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Posted on 08/18/2009 9:03:15 AM PDT by PhxRising
There’s a slight spring in the step of Republicans these days. President Obama is stumbling on health reform and his job approval rating is sinking. Suddenly, life in the wilderness doesn’t look so bleak to a GOP that got trounced in the last two elections and was, to some, staring possible extinction in the face.
The party could well take two key governorships – New Jersey and Virginia – away from the Democrats in November.
Recruiting for next year’s House, Senate, and gubernatorial races has gotten easier, in anticipation of midterm elections that historically favor the out-of-power party.
Already, top Republicans are cautioning against overconfidence.
“We are doing better,” says House minority leader John Boehner. “But let’s be honest, we’ve got a long way to go.”
Mr. Boehner wants Americans to judge politicians on what they do, not what they say. But these days, words are just about all Republicans in Washington have. With the Democrats running the show, it’s hard to get anyone to pay attention to GOP policy ideas. And it’s not as if they’re coming out with anything markedly different from before: The latest House GOP proposal for health reform centers on the use of tax credits to help modest-income Americans buy insurance.
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People are mad at the GOP too. Some members of the GOP were booed at Tea Parties.
What the #$%$ ????? Doing better? They are opposing the other party out of survival not principle. This give’s no evidence of what they would do if they had any power again. Boehner needs to go, he promoted the TARP1 under GWB.
Boo those who deserve to be booed, but the Republican Party is the only reasonable chance that we have.
Fight in the primary races to get the most conservative Republicans elected.
Recent Presidential elections are largely no confidence votes on the previous adminstration. Carter won due to Nixon’s Wtergate scandal. Reagan beat Carter due to Iran. Clinton best Bush 1 due to the recession. Obama beat McCain due to Iraqi and the stock market crash. It seems people vote against soemthing rather than for something.
Until the GOP shows some outrage at what is going on, begins voting in blocks against this foolishness, they can expect 2010 to be a slaughterhouse for current elected position. There is no outrage, only supposedly republican senators and representatives in bed with the democrats. It is all about who gets to divide up the money. 2010, lets draw blood at that election.
None of their opposition to BHO is principled. It’s only political.
I can honestly say, I voted FOR Ronald Reagan.
I voted for Reagan twice. But this past election, I voted against both McCain and Hussein
None of their opposition to BHO is principled. It’s only political.
Bingo!!!!
Notice the constant liberal media meme of “midterm elections that historically favor the out-of-power party.”
Funny, when Dems were favored in 2006 it was never mentioned. It was the “culture of corruption.”
LOL. Same here. Mine was a Palin vote all the way.
Considering your party hasn't done an effing thing yet, I'd say that was a true statement. All the heavy lifting has been done by the patriots of this country.
It is an anti-Democrat vote at the moment, not a pro-GOP vote.
The GOP is still the RINO party, but there is a plan out there to reshape it:
The Conservative Hand
A Manifesto for Achieving Conservative Political Goals
http://theconservativehand.blogspot.com/
Lil’ Megan (src/) hasn’t been doing too well at reaching GOP spokesperson status, even the state run media ain’t stong enough to push her rotund heinee up that high. More like RINO spokesperson and no one is listening to the Lass.
Any vote against mclame was by any definition a vote FOR nobama.
Being a political purist got us all what we now have. Those conservatives that sat home or pulled RP, each put nobama a vote closer to POTUS, whether anyone cares to admit it or not.
Voting Mclame was very hard to do, even with Sarah, but in politics its always the lesser or two evils.
Throwing votes away is usually harmless but when it does make a difference it almost always helps advance the left wing candidates of the democrat party.
Copied text:
In U.S. Senate races, third party candidates played King Maker in 7 races from 1998 to 2006.
For instance, Washington State Democrat Maria Cantwell eked out a 2,229-vote victory over Republican incumbent Senator Slade Gorton in 2000 as Libertarian Jeff Jared siphoned off
nearly 65,000 votes.
A Republican incumbent was similarly burned by a Libertarian in Montana’s 2006 U.S. Senate: Democratic challenger Jon Tester upended Republican Conrad
Burns by 3,562 votes as the Libertarian Stan Jones won over 10,000 votes.
Third parties in fifty-five percent of U.S. Senate of elections from 1998 to 2006 cumulatively won at least 2 percent of the vote. The reality is that they are a persistent presence.
In the 2002 gubernatorial election in Oregon, Republican Kevin Mannix lost by less than 3 points to Democrat Ted Kulongoski while Libertarian candidate Tom Cox
received nearly 5 percent of the vote.
It’s why the GOP better wise up and understand that it doesn’t matter how bad off the D’s are, they can’t run as D-Lite.
Conservatives aren’t a coalition party. They actually have principles. Liberals are nothing BUT a coalition. Their factions are often diametrically opposed (Unions vs Greens - Abortionist v Catholics, etc.)
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