Posted on 08/10/2006 9:48:23 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Many Democrats may hate the war in Iraq and itch to dump the president, but a new GOP survey shows that Republican base voters stand ready to jam the November polls to return their team to Congress. A three-page-survey memo obtained by Washington Whispers reveals that despite reports of some dissatisfaction with the economy, the war, and President Bush, 81 percent of Republican voters are "almost certain" to vote and an additional 14 percent say they are "very likely." It goes without saying that they'll vote Republican: By a margin of 84 percent to 6 percent, they will pull the GOP toggle switch in the voting booth. And here is something you don't hear very often: 88 percent of Republicans approve of how the prez is handling his job. What's it all mean? Analysts say that GOP voters are ready to dig in and play defense against the charges Democrats are tossing at Republican candidates.
The memo also helps to define what issues work for Republican candidates. The survey--officially tilted "Base Mobilization Survey Finds and Conclusions"--divided the issues into foreign and domestic. On the foreign side, it's all terrorism and war with polling that finds GOP voters back the war, worry about Democratic attacks on the fight against terrorism, and think the Patriot Act, moves to tighten the border, and even telephone surveillance are good things. And their favorite domestic issues aren't a surprise: They are pro-tax cuts, big on cultural values, and worried that Democrats want to put too much bureaucracy in healthcare. Another nonshocker: They don't like the media's war stories, thinking that they are too negative. Some 60 percent of the GOP base expresses "extremely high dissatisfaction" with the coverage of the war.
I sure hope you don't mean "show" them by letting democrats win!
Then "almost every Republican" you "know personally" has abandoned this nation in one of her most dire times of peril. They've probably done so for -- comparatively speaking -- petty reasons. What matters now is courage of a very special kind. Apparently you and your buds don't have it.
One simple explanation, the democrat party as a whole is moving further and further to the left, more and more in control of the moonbat wing. IF a "leftist", as you call it, Republican is the candidate it's clothespin time, but I'll still pull that R lever.
Thanks. I asked Kinkos to make a bumper sticker out of it, and I've had it on my car since 2004.
It is amazing to watch hippies read it in my rear view mirror.
I wish I had a web cam pointing out my back bumper, lol, funny stuff.
I'm not a single issue voter, and there are Republicans I would vote for. But for the most part, Rs are wrong and/or weak on many fronts, not just immigration. Let the RINOs learn there's no place for them in the party, even if we lose congress. We'll get it back when the party learns that conservatism is the only path to power.
We're NOT turning it over to you and your ilk every again, so get use to it.
Go form your own party if you don't like this one; oh, you already tried that, didn't you? How'd that work out for you One Percenters?
If "consevatives" aren`t on the same page as Republicans, who should get our vote?
What matters now above all else is not unrealistic perfection on all issues across the board, but a cold, very realistic understanding of what the Leftist/Dems will do if they gain power in these perilous times.
Republicans in this state are notorious weaklings, so you can bet I don't speak for them. Sadly, there aren't many conservatives either, but I know you're already aware of that.
Well, if they're fleeing, they're obviously not "hard core Republicans." Probably never were. Hard core Republicans do not cut and run.
The leftist slant of the mag hasn't changed since I read it in college over thirty-five years ago during the Vietnam War era. Rolling Stone was anti-war back then, too. Unfortunately they're a powerful influence on young minds who don't know any better.
the left confusses disatisfaction with abandonment.
Conservatives reflect, we believe in self evaluation.
This means we can expect more from a politician and understand how reality in politics work.
The left eats their own.
Can't you keep up with your OWN posts?
Did you or did you not just say this:
No, I live in the red-blooded, conservative, traditional values Southern heartland, and assuming you're a Yankee, y'all can't win without us.
Make up your mind; is the North Carolina rock hard conservative or not?
You are taking the very words from moveon.org and pasting in "Republican" and "RINOs" where they speak of "Democrats".
Not very original at all.
You are indeed certifiably insane if you actually believe handing the nation over to the liberals when we are in the fight of our lives, will somehow accrue strength to the Republicans and help us in the WOT.
You are either on drugs or a DU tinfoil hat type.
If only we had the contract today. Instead we have insistence from Republicans and their faces in the media that small-government conservatism is dead (see Fred Barnes new book.) If that's the case, you boys can have at it, I'm out, along with about 1/2 the base. I won't be scared into voting for big-government, weak on foreign policy Republicans just because they're doing everything they can to scare the base into believing that the alternative is so much worse than they are.
y'all can't win without us.
Yes, we can; we've done it before and we'll do it again.
We're sick to death of being BLACKMAILED by you people and your votes.
Leave the GOP, please.
All he needs to do now is blame the Joooos for all the world's woes, and we'll know how much of a Patsie he is! (Either that, or he's Mel Gibson)
Well, you REAL conservatives can just go start your own party. Oh, wait, that's already been done, hasn't it? How'd that work out?
Speak for yourself.
Are you saying only UNcompassionate people can be conservatives?
Now I KNOW you're a troll. Only a demonrat would make an outlandish statement like that.
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