Posted on 01/09/2007 9:49:04 AM PST by SmithL
It's admittedly going to suck.
But it's better than having two democrat parties, which is exactly what was happening when the Republicans were convinced their base was going to vote for them no matter what they did. Feeling totally secure on the right, they swung left so that they could pickup some votes their too. And do you think they ever in the indefinite future would have felt compelled to swing back to the right for as long as they kept winning?
It sucks we had to hit the reset button, but there was absolutely no way conservativism was going to ever exist again in American government. It might still be lost, but at least next November it has a shot.
That's what we're going to get, alright.
What I don't get is why some freepers spend nearly all their time tearing down Republican candidates and the GOP in general. I think they're faux conservatives who come to sites like this to stir dissent. There's no other explanation.
Exactly.
If the GOP wanted these judges to be confirmed they should have approved them in December.
Furthermore, the Dems are doing exactly what I would expect the Republicans to do if they controlled the Senate and a Democrat was President.
First keep in mind that this was not "my breakdown" as you say. This was an analysis of actual voter turn out done by TownHall. For you to dismiss it because it does not fit your personal analyses is to be ignoring facts. When you see that the conservative vote dropped 2% while the liberal vote increased 4%, that is a very large difference in these very close races and most definitely outside the margin of error.
Second, I am not blaming Conservatives. I am blaming ignorant, short term, selfish voters (and non-voters). Protest voting has ALWAYS had incredibly bad unintentional consequences and has never resulted (as far as I know) in those protest voters getting what they wanted in the next election or two.
let me guess, you didn't vote. Well you get what you deserve. Richly. You think the republicans "raped" you, well you better just lay down and enjoy the democrat gang bang. What BS.
I was just checking my e-mails and found this in my inbox from a friend in the lower 48. Here it is:
WHY I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER !!!
The Democrats now promise "A New Direction For America"
Well............................
The stock market is at a new all-time high and America 's 401K's are back.
A new direction from there means, what?
Unemployment is at 25 year lows.
A new direction from there means, what?
Oil prices are plummeting.
A new direction from there means, what?
Taxes are at 20 year lows.
A new direction from there means, what?
Federal tax revenues are at all-time highs.
A new direction from there means, what?
The Federal deficit is down almost 50%, just as predicted over last year.
A new direction from there means. what?
Home valuations are up 200% over the past 3.5 years.
A new direction from there means, what?
Inflation is in check, hovering at 20 year lows.
A new direction from there means, what?
Not a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/01.
A new direction from there means, what?
Osama bin Laden is living under a rock in a dark cave, having not surfaced
in years, if he's alive at all, while 95% of Al Queda's top dogs are either dead
or in custody, cooperating with US Intel.
A new direction from there means, what?
Several major terrorist attacks already thwarted by US and British Intel,
including the recent planned attack involving 10 Jumbo Jets being exploded in mid-air over major US cities in order to celebrate the anniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks.
A new direction from there means, what?
Just as President Bush foretold us on a number of occasions, Iraq was to be made "ground zero" for the war on terrorism -- and just as President Bush said they would, terrorist cells from all over the region are arriving from the
shadows of their hiding places and flooding into Iraq in order to get their faces blown off by US Marines rather than boarding planes and heading to the United States to wage war on us here.
A new direction from there means, what?
Now let me see, do I have this right? I can expect:
The economy to go South
Illegals to go North
Taxes to go Up
Employment to go Down
Terrorism to come In
Tax breaks to go Out
Social Security to go Away
Health Care to go the same way gas prices have gone
But what the heck!
I can gain comfort by knowing that Nancy P, Hillary C, John K, Edward K, Howard D, Harry R and Obama have worked hard to create a comprehensive National Security Plan, Health Care Plan, Immigration Reform Plan, Gay Rights Plan, Same Sex Marriage Plan, Abortion On Demand Plan, Tolerance of Everyone and Everything Plan, How to Return all Troops to the U.S. in The Next Six Months Plan, A Get Tough Plan, adapted from the French Plan by the same name and a How Everyone Can Become as Wealthy as We Are Plan.
I forgot the No More Katrina Storm Plan.
Now I know why I feel good after the elections. I am going to be able to sleep so much better at nights knowing these dedicated politicians are thinking of me and my welfare.
One other possible explanation: Long term trolls
Hey guys! Much of what Pubbies did smelled! Dennis Hasturd was weak from the gitgo and I never liked him as a leader. Frist is a fine dr. and perhaps a good man, but he was a weak Senate leader. McCain was busy being McCain, and George Bush has blinders when it comes to Mexico and illegals.
STILL.......we got a handful of conservative judges and a growing economy (which the media never admitted) What in H@#l are we going to get now? Forget
ANY conservative judge ever again with the crew up there, and you had better believe the courts have been the main movers of the lib agenda.
In spite of the Repub weak showing, I voted for every one I could and tried to get people to see that you CANNOT VOTE for a seemingly good, upstanding
person if he/she is Dem. EVERY Dem just strengthens the base that supports Hill, Teddy, obama, Leahy, Feingold, Waters, Waxman, Reid, Pelosi---and the list goes on.
IMHO, this republic is falling off the left side of the world, and instead of tying a knot and hanging on, getting out the matches and giving hot feet and setting fire to the pants of incumbent Repubs, conservatives along with so called moderates gave away the store, lock and key, including their all day suckers, pouted, and stomped home. Hope my grandkids still have a home when they are my age (71), should they even live that long.
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All these what would Reagan do folks make me laugh. We know what Reagan did!
When they start acting like Republicans again?
Are you EVER going to look at what is good for this country, not just yourself?
I consider what is good for the country all the time. I don't consider rampant wasteful spending as good for the country. I don't consider blatant corruption as good for the country. I don't consider failure to control our borders as good for the country.
It is what it is; you need to learn to deal with it instead of tilting at windmills.
Ah, so I should just accept that the GOP is now the other party of big government.
Unless you just like to "tilt."
I prefer to win elections. Reagan won in 1980 by being conservative. The GOP won in 1994 by being conservative.
The GOP lost in 2006 because they drifted so far away from core conservative values that they no longer offered a clear choice to swing voters between the GOP and Democrats.
And for that, I am attacked by the likes of you - you fail to debate a single point that I have raised, points backed up by exit polling data and the election results, both this election and past ones.
All you do is yell "GOP BASHING" - which apparently is all your side has left. Unfortunately for your side, it's just noise now, echoing around the empty shell of what the GOP has become.
Time to put some substance back into the party if we want to win in 2008.
Dang Peach...what a great list.
I KNEW Bush wasn't always "vacationing". :)
The "new tone" is back I guess. Other than the WOT, I've given up on Bush. He's lost his spine since the 2004 election. He and his White House staff (Rove) have been lost since then and haven't put up a fight on much of anything or they chose to pick the wrong fights with their base( Immigration, the Ports, etc.)
And oh yes, he raised the retirement age for millions of Americans. And if I am not mistaken, also raised the amount of salary taxed for SS.
Pray that McCain doesn't win.
BTW, I did vote in this last election. Held my nose and voted for DeWine, gladly for Blackwell and Schmidt.
McCain, though, is as liberal as they come. He's Joe Liebermann in Republican clothing.
I agree.
Hate to break it to you, but the country was already turned over to liberals.
Conservatives don't drastically expand the government.
WOrse, I don't care about these specific names. Certainly these weren't the only 4 qualified conservatives. Bush should have pulled their names months ago, and sent up another 4, and then another 4, and made the democrats block HUNDREDS of people, and let the democrats try to argue that EVERY CONSERVATIVE JUDGE in the system was unfit for duty.
Bush made it about individuals, not about the philosophy, and it made it easy for the democrats who could say "it's just these few extremists".
Bush didn't even SEND UP NOMINEES for a lot of posts. What was he doing all that time? Waiting for the first set to be processed. He should have sent up a nominee for EVERY position, and then rotated them as well.
"What is particularly galling is to hear the so called Reagan conservatives demanding all or nothing from the President."
Yes, I've decided that the main difference between the "lesson teachers" and those who voted for the best available is never mind the glass being half empty or full, the LTs insist on a full glass or else so now we'll be lucky to even get a glass at all.
Another thing I still hear from the LTs in their litany of complaints is the pubs let us down on "immigration". Now, while I don't expect the msm to point this out, Rush and others repeatedly explained that it was the pubs in the house who kept us from getting a very bad immigration bill last session.
House pubs stood against Bush to do this and look at how they were rewarded.
It seems to me that if you are that uninformed about a major issue like immigration, you have no business teaching anyone a "lesson".
Thanks, LTs, now we have dims in charge of immigration, security, raising taxes, installing "moderate" judges. Is it just me or did GWB and pubs in congress do a pretty good job on the last 3?
It's not as if they weren't given fair warning. They were warned not to attempt to outdo the Marxists at their own game. They were warned not to make themselves indistinguishable from the opposition. For years.
It's their responsibility to represent us, not ours to vote for them.
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