Posted on 11/09/2006 7:27:35 AM PST by waimea.man
Bush to make statement with his cabinet in Rose Garden at 11:35 AM...
LOL, true, but I am trying to go easy on Bush and the Bots. They are after all is said and done conservative (kind of) too. I must admit the temptation to say "I told you so" is great but I am resisting. Perhaps the bots will learn that is much more productive to debate and argue things out then to just call names and end a post with "who needs your vote anyway, go be a 2 percenter". Tuesday that 2 percent would have come in very handy.
"There are no excuses because the Republican Party did not give voters a reason to keep them in power in close races and this door hangar was an example of poor planning."
I agree. All I got from the party was a similar scare message, as if the only thing they were concerned about was desertion by the base. I think the base was angry, but not suicidally so. They did not desert. What happened is that the game is changing. Many new young voters showed up, as someone has posted. These kids know nothing about Constitutional history; their education has been at the feet of the Marxist educational establishment. They have been raised on MTV, have short attention spans and little patience. I doubt that many can ever be made into conservatives. They are attracted to charismatic people with style, and would never go for a colorless thing like Frist. Probably the best we can hope for to attract them is Rudy or McCain. I suspect some would really go for Arnold, but he's not eligible. Conservatism was an outgrowth of traditional Judeo-Christian European-American culture, mostly Protestant and Anglo-Saxon. Demographic changes make its survival doubtful. Just look at the picture of the young Democrats. That's pretty much what the current college generation looks like.
I agree totally. I'm sick of having to fight off the one percenters and the DU trolls at every turn, I'm sick of their undermining and the nastiness. I would be willing to bet they DON'T contribute to this forum.
"For someone affected by globalism, the economy is very worrisome"
I have a friend who owns a table-making business for 15 yrs. Three years ago had a peak of 80 emloyees and 6 million dollars in sales. Now at 50 employees and 4 million. Why? Competition from China moving in on his market.
They WILL push through some pet policies like minimum wage, health care and and amnesty for illegals (packaged under something else). They will tout the first two as victories in 2008 and use the third to get new voters signed up. We will have a hard time capturing back either house anytime soon.
The media was only too happy to carry Buchanan's attacks about the tax increase without giving any background into why it happened. I was in my mid-40's and remember it quite well.
That is what I think the Rats will try to do...tack something damaging onto the funding for Iraq.
I wasn't involved in the GOTV this election but I think we need to simply stick to the basics of how we are going to get the job done. People respond to positive optimism and a genuine belief of a can do attitude.
We know that the dems are light on defense, national security, taxes etc. We need to educate the common folks who are basically conservative and don't realize it because they have been brainwashed with the leftist lies.
I will use my father as an example. He was a yellow dog dem, union steward, who spewed the typical mantras. However, when you sat down and discussed the issues on their simple merit he was very pro gun, fiscally conservative, socially conservative to a degree and was more in line with the GOP party platform in his thinking yet because he had been brainwashed by his union he voted straight D.
People have a short attention span and therefore we need to break the message down to short, sweet and to the point in a manner that is easily understood yet not condescending.
We need to use simple marketing techniques that work in getting the message out.
Maybe we need to do a WWRD? What would Reagan do. lol He was a gifted communicator. We must get someone who is able to articulate the message. I believe it's vital.
You are 99% correct. The United States Army Military Police Corps is what kept the army from disintegrating enitirely.
The war against the Nation of Islam is about to get real and serious. Only one heart beat (bullet) stands between the Nation of Islam and Pakistain nukes. The Rats will force a US withdrawal from the middle east. Irans power will overwhelm Iraq, Syria, Jordon and maybe even Turkey and Egypt. The Nation of Islam will unit to fight a war of conquest against the West. Europe is in real trouble and the USA will not be around to help. The future looks terrible, this was a monumental election and the good guys lost big time.
A very wise move on W's part.
Just for information Rush has explained on his show today that "his words were twisted into a pretzel in ways that even he could never imagine"
I think Bush and other Republicans have bought into an extreme form of free-trade economics. It's what you would expect from his MBA education and upper-class, country-club-Republican upbringing. Putting theoretical advantages of totally free trade ahead of national security is foolish, and that message doesn't resonate with common people, anyway.
James Baker?
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You are exactly correct.
Pelosi and Clintoon will carry out their tax increases and tie the increases to funding the WOT.
"You probably read a post by me. When we had all of those troops over in Saudi Arabia the budget was up for approval. The Rats made a tax increase a condition of approving funding for Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
The media was only too happy to carry Buchanan's attacks about the tax increase without giving any background into why it happened. I was in my mid-40's and remember it quite well.
That is what I think the Rats will try to do...tack something damaging onto the funding for Iraq."
What words? The words he said yesterday, or the words he said about Michael J. Fox? If he's talking about Fox, he's simply doing a CYA. His grandstanding and obnoxious comments were easily understood, and I knew when he made them that they would be used against us.
Thanks, but no thanks. From now on, I'm a former listener of Rush. And quite frankly, I don't care what he says.
"That is what I think the Rats will try to do...tack something damaging onto the funding for Iraq."
I'm afraid Bush will give them something, and then they will stab him in the back just the way they did his father. Remember all those repetitions of him saying "read my lips...no new taxes" in their campaign commercials? The Demons have no shame. They were the ones responsible for taxes.
I think Bush is concerned, above all, with not losing the war at this point. He's deeply flawed as a politician (like his father), but he's a patriot so are the people around him (Cheney, Condy).
I caught a very interesting dissection of the election results yesterday on cspan-2, with a bipartisan panel of pollsters, operatives, including Celinda Lake and Ed Goeas. If you see it on their schedule on replay, it's worth seeing the various polling results and conclusions from the panel. It was put on by, of all orgs: AARP
I wish I had more of the comments stored in my brain from Bush's '04 campaign coordinator, Mark McKinnon, but I was listening while working.
Eye-opening to me were revelations of the extent of courting the youth with the new texting technology, youtube, etc. and how successful it was for the Dims. And, I believe Celinda said that, for the first time, the highest percentage of voters in this country are single .. with different issues.
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Here's some other pertinent info
http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=061109_Ne_A10_Elect22989_0
About 10 million young people voted, according to analysts who studied exit poll data. That's 2 million more than the previous congressional midterm election in 2002.
This year's youth turnout was perhaps the largest for a midterm election since 1982, said Mark Lopez of the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement.
Democrats regained control of the House for the first time since 1994.
In House races, six in 10 young people voted Democratic, with the Iraq war, economy and terrorism their top concerns, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said Wednesday.
"Young people . . . are becoming increasingly mobilized. They are realizing that they do have power, and are displaying that power through their vote," said Jane Erickson of MD Votes, a nonpartisan group that registered about 8,500 students at 12 Maryland colleges and universities.
Another national issue that didn't figure big with the public at large galvanized young voters, Erickson said: the rising cost of college.
Young people feel neglected by political parties,
but Tuesday's turnout shows that politicians would be wise to court them, said Ed Goeas, a Republican pollster.
The overall turnout Tuesday was just over 40 percent. About 24 percent of young eligible voters went to the polls.
The youth vote was larger than the national average in Michigan, Montana, Minnesota and Missouri.
David Rosenfeld of the Student Public Interest Research Groups said campus organizers nationwide sent out more than 15,000 cell phone text messages, worked the phones and went door-to-door to register students.
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Youth turnout in election biggest in 20 years
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/us_nm/usa_elections_youth_dc_2
Republican pollster Ed Goeas said young voters could have swayed a number of tight races on Tuesday, noting that of 28 seats Democrats picked up from Republicans in the 435-member House of Representatives, 22 were won by less than 2 percent of the vote and 18 were won by just 5,000 votes or less.
"The increase in the youth vote did come into play," he said.
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Youtube and similar sites made a big difference, and as Ed Goeas related, it is stunning that so many races were lost by us by only 1-3% margins. Just makes you wince.
BUMP and that is the real reason we lost the election. That great sucking sound is the sound of working Americans being sucked into a Democratic party that will not scarafic thier jobs at the alter of (so called) free trade. The GOP MUST return to being the party of Main Street not the party of Wall Street.
"I agree totally. I'm sick of having to fight off the one percenters and the DU trolls at every turn, I'm sick of their undermining and the nastiness. I would be willing to bet they DON'T contribute to this forum."
How many of these trolls are financed by some one of George $oreA$$'s foundations dedicated to defeating GW and stopping our WOT. Go to the link referred by George 76 for a look at the dark side of George $orea$$ and his fellow super rich liberals.
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