[Behind Liberal Lines]

I'm not sure how electing a democratic congress strengthens the GOP.

No matter what, the media (which is the first draft of history) will write this as a victor for liberalism. They will spin the spanking as a repudiation of the war in Iraq and republican corruption, not as an attempt to purge big government leanings from the GOP.

[el_texicano]

Well, CG there's a tell tale reality that conservatives vote issues and vote with their head, NOT their emotions.

This whole approach by cut and run "conservatives" is insanity.

It's saying to Repubs "I'm not voting for you, but my not voting will by default enable DemocRATS to win the election

WHO HAVE OBSTRUCTED OUR AGENDA OF COURT APPOINTMENTS,

WHO WILL RAISE OUR TAXES,

WHO HAVE SOLD OUT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY WITH LEAKS,

WHO HAVE PUSHED FOR THEIR AL QUEDA BILL OF RIGHTS,

WHO HAVE SOUGHT TO CRIMINALIZE CONSERVATISM WITH TRUMPED UP CHARGES...

ETC. ETC. ETC.

Is this what you people want???

My view of you type of people is that YOU are the ones needing a spanking. Not to mention a serious brain transplant. May God of heaven save us from idiots like you.

[Oberon]

I'm not sure how electing a democratic congress strengthens the GOP.

And I'm not sure having a GOP that's only marginally better than the Dems is good for the country.

[SauronOfMordor]

The real time to "deliver a message" is during the primaries

We should have gotten rid of Specter in Pennsylvania, regardless of the perceived prospects of his more-conservative replacement

[Joe Bfstplk]

No matter how much lipstick you put on the Grand Old Pig, it is still a pig.

When you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.

Someday when Republican=Conservative, they will deserve the vote. Until then, there is not much difference between big spending, big government Rep. or Dem.

[Old Professer]

It will them someone to blame for a change.

[MHGinTN]

"I'm not sure how electing a democratic congress strengthens the GOP." It certainly doesn't and the writer is either a fool hoping Libertarians can fill some of the void created by handing government over to the democraps or the writer secretly desires democrat control of this nation. What the fool writer fails to understand or doesn't give a damn about is the effect democrat control over our courageous military personnel and the effort to fight terrorist islamofascism will have and the inability to recover from Democrat clintonista style forewign policy ... and only a blind fool thinks the clinton machine is no longer controlling the demcorat party destiny.

To sit at home and not vote more pubbies into office is to hand our sovereignty over finally to the democrat party which is Sorosesque in the extreme. This election cycle is probably the last great pportunity to show democrats, the whoredom of democrat media, and the Republican party just how powerful the conservative vote can be in America. Rather than play spoiled brat voter, as the fool writer of the column encourages, conservatives ought to be turned out in record numbers, to bury the damned demcorat party and their sycophantic whore of alphabet media, giving the real brats a true spanking. Lazy tantrum suicide improves nothing. Period.

[rcofdayton]

Voting for third party candidates or not voting at all in a particular election is a good way to get rid of RINOs. We have GOT to let the moderates who control the party to know that there is only so much we will tolerate.

[Badray]

The media will lie, spin, manipulate, twist, snip, dilute, water down, and mask any news so that it will get the desired results.

If we vote them back in -- the bums, not all of them are bad -- how will the press spin that?

Just as our rights should not be predicated on the acts of a criminal, our actions and our votes should not be determined by how someone will tell the story of what we did and why.

Do the right thing and leave the results to God.