Posted on 11/09/2006 9:38:57 PM PST by Logic Times
Rush Limbaugh has it wrong. He stated Wednesday that "[c]onservatism did not lose, Republicanism lost last night. Republicanism, being a political party first, rather than an ideological movement, is what lost last night." (here) This statement – a statement echoed by Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and other conservative pundits to whom a nation of shell-shocked conservatives turned for cathartic analysis – fails a simple test. If the electorate was demanding conservatism, then why did strong, principled conservatives lose? Incumbent conservatives such as Rick Santorum, George Allen, J.D. Hayworth and Curt Weldon to name a few. Superb conservative newcomers such as Ken Blackwell and Michael Steele.
The actions of the electorate last Tuesday was an indiscriminate firing of Republicans, not a thoughtful weeding out of RINOs. It is true that Republicanism lost on Tuesday, but it lost in all its forms – and that included the exact form of strong, clear conservatism that the movement desperately needs.
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Anyone who refused to vote for Santorum because he bowed to what he perceived as political necessity and endorsed Specter is a jerk. Such a person should be ashamed of himself.
People need to realize we are up against pros.. . Rham Emanuel who masterminded the Dems win this year is a very tight Clintonista... This is all why we have to run someone wildly popular and charismatic or the GOP will be trampled in 2008, this isn't the year for National unknowns.
I agree... people can say what they will, but Newt is a brilliant politican..
My "brother" is one although I'm even sure if he voted at all.
Who do the most of the people like more? Rudy or Hillary?
That's exactly what happened. It's all I've been hearing from people in that state. Also, he decided to campaign with the message "my opponent is a hypocrite because he's more pro-life than I am" message.
I think Newt would excite the conservative base much more than Rudy.
Why is it that people are looking for excuses?t
Until today I seldom heard Rush mention Newt. In fact, he mentions Chris Matthews much more ofen.
I suppose now some of the guilt-filled blue blood republicans will now accuse Rush of being a DNC hack. LOL!
So.. Republicans read that and stayed home... like i said.(Our
guys aren't very good at countering the propaganda)
yea... and all the moron independents would vote against him after the late night comics got done with him. (Whats a Newt?. Who the hell would name their kid Newt?) don't worry they have all sorts of um.
At least here in San Diego, we still have Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter who are both strong on the issue. Jim Sensenbrenner was reelected comfortably. I didn't see these guys suffer for it, quite the opposite. And I still think most people want enforcement.
I think the late night comics would prefer to have Rudy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8
Republicans still haven't figured out how to deal with the MSM and its continual attacks and distortions.
That said: I still can not believe that they turned our country over to rats. Unfreakinbelivable.
I think vote fraud might have played a part in the losses too. I understand in FL?- they found a bunch of votes where every other part of the ballot was counted, but the machine did not count the vote for senator.
Someone on the radio was asking how it was that people in Arizona voted for all measures on the ballot against illegals, but, then voted out the authors of the initiatives. Could this explain it? There's also the JD Hayworth race- they found hundreds of thousands of ballots that hadn't been counted.
But, I wonder if Republicans would have the cajones to look into vote fraud? I'm not sure they would. There is nothing more important than protecting the voting process, I mean, if the voter machines can be rigged- the pubbies will NEVER be elected again. That's it for our country.
This isn't the year to divide the Republican base either and I don't see them uniting around Rudy.
I agreem you sure wouldn't know it from listening to Fred and Mort or Geraldo and Dick Morris last night. These people need to get out in the real world and talk to the voters.
The 250000 ballots in Arizona are absentee votes. We have a lot of senior citizens who travel a lot of the year and vote absentee. I have hope they will end up electing JD and passing the marriage ammendment. We have three large universities in this state with liberal centers, one is in the heart of JD's district and you know they are voting more and more thanks to Howard Dean.
Dont get me wrong. I actually like Rudy and know he would be very very valuable somewhere within our federal government. Look how he cleaned up NYC.
I just fear he may have a problem with the conservative base.
What this guy fails to realize is that liberal Republicans lost; the election, in my opinion, was a normal six year election.
If the Republicans had held on to the Congress, this guy would NOT have been writing "Americans reject Democrats in all forms".
Republicans lost the normal number of seats. Let's pretend the governing party had ACTED like its base wanted them to act. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Then I see a different picture emerging! They probably would not have lost so many seats!
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