Posted on 09/01/2010 6:55:21 PM PDT by pissant
There has been a lot of political talk that 2010 might resemble 1994, or the reverse of 2006-2008, or maybe 1982, when unemployment was over 10 percent for 10 months and Ronald Reagan lost 26 House seats.
In the summer and fall of 1980, I was in Idaho, helping manage Frank Churchs re-election bid, and we had been watching the tsunami building all year long. We ran the toughest campaign possible, lost by just 4,000 votes, but knew there was a large group of endangered species out there as we called ourselves: Church, McGovern, Culver, Bayh, Nelson, Stewart, Magnuson, et al. The shock wasnt that individual Democrats were in danger but just how many there were and that the Senate could actually switch to a Republican majority. Democrats lost 12 seats that year and there were 18 new senators in January of 1981.
The record for new senators after an election is 20. Right now, with Lisa Murkowskis loss, that number is already going to be at least 15, with three incumbents defeated and another dozen retiring.
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No...Barry will never give an inch like Clinton did. I don’t think there’s anything that could Save Barry.
Obama has the veto pen. So we arnt going to get any conservative policy.
If Obama does what Clinton did in 1994 and moves to the middle, the GOP will start compromising with him and he’ll win re-election in 2012.
Crushed like Carter...that has a certain ring to it. Bet it would make a great t-shirt design after the election!
Forcing Hussein to veto is definitely the way to go. We all know that his programs will be an albatross around the country’s neck, so if we keep badgering him with bills to repeal them, he’ll either have to keep vetoing and denying reality, angering those of us who don’t live in the land of fanciful unicorns and endless money, or flip-flop and admit that he was wrong. Lose-lose.
Yep, and a Big Monkey could fly out of my Big Butt...
The GOP also needs to be smarter about picking their battles and controlling their message. They let Clinton and the media get control of the conversation and Clinton used them to look stronger as a President. That cannot be allowed to happen again.
No, the legislation forced on America by Obama and the Democrats will be like the dead fish the author mentioned, and the stink will only be WORSE by 2012.
There’s nonsense, and then there’s nonsense. This is egregious nonsense of the latter variety.
I see a Kenyan win in 2012 as inevitible unless the Imam gets a serious from the Clintons in the primaries.If The One is unopposed then the Democrats will flood the Republican primaries and join with the RNC to foist Romney on the Republicans as the nominee. Soetoro will beat Romney handily. Romney is this season’s Gerry John McDole.
Here's a difference....for some reason, the HOR and US Senate seemed to really like Bill Clinton. I get the feeling that they don't really like Obama. I mean we're hearing less and less of about what a nice guy Obama is or how intelligent he is.
Besides that, fingers crossed that McCain really on some level would rather help bring Obama's policies down than stick to issues like the porous border that got him defeated in the presidential election.
We have to hope. It's probably the last chance the US has to regain our greatness.
My mindset has been that conservatism is in a “point of no return” status, since just after the November ‘06 election. Leftists will, still, be in power in a variety of places outside of Congress, no matter what happens on November 2, and judicial activism, political correctness, the “dumbing down” of the general public, political bias in the MSM/entertainment world, political indoctrination in government controlled schools throughout the world, political cheating,...will all be ongoing things that leftists do, in the remainder of ‘10 and beyond.
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