Posted on 11/11/2006 12:00:19 AM PST by FairOpinion
The typical American watches CNN or one of the alphabet networks for their news. These sources blatantly unmasked their bias this past election cycle.
No matter what program you went to....Olberman, Matthews, Leno, Letterman, Stewart, Dobbs, Maher...
No matter what concert you attended...Dixie Chicks, Barbra Streisand, Rolling Stones, U-2,...no matter what entertainment interview, it was anti-Bush 24/7 354 days a year.
Bottom line...if Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were alive today, they'd be jailed for inciting violence.
I feel very badly for my children for the United States we baby boomers are leaving to them.
Didn't hurt the Dem candidate if he or she got the NRA endorsement, too.
Thanks...this is the kind of data I'm looking for. I hope it has something other than percentages. As a statistician I am inherently averse to percentages without raw data.
well with nancy and harry they will be begging for a bush agenda now, hmmmmm
"But Republicans and conservatives who didn't bother voting are directly responsible for the current Dem Congress."
It is too easy to simply blame the voters when the Republican leadership deserves a great deal of the blame. Yes, I did vote for a straight GOP ticket. Although I did not agree, I understand why a significant number of conservatives abandoned the GOP. Those voters will be back if the GOP gets its act together, in the meantime blaming them simply turns the focus away from the real problem.
"The first order of responsibility lies with the Republican congress and the President who squandered the opportunity to lead, and not act like democrats lite. The voters did their duty to put them in office for that purpose in the first place. So while I think it was a serious mistake for the voters to do what they did, they are not the primary cause."
Thank you for focusing the blame where it ought to be if the problem is to be fixed. Blaming disgruntled conservatives is NOT going to bring them back on board. We simply can not afford to have the GOP think that they have a divine right to our vote.
I went out and bought a new box of popcorn! I'm ready... let the show begin! ;-)
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I think I know why, MSM and WEAK Republican response, even from their own supporters.
Sorry, but blaming voters is ridiculous. It's like blaming no-show fans for a football team's bad performance. The GOP earned this loss, big time, and there was absolutely no indication given that the GOP would have changed their ways had they maintanied control. I voted straight "R" (except for one "L" - I couldn't vote for the horribly corrupt Jeanine Pirro), but I did not do so happily. The GOP has a lot of fence-mending to do, but sadly, the only "R" I've heard admit this is John McCain - hardly encouraging.
turnout, not that many people voted.
So, you think the leftist Dem Congress is an improvement over the Republicans?
"We simply can not afford to have the GOP think that they have a divine right to our vote."
But the Dems do?! Is your way of curing the flu to go out and get life threatening pneumonia?
Wrong. The Republican party as a whole abandoned conservatism and conservatives. They want conservatives back, it's time to start behaving like a conservative party.
Of course not, but that isn't the point. The point is, why didn't Republican voters turn out this time? You aren't going to get these people to come out the next time if you keep flinging mud their way. They've held up their end of the bargain since '94, but the people they've been sending to Congress haven't. In a sense, this outcome was inevitable.
Stop blaming the voters for the failures of the Republican party.
You keep telling yourself that. LOL.
I thought you said you heard an "R" say this.
And, the only way to do that is figure what the Republicans did wrong. What turned off voters, including many conservatives off, is what needs to be corrected.
Why don't you take your own advice and stop whining that principled conservatives wouldn't hold their nose and vote for a party that abandoned them and start demanding the Republicans get their act together.
I hope it was from Boy Scouts Of America......
Those who eat popcorn would do us a great service by buying BSA
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