Posted on 10/29/2006 5:30:00 AM PST by kellynla
Colorado's 5th Congressional District is the home of James Dobson's conservative Focus on the Family and the Air Force Academy. It has been Republican since its inception in 1972. In 2004, George Bush won 66 percent of the vote there.
This year, however, the race for its open House seat is tied at 37 percent. Twenty-six percent are what the pollsters call "undecided," but many of them might just be evangelicals so disgusted with the worldly ruin self-described "Christians" have made of the Republican Party that they have opted out of politics altogether.
Two thousand miles to the east, Hamilton County, N.Y., a redoubt of deep-dyed rural Republicanism, has started sprouting Democratic lawn signs next to the American flags that went up Sept. 11, 2001, and never came down.
Be prepared: On Nov. 7, a political sea change may wash over the U.S. Twelve years ago, when Newt Gingrich's Republican revolutionaries captured control of Congress, they brought a new culture to Washington. The new Republicans played the political game more cutthroat than the polite old Georgetown establishment had ever seen. I once overheard lobbyists the next table over at a Chinese restaurant bowing their heads and saying grace before tucking into their kung pao chicken and parceling out a political hit job.
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Nancy Pelosi thinks she can keep house.
I suspect that in the end, the only house she'll keep is the Big House.
Another DemonRat hit piece from the slimy Rat Chicago Tribune,trying to keep the GOP from voting.
Hurry Nov. 8th I am sick of this shit, it won't be over then if the RATS lose.
Yes, but there was a plan accompanying the 1994 election. What kind of plan are the Democrats offering for 2006 on?
I know a lot of people don't want to hear this, but some Republicans I know think the loss of House might be the best thing that could happen to the US for '08.
Can you imagine Pelosi and her very, very, liberal minions running anything? Yeah, she'd create havoc with the War and the economy but it might insure a conservative nominee and president in '08.
The GOP seems out of fuel. Instead of abolishing the executive washroom, in '95, they merely changed the lock on the door.
It will be a tough two years, but in the end, we might be better for it.
This is what I don't believe. I don't think that Christians are quitters. They will hold their nose and vote GOP just to keep the gains they have made, and then they will go back to the grassroots and start vetting candidates again. I know that is what I will do. I will look much closer at the state candidates and continue to try to change the face of politics by voting for "clean" candidates. It may not help, but as a Christian, I will always have hope.
Ignoring that plan may cost them the House 12 years later.
Unfortunately, I think 08 is lost in any event. Our leaders are McCain and Romney.
I don't see either of those guys getting a majority.
While I certainly don't want to lose the House or the Senate, I believe the Rats winning either does work against them in 2008 (and specifically against her unholiness, Hellary). If the Rats have one or both houses, they can't blame the Republicans for anything except possibly obstruction. They also won't have as much to pretend to be angry over. More importantly, they'd certainly revert to their socialist roots and the base (along with middle America) would turn out big time in '08 to counter that.
Again, let's hope this is all speculation.
Perhaps W can locate that lost VETO stamp, missing these past six years.
Impeach George W. Bush and un-do everything he has accomplished.
"What kind of plan are the Democrats offering for 2006 on?"
Investigations
Impeachment
Higher Taxes
Cutting funding for the war(Viet Nam redux)
Well, with such warped judgment, we may not deserve another election, but I agree that the chances are better than 50/50 that there will be at least one more election. That was true also when the Romans decided to empower the First Triumvirate, but it turned out to be wrong then, in any meaningful sense.
Before folks are so cavalier about throwing away effective control of the Senate, the last times the GOP had a majority larger than the current 55 seats were for 2 two year periods in the 1920's; the last time we had a majority of that size or greater for a full presidential term, the president was William Howard Taft, and that was 94 years ago. I don't know about you, but I do not expect to be able to be very effective politically when I am over 150 years old.
Meantime 5 Supreme Court Justices will turn 70 or older in the next 2 years, and I expect that you will enjoy 5 more Ruth Bader Ginsbergs on the Court as much as I will. Are you really THAT sure that there will continue to be free elections after that.
By the way, are you aware that the Court, in the next few years, will be getting the chance to decide on legalizing polygamous marriages and the practices of both bestiality and necrophilia. Not to mention a total outlawing of public affirmations of Christianity and of our current economic system.
If the Dems win more than 20 seats this year (and I have them in the high 20s-low 30s), they'll have the same problem - amplified by the fact that Pelosi will be for us what Mr. Newt was for them, in spades.
Let's hope so. W needs to stop trying to be nice to the Rats.
As Ann Coulter once put it "No good has ever come from the phrase 'my good friend Ted Kennedy'".
And the basis for your assumption that it would only be for 2 years is ... ??? Before 1994 the Republicans were in the wilderness for over 40 years.
And in the meantime, we'd get a bill for illegal alien amnesty, another budget or two to unfund Iraq, we'd be giving freebies to NK and Iran as "bribes" to stop their nuclear enrichment (that won't work) and Bush impeachment hearings 24/7.
You think that's a good idea ? You're nuts. Go vote Republican on the 7th, then in the next primaries get some conservative Republicans in there. That's the way it needs to be done.
"Can you imagine Pelosi and her very, very, liberal minions running anything? Yeah, she'd create and the economy but it might insure a conservative nominee and president in '08."
"havoc with the War?"
havoc? havoc? HELL!
The 'Rats will do the same thing they did in 1974 by refusing to fund the war and thousands of dead Marines & Soldiers' sacrifices will be mired in another lost war! AGAIN!
Another war that was not lost on the battefield but at home!
No KJO, losing an election is not worth losing another war!
If I had wings, I "could" fly
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