Once again, Common Tator brings some sanity to Free Republic. Be Seeing You,
Chris
Posted on 04/17/2002 10:49:59 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Democrats are stepping up attacks on President Bush in the belief that growing criticism from his conservative base over his handling of the conflict in the Middle East and his domestic policies has begun to weaken him politically.
"The Republicans have been calling any legitimate policy difference unpatriotic, and you can't do that when the incoming artillery is coming from your right flank, and that includes the Middle East," said Erik Smith, chief spokesman for House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
He was on Hannity for a full hour yesterday and pretty much spilled his guts !
The problem is always getting enough of the middle to win. The Democrats would like to drive Bush into going for the right. That would cost him the center and let the Democrats keep control of the Senate this fall.
The name of the game is control of the senate. To get control of the senate you have to get more than half of the middle. That means to have effective control of the senate the Repubilcans have to get a good hunk of those that are left of center.
If all you get is your base and half of the center, all your support is on the right side of the 50 yard line. That also means a tie. A tie is stalemate. Seventy years of leftist laws and court rulings can't be undone with stalemate.
With Daschle where he is now nothing can be accomplished. If we fight him directly now, we will accomplish what fights always do. They divide the voters down the middle. In that scenerio Daschle has the senate for two more years.
To control the supreme court for the next 20 years BUSH MUST GET THE SENATE. If he does not the DEMOCRATS get their agenda ruled by judges Democrats want to rule on the Constitution.
Why is it so hard to see. To keep the Democrats from prevailing we have to win the senate. To keep the Democrats from forcing a Warren court times ten BUSH MUST Win the senate. To win the Senate he must get people who are left of center to vote Republican.
Democrats always understand what must be done to control the agenda and the court. They know the majority of the public is not with them. The right never figures out that the center is not with the left or the right.
The left never for a moment forgets they can't win without the center. The right rarely sees that truth. They ususally try to punish any politician smart enought to know that the only way to victory is to get people that disagree with you to vote for you. Then user their mandate to enact your agenda.
It ain't nice. It ain't sweet. It is the way the rules work in this representative republic.
Where?? I haven't seen any! The only attacks I've seen came from one place - democrats/liberals.
And ... they only wish he was slipping.
Once again, Common Tator brings some sanity to Free Republic. Be Seeing You,
Chris
That is simply not the case. The base never came home for George Bush Sr. - 25% of Republican voters went elsewhere, mostly for Perot. The base never came home for Bob Dole - 36% of evangelicals went for Clinton. And to a much lesser degree, a portion of the base never went for Bush Jr. The Bush campaign expected 19 million conservative Christians to turn out for them - 15 million did. That 4 million vote lag would have won the popular vote and wrapped up the electoral college easily.
So in the Republican Party the base only comes home if the perceive the candidate to reflect their interests.
No agenda, no media attention, no one cares. What a sad time to be a RAT. Makes me all teary eyed.
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