Any "independent" who thought Democrats would spend less has no knowledge of Democrats. They are receiving instruction now and they deserve some. Unfortunately the rest of us don't.
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Posted on 10/12/2009 6:09:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
American voters have been demonstrating a lack of confidence in both parties lately. George W. Bush nearly destroyed the Republican Party, but Barack Obama is giving it a chance at resurrection.
Karl Rove dreamed that he and Bush, like strategist Mark Hanna and President William McKinley in 1896, would create a generation of Republican dominance. Instead, he delivered both Congress and the presidency to the Democrats.
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Bush turned off libertarian-leaning moderates and independents with his profligate spending, his excessive social conservatism, and the foundering war in Iraq.
Some of those independents voted Democratic in 2006 and 2008, figuring that the Democrats would be more tolerant and could hardly be more profligate. And what are they now seeing?
President Obama is exceeding all their fears on fiscal and economic issues. After promising a "net spending cut" during the campaign and denouncing "the most fiscally irresponsible administration in history," he has sent federal spending and the deficit soaring into the stratosphere.
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I am hopeful that we can at least make short-term gains. Republicans still are stained by the unpopularity of George W. Bush, who is seen as a failed President, but the change that Obama is pushing for is not the change they wanted or believed in.
Any "independent" who thought Democrats would spend less has no knowledge of Democrats. They are receiving instruction now and they deserve some. Unfortunately the rest of us don't.
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OMG! We’ve moved way beyond Bush to total destruction of our country, loss of freedom, and doom. Only a complete moron can’t see where we’re headed now.
There, fixed it.
Either we go nationalistic conservative or the republicrats are history in a book.
Can Republicans ....?
Unlikely.
Odds are they’ll win next election and immediately set about helping Obama continue the work started this year.
I’m afraid we will still have to cope with influential Republicans pushing the tired philosophy that they need to out-pander the democrats in order to be competitive.
And they will be no different than democrats - they would rather lose it all than compromise with conservatives.
The national Republican party has lost its way.
There is no leader.
I am not sure that people out there are champing at the bit to vote Republican. The want to put people in office that are moral, fiscal conservative, and patriotic (and don’t mess with our guns). In short they want Uncle Sam to live within his means and not have his snoot in everything. Ditto for most state governments.
The real question is what does an ordinary person do to help and to turn this country around?
I’m tempted to say the same. But we need a few of those voters to take back Congerss. And some of them are having major buyer’s remorse.
Yeah bush and rove were horrible
they increased republican majorities in 2002— a feat rarely accomplished
had the largest turnout and vote in presidential history I. 2004
yes voter turnout in 2008 was lower than 2004
hmmmm wonder why that is?
Someday conservatives and liberals will stop bashing bush and celebrate his intelligence and positive accomplishments.
The Republican headquarters honchos and staff and not much different than the Dimwits.... They have utter distain for the voters and have the same simple-minded view of fly-over country. Both the Blue and Red legions can take a flying leap!
Is that a joke?
Not with the likes of Lindsey Graham and John McCain running the show. Now with Sarah with have a good chance.
Let’s see, a test case is in order.
Can Republicans grasp that Government rationed healthcare isn’t reform, it’s stupidity? Nothing gets better for the people, and everything costs more. Define stupidity.
What do you think.
If it was I didn’t laugh.
I don’t think it is Republicans that are doing that. It is the so called Independents who bought into the Obama message.
Or we can hope the blacks and young folks, who voted for Obama, in record numbers become disillusioned with Obama’s policies and stay home on election time. In fact that is happening in the Va and Jersey Governor races.
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