Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Posted on 10/21/2006 7:11:58 AM PDT by kellynla
David Kuo, once an official of President Bush's faith-based initiative, published a book this month that attacks the White House for privately ridiculing evangelical Christians while cynically manipulating how they vote. The book arrived, cynically enough, just in time for the midterm election--an election Kuo says Christians should boycott. Meanwhile, the mainstream media, like sportswriters cheerleading for the home team, is predicting a landslide in the interest of promoting one. Their home team, of course, is the Democrats. As for Republican efforts to spur a big turnout on November 7, the press frowns on such cheap tactics. "GOP Aims to Scare Up Big Voter Turnout" was the headline on a Washington Post story last week.
If you suspect there are forces eager to suppress Republican turnout, you are right. Rarely has the press echoed Democratic themes as relentlessly as it has in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign. And the main theme is that Republicans are about to be blown away. The question now is whether this message will persuade Republican voters to stay home on Election Day. It shouldn't, so long as Republicans--and especially conservative Republicans--act like adults, not like petulant children angry over one thing or another that didn't go their way.
Yes, the Republican performance in the last two years has been disappointing. The Iraq war isn't going well. President Bush and the Republican Congress have spent too much of the taxpayer's money. They got nowhere on overhauling Social Security and only part of the way--beefed-up border security--on immigration reform.The list goes on. Still, the reasons given for staying home on Election Day are pathetically disconnected from the realities of politics and political power.
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Vote. Call your Republican friends and make sure they vote. Just think what a hoot it will be if we can show the Dems' pimp media that they don't call the tune anymore.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Every two years is "rarely"?
The wife and I will be voting Republican this year, but Republican performance has been more than "disappointing." It has been a disaster of the sort that makes you wonder if Republicans have forgotten what they stand for, or perhaps never believed it to begin with.
I am voting. I am volunteering to knock on doors the last 72 hours of get out the vote, calling on the phone and driving people to the polls. Do all you can but never ever surrender to these evil, evil people.
I don't know about anybody else but everytime I turn on the tv and see these idiots telling me how depressed I am and how I am not voting I get angry very angry. And that is some of my driving force. I hope it is for others.
It gets worse every 2 years. I first noticed how they didn't even try to balance back in 1996. Now, it's outright cheerleading.
The bookstores are pretty much all the same: liberal. Al Franken's latest is stacked to the ceiling, but you have to ask for Ann Coulter's.
Ever notice how people who work in bookstores all seem to have graduate degrees but kind find appropriate employment?
"Also it will be my last visit to Borders."
Hopefully, we can close the borders.
kind=can't
Ditto that. The MSM doesn't understand Christians or Republicans and I hope to rub their faces in that fact once again.
Yes, vote, and also *send money*.
I gave money to out-of-state senatorial campaigns this year -- a first for me -- and I gotta say, it felt good. I know the money I sent was needed, will be put to good use, and will have an effect. This contrasts with going to the voting booth which just makes me realize what a feeble act voting is. There you are, just another plebe standing in line to push the button. But sending money -- now that's doing something.
So if you want to feel like a truly "empowered" citizen (to borrow a term from the libs), don't just vote. Send money.
We all know that the GOP, as a whole, is now acting and voting further left than JFK did. The Democrat Party has gone over the brink and can't be saved. So . . . we can't vote Dem because they're nuts - leaving us with the other party which is heading the same way.
I honestly believe that if we continue to support those who are abandoning our principles, they will continue to do so. If the GOP continues to hold power because we continue to vote in their left-leaning candidates, it will only get worse. At least if JFK were around today, he could still find a spot in the GOP. You and I, and my children, won't have a party to vote for soon enough.
I would be writing in my own name on the ballot in a couple of weeks if not for one thing: the War on Terror. I am still confident that the GOP, as a whole, is willing to fight and win this war - the Dems act as if they are willing to join our enemies.
And yet we continue to support those who don't support us on most everything else . . . A sad day indeed.
Ohhh....nice idea. Kill 2 birds with one stone wearing "close the Borders" T-shirt!
TWO Constitutional believing Supreme Court Justices.................John Bolton to the UN...........Late Term Abortion Ban............House Republicans BLOCKED giving Amnesty..........
What is it you believe in?
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