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.
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.
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.
While I agree the poll is not quite accurate, I will contend with you on this point. The Republicans have lost credibility on this issue for failing outright to protect the border. In fact, their promotion of open border policies flies in the face of the security they presume to uphold.
I am as hard-right as they come, and even I am not confident that we have been made safe from attack precisely because the border remains unguarded.
Furthermore, attempts to trump sovereignty for reasons of free trade are probably more damaging in the long run than the short-run security problems we are forced to suffer.
Face it. The Repubs have sold their soul on the issue of security and have left us wide open to attack, their only motive being big-business free trade influences trumping that safety and sovereignty.
the only remedy is for the RINOs to step down and turn over the reigns of power to the conservative wing or suffer turning them over to the Liberal Democrats in the election.