Posted on 03/04/2002 3:29:40 PM PST by Darnright
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:33:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
HEY! Stop maligning our Dear Leader Dubya the Compassionate. The Republicrats are only going to legalize 3.5 million illegal Mexicans. Not 10 million. LOL!
I agree with your take. Republicrats have been alienating their base - straight white Christian males. They will stay home, unmotivated, while the Demopublicans will turn out in droves (even the dead ones!) to avenge the "disenfranchisement" of 2000. Expect the black churches to pull out all the stops getting their congregations to the voting booth.
The "economic turnaround" some of the posters talk about is merely a figment of their wishful imagination. IMHO stock market will be lower and mortgages rates higher in November.
BTW, Connie Morella is toast in Maryland's Montgomery County. She's a RINO, but she's still nominally a Republicrat.
And I would never, never lie to you. Cross my heart and hope to die. I really, really, really, really, really am telling you the truth about this. I promise very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, much.
Speaking as a straight white Christian male, the republicans have not alienated me, or even slightly anoyed me (excepting Trent Lott of curse).
I think what made 2,000 close and the polls wrong was the turn out. The Democrats did the best job in decades of getting the vote out. A lot of that had to do with new labor leaders who wanted to establish that they had enough clout to elect a president. They failed. I don't think they want to fail twice. They don't have much clout with the president, and they could have a lot less at least until at least 2009.
This year I think the unions will be far less motivated and far less willing to spend money and effort than they were 2 years ago. For that reason I think the turnout for Democrats in machine controlled areas of our nation will be far less than it was in 2000.
Daschles attacks on Bush are obviously counter productive. Even the Demorats understand they are counter productive. They are not engergizing Daschles troops, but they are getting to his opponents. Daschle appears to be making Republicans mad, and putting Democrats to sleep. Daschle and Gebhart apear to have it backwards. This is going to be a good year for Republicans.
Daschle appears to be a confused little man crying for a rule book. It is new ball game, and he is confused because he does not know the rules.
You sound like Robert A. Taft and the people who thought the joblessness in the depression would desptroy Roosevelt.
After 2 years of Roosevelt the economy was terrible and unemployement was sky high and the Democrats did just fine in Congresss. After 4 years of Roosevelt the economy was terrible and unemployement was sky high and the Democrats did just fine in congress. After 6 years of Roosevelt the economy was terrible and unemployement was sky high and the Democrats did just fine in Congress. After 8 years of Roosevelt the economy was terrible and unemployement was sky high and the Democrats did just fine in Congress. After 10 years of Roosevelt the economy was terrible and unemployement was sky high and the Democrats did just fine in Congress.
After 12 years of Roosevelt the economy was fantastic and unemployement was near zerot and the Democrats did just fine in Congress.
During that entire 12 years period the party out of power never stopped trashing Roosevelt. They attacked every proposal he made. They did not try to fix the problems, they tried to blame Roosevelt for the problems. The media hated Roosevelt and presented every attack on FDR in foot high headlines. It never worked.
Todays Democrats are doing to Bush what the Republicans did to Roosevelt. Their angry oposition will give Dubya everything he wants.
If they don't factor in 2.5% for fraud, they are riding for a fall.
LOL! and agreed..
When I mentioned that UNION's would be far less active in 2002 and 2004, I figured that anyone could see that meant buying votes and stuffing ballot boxes would be way down. What do you think unions do in elections, pass out literature? The Democratic party does not buy votes or commit voter fraud directly... They could get caught. That is what Preachers and Unions are for.
It matters not if the method is to stuff ballot boxes, screw the voting machines, pay people to vote or all three. The results are the same and it all costs lots of money.
I suspect that you are totally surprised that people want big bucks to commit crimes. The fact is they do.
The money to do that comes from unions. Union Voter Education funds are used to teach and practice stealing votes. They do not use party money because party money it is far to easy to trace. Thirty million dollars spent on petty cash items is hard to explain.Plus if the fraud is done by a third parties, and the truth outs, the "candidates" and party are always unaware and totally shocked.
One of the most effective ways in recent years is to use Black preachers as the conduit for the money. The money is given to the church. The preacher takes the money and uses it to buy poll workers, and voters.... keeping his cut of course.
It costs a ton, and this year the unions are not going to do nearly as much of it.
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