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Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for December 2 and 3, 2006 Having triumphed with a landslide win (hey, a 1 seat margin in the Senate and the smallest historical change in the House in a sixth year of a presidency is a mandate if they say it's a mandate!) the Democrats and DBM are now in full gloat mode.  They are trumpeting their plans to "fix" the country and undo all of the rotten things that the Republicans did since McChimpy Reagan defeated Holy Jimmy the C.  now the masks are off and they can finally reveal...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 25th and 26th, 2006 Very brief preview tonight.  I got the guests and links done on MTP and FTN, and the guests on  FNS Thursday night, before the surgery.  I was able to get the topics and guests for the other shows in tiny bits this afternoon, but that's all I'm going to do.  I got to the hospital a little after 6 this morning and the transplant was done and I was out of surgery, in recovery, before 10 AM and checked out before noon.  The surgery appears to...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 18 and 19, 2006The election is over.  So is the leadership fight.  The old media talking heads are now thrashing around trying to find a way to spin this new reality as a good thing and they're not having much luck.  And they're worried that a serious case of buyers remorse is setting in among the voters that they fooled in this election cycle. The few days since the election have seen the Dhimmicrats rhetorically confirm almost every warning the Republicans raised about what their agenda is.  You know, the...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 11 and 12, 2006This election is best described as the triumph of the inanities.? Let their gloating begin! The most cynical and dishonest campaign in the history of our country has triumphed, IMNSHO.? But what has it gained them? Rather than offering a positive set of ideas for their voters to vote for the Democrats spent their time and money convincing primarily conservative voters, particularly Christian conservatives, that they should stay home and not vote, or that those who think of themselves as "moderates" should vote for pseudo conservatives in...

Nov. 7, 2006— Will it rain on the Democrats' parade? Although most experts predict heavy voter turnout in today's midterm elections, some of the most hotly contested races in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and New Jersey could be affected by bad weather. And some experts say that, based on history, Republicans should pray for rain. Brad Gomez, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, examined weather data and its impact on elections in a study titled "The Effect of Bad Weather on Voter Turnout and Partisan Vote Share in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948-2000." Gomez concluded that when it rains,...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 4 and 5, 2006 It's the last weekend shows before we change over from campaign mode to litigation mode in this election cycle and the Dhimmicrats and the DBM are in full on hysterics.  This is particularly true of the "experts" like Sabato and Cook, who both have been predicting huge wins for their political masters as part of the psyops campaign being waged by Soros and company.  Cook is now as much as 10 points off of polls like Rasmussen in some races where the trend is clearly for...

UPDATE 11/1 INCLUDING FREEPER INPUT SIX DAYS AWAY FROM NOV 7, here's my updated opinions on the races. Things have moved towards the GOP in my opinion. [Note: We have 48 GOP seats besides these 12 that are either not up for reelection or they are not close enough to be in play.] The SENATE "CONTESTS" (Ranked most likely GOP to least) VA- R seat- ALLEN vs. Webb (90%) Webb is toast MO- R seat- TALENT vs. McCaskill (70%) Michael J Fox backfired TN- R seat- Corker vs. Ford (60%) "Playboy" Ford is making stupid moves ^^^^^^^^^^^^^Needed to Keep 51...

Since Kerry's "the troops are stupid" remarks were reported on Newsbusters yesterday, the story has truly grown some legs. This has caused the MSM to bend themselves into pretzels to explain away Kerry's typically anti-military remarks and leading the pack, as always, is the "Paper of broken record", the New York Times. In a piece titled ”Bush Attacks Kerry for Remarks on Iraq Troops”, the Times spends nearly the entire story making this out to be a Bush/Republican issue and barely even takes the time to mention what it is that Kerry said to initiate the incident in the...

President Bush received a rousing welcome today in Indiana where he spoke on behalf of Representative Mike Sodrel. Later, W traveled to South Carolina where he spoke to the men and women serving at Charleston Air Force Base. First Lady Laura Bush joined Representative Nancy Johnson at a campaign fundraiser in Farmington, Connecticut. Enjoy your Weekend on Sanity Island

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, October 28th and 29th, 2006 It's the last two weekends of campaign '06 and all pretense (and restraint) has been abandoned.  The reliable hard left old media is pulling out every stop and ignoring even the simplest of ethical consideration in their all out commitment to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats.  CNN is leading the pack with expensively produced specials attacking the Republicans (their Broken Government series, for example) as well as their usual cast of Dhimmicrat attack dogs, Cafferty being the bleeding edge of their moonbat pack.  Even Wolf Blitzer has taken...

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President Bush held a press conference today in the East Room of the White House. Topics covered were Iraq, the economy and the upcoming midterm elections. Later, the president met with President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic in the Oval Office. First Lady Laura Bush campaigned for Rep. Gil Gutnecht in Rochester, Minnesota and for Rep. Mike Sodrel in Columbus, Indiana. Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at a business luncheon in Cincinnati, Ohio. And Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC Enjoy your Wednesday visit to Sanity Island

Testing a Theory... By now, we have all seen this business where the Media Dinosaurs are touting the upcoming midterm elections as already in the bag for the Democrats. But, we are also starting, just this week, to see stories disputing that assumption. Rove and Bush are said to be strangely buoyant and upbeat about the chances of the GOP keeping their majorities. Several pundits and magazines as well as some pollsters are beginning to say that, while the GOP will lose some seats, the Party won't lose all power in some great midterm Democratic landslide. So the question becomes,...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 10-21-06 and 10-22-06 Just over two weeks left and the wheels appear to be coming off of the DBM/Dhimmicrat juggernaut.  Ford has imploded and probably provided the image of the election with his dismal stunt "confronting" Corker.  You can just see his world crumble as he stands there, and he knows it.  Lieberman is kicking MoveON butt in Connecticut and beginning to hint that he'll caucus with the Republicans if the Dhimmicrats don't give him his seniority.  Burns, who everyone counted out, is within striking distance in Montana and Steele is neck and...

Hello Free Republic Friends! Come check out the brand new site Predict06.com! The premise is simple: we all want to know who is going to win the elections. And we all have predictions. Will the Republicans be able to hold off challengers in seats like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri to keep control of the Senate?Will the Democrats turn enough seats in states like Indiana, Pennsylvania and Connecticut to take the House?At Predict06 you can make your predictions about each race, add reasons and links that justify them and share you work with other members of Free Republic, your friends, family...

The elite media are giddy with anti-Republican euphoria. Their coverage has not been this biased against Republicans in three decades. The Democrats are excited and convinced they will win a big victory. Republicans are worried, demoralized and confused. I have been in eight states recently and the mood is similar everywhere. Yet, an election is a choice between two futures. By simply comparing the positions of each party based upon historic facts, the choice of the desired future will become clear to the majority of the American people. And that choice is neither one in which Democrats celebrate nor Republicans...

Democrat vs Democrat Connecticut sees primary victor, Ned Lamont, facing off against the loser, and former Veep candidate, Joe Lieberman. Lamont is against the war, and seems to have solidified his lead among Democrats, but in the general election independents and Republicans can vote too, so Lieberman retains a small lead. Confusingly, the Republican candidate is against the war, probably why his support is in single figures. Democrats did not want this fight, as it puts Democrat divisions on national security at the top of the news, but now they are stuck with it. Tossup. Republican targets New Jersey, sees...

Democrat targets The President’s approval ratings remain low and generic polls (“which party would you be most likely to vote for?”) give an edge to the Democrats, though perhaps by less than in the summer. So the seats most likely to change hands are ones the Democrats are targeting. Montana ought to be safe for the Republicans, and with another candidate, it would be. But Conrad Burns has been linked to uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, now convicted of corrupting public officials. Burns has been trailing for some time, and Montana now pips Pennsylvania as the Democrats best hope of a pick...

GLADWYNE, Pa. - Former President George H.W. Bush said Thursday that a Democratic takeover of Congress would be a "ghastly thing for our country." Bush, speaking at a fundraiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., warned that the Republican majority of the Senate is at risk. "This is more than party versus party, it is the idea that if we have some of these wild Democrats in charge of these committees it will be a ghastly thing for our country," Bush said. Democrats would need to gain six seats in the Senate and 15 in the House in the Nov. 7...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats lead in races for 11 of 15 crucial Republican-held U.S. House seats a month before November 7 elections, putting them within reach of seizing control of the chamber, according to Reuters/Zogby polls released on Wednesday. Republican incumbents are at particularly high risk, the polls found, with seven of nine trailing their Democratic challengers in the high-stakes battle for control of the U.S. Congress.

Media reports, most notably the Washington Post and MessNBC, are claiming the Foley folly will cause Christian conservatives to not vote on election day. Citing unnamed "Republican strategists," they claim this incident nearly ensures Democratic take over of the House in November. What I want to know is, is there anyone on Free Republic, especially those who might consider themselves to be "Christian conservatives" who will not vote now on election day, or will vote Democrat or third party, because of a now ex-congressman's behavior? My take on this is there are few if any who would not vote because...

Democrats are seizing on another leak of classified information to the New York Times -- information not yet seen by Members of Congress and not formally divulged to the House and Senate intelligence committees, the newspaper said. The leaked information, like previous leaks before it, is being used against the Bush administration and Republicans politically, just five weeks before the midterm elections. The New York Times reported on Sunday that an April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate (an assessment by America's 16 intelligence agencies) concluded that the Iraq war has heightened Islamic radicalism and made the global terrorist threat much worse....

Democratic U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan insisted Monday that he was not out to promote the film titled "Iraq for Sale" but told reporters that the film does raise "important questions about accountability" on the part of military contractors working on the reconstruction of Iraq. "Iraq for Sale," the North Dakota senator said, is a "very important step forward in raising the questions and pushing the issues that we in this country must confront with respect to contractors' waste, fraud and abuse in spending." As the Senate Democratic Policy Committee chairman, Dorgan has hosted ten hearings to investigate charges of waste...

The Associated Press seems to think that Bush's terror related questions are mere election ploys, solely talking points being cast about to help Congressional Republicans to win elections in the upcoming 2006 midterms. Bush has been undertaking an intense effort to clear up the issues surrounding both his NSA surveillance questions as well as questions surrounding the legal rights that captured terrorists have and just how the Administration might treat them once in US custody. These are questions that have been brewing since the attacks on 9/11/01 and, with recent Supreme Court decisions, dents have been put in the President's...

COLUMBUS, OHIO—As he runs for governor, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has been telling audiences about the values he learned from his parents that guide him to this day. “I was raised in a Bible-believing, church-going, hardworking [family],” Blackwell told me as we drove through downtown Columbus to a campaign event at the Nationwide Arena. “My dad ... worked a couple of jobs. He worked as a meatpacker, and he served parties on the weekends for some of the affluent families in the greater Cincinnati area.” “My mom was, for the most part, a stay-at-home mom,” he said. “She...

-"The war in Iraq is the wrong war. No matter how many times the president wants to say it, the war in Iraq is not the war on terror. The war in Afghanistan was." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made that comment Wednesday in a speech on the House floor. She was blasting a Republican resolution marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Pelosi says Republicans have introduced a partisan and "congratulatory" resolution: "It praises Congress for some reason," Pelosi complained. "Instead of having the focus on the innocent victims of 9/11, it talks about the accomplishments of...

NEW CASTLE, Ky. (AP) — Dissatisfied with Congress, voters would probably hang a "Help Wanted" sign on the U.S. Capitol if given the chance."They're not doing their job," says Scott Newland, 39, an independent voter who backed President Bush in 2004.The factory worker had harsh words for congressional Republicans and Democrats as he helped close his sister's New Castle deli one recent evening. "You need people that care. They don't care." Such angry sentiments echo up and down the Ohio River Valley as it cuts through Republican-held congressional districts in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio — politically pivotal House seats in...

So with crude crossing the $50-a-barrel threshold in late September and continuing to set new records, it raises the question, Will George W. Bush pay for this year's 50%-plus rise in oil?

Several polls show that the No. 1 issue heading into the election season is not the war in Iraq or the terrorist threat, but the performance of the U.S. economy, which has gotten poor marks from voters despite steady growth and lower unemployment. Voter concern over the top two or three issues has risen or fallen in tandem with progress in the war in Iraq, the cost of oil and gas and news about the foiled terrorist plot in London. A CNN/Opinion Research poll of 1,004 Americans taken Sept. 4 and 5 showed that 28 percent said the economy would...

The GOP will pick up seats here’s why part TWO In the first installment of this series I discussed how these first 8 items will factor into the GOP picking up seats and the Democrats losing seats in the House this November. 1)Self identification of Americans as conservatives 2) Florida Demographics 3) The war in Iraq 4) Big Labor’s pull back 5) Howard Dean 6) Voter fraud 7) Democrat calls for impeachment 8) Old media loses its power. The complete list and the link to the first installment can be found at the end of this installment. In this installment...

President Bush has dramatically enlarged the issue of terrorism in the 2006 midterm elections by revealing the names, faces and confessed plots of the Islamic radicals held by the CIA. In a sweeping, lay-it-all-out White House address that elevated the issue of the deadly dangers Americans still face from terrorism, Bush confirmed the existence of foreign-based CIA prisons where terrorists have been secretly interrogated by intelligence agents and even disclosed some of the plots they planned to execute against the United States and our allies. Last week's speech, part of a series of speeches to remind Americans of the increasing...

Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said. The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads. The hope is that a vigorous effort to "define" opponents, in the parlance of GOP operatives,...

'Most People Want Us to Win' A president in the fray, more Truman than LBJ. BY PAUL A. GIGOT Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi? "That's not going to happen," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office. He had been saying that he hoped to revisit Social Security reform next year, when he "will be able to drain the politics out of the issue," and I rudely interrupted by noting the polls predicting Ms. Pelosi's ascension. "I just don't believe it," the president...

(AgapePress) -- With the mid-term elections less than nine weeks away, Republican Party leaders are worried they could lose control of Congress -- and political observers feel that fear is justified. Capitol Hill conservative icon Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation says there could be huge changes ahead for the United States after the November elections. The GOP, he says, is in "deep, deep trouble." And according to Weyrich, an "anti-incumbency" attitude is sweeping the nation. Rev. Rob Schenck, director of the National Clergy Council in Washington, DC, agrees with Weyrich's assessment, saying the Republican leaders have turned their...

At a rally held earlier this week to encourage Governor Schwarzenegger to veto bills that would promote homosexuality in California’s public schools, I made the following statement: “Our governor is a Republican. We represent what are called ‘values voters.’ No Republican has ever gotten elected in any state without the vote of values voters. No Republican has ever gotten elected in this state without our vote.” Can a Republican get elected without our vote? There are those who are betting that this is not true. Read More...

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I wonder if Democrats are getting the slightest bit nervous about the news -- hot off the presses -- that Iraqi security forces are actually taking over primary control of defense operations in Iraq. That might not bode well for their prospects to recapture control of Congress. One of the Democrats' major complaints has been that we have been too slow in training Iraqi troops, thereby delaying the end or significant downscaling of the American presence there. Of course the Democrats' criticism here is not a policy matter, but one of military implementation. So when they blame President Bush for...

New Survey: Challenge for GOP Leaders is Motivating the Base Posted by Bobby Eberle September 7, 2006 at 6:39 am We are now in the home stretch of the 2006 mid-term elections. Pundits will say that it’s a tough year for Republicans, and they are right. Much needs to be done in these next two months, and one of the key challenges for GOP leaders is to motivate a grassroots base of activists who are keeping their wallets closed and feeling less inclined to help with get out the vote efforts. With over 2,500 responses received in less than 24...

MACON, Ga. President Bush's once-solid relationship with Southern women is on the rocks. "I think history will show him to be the worst president since Ulysses S. Grant," said Barbara Knight, a self-described Republican since birth and the mother of three. "He's been an embarrassment." In the heart of Dixie, comparisons to Grant, a symbol of the Union, is the worst sort of insult, especially from a Macon woman who voted for Bush in 2000 but turned away in 2004. In recent years, Southern women have been some of Bush's biggest fans, defying the traditional gender gap in which women...

As top House Republicans huddle Thursday to determine their next step in the heated debate over illegal immigration, limited options, a short legislative calendar before November elections and a partisan atmosphere will make it incredibly difficult to pass comprehensive legislation. Because of strident opposition from House conservatives, GOP leaders have given up on passing a comprehensive bill that would address the plight of the estimated 11 million individuals here illegally. But, determined to salvage something in an attempt to connect with voters, they intend to focus on boosting resources for border security. "The conversations about the overall bill, the larger...

Jewish Community Challenged to Examine Changing Party The Republican Jewish Coalition today released the latest advertisement in its national advertising campaign targeted to the Jewish community. The ad depicts former President Jimmy Carter, along with quotes from his recent interview with Der Spiegel magazine [August 15, 2006]: "I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon." And, "I represent the vast majority of Democrats." The ad also highlights a recent Wall Street Jounal/NBC poll in which 84% of Republicans said they sympathize more with Israel than with the...

THE US Congress, run for years with an iron fist by hardliners in President George W. Bush's Republican party, will get a radical makeover if opposition Democrats win Novembers mid-term election. The November 7 balloting could lead to several of the US legislatures most liberal members assuming top leadership posts, after 12 years of Republican rule in the House of Representatives and four years of control of the Senate. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 33 Senate seats, 36 governorships as well as numerous mayoral and local positions will be in play. Democratic leaders are increasingly confident that...

The fall 2006 elections are now just two months away. Although the conventional wisdom is that Republicans will have a tough time this fall, I believe that we can still win -- but not without substantial changes. In this edition of "Winning the Future," I outline 11 values-led policies that are both morally right and that enjoy (not coincidentally) the overwhelming support of the American people. These are the values and the policies that Republicans should embrace this fall. Here's the key: Republican victory in 2006 depends on a return to the American values that twice elected Ronald Reagan and...

Conservative? Thinking of sitting this Fall's elections out? You may want to think twice. Oh, I am quite aware of the failure by Republican leadership to protect our borders and curb spending. But there is real historic proof that suggests that sitting idly by as the minority party assumes power could very well put your party at a serious disadvantage in the years to come. I recently came across a book by John Ferling called "Adams V. Jefferson: The tumultuous election of 1800." It recalls the classis battle between the incumbent Federalist John Adams and the Republican challenger Thomas Jefferson....

The Democratic National Committee is again calling for Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) to denounce a television ad created by the National Republican Senatorial Committee that criticizes Chafee's primary opponent for supporting a controversial Mexican identification card. The ad criticizes Cranston, R.I., Mayor Steve Laffey for allowing city law enforcement to accept Mexican "Matricula Consular" identification cards that the Department of Justice has said opens the door for terrorists to live in the country undetected. In a news release issued last week, DNC spokesman Damien LaVera said the ad "relies on divisive, misleading innuendo that Mexican immigrants will carry out acts...

Washington --- Democratic candidates are increasingly unwilling to surrender so-called values voters to Republican opponents this year in spite of the long-standing allegiance of religious-oriented voters to the GOP. Democrats say they are trying to broaden the fall election debate about family values with an updated version of the middle class economic appeals that propelled Bill Clinton into the White House 14 years ago. They argue that the Republican Party has lost touch with the average American family by ignoring the economic and cultural pressures Americans are coping with. The question is whether that argument is strong enough to break...

BURLINGTON, Ky. - Life is cramped at the Condit household. Dale and Sharon Condit and their two young sons need more room but can't seem to sell their current home — on the market now for three months. • Full politics coverage In a year when politics is being roiled by angry debates over the Iraq war and immigration, it might seem odd to imagine the midterm elections being waged over square footage and closet space. But these are parts of a lifestyle that Sharon Condit, a deputy clerk of court, describes as dogged by a sense of limits: "We...

The scene is one of those Washington cocktail parties so hated by left-wing “netroots” activists — a gathering where politicians and pundits and inside-the-Beltway types meet to gossip, conspire, make deals, and generally sink farther into their morass of inside-the-Beltway corruption. One prominent member of Congress says to a prominent political analyst: “You know, if you think about it, Nancy Pelosi is pretty close to the center of the House Democratic caucus.” It seems hard to believe, given that Pelosi, the Minority Leader, is a true-blue San Francisco liberal with a near-perfect 95 rating from the left-wing Americans for Democratic...

History favors Democrats in Congress races By Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES The race for Congress and the nation's governorships bolted from the Labor Day starting gate yesterday, with voter-preference polls tightening between the parties in an election that both sides said will be even closer by November. Historically, the party that holds the White House usually loses seats in Congress in a second term, and campaign strategists in both parties expected Democrats to make gains in the House and Senate -- while two top election forecasters predicted they will win 15 or more seats that will give them majority...

Maybe it could be called “The Conspiracy Hour with Jack Cafferty.” On the September 2 “In the Money,” the program’s host recycled his theory that gas prices are dropping because of scheming oil companies. “You know, if you were a real cynic, you could also wonder if the oil companies might not be pulling the price of gas down to help the Republicans get re-elected in the midterm elections a couple of months away,” Cafferty suggested just a few days earlier on the August 30 “Situation Room.” “In the Money” contributor Jennifer Westhoven reminded Cafferty of his August 30 comments...