Bush, GOP not immune if voter revolt spreads

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/9/03 | Marc Sandalow

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Arnold Schwarzenegger's triumph in the nation's premier Democratic state gives Republicans commanding control of the seats of power from coast to coast.

The White House, both houses of Congress, a majority of state legislatures and now the governorships of the four most populous states are in Republican hands. Party officials claim, with growing credibility, that it is no longer a 50-50 nation and that California is now in play in the 2004 presidential election.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Funny - the headline doesn't really match the content of the article, especially the last part, which was edited out of the suitable-for-outhouse-use version.

Davis' defeat was a warning to all incumbents not to stand in the way of change, said Boxer, who is up for re-election next year.

Yeah, Babs - don't stand in the way.

[Support Free Republic]

Got a minute?

I'd really like you to rub my ears,
or help out FR.

[RKV]

I hope the RATs keep drinking the Kool-aid.

[Porterville]

that is a funny healine... Republicans took California, and the only thing dems can do is threaten Bush.... Next Oregon... then on to Hawaii

[dinasour]

Bush, GOP not immune if voter revolt spreads

And if it doesn't you can still say the Bush tax cuts caused the recession.

Right...

[Blood of Tyrants]

They will. While they will allow an occasional pause towards godlessness and socialism, they ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVELY will NEVER voluntarily give up ground. Their hate of conservative/Christian principles drives them ever closer to the edge.

[NeoCaveman]

then on to Hawaii

We picked up that governorship last year.

[Sloth]

LOL, I hope the Dems keep up this delusional mental wanking instead of waking up and recognizing what's really happening to their party.

[MEG33]

If you hear this from Mc Auliffe,Mulholland,and the media,you can be sure it is the newest Dim talking point memo.It started being said the moment recall and Arnold won.They were saying it bodes ill for Bush,a warning of the anger in the land.

[William McKinley]

I am loving watching the Democrat spin slowly traverse through the media.

The recall was not anti-incumbent. It was anti-Gray Davis, anti-pander-to-illegals, anti-tax, and anti-smear-politics.

And, it was anti-media-bias. Just ask the LA Times.

The Democrats don't get it. The media don't get it.

But I repeat myself.

[MEG33]

You did get redundant at the end!.....;)

[MissAmericanPie]

"The message is that people don't like the way things are going and they blame the guy at the top," said California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in a message often repeated by party members on the day after Davis' fall."

Heads up goober, I don't see any Republican governors being recalled. Yeah people don't like the way things are going, that would be LEFT. The nation is making a right turn, any politician caught in the direction change is going to get run over. Stop illegal immigration, stop corrupting the ballot box, stop running business overseas because of over regulation, over taxation, and your labor union buddies and the trade imbalance. And most of all stop acting as if the Constitution is a piece of toilette paper that we will trade for (not so free) Free Trade treaties that compromise the document that has served our freedom and sovereignty well for these centuries. No to globalism and no to the U.N.

[Porterville]

Wow, we are ahead of even my evil plans....

PEOPLE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: I want One Billion Dollars, or we will take over the Fienstein and Bab's senate seat... woaa wa ha ha ha ha....

[wjcsux]

The Democrats don't get it. The media don't get it.
Shhh! Don't tell them!

[NetValue]

I sense simmering voter anger. It is not outrage YET! It will affect both parties but the Democrats have a lot more to lose. Politicians are REPRESENTATIVES not the "titled aristocracy" they act like. Many voters see these politicians placing America's best interests second to party interests. They see good ideas obstructed for only partisan reasons. They see racial shakedowns. They see trillions of their earnings go as taxes only to be spent on corrupt and worthless programs which enrich the politicians and corporations. They see a government that refuses to control the country's borders. They see illegals voting and receiving welfare payments that even full-fledged citizens cannot qualify for. They see spending out of control. They see growing deficits from here to eternity.

Elected politicians, BEWARE. You are expendable to the voters.

[William McKinley]

LOL!

If they listened to conservatives, they wouldn't be Democrats!

The best thing we can do is to tell them truthfully exactly what they should do. They would run like hell from it.

[LS]

The real headline should be "Daschle, Obstructionist Democrats Not Immune if Voter Revolt Spreads."

[Recovering_Democrat]

Wishful thinking by liberals.

[Mears]

I agree with your entire post. There is a simmering rage out there and the politicians on both side should do something before this rage comes to a full boil.

[conservativecorner]

ROFLMAO...the poor saps are really grasping at straws after 2002 and the California Recall/Election of 2003. It's only gonna get worse for the demonrats.