Posted on 11/10/2006 9:59:25 PM PST by Vinny
Wishing the world was different is not the same thing as advocating real-world policies to deal with real-world problems.
I’ll leave it to others to provide the technical play-by-play of the 2006 midterm elections and explain the whys and wherefores of the Democrat takeover of both Houses of Congress. Suffice to say that the Republican Party shares a large part of the blame for squandering their opportunity to lead these last 12 years, contenting themselves with pandering for votes with pork barrel legislation of their own instead of pushing through real institutional change as the Contract with America promised.
Of course, the Dems helped by holding back the election night tally in key congressional districts (Kansas City and St. Louis are two that come to mind) until they knew how many extra votes their candidates needed to win, but this was to be expected. Corruption is corruption only when a Republican candidate is involved. You can have sex with a 17-year-old intern and be a hero of the gay rights movement if you’re a Democrat, but you are a homosexual pervert if a Republican sends dirty text messages to an adult male former intern while never actually having sex with him. Just like you must go to jail if you are a Republican congressman who takes bribes, but you win re-election if you are a Democrat congressman who takes bribes and uses the National Guard to help retrieve $90,000 in ill-gotten loot from your hurricane ravaged refrigerator.
But we knew all this going into the election, so it’s not fair to pull a Casablanca moment and suddenly “discover” it on November 8. Life isn’t fair, and we all know that the mainstream media is in the tank for the Dems, so we play the cards we’re dealt with
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By the way, your post is pretty wise, clergyman.
Demthink -- if this doesn't hit all the bases, it hits most of them!
Therefore, anyone concluding the Republicans lost because they didn't move to the center is dead wrong.
I'm sure that we have more RINO's to get rid of.
You got the last post BACKWARDS
Republicans are mostly Pro-Choice.
Conservatives are very small in number, they can't even start their own party.
Until,Conservatives outnumber Republicans," Please Shut Up"
Don't ever tell someone to shut up on this forum.
Conservatives' home is the Republican party, and Conservatives left home because they lived in a crackhouse.
That, and the commercials threatening that "the terrorists are going to get us" after they've spent the past 5 years refusing to do anything substantial to secure the borders.
My Congressman, Jack Kingston, is arguably one of the more conservative (at least he talks a good game when he's interviewed on Fox News) but I was outraged not long after the Abramoff thing broke to hear Jack on local news saying that since he couldn't get a pet project into the budget, he'd just "earmark" it. He went to Washington promising fiscal responsibility.
This is the first time since 1994 I haven't voted for Jack, and I might have voted for him if I thought the race was going to be close, but it wasn't and I wanted to send a message that he needed to change his ways and get back to what he was first elected to do. Not sure it's going to happen, though, because IIRC the Contract with America guys promised they weren't going to make a career out of their service to our country.
It's important to keep going over this - we don't want it to happen again and we want our people to wake up and straighten out.
This should be a very interesting election cycle in the next two years.
Democrats, at least the left wing moon bat lunatic fringe, will focus on impeachment, warrant less wire tapping, 9/11 conspiracy theories, capitualing to Al Queda, covering up THEIR corruption while investigating GOP corruption, basically paying back the GOP for the last 12 years of real and made up supposedly sins.
Just how will the democrats GOVERN is going to be a serious problem for them and the country as moonbat liberals chase after the evil BFEE, Bush, Cheney, Haliburton and the vast fascist apparatus that runs the shadowy government that made their life a living hell of stolen elections powerless to fashion their world in their own image.
Hopefully, the remaining adult democrats left in the Congress will stand strong against the insane moonbat left and keep the interests of the country above the fray and work to protect us.
I doubt it.
If you want to play your infantile games check on the scores of times I've mentioned his name spelled correctly. And, yes, it's a typo - but I suppose you've never made one and I envy your wonderful infallibility.
It's my opinion that people who do not proofread their work show little respect for their well-intentioned words and also show little respect for the readers of their words.
You were making some good points. You should have checked and you know it. Do you proofread a resume? Proofreading is your friend.
REAGEN ..... LOL
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