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Leading indicators point down for GOP
AP ^ | September 29, 2007 | David Espo

Posted on 09/29/2007 4:27:18 PM PDT by CheyennePress

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You know, you carp about this story and the typical anti-GOP bias. Or you can look at the facts of the matter and see the difficulties ahead.

>>>By a margin of 47-42 percent, they said Democrats will do a better job of protecting against terrorism and military threats.<<<

How? I don't think the Democrats are ever asked that question. But the perception is there.

>>>"The Democrats will continue to be the majority party in the House and Senate and Hillary Clinton will make history by being the first woman president" in 2008, predicts Rep. Ray LaHood, one of three Illinois Republicans to announce his retirement so far.<<<

Shooting ourselves in the foot and playing right into the hands of the media...again.

>>>Fundraising for Republican campaign organizations lags. That is strikingly so in the House, where the party committee spent more than it raised in each of the past two months, reported only $1.6 million in the bank at the end of August and a debt of nearly $4 million. Democrats reported $22.1 million in the bank and a debt of slightly more than $3 million.<<<

We used to have a giant advantage in the fund-raising department. Times they are a changing... We put ourselves in this position legislatively.

>>>Senate Republicans from New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon and Minnesota, who face particularly tough races in 2008, all voted in recent days for a children's health care bill that Bush has pledged to veto. "I just do not understand his decision, and I think it would be terrible," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. She faces a challenge from Rep. Tom Allen, D-Maine.<<<

I agree. Bush chose the wrong item to pick a fight with the Democrats over. Denying poor children of healthcare? I don't care if it is pork, Republicans have a major credibility issue when it comes to spending and cracking down on healthcare for kids is about as dumb a place to start with amending that as I can think of.

If you're feeling feisty, go put a correction on the star total on the bottom of the page. It's clocking in at 4 out of 5 stars. Apparently Yahoo's readers enjoy the news.

1 posted on 09/29/2007 4:27:21 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: CheyennePress

At least we are avoiding the trap of peaking too soon!


2 posted on 09/29/2007 4:29:30 PM PDT by DogandPonyShow (America, the Light of the World.)
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Denying poor children of healthcare?

It's not about denying poor children health care. It's about nationalizing health care for middle and upper middle class children as well.

3 posted on 09/29/2007 4:33:49 PM PDT by sphinx
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Do you CheyennePress believe that 47-42 percent of "real voters" think that the democrats are better than the Republicans in protecting the US against terrorism and military threats?

I certainly do not believe that this is the case and it is more like 60% to 40% in favor of Republicans when it comes to this issue.

4 posted on 09/29/2007 4:36:31 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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I would think the leader indicators point down for the Dhimmis — after all they control Congress and Conress has an approval rating below the basement level and falling! Isn’t it down to 12 percent?


5 posted on 09/29/2007 4:37:57 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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I would think the leader indicators point down for the Dhimmis — after all they control Congress and Congress has an approval rating below the basement level and falling! Isn’t it down to 12 percent?


6 posted on 09/29/2007 4:38:12 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: CheyennePress

Know your enemy.

Hint: it’s not the Democrats.


7 posted on 09/29/2007 4:38:48 PM PDT by jmyrlefuller (The Associated Press: The most dangerous news organization in America.(TM))
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To: WashingtonSource

It’s all Bush’s fault..as the Move On crowd will
be celebrating for the next 4 years...JK


8 posted on 09/29/2007 4:40:00 PM PDT by sanjacjake
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To: CheyennePress

David Espo has quite a pedigree on the Search function. He resembles Halley’s comet, a dirty iceball that keeps circling back, except he’s more like those ice chunks that get flushed out of airplanes.


9 posted on 09/29/2007 4:40:09 PM PDT by gusopol3
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Well you got one thing right. You don’t think.

When the Republicans go out and talk about how Democrats want to give Government Health Care to the children of families making $82,000 a year until age 25, it complete demolishes all the propaganda Democrats ran on in 2006 about being fiscally responsible.

The Democrats are in a complete indefensible position on spending, on Congressional Reform on taxes and on Iraq.

There are reason the latest Gallup poll gives the Democrat Congress an 11% approval rating.

The Democrat Party press is whistling past the grave yard here. They KNOW given Hillary’s unfavorable ratings. PLUS the 58 seats they have to defend in districts that went 51% or more for Bush is NOT going to be an easy task.

They trash talk like this because they know a bunch of supposed “conservatives” will immediately don sack cloth and ashes do everything they can to depress Republican campaign efforts.

10 posted on 09/29/2007 4:41:42 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/ vrs the "Worse than Watergate Congress")
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AP=Blah!Blah!Blah! and other like comments.

vaudine

11 posted on 09/29/2007 4:41:43 PM PDT by vaudine (RO)
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11 percent which is an all time historical low.


12 posted on 09/29/2007 4:42:00 PM PDT by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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The Republican can plan to go the way of the Whigs if they keep trying to match the Democrats in spending and corruption.

If we get a strong conservative as the Presidential nominee, maybe he can slap some sense into them, then bring them along on his coattails.

13 posted on 09/29/2007 4:42:22 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: jveritas

I believe there is a very strong possibility President Bush will authorize a pre-emptive strike on Iran next year. When that happens, the American people will rally around their president and his party. That will make a Big Difference in the 2008 election.


14 posted on 09/29/2007 4:42:24 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: sanjacjake

Know it all the fault of moron “conservatives” who rush around the net continually whining because our side isn’t perfect instead of EVER attacking the Left ON ANY THING.


15 posted on 09/29/2007 4:43:10 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/ vrs the "Worse than Watergate Congress")
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AP and “Gallup” Poll say it all for me. I’m not in denial, but I certainly wouldn’t take this as the unvarnished truth either. Glean what is applicable, take the rest with a grain of salt.
16 posted on 09/29/2007 4:44:05 PM PDT by Melinda
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To: FFranco

Agree 100%.


17 posted on 09/29/2007 4:44:53 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: CheyennePress

You’re such a sucker.

Eligible children under the proposal include those at 300-400% of the poverty level.


18 posted on 09/29/2007 4:46:26 PM PDT by Petronski (Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
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When the Republicans quit acting like “liberal-lite”, they’ll begin to raise funds again. As long as they continue to cow-tow to liberal causes like government-funded health care, junk science, amnesty to illegals, and spying on the general populace, they won’t get the support of the citizenry. I’m holding out for the small-government, unobtrusive, low-tax, constitution-abiding government that should represent the Republican party.


19 posted on 09/29/2007 4:48:30 PM PDT by meyer (Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
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To: jveritas

If anything, it’s worse. Read The New York Times, which most Americans consider the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth. Conservatism is a thoroughly discredited ideology. Republicans have major ethical troubles; Democrats have already certified the most ethical Congress in history and haven’t had a scandal in decades. The Distinguished Junior Senator to the Great State of New York, Her Most Extremely Eternally Exalted Elite Eminent Thighness Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Next President of the United States of America and may win 400 or 500 or more electoral votes. The American people as voiced through CBS, ABC, NBC, Reuters, MSNBC, and numerous other news outlets have rejected the Republican Party, folks.

Our goal as the Republican Party now is to try to cultivate candidates for local and state races where it is not terminally impolitic to do so. We must purge the party constantly of every unethical character and operate strictly within the standards and expectations that the Democrats demand of us, maintaining the unspoken rule that the rules never apply to them. When our operatives make public pronouncements, they cannot offend any Liberal or Democrat, or otherwise seem inappropriate in the slightest even when taken from context of the implications of the thought are discerned by Democrats.

Our nation is doomed to two or three quadrennia under the wonders of the Clinton political machine. If we stealthily adopt the vocabulary of the American people as expressed through their enemies within the United States, then perhaps we can muster the political wherewithal to recapture a few House or Senate seats or even the Presidency in 2020 or 2024. If America still exists then, albeit as a severely destitute, dispirited, and dispossessed people doomed to draconian economic constraints and completely confiscatory expropriation rates. Perhaps even then, if we are lucky, we yet might earn a few thousand dollars a year through our terrible toils and keep a few pennies on each dollar to expend on a starvation diet in a price-inflated depressed economy as we occupy barren caves heated only through the bodies of our compatriots.


20 posted on 09/29/2007 4:52:19 PM PDT by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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