Posted on 05/07/2006 5:17:38 AM PDT by johnny7
There is growing evidence that Republicans will face a voter turnout problem in the November midterm elections.
The GOP faces not only enormous misgivings among voters about the war in Iraq -- which amounts to 70 or 80 percent of President Bush's problems -- but also a combination of Social Security, mounting budget deficits, Hurricane Katrina, Harriet Miers, port security, immigration, gasoline prices and various scandals. History tells us that when one party is either complacent or disillusioned -- and the other party is highly motivated, agitated or angry -- the results can be devastating to the former while providing boundless opportunities for the latter.
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I respectfully suggest (as you are probably yourself well aware) to the author that the opposing party must also have an affirmative policy program they advance to replace the complacent and perhaps corrupt one pursued by the party in power.
I can see Democrats being angry, but I don't see an affirmative policy. And I am not so asleep as to think that if I don't like Republicans I can sanely register a protest by simply not voting. Until the Democrats purge the insane ones in their midst I will not vote for a one of them, no matter how appealing personally or individually. I hope others take the same tack.
I just think of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House & that gets my adrenalin pumping to go out and vote in November!
Good point.
This recurring theme is becoming boring.
I don't think conservatives who are disillusioned with the republican party (and I have been all along) realize how left wing, corrupt and incompetent the democrat party has become. Do NOT trust your family to the left wing, they get people killed.
We must make the GOP see that our elected officials are causing their demise by siding with the socialists.
Mccain/Specter/Kennedy, what an unholy alliance they have formed!!
I won't stay home but I will vote conservative. What that means for the GOP is up to them.
Dream on.
I'll vote too.
I just refuse to donate until they actually do something principled that's worthy of further support.
We're going to vote.
When all they have going for them is that they don't have the label Democrat next to their name that's pretty bad. Hard to get excited to vote under those circumstances...
There is no doubt it is being pumped up by the Left-leaning corrupt Old Media.
I have always voted and will again in this election. I will also vote for Repulicans at the national level and most state races. However, while I am committed to voting and understand the consequences of a Democratic takeover of the Huuse and Senate that in not the case with many of my neighbors who have been supportive of Republican candidates and the President. They just do not see a reason to vote for either party candidate. They say the Democrats will vote the way of their special interests and the Repubicans will vote the way of their special interest. They do not believe either party cares about their interests on immigration, budget deficits, growth of federal power, curbing the judiciary, etc etc. I really believe that some of them will just not vote this cycle and that will be devastating to control of the House. I believe it is time our respresentatives listen to us or risk losing support.
Same here.
The only thing 'unholy' you got coming... is if you stay home in November. You'll get 'unholy' then... shoved right up to your kidneys.
The key here is not only NOT voting for democrats, it's going out and voting for republicans.
Has Bush p***ed me off now and then? You bet! But I'll die and rot in Hell before I act in any way that lets a "scum"-ocrat get in office!
"I won't stay home but I will vote conservative. What that means for the GOP is up to them."
With all due respect, please explain to me why splitting the Republican Party vote, thereby electing Democrats, is good for the country, and by extension, good for you.
Work to change the party from within, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Unless you can point out what I'm missing, I'll hold my nose and vote Republican.
Pelosi as Speaker? Rangel chairing Ways and Means?
Much, much, scarier - and more dangerous - than electing soft Republicans.
Spend my money like democrats. Fail to secure my borders. Don't even try to further conservative ideas like limiting abortion. Kiss the backsides of any petro country?
Yeah, I'm excited about supporting a bunch of RINOs.
What ever happened to Reagan Conservatives? Smaller govt is better govt.
There's some mighty twisted thinking these days. This attitude that people should be obedient to the party tells me that some folks need to take some civics classes. If they want to behave like the politburo, they will go the way of the politburo.
There's an election every two years.
Rewarding the GOP for their liberal ways is not really the answer.
Booting them out of office for a term may just be that answer.
Scare tactics don't work with me.
oh that your words were true, we would win each and every election.
All they(the rats) need is the drive-by news media organs blasting out gop bad, rats good each and every day of the week and many will be swayed.
We need to analyze what is really going on in many elections. It's not picking the best candidate but the candidate who is best promoted.
It may be the only way to get their attention.
"Uh-oh: Republican voters might just stay home in November"
rat wishful thinking. The main reason Bush and the Republican's numbers are low are the problems they have made for themselves with some of the party's positions. These are serious problems to be sure, but they come from love of country, not love of party as drives the rat. When given a choice between turning the country over to people who are lusting for power and keeping it in the hands of people who want what's best for America, even if they are wrong in many ways, real Americans will not have a problem making the right choice. They will hold their noses and vote GOP.
I still don't think that this is as much a threat as Dim voters who actually show up at polls. I mean, remember in 2k when the rats in PBC couldn't punch holes properly? The entire country was flooded with new words like "Chads" which was short for "Too damn stupid to punch a proper hole". At least the conservatives who do show up could manage that feat.
No that's not what I am saying at all, the fault will lie with Washington if they don't stop pandering to the right.
I am not advocating staying home at all I am saying it's up to the politicians to stop acting like the left.
You can ring the death nell for the Republican Party if they pass an amnesty and refuse to reinforce the southern border with an Israeli style fence.
No one is all that upset about the WOT, events in Iraq, all issues take a back seat to the globalist push to kill our nation state and sovereignty.
Americans are smarter than politicians give them credit for, we are fully aware of their agenda. Not showing up at the polls is the last thing politicians have to worry about, that ansentee protest is merely the quiet before the storm.
the press is putting it out there to see what they catch.
This attitude that people should be obedient to the party tells me that some folks need to take some civics classes.
You have to realize that there are certain people on the so-called right wing who really want a civil war. So they will vote for the democrats in the hopes of getting one.
These people are even more dangerous then the democrats.
Common sense wouldn't either.
I agree with you. It's pretty bad to have to vote for the lesser evil. Seems the Republicans won't do what we ask of them most of the time and the dems just want to undo everything we have managed to get done.
"It is clear that these issues have taken a toll. RT Strategies, headed by Thom Riehle, a veteran Democrat pollster, and Lance Tarrance, one of the pioneering pollsters on the Republican side, found that when respondents were asked which party they would like to see in control of Congress after these elections, Democrats had an advantage of 11 points among all adults, 48-37 percent; 12 points among registered voters, 49-37 percent; and 17 points among the most likely voters, 53-36 percent.
In the other variation of what has come to be known as the generic congressional ballot test, when people were asked whether they planned on voting for the Democrat candidate for Congress or the Republican, Democrats led by 12 points among adults, 44-32 percent; by 13 points among registered voters, 45-32 percent; and by a whopping 18 points among those most likely to vote, 50-32 percent."
I know the Repubs are in trouble, there's no doubt about that, but I don't believe a word of this crap. Charlie Cook, a democrat, wants us to believe the Repubs perform worse with registered voters, likely voters and most likely to vote? Garbage. Sounds like a Zogby poll to me.
Whatever you say comrade.
As republicans, we're supposed to feel good that it is the GOP that is screwing us.
So let's just stay home and let the Islamist take over.
I respectfully disagree.
The GOP faces misgivings about illegal immigration, terrorism within our borders from porous borders, and gas prices.
The vast majority of the GOP is behind President Bush on the war in Iraq, but don't try to tell the MSM that. They don't want to hear it.
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