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Coming Unhinged (Matt Towery On How The Democrats Are Blowing Their Golden Opportunity Alert)
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| 11/03/05
| Matt Towery
Posted on 11/02/2005 11:53:42 PM PST by goldstategop
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The Democrats are blowing their golden opportunity in 2006. They could capitalize on Republican missteps and weaknesses but they're fumbling them by gratuitous assaults on the President's character and in refusing to back victory for our troops in Iraq. I don't agree with Towery that the GOP overplayed its hand in the Schiavo case but I do concur that like what the GOP leaders did to Clinton, the Democrats have acted in a way that have made a beleagured President more popular. They know they shouldn't press their advantage that hard but they're too unhinged to care about the political consequences. President Bush may yet emerge from his political winter while the Democrats look set to plunge into theirs. Such is the cyclical nature of American politics.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
To: goldstategop
Worse for the Democrats, they may now have to rethink how stridently they should oppose Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court.
There is a report that Turban Durbin said that he knows of not a single DeamonRAT who is talking about Filibustering Alito. Are they waiving the white flag?
To: goldstategop
Yes, a White House indictment and a withdrawn Supreme Court nominee have Republicans on the run. This guy is joking right?? on the run??
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:05:26 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
To: GeronL
What he means that, all things considered, the Democrats should just let the GOP commit hara-kiri on its own. You know - the old adage to the effect that when your enemy is busy destroying himself, don't interfere. But the Democrats can't restrain themselves and by ganging up on Bush, they're making him look sympathetic. Right now, they're the ones badly overreaching.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:10:25 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: indianrightwinger
There is a report that Turban Durbin said that he knows of not a single DeamonRAT who is talking about Filibustering Alito. Are they waiving the white flag? Heard that as well. But will have to wait/see. . .
Sensing a 'mistake'. . .perhaps Durbin is just making nice. . .laying the Dems low. . .until the smoke clears from the firey tantrum scene they perpetrated/orchestrated.
No reason for a Lib to tell the truth. . .
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:12:09 AM PST
by
cricket
To: GeronL
This guy is joking right?? on the run??.My thoughts as well. . .I am assuming that he forgot to add or just a LOL. . .
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:15:10 AM PST
by
cricket
To: GeronL; cricket
re comment: 'My thoughts as well. . .I am assuming that he forgot to add or just a LOL. . '.
hmmm. . .that was supposed to be. .'perhaps. . he forgot to add. . .a humor/off'; but I 'offed' it. . .
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:21:49 AM PST
by
cricket
To: goldstategop
He is right however in that the Dems are 'blowing it'. The truth is. ..that is all they can do.
Golden Opportunity. . .only if one can take advantage.
The Dems. . .morally empty .. .void of anything genuine; least of all safe prescriptions for America's future. . .cannot fill that opportunity. . .such as it may be.
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:31:22 AM PST
by
cricket
To: goldstategop
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:32:44 AM PST
by
AnimalLover
( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
To: cricket
Hurricane seasons over, they didn't get Rove, and they don't have the numbers to stop Alito. The economy's fine, the wars have been successful. So far, no one has bird flu except birds. No terrorist attacks, and now we know Michael Moore owns stock in Halliburton. Christmas is coming, which should bring another round of liberals throwing cheap shots at the Savior of the world.
Democrats shouldn't be left alone with sharp objects.
To: cricket
Keep in mind the perspective is different over there. When a tax increase does not match their projections it is a roll back that unfairly enriches the already wealthy. When a liberal darling program gets an increase short of their demands it is a dramatic end of life support for the pobrecitos. So when the conservatives pause to get a breather from their perspective it is a huge gain. Reality is they are not losing ground as fast as they were.
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posted on
11/03/2005 1:16:49 AM PST
by
carumba
To: Dan Lacey
They never make sense. Half the time you figure they say it only for effect. Other times, it borders on treason, which is disgusting.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We're Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
11/03/2005 1:34:22 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
"GOP woes started with the party's Schiavo strategy"
Bush's poll numbers have never recovered from the Shiavo disaster. It made the reps look like a bunch of religious bible thumpers.
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posted on
11/03/2005 2:28:31 AM PST
by
tkathy
(Do-nothings are not the ones who have saved oppressed people from tyranny.)
To: goldstategop
In football, you can't enjoy a comeback win without being down by 28 points first.
Go Bush!
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posted on
11/03/2005 3:43:42 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: tkathy
"GOP woes started with the party's Schiavo strategy" Bush's poll numbers have never recovered from the Shiavo disaster. It made the reps look like a bunch of religious bible thumpers. Ahh, yes. The GOP took a stand against a jerk who had his wife killed in a nursing home. How shameful!
By the way, your derogatory smear of Christians by the use of the term "bible thumper" shows more about you than you realize.
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posted on
11/03/2005 3:46:08 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: goldstategop
In a more sane world, politicians would be falling all over each other to claim support for what has occurred in Iraq.
Two thousand dead in exchange for twenty five million freed from a tyrant would historically be considered a justifiable use of American power, even aside from the fact that our willingness to stand and shed blood has erased the reason we were attacked to begin with, and thus made us safer here at home.
With the MSM stoking the anti-war fervor however, our world is functionally incoherent.
To: goldstategop
The public indeed knows generally that the WMD's were not found in Iraq as anticipated - but it needs to be constantly reminded that WMD's were very much there previously and were utilized on occasions.
And that it would have been suicidal not to act when we did.
And that we can be thankful that WMD's weren't there; because if they had been, they would have been used on the men and women in our armed forces.
The mind of much of the public has a retention span that has become unimpressive relative to the focus of people in the mid 20th century, i.e., the WWII era.
Its "news intake" is based on snips, and distortions, of two-dimensional reality on a TV screen comprising a few minutes between ads. The sheep analogy has overall become more applicable, not less.
Bloggers have admirably overcome this. But never underestimate the portion of the public who, numbly, day after day stare unceasingly and fixated at a flickering screen - brain waves at a minimum and receptive to whatever alarmist or inducing message of non-reality comes its way at a given moment.
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posted on
11/03/2005 4:40:18 AM PST
by
mtntop3
("He who must know before he believes will never come to full knowledge.")
To: wayoverontheright
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posted on
11/03/2005 4:41:47 AM PST
by
mtntop3
("He who must know before he believes will never come to full knowledge.")
To: cricket
>>>>>The Dems. . .morally empty .. .void of anything genuine;
That's pretty much it. With gas prices declining and Fitzmas fizzling, they are forced back into the situation where they have to produce some substance to move the meters. It's not there. They are hopefully screwed.
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posted on
11/03/2005 5:13:39 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(Because change is not something you talk into existence.)
To: wayoverontheright
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