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?f=0&year=1996
Well put.
The media is to blame.
Maybe the confusion they created is deliberate, eh?
Quite. All part of the psych warfare. Control the language and the discourse, and you control everything.
Right. The colors could be orange and green. Doesn't matter. It just a color code for displaying the results.
Yes, we’ve had such distinguished governors in recent history as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let’s hope that history doesn’t repeat iteslf!
And Ronald Reagan & George W. Bush.
When the two political parties are smart enough to run Governors, they usually win.
If they foolishly rally around some senatoral party hack from one of their "safe states" who tells them what they want to hear... well... talk to John "I can beat Bush" Kerry & Bob Dole about what happens.
Then we'd have two polarizing Senators for President and one of them would have to win, I suppose. I'm guessing the slickest candidate would probably win, or the one with a running mate who can actually carry a swing state.
I KNOW what lies behind ‘there’, lolol, do I really have to look?? I did look already, snicker!!
Lol, SOMEWHERE in my ‘10,000.’ I had a bagel but think another gif ate it!
Can’t recall if he is married to Linda-bird or Lucy-bird, snicker!! Think Linda.
I agree about Reagan; however, I wouldn’t include Bush because he’s NO conservative. He spent like a drunk sailor (my apologies to sailers because at least they spend their own money) for five years and gave us the biggest entitlement (prescription drugs) since LBJ. He’s sided with the leftists on affirmative action, failed to secure our borders, and has been totally devoid of any principles of conservatism. Another four years of him and we’ll really be ruined! Even in Texas, as governor, he supported the liberal agenda more than he did conservative core principles. But his main impetus (like his father’s) is to “get along.”
I wonder if Bagel is avoiding a Flynting incident. Regardless if the fool leaves, the DNC will use Flyntian scandals to paint the GOP now that the sexual degradation of Larry Craig has been outed. The DC madam may have a very powerful list of clients to sell don’tchaknow.
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