Posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Travis Childers, elected U.S. House, District 1, Mississippi. [Note: This is an AP bulletin - nothing follows]
“When an agenda is being pursued, that agenda’s aims trump mere elections. - and this is why it has trumped Conservatives by nominating a McCain; a party maverick to be the new standard bearer for the GOP!”
As far as that I’d just say natural cause and effect. Had Bush been wildly popular Romney would’ve been nominated.
“It wasn’t until Iraq turn into a total snake pit, $4 gasoline, increased unemployment, the beginning of a recession, sub-prime mortgage-crises, out-of-control spending,”
And EVERY SINGLE ONE of these issues has been brought us by DEMOCRAT POLICIES...
Bush averted the recission that was already coming BEFORE 9/11
Last two years, the democrats. Perception - Bush and the Republicans. Perception is reality unless it is changed with good communications and clear plans. That hasn’t happening. “You suck” doesn’t get us anywhere.
You are hightlight precisely the problem. You win by voting for a winner not writing in.
The Democrat was probably an anti-Iraq war conservative/moderate like Webb. That will trump a pro-Iraq war/big government Republican every time.
It started when he misread a 51% victory over a horrible democrat candidate as a mandate. No president has had a mandate since MAYBE Reagan, and even he had to deal with a democrat congress.
It accellerated when there was no Plan B or any communication and plans from Bush - or anyone else for that matter. I don't blame this strictly on Bush - and in fact blame it more on the congressional leadership for not picking up the slack. Followers aren't respected outside of the beltway.
You’re welcome. I still view McCain as a logical conclusion. Had we nominated Romney or Huckabee we’d be down double digits at this point. Thankfully McCain is keeping it close nationally and in key swing states. I’m still hopeful because we’ve yet to hit Obama over a single piece of his far left voting past.
I think you are right...moderate McCain has a chance to beat B.H. Obama. (Only a chance...maybe not even a good chance...but a chance).
Sadly, Huckabee, Romney, F. Thompson, Brownback, or whoever would be blown out by Obama.
That is how toxic the Republican brand label has become. Bush has ran the party into the ground, worst than Clinton did to the Democrats in 1994.
McCain (who is on the ballot) = Don Quixote. A rose by any other name.
McCain (who is on the ballot) = Don Quixote. A rose by any other name.
I find that difficult to believe considering Boston has over 130 liberal Colleges and Universities, but I’ll take your word for it because most of your neighbors likely work for the Government in one form or another.
“Baltimore is only a typically Democratic run (trashed by liberals) city.
We have the Queers destroying our State Constitution in the name of Civil Rights of all things!
I have children, I will never stop fighting the insanity.
Our people always run the minute they see Democrat fire. You saw how that worked when a Democrat president got nailed with something. They made us into the bad guys. They don't fight fair. It's politics. We are dealing with absolute sociopaths on the other side and our people either don't believe in our fight or don't have the guts to fight.
Doesn't matter. Either way, we lose.
I expect all true conservatives will show up at their local republican headquarters on Nov 5, after McNutt’s defeat, and demand that the state GOP’s clean out the the DC republicans, lot, stock, and barrel. I will be there. My local republicans as well as state hdq know that this must be done and but we are locked in until the Nov defeat.
The approval rating of congress is lower than Bush's.
True but worse yet when he decided to spend his “political capital” on something he did virtually no campaigning on in 2004 - private accounts for health.
I agree that a standard conservative would fail however, The best way to trump the Democrats this year is not be running a grumpy erratic “maverick” but an anti-Iraq War/pro-small government conservative like Ron Paul. McCain is doomed.
Exempt for out of control spending (which is Bush, Frist, Hastert’s fault as much as the Democrats), I agree with you....however, most voters do not see it that way.
Most of my neighbors are dyed in the wool 10th generation Democrats or welfare queens. Go far enough and you’ll run into the latte-sipping uber-liberal Bostonian types in midtown.
I don’t want an anti-Iraq I want to win Iraq. But now. Enough. This war should’ve been over in ‘05. We shouldn’t still be fighting in Afghanistan either. Nevermind that Bush has spent us into near oblivion. Sorry, it’s not my night...
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