if a pelosi run house doesn't motivate you to vote, i don't know what will.
Amazing. Democrats say the same thing ever election cycle and still the Junk Media treats them as credible.
Conservatives to Davis - if the Republican party is no better on spending and regulation than the Dems, why would I want to vote for Republicans or Dems ?
Okay, so what took the GOP so long to get their act together? Are they waking up from a deep coma? The base thought they were brain dead. Let's pray that it's not too late.
Graham is the Col. Klink of politics. If he says to cut the black wire, I'm cutting the white one.
“Club for Growth clearly could care less about the Republican Party,” Davis said.
It is not supposed to, the Club for Growth is dedicated to a set of principles not a political party.
Here's your political wind:
CH4
Someone is just upset that Conservatives are winning Republican primaries (mostly for open seats) thanks to the Club for Growth.
All the GOP has to do to win smartly, is to START ACTING AND PERFORMING LIKE CONSERVATIVES AGAIN instead of acting like ThugoRat liberals. If they don't they could be in real trouble in 2008.
the HOUSE has actually done an excellent job this term on issues important to us. The Senate gets an 'F', while the White House is somewhere in between. Immigration, taxes, etc, etc, the House has been pretty money.
I agree that Goober IS in trouble. Other than that, what the he!! does Goober know?
“Club for Growth clearly could care less about the Republican Party,” Davis said.
This Davis must be a real dunce. What does he think TCFG is?
Both sides can spew this kind of propaganda all they want.
What's on the agenda for November is a trashing of all or most incumbents, regardless of party.
However, the GOP is in especially deep doo-doo because they are the ones in power with a President who wants to give the country away to illegal invaders. I believe this will be how most voters see it.
Wait, what I am getting from all these stories is that it is possible that the Republicans could lose the election. It is also possible the democrats could lose the election. Nothing ground breaking there.
Ahh, but now for the real ground breaker. What is for certain is that the democrats are not going to win the election by default just because they say they have already won the election. There will be a campaign, based on the issues. The voters will all want to know, what are the parties positions on the issues? If I were the democrats, I would worry about that rather than the mood of my opponents.
It comes down simply to the fact that the Democrats have no single major issue they can hammer, because all the major issues the Democrats have, their positions on those issues are the OPPOSITE of MOST Americans.
1: The war. They want to run and fight in the courts. Given how Muslims are in France, and Indonesia, and India, and Israel, there's no reason to think leaving Iraq will help the war.
2: Border control and Immigration. They want to do NOTHING because illegals are a voting block for them. Most Americans want REAL border control and immigration reform.
3: Roll back Bush tax cuts. Raise them on the "richest" Americans. It would be a tax increase across the board like always. Anyone ever get a job from a poor man? The economy is booming and the deficit is being paid half down a year earlier because of those supposed "tax cuts for the rich".
4: Judges. Democrats want activist judges like Stevens and Ginsburg, most Americans want conservative Constructionist Judges like Scalia and Thomas, so the Democrats can't talk about Judges, and when they do, all they talk about is that Pro-Life Judges aren't qualified. Most Americans don't want any of that either. The Democrats also can't tough on this, because they know that because of the horrible rulings out of liberal courts, removing all Christian reference from public view, denying free speech for Christians, taking land from people without legal basis, denying the States the right to execute murderers who the people of those States see fit to execute, etc, and they know that most Americans are sick of that, and know that it's liberal Judges that have done these things so the Democrats can't run on Judges
5: Economy. Every so often libs like Pelosi and Reiche will say how bad the economy is. But with 4.6% unemployment, six figure job increases ever month, GDP and new home sales higher every time the new numbers come out, the Stock Market always near the pre-9-11 range or higher, and the deficit now being paid down by half a year earlier than expected, there's no evidence of anything less than a strong economy.
6: Gas prices. They talk about it, but won't debate it, because most Americans know that the price of gas would be FAR lower if we drilled in ANWAR, did shoal oil, which is economical above $40 per barrel, drilled off shore, built more oil refineries, and quit forcing oil companies to make over 100 different blends of unleaded and diesel gas. And Democrats are the ones who oppose ALL of that. Ignoring the fact that we don't control OPEC and THEY set the price for most of the gas we buy, not the oil companies, which make a profit of a nickel per gallon. Compared to State and Federal taxes of 40 to 50 cents per gallon.
7: Gay Marriage. 80% or more of Americans are against gay marriage, and only 15% of gays themselves want gay marriage. MOST gays just want to be left alone. So Democrats can't fight that as an issue either. Illustrated by the 15+ States that have passed gay marriage bans, some in blue states, and only two have failed, and five more are pending that will likely all pass.
8: Partial Birth Abortion. Democrats want it but they won't run on it because most Americans, 95% or more are against it. So they never talk about that.
9: Embryonic stem cell research. There is a mountain of scientific proof that embryonic stem cells show NO promise to cure anything, and haven't cured anything, though adult and umbilical stem cells DO cure things, and have been proven to be effected in trials, but Democrats only want to talk about embryonic stem cells because that props up their defense of abortion. That's the only reason any libs care about stem cell research is to defend the notion that embryos are just tissue and not human life.
10: Global Warming. And the Democrats clearly don't think Global Warming is a winner or they'd be hammering it already as an election issue. With the failure of algore's movie, and other GW failures, they know most Americans just aren't biting on Global Warming scare mongering.
So there you go. The ten most major issues and the Democrats are solidly on the losing side of all these issues and so that leaves them very little but shadows and card tricks to run on. How anyone ever expected that the Democrats were going to win in November is beyond me. NO party has ever won an election when they have no major issues on their side compared to the American people. All the Democrats have is, Iraq is Vietnam and we have to get out (with no evidence to support it), the economy is bad (even though American voters see the opposite with their own eyes), and raising taxes (despite all the visible benefits that any half intelligent voter can see). They flat can't run on anything else in any competitive districts or States. And that's not even pointing out how much the "Republican culture of corruption" has bitten the Democrats in the butt considering that many times more Democrats have been proven to be corrupt and guilty of crimes, and the DeLay fiasco has only resulted in one indictment which has no chance of becoming a conviction. Oh, and they hate Bush. And that helped them oh so much in 2004, and he isn't on the ballot now. Democrats will not win either House of the Congress, and they won't gain seats either. I'd bet a kidney on it. If James Carville mouths off this time like a couple years ago, he'll have to slam a whole chicken on the top of his head.
Any gains made by the Dems this fall with be the result of the GOP losing rather than the Democrats winning. Not a viable long term stratergy when you have to depend upon your opponents to mess up for you to do well.
Given the issues that their base is interested in - and the angry fanaticism that they bring to those issues - I don't see an easy way out of this for them.
On November 7 every Republican voter should send a personal thankyou card to Congressman Murtha.