Posted on 01/08/2007 8:42:14 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The last election told us many things. One thing that stands out above all others is that the number of people who actually understand what is going on in our country today is frighteningly small.
A small group who “get it”
Just half of Americans are registered to vote, so right off, we know that half of America doesn’t care what happens to itself or the rest of us. They live in a different world. You know who they are so it is not necessary to expand on this point.
Of those who are registered, on a good Election Day, sixty percent vote. That means that only thirty percent of Americans are heard, and even a large percentage of them are ill informed or willfully blinding themselves, even as they cast their ballots.
Of this thirty percent, about fifty percent vote Democrat and by doing so show us they do not understand that the Democrats are a party bent on surrendering our security to our terrorist enemies. To be sure not all who vote Democrat want this result, most of the others vote Democrat because they want socialism, gay marriage and dumbed down schools and/or open borders.
That leaves only fifteen percent, or about 1 in 7, of Americans who understand that we are the only hope our nation has.
This bares repeating: Only about 1 in 7 Americans seems to understand the true murderous intentions of our enemies and/or the destructive nature of socialism.
Nevertheless, in the last election, a certain percentage of America’s 1 in 7 voters, people who should know better, voted in a way that showed they were willing put their own demands for single issue purity over the safety of America. This is the reality of what these voters have brought about by their foolish demands that politicians suddenly toe their line totally or be thrown under a bus along with our nation.
The ill informed nitwits that vote Democrat in a knee jerk fashion, the socialists who, though born here, hate America – they are what they are. They must be fought at the ballot box every two years. They are almost like evil little children who will be what they will be, but the, “ I’m staying home because I’m so much more conservative than you, so much smarter than you..” 1 in 7 voters must be held to a higher standard. These voters can not claim ignorance. They willfully handed the reigns of power and responsibility for America’s safety over to the Democrats. There were just enough of these willfully “blind” “single issue purity” voters to hand the Democrats 16 of their 36 victories; this figure being derived from the fact that for the want of just 63,000 more votes spread across these races, America would not now be in the danger she is in.
These people should have known better. They took their own narrow agendas with them on Election Day. They played “make believe” with America’s future and safety. The bought into the Democrat controlled media’s lies that we can’t win the war, the economy is tanking, and open borders would somehow be less threatening if only the Democrats controlled both Houses.
Now these 1 in 7 voters are trying to explain what they did by wringing their hands and complaining about not wanting to “vote for the lesser of two evils.” Apparently it does not occur to this group that the choices we have are really just the choices we have. They don’t understand that failing to vote for the “lesser of two evils” guarantees that you will get the greater of two evils.
These people fancy themselves as so much smarter and so much more conservative than the rest of the 1 in 7. They are nothing more than “conservative” useful idiots.
They, and unfortunately us, now have to live with the disastrous consequences of their self delusions that they would somehow get from a Democrat Congress what they couldn't get from a Republican congress, but that would be the only difference. We will all now have to deal with Democrats who will be as disappointing on some issues, but terrifying on other issues, lots of other issues.
These are a series of headlines. This piece is not written to anyone who needs to have them explained. It is written to the “conservative” useful idiots among us who have joined the fools and socialists to “teach” someone a lesson. Here’s the first week’s “lessons”.
January 1, 2007 to January 8, 2007:
"Dems Prepare Slew of Oversight Hearings"
"Democrats push for Alaska drilling ban"
"Pelosi, Reid Oppose Iraq Troop Surge (Letter Sent To Bush!)"
"New Muslim congressman avoids loyalty questions"
"Socialism on the move: Edwards pushes Universal Healthcare"
"SEARCH ON FOR TOUGH NEW WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL; expected avalanche of congressional committee investigations..."
"Pelosi's new image as Italian Catholic mom -- more than a 'San Francisco liberal'"
"'IMPEACH!' is message at Nancy Pelosi beach (San Fransicko Alert)"
"What Americans MUST Know About the Incoming Senate Intelligence Chairman"
"(Mother") Sheehan Right to Demand Democrats Act on Iraq (Susan Estrich Barf Alert!)"
"House rules change clears way for tax increases"
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Please keep posting the FACTS! I am so sick of the mythographized, unrecognizable Reagan, that so many posters here write about.
When you run and perform as a conservative you will win as happened in georgia.We gained seats as opposed to lost seats.I think one of the major reasons for this occuring was the influx of conservative voters,formerly of the northeast,that now call Georgia home.For that we are very grateful. Ya'll come! Leave the rinos up north.
Like I said, I don't pay any attention to media pundits. As far as Reagan and deficits and immigration go: (1)Reagan would have had lower deficits if he had not had a Congress run by the Democrats, and his veto pen was rarely dry (unlike Bush), (2)Reagan went along with Democrats on a much smaller amnesty (2.5 million) with insistence on greater border enforcement and harsh measures against employers who hired illegals to end the "magnet" that such employers made (his word for them). Given his attitude about enforcement he would have been the first to declare those enforcement provisions as having failed, and failed primarily due to simple failure of the executive to execute them, and he would have supported their enforcement and not to let them languish. Yet even as much as he supported immigration in principle he would have called the potential immigration levels coming out of the current Senate bill (100 million new immigrants over the next twenty years) as more than simply excessive and clearly beyond the nations ability to assimilate in a reasonable time.
I don't always agree with Hannity. Yet you seem to demand of Hannity an all or nothing position on Reagan, but only for those policies of his you favored (like immigration) while YOU are free to criticize Reagan on an appointment like O'Connor. At least Hannity is honest in praising Reagan for those attributes Hannity appreciated about Reagan, but able to have his own view on a position like immigration, and still remain an admirer of Reagan. Unlike you, he seems to not demand a Reagan "mantra" or nothing.
"So you were banned.....I can understand why......"
Never happened.
If you are truly concerned as you let on about the plight of politics and power, how does lambasting conservatives and their principles serve to further your agenda?
Failure to answer that last question or a truthful asnwer may give you away, so be careful.
It is very intelligent if the whole idea is to separate them from the GOP. Think about it, and the number of these types of articles (complete with name calling)that keeping on being posted on FR.
Agreed. If you run, win, and perform as a conservative, chances are you will win again. This will happen if your core demographic of orginal constituents, stick aroud for your next election. So many different possibilities happen, including redistricting. You could have a solid conservative to moderate district one day and the next day you've been gerrymandered, so a HUGE CHUNK of low income welfare housing has been added to your district while the conservative chunk is deleted out...Do you really think you are going to have the identical campaign that you ran on last time? In your heart you are indeed a conservative, but you'll either lose BIG on a explicit conservative platform(which I know many here feel is OK) or you lose small on a moderate platform preferring to stick to fiscal issues...not social ones this time around.
Yep, Hannity describes himself as a Reagan conservative. He can't really come up with a long list of accomplishments he can identify with though.
You're just telling me what the Democrats might do. I already know that Republicans have given us the greatest growth of government since FDR.
You're not going to scare me with Democrat boogeyman stories when I've just seen what the Republican boogeymen can do.
I was never a regular listener of his but now I rarely listen to him...I always was embarrassed for him though when he would say he was a Reagan conservative. Anybody familiar with the Reagan record and how conservatives like Richard Viguerie treated him, would likely see more similarities with Bush than differences.
Small surprise around here anymore.
Yep.
It must be her/his charm.
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