Why the GOP Will Win In November

NewsMax ^ | 10/10/2006 | Philip V. Brennan

[SirLinksalot]

GOP Will Win in November

Philip V. Brennan

Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006

"Run for the hills, the dam has burst!" was the alarm shouted by the horde of panicked people racing to get out of town ahead of the floodwaters in the famous James Thurber story that ended with someone halting the exodus by asking, "What dam?"

At the moment, we're hearing a similar cry about the coming November 7 congressional elections. This time, according to the media, the barbarian Democratic hordes and a few nervous Nellies in the GOP, it is the Republican dam bursting, ready to wash any number of Republican members of Congress off Capitol Hill.

For the Democrats and their media flunkies it's written in the sands. The raging waters will carry off at the very least 15 Republicans and hand Mrs. Pelosi the House speakership. Some of the more sanguine Democrats even expect the tide to reach the Senate and drown the re-election hopes of six Republicans, thus handing the upper body to the Democrats.

Along with the late Mr. Thurber's character, I am inclined to ask, "What dam?"

Do you mean, for example, the tiny crack in the levee allegedly created by the Mark Foley scandal? If so, as they say in New Yawk, "Forgeddaboutit." The Foley scandal will have an effect in maybe two House races, and that effect may, even in those cases, prove minimal and not decisive.

We are being told by the ever-so-wise media savants that the conservative Republican base is so disturbed by l'affair Foley that they will express their discomfort with the GOP by staying home on Election Day, thereby depriving the Republicans of the electoral muscle they need to win the fight.

Now, there may be a small number of idiots who actually believe they will somehow best serve the conservative cause by putting into power, by their absence at the polls, an assemblage of loony leftists who will turn the Hill in the nation's largest nuthouse, raise their taxes, tie the hands of the president in the middle of a war where the West's very survival is at stake, and advance the cause of socialism that is so dear to their hearts.

At the most, that cadre of discontented conservatives will attract a lot of noise, but because they are the tiniest of minorities and obviously slightly deranged, their protests will fall on deaf ears.

At the moment, however, it is an article of faith among the Democrats' media lackeys that these disgruntled Republicans are a near majority among conservatives and their allies in the so-called religious right, and they will sit on their hands on November 7. In other words, the Republican Party will not be able to get its vote out on Election Day.

Boy, are they in for a surprise!

Whirring away out of sight is the GOP's get-out-the-vote machinery and it's well oiled, its cogs spinning smoothly and ready to produce a record-breaking turnout on November 7. Mr. Rove and his companion Mr. Mehlman have been busy fine-tuning the machinery for over two years, testing it with spectacular results in little-noticed local elections across the nation, and they are ready to roll and drive their troops to the polls.

It is an article of faith among the media elite that the average American voter out there in fly-over country is a dolt, totally incapable of sifting out the political wheat from the political chaff. Only with the guidance of their intellectual and cultural superiors in the media can they possibly make sensible decisions and vote in the ... sniff ... "proper" manner.

The problem for all the pretty boys and leggy blondes at the networks, the elites at the New York Times, the Washington Post and the rest of the socialist media, is that outside of their sheltered enclaves on the East and West Coasts, nobody is listening to them anymore.

We don't have to – we now have Fox Cable, Rush Limbaugh, my gutsy pal Mike Reagan, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and about 600 talk radio hosts, Web sites such as the top-rated NewsMax.com, Lucianne.com and Matt Drudge, and a host of well-researched and well-reported blogs to deliver the truth rather than the phony pap the mainstream media have been feeding us for years.

Thanks to these feisty news sources, residents of the Red States have been able to penetrate the liberal iron curtain and get the facts the liberal mainstream media would, if they could, prevent them from learning. To them, an educated electorate sounds their death knell.

The bottom line is that no matter how hard they try, the media cannot get the American people to believe that their safety would be safer in the hands of the Democrats, that cutting and running in Iraq and exposing the entire Middle East to a certain and bloody catastrophe is a good thing, and that their money is best spent by Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and Harry Reid and not by themselves.

November 7 is going to be a battle royal, not easily won, but when the smoke clears, Nancy Pelosi will still be the feckless House minority leader, Harry Reid will remain the leader of the Senate minority, all will be well, and God will be safe in His heavens.

The dam is still standing, with nary a leak.

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Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

[Non-Sequitur]

Define win. Is wining picking up seats in the House or Senate? If that's the definition then I don't think we're going to win next month. If, on the other hand, his definition of 'win' is still retaining the House or Senate then I'd argue against that definition. If we hold Congress with fewer seats then I'd classify that as losing, but not as badly as we could have.

[longtermmemmory]

Perhaps but there are some bits of truth.

If democrats don't win BOTH houses and win by comfortable amounts then they are toast.

In order to be viable they need BOTH houses.

I am not buying the "we are doooooooomed" hype. Democrats have cried wolf too many times, hippies have smoked pot too many times, and GWBush has been misunderestimated too many times.





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[SirLinksalot]

Define win.

Here's my definition --- TAKING CONTROL OF EITHER THE HOUSE OR THE SENATE.

[xzins]

This article is spot on its prescription.

The get-out-the-vote machinery of the Republicans is flexing and getting ready to be put on display.

Just about everything the media has been doing has been designed to depress the vote. Their major messages have been corruption, dems are far ahead, people want change, iraq is awful, dems far ahead, no chance, no chance, Foley, Foley, Foley.

If they're working that hard to suppress the vote, then what is it logical to conclude that they most fear?

[Gingersnap]

I know a lot of conservatives and not one has indicated to me that he or she will sit out the election or vote for a liberal out of spite.

Some Independents may well do that but the regular conservatives won't.

I'm part of that whole "religious right" thingy and the idea that I would vote for a pro-gay marriage/pro-abortion/pro-illegal alien lefty is as laughable as the idea that I wouldn't vote at all.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"...with the Foley scandal going on and the GOP being distracted and all the polls showing a huge Dem pickup, don't you think this article is a little exercise in wishful thinking ?"

"Wag the Fag" has blown up in the Left's face. They were planning on Foley sticking around, but when he promptly resigned, all their plans were for nought.

In addition, "Wag the Fag" was planned for ten days before the election, but Bush's emphasis on the impact of a Democrat congress on national security had legs and the polls started moving to the Republican's advantage.

AND, the mainstream press polls always oversample Democrats.

The Democrats are looking at an impending disaster in November, and they know it.

[Hendrix]

"...don't you think this article is a little exercise in wishful thinking ?"

No I don't. If I believed everything I read in newspapers I might think that way, but I don't believe in most polls and I don't believe most people give a rats ass about the so called Foley scandal. Foley was a corrupt congressman and both sides have a handful of those.

[Danae]

Nope. I actually agree with it. The "Polls" we all watch, are SO squed, and having any sort of faith in them is chancy at best. I refer to the Polls before the 04 elections.... Americans are smarter now than ever, and have better information than ever. Shoot given what we know now about what the Clinton Administration, how can any red-blooded-Americain but LAMENT the disinformation ("It's the Economy Stupid") that won Billy the Election in 92? If the TRUTH had been allowed to get out by the MSM, I say to you that the Election would not have resulted in Billy being Elected.

I agree with this article. Perhaps the Dims will gain a seat or two, but it isn't going to be win that they are hoping for. Not even close. Nancy had best be prepared to keep her current office number. It isn't going to be changing.

[musikman]

Kim (Mentally) Ill shot his... bomb at the most perfect time. How can we ever thank him?

Rove? No, couldn't be. Rove, you magnificent bastard.

[snowrip]

Two reasons the Republicans will lose in November:

1) lying by the liberal media and the Democrat party

2) continued, repeated gutlessness by the Republican party

You reap what you sow, and the Republican'ts have been soft on immigration, soft on China policy, soft on Social Security reform, soft on continued tax cuts, soft on the UN, soft on SC judges (until civil backlash forced change), soft on espionage and soft on continued horsesh!t from the Dumbocrat party. They have been unable or unwilling to clean house of all the dem operatives, unable to articulate their Iraq policy, and will roll over for just about any PC pressure whatsoever. No strength in leadership equals no voter motivation or turnout.

With friends like that...

[Yo-Yo]

Pukin sez that we're gonna pick up seats in November, and I've never known him to be wrong.

[acw011]

Because to most people the Foley thing is a non-issue and every conservative I know would crawl over glass and swim through alcohol to pull that lever on the 7th.

and yes, most of them are "church goers"

IMO - I love the fact that the Mid-Terms are in the news so much, it reminds people that there are big elections right around the corner - so, THANKS FOLEY!

[Stentor]

Now, there may be a small number of idiots who actually believe they will somehow best serve the conservative cause by putting into power, by their absence at the polls, an assemblage of loony leftists who will turn the Hill in the nation's largest nuthouse

Shh! The Pennsylvania, hate Santorum contingent might hear this.

[Cobra64]

Overconfidence and complacency on our side are dangerous.

[shhrubbery!]

with the Foley scandal going on and the GOP being distracted and all the polls showing a huge Dem pickup, don't you think this article is a little exercise in wishful thinking ?

Maybe, but the Dhimmicrats and the media ('scuse the redundance) are also engaged in even more wishful thinking.

The constant barrage of media polls spelling doom for the GOP (which are only contradicted a few days later by other polls that ask questions differently); and the simultaneous gloom being hawked by pundits, all reeks of desperation --on the part of the Dims.

I expect the loss of only a few seats by the GOP --mainly because historical precedent shows that the incumbent majority party always loses seats in an off-year congressional election, where the president is in his second term.

The GOP will have narrower margins in both houses, but they won't lose either one. IMHO.

[musikman]

[snowrip]

BTW, I am praying fervently that the Reps will keep control of the House and Senate, I just don't think it will happen.
Anyway, with the number of RINOs and McLame disciples in the ranks, the Dims essentially have control of both houses already.

[Salvation]

**November 7 is going to be a battle royal, not easily won, but when the smoke clears, Nancy Pelosi will still be the feckless House minority leader, Harry Reid will remain the leader of the Senate minority, all will be well, and God will be safe in His heavens. **

I think Newsmax will be right!

[hosepipe]

[ GOP Will Win in November? ]

Absolutely... Republicans are too dumb to change their voting habits..
Why the Senate has so many RINOs in it..

Only thing dumber than a republican is a democrat or a legal or illegal ALIEN..
You know, prospective(proto-type) democrats..

[buck61]

thanks for the link.