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.
How about the Dems win by a single seat, then in early February, one of them dies or goes to jail or goes to private business. A special election in that district places a Republican in power... Or one switches parties a la Jeffords. The Dems would go bananas.
Friends say I'm good at it... ;^P
I believe we will win in November. Even Kos made a post expressing how extremely worried he is that his party won't win. The Dems know they're in for tough times to capture a majority this election.
Dems will be disappointed in their current projections to win the House and maybe Senate. To call a statement like that "wishful thinking" is grossly ignorant and defeatist, given all the dynamics of this political season.
You must be aware of the GWB's nickname for Karl Rove.
Additionally, if you don't happen to live in a competitive state or district as I don't, you can go to RNC.org and sign up to make phone calls using your cell minutes and free long distance to GOP voters in competitive districts and states to encourage them to go to the polls. You just have to register and then you'll be given a list of names and numbers to call. This is one of the efforts in 2004 that really got the GOP base out and put Bush over the top. Millions of phone calls we're made the week before the election in key states.
I made a lot of calls both in 2002 and 2004 in the week before the elections. It's actually quite fun. They give you a script if you're uncomfortable ad lib-ing it. The script will inform you of which candidate you're calling for as well. You can do as much or as little as time will allow, if even only doing some work on it in the weekend just prior to the election. And most people are friendly and willing to help. I really suggest everyone take advantage of this.
Do YouTube admins slap the label on, or do users request the label(ala wikipedia?)
It doesn't matter if we pick up seats this time around, if santoruml ooses the left will crow that as a victory. I really hope he pulls it off.
The "BROKEN GLASS" conservatives will be at the polls.
My liberal fish wrap of a paper, had an above the fold headline that stating "Texas stands to gain committee chairmanships" if the the Dems take control.
It then went on to say that with the GOP in control Texas only has one chairmanship. Talk about a free advertisement!!!
What a crock!! The LSM is out in full force for the RATS!
Well, I disagree. If they get the Senate, all further improvement in the US Judiciary will come to a halt--most importantly, the Supreme Court. There are still five leftists on the Court.
OTOH, if the House, there will be endless hearings about Iraq, Wiretapping, Sex Scandals and ultimately, impeachment. And, the house has to initiate appropriations. How well do you think, say, missle defense and support for the WOT is going to fare with a democrat controlled committee.
All that said, you are correct in a different sense. If the dems cannot win this year, they are toast. This is the year they ought to win for several reasons:
* sixth year of a presidency is ALWAYS a big anti-incumbent election--even for Ronaldus Magnus,
* unpopular war,
* effective slagging campaign against R's for six years in the media, and
* R's shooting themselves in the foot with their open-borders, spend lots of money stance in Washington.
If they cannot take at least the house or the Senate, it means their disconnect with the voters is terminal.
Right before the election, the MSM will pull back on their negative predictions... they always do. Shame on them for playing this game every election season.
Glad you clarified THAT!
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