Posted on 05/23/2007 7:50:57 AM PDT by rface
Their thinking: Let the Democrats win in 2008. Let them inherit the huge debt, the war and all the problems of eight years of George W. Bush. Let the conservatives, they reason, take this opportunity to rebuild and, by 2012, come roaring back to the White House. If Mr. Goldwater's defeat set conservatives back two decades, think about the Democrats in 2008 and their two talented front-runners, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Can you imagine a worse time for the first female president or the first black president - succeeding a man who entered the Oval Office with surpluses as far as the eye could see and leaves it treading water?.....
Why are so many Democrats feeling uneasy about the 2008 elections? Every indication is they're going to win big. Republicans in Congress are sure doing their part to keep Democratic hopes high. Hardly a day passes without the GOP leadership blocking some initiative people desperately want - such as ending the hated Iraq war or refusing to allow the government to negotiate lower drug prices.
Quietly, a group of conservative Republicans who have begun meeting believe that a loss in 2008 might be the best thing that could happen to their movement. They certainly aren't happy with any of the front-runners. To accept any of them would mean a huge compromise - and moreover, these Republicans believe, that compromise candidate would still probably lose the election.
Meanwhile, what's bugging Democrats is the inconvenient truth that the next president will inherit a federal government resembling the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
This is just push propaganda for those with weak minds.
It is pure orwell.
Defeat is victory.
Big Broghter loves you...
This certainly explains the utterly looney bunch of claptrap in this article.
Bald faced lie. There never was any surplus. Never. All accounting smoke and mirrors, with a liberal (pun intended) dose of media hype from the Clinton sycophants.
Well, given that the author is obviously a victim of Bush Derangement Syndrome and an extreme leftist, his speculation on the GOP strategy along with his assessment of the current state of affairs only amounts to a liberal wet dream induced by wild delusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kamber
... a Republican labor union activist?
Now there’s a rare bird.
The dems are terrified of holding all three branches of gvt without having forced a withdrawal in Iraq before 2008. The surrender would then be firmly on their shoulders.
Yeah inheriting the strongest economy in the last 20 yrs is really tough hmmm
Bingo!
Oh, yes, political heavyweights, both of them. Lots of qualifications, lots of political experience, lots of "talent." Hillary's only qualification is that she is married to the worst president in history, and Barack's only accomplishment is that he belongs to a qualified victim group and is entitled to the fast track.
Ugh. The only thing that could get hillary elected is if the Republicans self-destruct, which I'm afraid is not entirely unlikely.
Go, Fred.
Not that I've heard.
I do hope the Republicans warn the illegal immigrants (registered to vote by the left wing Soros groups) about the penalties of getting caught voting in our countries elections.
The left registered millions of illegals over the past few years, and they're voting (they're being called for jury duty as registered voters and admitting they vote but are not citizens).
Millions of left wing votes are invalid. Without voter ID, the illegals (dead/nonexistent people and animals) can continue to vote until something is done to save our electoral system.
Vic Kamber has been a liberal Republican, pro-union, activist and consultant for at least 25 years. Not so much these days, but he got a fair amount of “talking head” TV time throughout the 1980’s. He used to do a lot of guesting on the original “Crossfire” with Buchanan and Braden.
Pre-emptive surrender. Can this nation stand any more “turnover” elections of this scope?
As a nation, we are sure to be either stomped in the mud, or end up fracturing into a series of balkanized states, if we are to depend on the Democraticans to be the stewards of the “shining city on the hill”.
Aztlán is sure to become a reality if this border security thing is left up to the Democraticans. And the events of 9-11 will pale in comparison to the obliteration of much of the rest of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, plus probably a dozen or more other major metropolitan centers, if the Democraticans are in charge of national defense.
Argentina and Brazil will seem to be towers of economic soundness and prudence compared to the fiscal and commercial collapse of this nation as rampant taxation and government control once again become the normal way of doing business in this country.
And you thought it might only be Social Security that collapsed.
This reporter must have had someone transcribe his braille typing into this stupid piece of fantasy.
If THIS guy is a RAT consultant...let’s hope he does lots of work for the RATS! What pure childish bilge.
Camber has always reminded me of a union/mob thug.
I remember during the Florida election battle in 2000 that whoever won might wish he hadn’t - the economy was tanking and the Israeli situation was heating up again. And 9/11 hadn’t even happened. (After 9/11, someone went back to the 2000 presidental debates and found that terrorism was hardly mentioned at all, was not perceived as a big threat at the time.) So maybe there is something to be gained by losing at the right time.
The Republicans always find a reason to want to lose.
It’s amazing they’ve lasted this long.
Bingo
The Democrats are feeling uneasy, because the public is fed up with Congress in general. The Republicans took the brunt of that ire in the last election because they were the majority party. They supposedly had the power to do something productive.
So they put a bunch more Democrats in office and the public approval ratings for Congress went up a little bit for a little while.
However, the Democrats only consistent policy has been to oppose Bush. Now that they are in power in Congress, they are doing even worse than the Republicans. Congress' approval ratings have dropped even below Bush's low approval ratings.
The Democrats got into power because the public rejected what the Republicans were doing as a majority party. Now they are showing possibly an even greater level of rejection toward the Democrats.
I suspect that there are a number of incumbent politician who had though they had their offices locked in for life that are now feeling nervous.
America is not happy with their representatives in general, and it is pretty much a tossup at this point as to which party they might choose to reject more in the next election.
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