Posted on 10/11/2006 10:01:51 AM PDT by 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.
After the elections... Why NewsMax was wrong.
Bingo!
I fully expect the Foley Scandal to ruin the Republican prospects nationally just like the Wellstone funeral ruined our chances to win the Senate race in Minnesota.
More like pickin' the corn kernels out of a voluminous, bowel movement.
If you feel this way, why post it? I wonder
the dims are "b*lls to the wall" to get one or both houses dim so the impeachment proceedings can begin, sickening Americans with the non-stop coverage where they'll vote for a woman president just to hear something else on the news, a la Watergate.
Unless you are being sarcatic of course?
Phil, you should put FRee Republic ahead of Lucianne and Drudge.
We're going to win. Our little buddy in North Korea just assured that.
Are you going to stay home, or do you merely predict that everyone else will?
Do you really believe someone is going to look at his local district canidate & say I can't vote for him 'cause of some fruit in Fla.. Come on.............. Hell, the republicans I think got a good chance of holding Foley's seat with the stand in.
The Foley story has already run out of steam. There will be other "scandals" before the election, but I doubt they will have any real effect.
I think I'd like to see the GOP maintain control of the House by 1 vote. 218 to 217. Then the DUmmies will totally flip, having missed the prize by just a single seat.
What? I have yet to see a "REAL POLL"...all the libnutmedia has done is produce faked skewed polls, whereby they poll a much higher percentage of dims over GOPers.
Yawn. The dims won't gain a thing and they damn sure won't control anything in Congress.
After the elections... Why NewsMax was wrong.
You sir, are an idiot.
Who are all these people?
Why bother Link? You are either a Democrat poster or have jumped off the ship before the battle even started. What is the point of arguing with defeatists?
Good Luck to you
The Foley "scandal" is only a scandal to the Media & the Left.
The GOP is always "distracted" about something - but it isn't the GOP who goes into the voting booth - it's us.
When your poll samples are 59% dems and 39% Republicans - the poll results are obviously going to show a huge dem pickup. Those same polls showed JFKerry winning in 2004.
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