Posted on 10/10/2006 7:59:52 AM PDT by Valin
"Okay, look. Now is the time for all good men-and women-to come to the aid of the party.
"In 1960, Barry Goldwater famously shouted, 'Grow Up Conservatives.' It took 20 years for that call to be heeded, and we got the expanded, entrenched Welfare State, a disastrous & humilitaing foreign policy in the meantime; and Ronald Reagan's presidency was about attempting to roll back those 20 years as much as moving forward on a positive agenda.
"Look, if you want John Paul Stevens replaced on the Supreme Court with a carbon copy, pro-choice, pro-racial preferences Justice, stay home.
"If you want Donald Rumsfeld hauled before Congress every week justifying the war rather than fighting it, stay home.
"If you want spending to increase even above the levels you are unhappy with now, stay home.
"If you want Henry Waxman holding hearings on every aspect of the administration's actions, stay home.
"If you want to see the war in Iraq defunded to the point of withdrawal so that the worst elements in Iraq take over and a repeat of the helicopters-fleeing-Saigon-type-images come back all over again, signaling a decade-long disrespect and doubt of American power, stay home.
"If you want to keep the border unsealed, stay home.
"The stakes are large, we can't afford twenty years, we can't afford two years of this. If you want a change in your Congressional leadership, fine, wait until you have the election, then demand it, with a new GOP speaker and majority leader if you want...but let me tell you, a new minority leader and a new minority whip will not get you much, it won't get you anything.
"Two years ago we sent a message by reelecting the President, have things fallen so hard since then that we can't muster those numbers again and see that the good should not be traded in for the bad? You want to rue a day? You will rue a day with John Conyers as head of the House Judiciary and Pat Leahy as head of the Senate Judiciary. Don't do it. Please don't do it."
they are always trying to get us to stay home. to tell us its a lost cause. screw 'em. show up happy!
As opposed to the Senate Judiciary led by Arlen Specter?
Specter has done a suitable job. Both Alito and Roberts are on the Supreme Court.
I plan on voting several times! :)
"Vote and the choice is yours; don't vote and the choice is theirs." That was an Ad Council PSA from 1972. I liked it then and I like it now.
Urge all your conservative friends to vote as well. We cannot sit this one out.
Forget the damned polls. Vote!
Phew. Feel better now.
How many conservative judges will get through a committee chaired by Sen. Leahy? None!
I have no plans to be goaded into staying home. Afterall, living in Georgia ( not Cynthia's district ) I have Reps and Senators to be proud of.
Why would I want to stay home? That's not how Conservatives view the world -- we don't 'take our ball and go home'. That's childish -- leave it to the Dimmocrats.
Gee.. I'd like to vote this year... but I'll be too busy trying to get my internet poker freedom back...
Tell that to "Night Hides Not" and his ilk.
Broken Glass Republicans unite!!
"As opposed to the Senate Judiciary led by Arlen Specter?"
I guess the same Republicans who gave conservatives the back of the hand on the immigration issue now want conservatives to vote them back in so they can get more abuse. Let them sweat.
well stated and I concur.
This is all a well-orchestrated attempt by the Rats and the willing parties within the media to suppress output, especially conservative evangelical output that helped the GOP in 2000 and 2004.
It is no coincidence that the "scandal" was sprung after Foley could not be replaced on the ballot and with a particular subject matter that would make evangelicals hold their noses in disgust.
We love voting against Democrats, it makes us happy, like striking a blow for freedom!
You are not teaching anyone a lesson by putting the DEMs in power right now!
Oh I disagree! If we stay home we are teaching the democrats and their willing allies in the MSM that we really are as dumb as they think we are.
My kid has a bumper sticker on his car. It has a photo of the World Trade Center on one side, and on the other the words read: "Vote as if your life depended on it."
OH I LIKE THAT!
I'm just PO'd that the Pubbie leadership has been so feckless. I have sufficient reasons to continue voting FOR Republicans, as opposed to voting against Democrats.
Can someone tell me where all these seats are going to be changing?
My ballot is almost the exact same as last time. Yes, I'll vote for my congressman, No for Difi, No for Arnold and a mixed bag on all our Props. I don't see any change in our election.
We know their is generally a less then 1% change in any election - where are all these open seats (+/- 30) by one poll.
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