[hchutch]

The problem is, you had that party-switch by Jeffords, which turned everything around.

That, and a disappointing 2000 Senate performance (losing Abraham, Ashcroft, Roth, Grams and Gorton was quite bad for us, IMHO), had us in a bind. All the Dems had to do was find someone willing to knife the GOP in the back. That was Jeffords.

Right now, with that memo that ADMITS that Democratic attacks against the GOP re: Social Security are not true, it looks like the GOP is trying to force the Dems to over-reach and make a mistake. The media can't cover it all up, and that memo will be VERY useful in October. The Dems are much worse off than we are, IMHO. They're going to lose a fair amount of union and Hispanic votes IF we hold on AND don't panic.

[Jagdgewehr]

Democrats have a gift being handed to them this November.
Its called the "third party vote."

[Mudboy Slim]

"The problem is, you had that party-switch by Jeffords, which turned everything around."

Admittedly, losing control of the Senate was a major blow; however, we've still got the House and very popular POTUS but the domestic agenda that has been enacted since the minimal tax cut has been that of the Leftist DemonRATS!! Jeffords or no Jeffords, we've got to be more willing to stand on--and fight for--our Principles because it just so happens that our principles are RIGHT!!

Limiting the Size and Scope of the Federal Leviathan is demonstrably better for America and we needn't be ashamed of taking that argument to the Sheeple. Instead, it seems lately we're all-too-willing to go along to get along with the Collectivists.

FReegards...MUD

[Digger]

IMO the nation is about to crumble. GW is opening the floodgates for the last hurrah. Remember the words of Alexander Tyler: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage". (Just where do you think we are today?)