HEAR HEAR!!!
I concur!!
Posted on 11/08/2006 4:50:12 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
I'm sure none of that has had anything to do with LP'er claims that they taught the GOP a lesson either.
gee, I sense a little hostility towards Rush here -- if he was a DEM he'd just have all the hugs in world cause of his 'problem'.
Where's the 'understanding' here?
Yes, when LP'ers say they taught the GOP a lesson yesterday, I take their word very seriously. It more then adequately demonstrates their goal.
I can see where you are going with this but you must also admit that the average voter has been pummeled with lies about Vietnam style quagmire by the MSM since the end of the first month after we invaded in 2003.
It finally wore them down and in no small part do to backpedaling by Repubs including Bush on the lies from MSM about WMD and that Iraq and Afghanistan are 2 different wars.
Americans need patriotic news like we had in WWII. Then I fully believe we will buck up but since the MSM refuses to do that job then we must figure out someway to get the message across. Just this year the Pentagon started a program where troops returning from overseas go out and talk with the public. That should have been happening from day one.
Anyway as I was discussing with someone on another thread I would love to see Santorum run as VP. You may check out my tagline for an idea of who to run as a Presidential candidate. If Santorum doesn't go for VP (and eventually Pres) I would like to see him run for Gov in 2010.
If "macaca" were a racial epithet, someone somewhere would have named the country where this is true. He used a nonsense word for a pest and got hammered. His big mistake was apologizing over and over when he should have laughed it off.
That is a possibility especially if it's a RINO who feels they are entitled to be President. I don't know if their are any out there that are quite that bad. I don't think even McCain would pull the party that far down. He didn't in 2000 so I don't think he would now.
Rush is wrong.
They lost because they couldn't get their message out.
These were losses in blue states.
The bile will be gone in a few weeks..
"Conservatism did not lose, Republicanism lost last night. Republicanism, being a political party first, rather than an ideological movement, is what lost last night."
Damn straight!
FWIW, that's the only way Rick Perry won reelection. Texas is probably the most conservative state in the Union, and a sitting Republican governor only walked away with 40% of the vote. In 2004, when I was a representative to the McLennan County Republican Convention, Perry sent a representative to give us a "pep talk." The representative told us that the Republican party was the party of the big tent, and that if we were tied to a narrow ideological agenda we needed to leave, because the Republicans didn't need or want us. I stood up, waved at the man, and walked out. Yes, I still voted Republican, and voted for Perry, holding my nose while I did it.
However, just about everybody I know who voted for Perry held their noses while doing it. IF Strayhorn had not siphoned off 20% of the anti-Perry vote, I believe that the Rat would have won. Strayhorn's ENTIRE vote count was the anti-Perry vote, and that vote went right through the center of Texas, directly along the proposed path of the Trans-Texas Corridor. I live in central Texas, which is extremely conservative, and the hatred for Perry is palpable.
I've been slammed hard on this site for voicing opposition to the Trans-Texas corridor, but I have too many friends that are looking at the possibility of having their property condemned for it, and what's most galling to them is that Perry wants to award the contract to a foreign company.
NAFTA, open borders, and now the Trans-Texas corridor have really demoralized the Republican base here in Texas. I don't think the Democrats will be any better, but Republicans better wake up. Perry's ceiling in this state is 40% right now. Kaye Bailey has avoided scandal and stayed conservative, and she cruised. Perry made it pretty plain to the voters that multi-national corporations are more important to him than the citizens of Texas, and he barely survived.
"They lost because they couldn't get their message out."
You mean, "Vote for us, the other guys are worse" wasn't their message?
Senator Schumer said today that if GWB had fired Rumsfeld back in September or October, and not the day after the election, the GOP would have kept control of both the Senate and the House.
GWB hurt us bad on that one. And if he had vetoed some of those damn spending bills.
The buck stops at GWB.
"The buck stops at GWB."
I generally listen to three nat'l radio hosts and all three are pretty much saying the same thing.
I wasn't really speaking of the initiative.
Hell, I hunger for a leader that doesn't treat the presidency as a damn fraternity which includes BJ Bill. I hunger for a leader who always keeps me in the dark. I hunger for leader who doesn't seem to care about illegals more than me. I hunger for a leader who doesn't spend money like a drunk teenager.
...for starters
"The electorate voted out many strong-on-the-border GOP House members.
It was yesterday. Do you recall that?"
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More than likely JD got voted out by illegals. That's what happens when they tip the scales past "critical mass". Expect more of the same in the future. I can't wait until GWB grants a "pathway to citizenship" to every last one of them (and their families). He's the grand architect of the utter destruction of the Republican party. Remember, you read it first here on FR.
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