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Decreed by Fate
Republicans were doomed from the start. Healing, hopefully. Klein's forecast: mostly cloudy. Plus more.
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Either we toss out these weak-sisters and acknowledge where the
party is, or they will continue to undermine true
Republicans.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Michigan
So what now, go along to get along? I can not be a Republican any longer. Get a spine and fight the bastards!
I will do all in my power to resist the socialist dogs. Too bad the Republicans cannot find the stomach to fight. Cowards like the majority of the Senate Republicans should just resign rather than look stupid. No such luck.
I am sick to my bones over the cowardice of the Republican Party
Goodbye and good riddance!
-- Richard Howell
I find it very interesting that the pundits have not hit upon
what I believe are the main reasons for the recent Democratic
wins in the last two election cycles. They are growing Federal
bureaucracy, out of sight budgets and term limits. Of these term
limits is probably the most important issue as many of the
Republican legislators who have finally been replaced were voted
into office with Newt's Washington revolution of twenty odd years
ago. They promised to serve only eight years, some legislators
did keep their promises, but those that did not remained in
Washington to expand federal agencies and quadruple the budget.
Many conservatives, like my self, did not vote for a Republican,
but for an Idea.
-- Al Lenza
FREE TO NOT CHOOSE
Re: Lawrence Henry's Tramp, Tramp, Tramp:
"Who ever knew we were going to have to figure out what we wanted to do when we grew up?"
You may think you have a choice but you really don’t. I am two years into my liver transplant after developing cancer. I thought I had made it through the 60’s unscathed but alas up jumped Hepatitis C. I fought the disease and lost (the shots of interferon were awful) and then fought the cancer. I made peace after 3 years of a steady demoralizing fight and just wanted it to end. I came to find out that no matter how hard the fight there really were no options left to me but to fight. Anything else would have caused too much suffering in others who had invested a good deal of their lives in me.
So two years ago (Oct. 28 Halloween) they wheel me in and wheeled me out alive but barely. I thought for the 1st year that I would end up worthless but one day I forced my self to try working again. What a difference. It’s a year later and I’m off today to 5 construction sites (I’m a welding inspector) and tomorrow I’ll be on the golf course.
Sometimes having no real choice in the matter can be very
good.
-- Cecil Thorpe
CONTINUED NEGLIGENCE
Re: Matthew Vadum's SOS in Minnesota:
Now, do you think for one second the Bush Justice Dept. will do
anything to try and insure that the votes will be honestly
counted? Have we seen anything out of any Bush-controlled
government organization to think this?
-- Oldguy
FOSSIL FUEL
Re: The Prowler's Wasting No Time:
Dinosaur Dem of Michigan John Dingell has been lying to himself about what his Democrat party has become. These mid-west Democrats try to ignore the party’s environmentalist base’s opposition to any scale-manufacturing and domestic energy production.
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Joseph Baum| 11.10.08 @ 2:38PM
I have been telling everyone who would listen for the past year that if we got an Obama presidency with a liberal congress, we would become Venezuela times ten. It is happening already. With his views on energy, labor, capitalism, and unionism, it is obvious that anyone who works for a living is going to suffer and those who don't work (and don't pay taxes) will reap the rewards of the Obama victory will profit.
I remember when my liberal friends were lamenting the exodus of jobs after the passage of NAFTA, that they seemed to be blithely unaware that NAFTA was the centerpiece of the presidency of one William Jefferson Clinton, the almost unanymous choice of the liberal union members. I'm wondering how long it will take before the 'workingmen' who supposedly make up the democratic party realize that they have launched a strike at the heart of the goose that laid the golden egg.
Jim C| 11.10.08 @ 3:34PM
I have this theory that the Republicans let the Dems win...we lost the election on purpose.
The campaign was stagnant, and they thought Sarah Palin wouldn't do much to help their cause. When it "backfired" and she reenergized the party, McCain states that the economy is fundamentally sound and puts the campaign on hold to help with the bailout. (A loss of momentum) They were losing ground until Joe the plumber asked the right question and McCain started gaining ground. Then the stuff about Palin's clothes is released to cloud the issues.
They never attacked his spending plan or his job creation plan (which consisted of investing in government). They never pointed out when Obama or Biden lied. They didn't make a big enough deal how Obama was wrong about Russia, or how he was being endorsed by terrorist and communist nations. At the debates, he never fought back. Three debates and 4.5 hours on national TV face-to-face with Obama, McCain never mentioned Obama's "bitter clingers" comment; he never mentioned Jeremiah Wright's incendiary sermons; ne never mentioned Obama's breaking his word to use public campaign financing; he never mentioned Obama's plan to "bankrupt" the US coal industry; he never mentioned Obama's "price of arugula" comment; and he never cited the Clinton campaign's many tough arguments against Obama...he could have just quoted Hillary.
Could it have been run this poorly by accident? Conservatives like you and me were saying all the right things and bringing up all the right arguments, and the campaign did virtually nothing until it was too late.
But why would we throw an election? Well, in order to win the war, we had to lose this battle. How much better do you think the economy will be in 2 years? There may be some improvement from where it bottoms out, but I don't think it will be that good by the summer/fall of 2010. Who will the people blame? If McCain is in the White House, he's an easy target. Dems will say, "See, more of the same Bush policies that don't work. More big profits for the oil companies and the middle class is still hurting." We will lose more seats in the House and Senate and the Dems will have a filibuster proof majority. In 2012, a Dem would win the White House and they'd be unstoppable for years and years to come.
By losing, we can be critical of everything Obama does, without his television ads and Hollywood movie sets. The new faces of our party will need to get on all the major networks and be critical of everything, while offering solutions and pointing out how the Conservative approach would have been better. And we must point out that the blaming of Bush ends now. Unlike poker, Obama knew what cards he was being dealt and still decided to play his hand. What happens on his watch is his responsibility.
Republican speculators are betting that he will fail and we'll be there in 2 years to regaining some seats in Congress and hopefully get control back in 2012 when we also retake the White House.
Ms. Know| 11.15.08 @ 7:48PM
When you have to compete with the mainstream media illuminati, you too would run into problems like the GOP, because they're everywhere.