Posted on 11/14/2006 5:42:25 PM PST by Reagan Man
She can't be series (or cereal).
"Let's just move onward now, and prepare for '08 and beyond"
Lets move forward withour Boehor and Blunt.
HE does a good job for conservatism.
Interlopers from the left and RINO Trojan Horses...
Takes a mighty big toe truck.
LOL
From 2002 to 2006, the GOP LOST 8% of the white male vote, from 60% to 52%. The same factors that led to this loss of the white male vote also most likely played a role in the loss of 4-5% of the white female vote. Combined, this shifted more than 5% of the vote nationally to the Democrats.
Makes sense to me. It's a shame that Specter won at Santorums expense.
His reelection came up at a time when the PA. electorate was angry about a pay grab by a greedy, over sized, elitist state legislature. An anti incumbent mood was fostered by a lot of the talk radio stations.
Rick let himself be portrayed as an elitist hypocrite.
He moved his family to Virginia, even though he criticized his first opponent, Doug Walgren, for doing the same thing. (Skip the lecture, I know he was a Congressman)
Even though Santorum lived in Virginia, he cyber-schooled his children in Penn Hills at a cost of some $200,000 and tried to justify it by saying he paid property taxes on a small 2 bedroom house that he owned and his niece lived in.
While decrying the high cost of health insurance because of out of control tort suites, he and his wife sued her doctor for malpractice and pain and suffering.
Then he went and committed the ultimate sin of claiming to be Mr. Conservative and pro life while supporting Arlen Spector's reelection and cutting the throat of a good conservative like Toomey.
I could go on, but I think you should be able to see what sunk Rick Santorum.
By the way. I voted for Santorum anyways, because I can't ever vote for a lying socialist crat like Casey.
Not to mention that Santorum kicked a lot of conservatives in the gut with his support of Specter. People said they wouldn't forget, and they didn't.
The GOP got killed by the RINOvirus!
Ditto.
This campaign was the icing on a very rotten cake that goes all the way back to GW's campaign against Gore... and before that to Dole ... and before that to the disgusting cave-in by GHWB in 92.
The economy has been brilliant, taxes are low, inflation is down. No the reason for this particular loss was sloppy inarticulate campaigning. THe money spent was astronomical, but it was spent without direction. The MSM anti-war hoopla should have been easy to deflect. Most people agree with Republican values.
No doubt about it, IMHO, we lost because of bad leadership and poor communication. Most frustrating. direction and tone deafness from the top down. The RNC needs to be flushed out, we need tough, no-nonsense communicators ... and a leader.
EX-democrats... You can remove the democrat from the party but its hard to remove the democrat from the democrat.. They still want to find and tend victims with other people's money..
Just saw this post. Very well stated.
I joined in the FReep of Santorum in NYC, when he was supporting Specter for the Chairmanship. I'm a prolife New Yorker, and Santorum was my Senatorial hero. But when he supported Specter, and gave answers that smacked of political expediency, with such an attitude of superiority, I said to myself, "That boy needs a smackdown." A lot of Pennsylvanians felt likewise.
Well, he got his smackdown, and I am very happy about it. The people finally got heard when they spoke.
That was the conservative message of '06: hear us or we'll smack you down.
IMHO....W had his own "read my lips" moment when he nominated Harriet Meirs for the Court. I realized at that moment he was "all hat and no cattle"....that in the end he really just did'nt "get it" about conservatism.
He said, "We're losing a lot of good people out there."
He was referring to Mexicans dying in the desert, while trying to illegally enter the US. (I'm sorry that there are such deaths, but they are taking this risk upon themselves.)
All I could say to myself was, "'WE!' WHO THE HELL ARE 'WE'??????"
Oh, I'd say about 60+ years of the nonstop communist propoganda networks, had a good bit to do with it.
Ever since Adolf was outta the piciture, in '40 something, the 5th branch has been pushing the communist agenda, nonstop.
The last 7 years have been extrordinary in they have been exposed. IE SeeBS's forged fraudulent federal documents, and AceholeBC's admitted election reporting bias. NYT prints classified docs, and Pinchys still lookin for more intell to give away.
Time to declare war on the ENEMEDIA!
ABC CBS NBC CNN its all the SAME, Propaganda.
Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Psychological Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels. *"aka the
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