Posted on 11/08/2006 9:02:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MSM. Day in and day out "IN KIND" campaign contributions to the Dem Party.
Just makes our job harder and future victories, sweeter.
It wasn't the arrogance. It was bipartisanship killed the beast.
A BIG portion of Freepers are no different than DUmmies. They live in such a bubble that they think everyone in the whole country thinks like they do. I hate to break it to ya...but there is a SIZABLE portion of people that hate the war. That is why J.D. lost in AZ...and that is why Chafee lost in RI (yeah...and now...cry me a river...the one bright spot in the whole night)...even though he voted against the war and he had a 62% approval rating...he had a R next to his name and R's are for the war.
That's a fact. FReepers and DUmmies...by and large...especially those of you with 10's of thousands of posts in just a few years...live in a conservative bubble in which you believe everyone MUST think as you do.
Get out and live in the real world...and you will know why the GOP (and Bush) got thumped.
We (Our Republican Incumbents) really have fallen down on the job. They spent money like Drunk DemonRat's, we've got illegal aliens flooding our country & some of them are killing us literally by the handfuls and they sit in their high & mighty office blaming the DemonRat's. Quite honestly they deserve it, but we the people will pay the price for their poor leadership and quite frankly Americans will not pull their head's out of the sand until a nuke blow's up in the U.S.
I don't buy Morris' explanations. "Immigration reform" - you're telling me the Republicans lost because they didn't give amnesty to the illegals? What a bunch of BS. Trying to spread the idea that the Foley non-issue was what cost the Republicans support. Ha.
Look, for 5-years the Press has been in all out attack mode on Republicans. They criticized and distorted everything from Iraq to the economy. The Dems and their friends in the media were allowed to frame virtually every issue almost uncontested. It got so bad some conservatives actually started thinking the Republicans deserve to lose without ever thinking about what that would mean to our national security.
The Republicans also made big mistakes by spending too much, failing to take immigration reform seriously, failing to educate people on the true dangers of the Jihadists, failing to be aggressive enough in Iraq to pacify the country, getting mixed up in scandals, and in general, kowtowing to the critics and doing everything half-way.
The good news is, people now get to see the Dems in action. If they blow it, and this country is seriously attacked, they will be done as a party for generations.
You're making a point I've been making for a while. If the Dems. want to spend the next 2 years investigation the White House, then I suggest we set the Justice Dept. lose on investigating if the MSM has violated campaign finance laws with illegal, in-kind contributions to the Democratic party in the form of endless positive news of Democrats and endless negative news of anything impacting Republicans.
Let's face it, the US news media in this election alone gave the Democrats $1 billion worth of P.R. and campaign soft money type coverage of news events that could portray nothing right about the economy nor Iraq. That barrage of negativity worked over time to help elect Democrats. This was a massive unreported in-kind contribution to the Democratic party that helped them to secure this win. That media study released last week shows 77% of stories about Republicans or Republican-related issues in this campaign were reported on negatively by the Clown Car Media while 88% for Dems. were positive.
Meanwhile, Dem. scandals with Mollohan, Jefferson and even Harry Reid were mostly ignored. Mollohan and Jefferson cruised to re-election last night.
They took Clinton for two terms, and he rivals Carter as the most destructive and corrupt Anti-American President in the last century, or the two before it.
If this is truly a replay of 1974, as some wise pundits are saying, start looking for the other signs of redux. Certainly the stabbing-in-the-back of the American Military is next, the abrogation of treaty obligations, and abandonment of the Iraqi people to slaughter is due to follow, just like the Democrat Congress did for Viet Nam.
You can throw in the rest of the Middle East, Taiwan and who-knows-where-else in the mix.
Then comes "Malaise", double digit inflation and interest rates, high unemployment, and the sense of hopelessness only Jimmy Carter could inspire.
We almost lost the Cold War because of this Democrat Wonderland of failure and collapse, and now we could be watching the very real loss in the WOT by the same party. We shall see.
Morris is spot on, up until he mentions Trent Lott. There's a reason people called him Vacant Lott.
There is no reason JD Hayworth should have lost if this election was about illegals...because that was his theme....but come January...he is out of a job.
Don't kid yourself...it's about more than just that. That was some of it...but that isn't all of it. OF course, the GOP didn't help matters by doing nothing about the issue...but there are a lot of other factors that caused the GOP to lose last night...not just that issue. IT was BUsh's disapproval rating (which BTW is comprised of a bunch of republicans who don't like the fact he isn't conservative enough)...Iraq...scandle...all sorts of issues.
The reason we lost is immigration. We ran away from the issue, but that is Bush's fault for being an open borders guy. I say we dump W bigtime except on the war in Iraq.
"Accurate"?
I agree with you 100%.
Had they done something -- anything -- about the border a couple of years ago, they might not be in the mess that they are in now. What was passed so far was way too little way too late. Better than nothing, I'll grant you, but not a lot of people will agree.
That's what ticks me off most about Bush. We are in a war. PR and constantly getting the word out every day as to WHY we are in this war is in itself part of the war. Bush failed on this count. It's not enough just to point the military some direction and say 'attack'. He knew (or his advisors knew) the MSM would distort things yet he didn't do much to counter it.
As much as I hate to type this, he is correct.
Why is it that everyone refuses to admit that it is illegal immigration?
AQ won't take over in Iraq no matter what. The US has been there long enough that the Kurds and Shiites have the decisive upper hand.
AQ can be as terroristic as they like, but the real victims from this point are going to be the Sunni, on which the rest will take their revenge against any AQ outrage. They are a minority, now lacking power and having no organizational or human resource advantages.
Given a free hand, the Iraqi government, whatever it will eventually be, will crush AQ, even if it means plenty of "ethnic cleansing".
What the US has done cannot now be undone, the change in that situation is permanent.
The real question is the nature of the Shiite government and the amount of Sunni blood that will be shed.
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