Posted on 11/08/2006 3:48:50 PM PST by MadIvan
NE pubs were all RINOS anyway.
Ford lost in Tennessee because he's a liar and a phony who couldn't fool enough of the people with his bogus "conservative" views adopted just for the election. Being part of the Ford Crime Family of Memphis didn't help either. As for the rest of the wins by these so-called "Blue Dog" Democrats, well, they just were able to fool more voters in their states. And they will all take their orders from the Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry bunch. You can freakin' bank on that.
I agree completely with your assessment.
One cannot be socially conservitive with the likes of Kennedy, Reid, Byrd and Pelosi running the show. They seem to only care about today. Tomorrow is going to be real tough on them -- and us.
The Demon-crat party will either selfdestruct or these noobs will be forced out to the fringes like sacraficial lambs.
I agree with you 100%!
The Democratic party should have been outlawed during Reconstruction and its place assumed by the Prohibition party!
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A D IS A D, AN' THAT'S THAT
LOL!!! Though it's hardly fair to criticize them for a social conservatism Blacks have always gotten away with (so long as they vote "right").
Just like Dracula's slaves. Bought & paid for, eternally damned unless they don't want to stay in Congress for more than 2 years. Anybody for term limits yet?
They used to called Klansmen...
Uhhh...my grandfather ran for Congress as a Democrat
At one time Al Gore and Moi Kerry were anti abortion and pro gun.
Look at Gore and Kerry to see what these blue dogs will be in a decade.
Regards, Ivan
I don't know.
I remember the Dixiecrats - they were dems, they were southern and they hated liberals. Most of them wound up as Republicans.
Do the Blue dogs, by any stretch, outnumber the Liberals?
They will give Pelosi everything she wants, and more.
Bush will definitely be impeached in the House now. No doubt about it.
Pelosi will use that issue to dominate the headlines so that the Blue Dogs don't have to make any hard choices.
And even if they do, there are enough pro-abort, pro-gay RINOs in our caucus to make up for Demo defections. Now that the Dems are controlling the agenda, and wear the rings that will need to be kissed, most RINOs will shed what little loyalty they had to the GOP and start voting like Pelosi.
Bush basically threw in the towel this afternoon. He might as well resign, take Cheney with him, and let a Democrat take the White House now. He will bear all of the blame and get none of the credit the next two years. Yet he will enact their agenda, so it will be a Republican who gives us the goofy liberal agenda.
And then, since the GOP will be angering the base even further, he is setting us back a generation.
Don't you guys realize that this is really gonna be tuff for the Dems. They rode to power on the Christian, pro2nd, prolife, etc., etc. candidates. We have seen this happen before. When Pelosi puts the arm on these people they will just switch parties. Pelosi and Schumer have a hell of a job in front of them. If they don't give their ground troops what they want (gun control, impeachment, income redistribution, etc., etc.) they run the risk of these folks forming and working with a third party to the left of the remaining Dems. If they lean on these new folks they will jump.
We, however, have been able to get rid of a couple of RINOs, not all but a couple. This is going to be very interesting.
The only Democrat that I can remember voting for the Republican speaker was Ralph Hall of TX and he finally became a Republican.
I still think we should offer Lieberman head of Armed Services and oust Warner and get Lieberman to caucus with us.
You better get ready for our Senator-for-Life Bobby Casey. The press will cover for this dolt no matter what he does. In fact, the Democrats will probably encourage him to stay at home and stay hidden and they will call him when it's time to silently cast a needed vote. He'll probably have a record that looks like Teddy Kennedy has two votes at the end of 6 yrs. The brain dead PA voters will never hear a thing about how he votes and he'll turn into another Byrd!
Ford did run as a conservative. Unfortunately for him, he had a decade of liberal votes to contradict his campaign.
Further irony: the Northeast was once upon a time the very heart of rock-ribbed conservative Republicanism (ie, Maine and Vermont).
I miss Parker Fennelley in those Pepp'ridge Fa'hm commercials!
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