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Political Hay
The Political Earthquake — As Predicted
Even if you were vision-impaired you would have seen it coming.
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To the grievous loss of the Democrat political machine, this is a year of fundamental change in the electorate, establishing new, lasting, long-term voting patterns. That is because the Democrats have been exposed as who they really are, socialist apostles of radical leftist revolutionaries like Saul Alinsky. Among the key changes will be the collapse of the limousine liberals, who will finally recognize that revolution is not fun when you are actually the target of the roused mob. This will be especially so if the Republicans target them by explaining realities they don’t get from the former mainstream media, like how vast government support is now for the poor, and how high taxes are now on the most productive. Many of the most liberal members of Congress hail from wealthy, limousine liberal districts, and their loss will be an epochal blow to the Democrat machine. This may take until 2012 or 2014 to fully play out.
Another key change, New England will become a competitive 50/50 region long term, because the Yankees were never really socialists. They just still don’t like southerners and their open religiosity, which seemed to have become the face of the Republican Party. Republicans who run exhibiting New England Yankee culture have proven they can sweep the region.
Of course, there are some who will never get it. I have heard directly from some of the handful of listeners of “progressive” talk radio (“progressive,” again, is a polite word for “Marxist”), who display evidence of mental illness. (I have that evidence in writing if anyone wants to question it.) These “progressive talk radio” types represent single digits of public opinion, and that meager penetration will be all downhill from here.
The emerging Republican control of Congress will create a whole new political dynamic regarding President Obama, who will try to play off the Republican congressional majorities to win reelection, taking credit for the good they do while fear mongering them still more. President Obama does not have the ideological agility of a President Clinton to pull this off. Congressional Republicans will need to be smart in forcing him to veto populist conservative initiatives. More likely, however, the Democrats will eat him alive for politically trashing the party, and he won’t even make it to the 2012 ballot, as I have also predicted. Notice the talk already of a Hillary challenge for 2012, even before the political earthquake this fall.
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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East Texas Rancher| 7.21.10 @ 6:31AM
I would not rejoice too soon. Some of us see different writing on the wall. Between voting felons, finishing up his immigration and cap and trade matters in Congress, Obama will be in full control. Heck, even Congress will become irrelevant.
So, what I contemplate is an dramatic event, either staged or real, in which our Regime Ruler will see the need to quell panic by declaring Martial law, then suspending elections.
Knowing that most of the country abides lawfully, and is not up to a violent revolution to fix things, the Regime's Ruler will be able to rule indefinitely. He does not plan to have to run for re-election even, but to simply be "THE RULER". He is setting the stage.
From a ranch in Texas................B. Gunn
John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 9:28AM
I hope Ferrara is right and you are wrong, but I suspect that isn't the case. The Left has broken cover and is in full pursuit of the brass ring. For them it's now or never and, like you, I fear the worst is yet to come.
However, I've never seen the Conservatives so active. This is an unqualified good. Let's pray it's not too late.
Eric Cartman| 7.21.10 @ 9:55AM
A more realistic scenario is that Republicans continue to be the same stupid, Democrat Lite party (D-lite) it has been since Bush the First took over. They can't - or won't - understand we are sick of them too, and so will spend like the D-lites they are. They will continue to grovel at the feet of Wall Street and Corporate clowns promoting crony capitalism even as these people funnel train loads of cash to the Democrats. The Republicans have given Americans the middle finger in turn for cash and illegal aliens to do yard work. I have no faith in the current Republican leadership - they need to be burned at the stake along with all the Democrats.
jack| 7.21.10 @ 1:48PM
exactly. Republicans are gutless and worthless.At least Obama promised socialism and change and delivered. Republicans can not do what they did early in the decade,they must do what the Dems are doing now and push through change no matter how much the left,media and the rockheads in Hollywood scream
John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 3:32PM
Eric, Jack,
I agree with your assessment of the current Republican leadership. Notice I said "Conservative", not "Republican". More people can tell you about the 10th amendment than before Obama and more people are expressing anti-government sentiments as well. These are GOOD things.
Linda| 7.22.10 @ 3:49PM
AMEN!!!! Just Do It!!!!
Soljerblue| 7.23.10 @ 12:03AM
I hope and pray Mr. Ferrara is right. He certainly paints a beautiful picture. But the immortal words of Yogi the Oracle still echo -- it ain't over until it's over. The worst thing the conservative movement -- those of us who are Tea Party members, and trying to work in the trenches where we are -- is start believing the popular wisdom that the Dems are toast, and victory is ours for the taking. I'm a retired broadcast journalist, and covered politics, political campaigns, and politicians for much of my 40 years in the business. I can tell you for a certainty, campaigns and electoral hopes can turn on a dime and give you back a nickel's change. Ferrara is looking at a rosy picture that seems not to take into account all the chicanery and underhanded nastiness (sorry for the redundancy) of which the left and the Dem Socialists are capable. We know from past election campaigns what some of those tactics are. But I think the current occupant of the White House and his left wing phalanx have some new wrinkles planned that we may not even see coming until the last minute. I'm not sure I buy the martial law gig -- at least not yet -- but I DO believe that thugocracy is capable of it if push really comes to shove. Anyhow -- this is no time to get complacent, or start believing all the pundits say. Stay angry, stay motivated, work like hell -- or November 3rd will be one of the saddest days ever for America.
bigfoot| 7.22.10 @ 7:46PM
SOME Republicans are D-lite. There are plenty of good Republicans - DeMint, Issa, Bachman, et al. - but there are NO good Democrats, even though a few may be "good" on one issue or another. So be selective, discriminatory, judicious in whom you support, and remember that a party majority means control of all the committees and of the agenda in both houses. A majority with a few D-lite Republicans is better than a minority any way you look at it. We cannot shut down Obama or repeal anything or investigate anybody while Democrats control either the House or the Senate. We need control of both.
arlo price| 7.21.10 @ 10:14AM
Likewise, I wouldn't rejoice either. I suspect that the suspension of elections due to a "dramatic event" and the implementation of "martial law" is not in the offing for the mid-terms, maybe for 2012, more than likely it'll be 2014/2016.
Voter fraud is not limited to felons and illegals voting. The REAL voter fraud is going to be the computer fraud of the vote tally's. Face reality, Greene in South Carolina was a test run (whatever happened to the recount/investigation by the dhimocrat favorite? He was likely told to let it go by the obamagedon PIMP thugocracy and will probably get appointed to some well paying, kush fed job). The blabbering veep Joe Biteme alluded to this forthcoming event the other day with his announcement that the dhimocrats are "... going to shock the heck out of everybody,..." referring to the midterms. Vote tally computer fraud was further prefaced in rino scott browns election when the obamagedon PIMP thugocracy(via axlerod) proclaimed that they would have done more if they would have known earlier. Does the 'secretary of state' project ring a bell with anyone?
http://spectator.org/archives/.....ecretaries
I'll be flabbergasted if the grand ol' obsolete party(GOOP) has a net gain of more than 5 seats in the senate and 20 in the house.
Frankly, I'm bored with this bloodless coup, "Let's Roll"
azcIII| 7.23.10 @ 3:27AM
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." JFK
JC| 7.23.10 @ 9:00AM
Why do you think race has become an issue. There is a grand plan and we now have little control over "change you can believe in". We have become a country of a party boss system, seems we were warned by our Forefathers, and not a people system. We have political appointees managing departments they never heard of with no previous experience so what can you expect? Apathy brought us here and it will take years to right the ship. Vote them all out, get rid of political appointees to key managment positions, and maybe we need to look at how we structure the massive government.
West Brooklyn Writer| 7.21.10 @ 11:20AM
Well, well! I agree with you, cowboy. And everyone said I was nuts to say exactly what you said, the day I heard his inauguration speech.
Len| 7.21.10 @ 11:39AM
In all likelihood the "event" will be entitlement junkies and others rioting due to the economy getting worse and the combined job loss and reduction in socio-economic programs. Then it will be all too easy to impose martial law due to an "insurrection".
Also, unlike the many naively optimistic conservatives I believe that the military will be used against Americans, after all an Washington did it, and the military must constitutionally fight against insurrectionists. After all they won't know who is and who is not an insurrectionist, except as they are told.
BackToBasics| 7.22.10 @ 1:55AM
I think you are closer to the mark than the conservative optomists. The conservatives too often seem to forget about human nature and how quickly it can erupt. But persnoally I think we are a 2 to 5 years too soon for a large insurrection. And I think we will get amnesty for illegals and this will be the final straw that breaks the country's back and actually splits it. Of course such an event(s) will not occur without much bloodshed. I also think that our overseas enemies, including China may just sit back and watch it happen and then come in near the end to gain their "prize." I think they will avoid a war with us and just let us destroy ourselves.
BackToBasics| 7.22.10 @ 2:01AM
Just to clarify; first amnesty, then if the economy is still bad, about 5 - 8 years after that we begin to to fight and split. I think that after another 25 to 50 years an overseas enemy will then take the land. So we are looking at amnesty by 2012, the first "major" civil violence by 2017 and a breakup by 2025 and a complete takeover by an overseas power by 2050 to 2075.
glassfinger| 7.21.10 @ 6:18PM
I said it before and it bears repeating-this nation is made up of law-abiding citizens-but not docile; we will not walk willingly into the ovens. The martial law-suspended elections scenario has been opined before; should it happen rest assured there will be a quick and violent reaction by the law-abiding citizens, many of whom once swore to uphold, preserve and protect the Constituion. It will be protected, by any means necessary, count on it. Have faith, brothers and sisters, November is coming.
Sergeant Flint | 7.22.10 @ 1:40AM
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....2894/posts
azcIII | 7.23.10 @ 3:39AM
Damn little, but we are a nation of RIFLEMEN, many capable of shooting at 500+ yards. Don't think we would just line up and march into the army like the redcoats. A frontal attack would be suicide.
Vietnam and more recently, Afghanistan and Iraq, have been very instructive as to what tactics are effective against our military. Guerrilla tactics, utilizing the urban populations as concealment; insurrectionist tactics, launching small attacks on key targets so they are never safe anywhere they go, sabotage, and infiltration of their ranks. They would soon learn what a "quagmire" truly is.
I pray it never comes to that, but I fear it will. There are just too many of these socialist/Marxist lunatics. You cannot reason with them and, like Islam, you cannot live in harmony with them. Their vision and ours are simply incompatible.
Ironic that their little Utopian vision of a happy world living in perfect harmony is shattered most often by their own ideology.
GKPAL| 7.23.10 @ 1:19PM
Just take a look at Ahvganistan. Thay are fighting us and winning with AK47's.
Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 9:12PM
"that a political earthquake was coming this year that would shake Washington to its foundations"
Only a hardline- Marxist-fool would take such a radical notion seriously-- and you are no fool.
So much for boilerplate.
wholesale | 9.8.11 @ 10:35PM
Yes, I agree with you.
xk3y
Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 9:37PM
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BackToBasics| 7.22.10 @ 1:40AM
Too many people are still asleep. Evenif Republicans win the House and Senate, they will become the scapegoats for the bad economy allowing Obam to win in 2012 or perhaps Clinton. But I do not see a peaceful political revolution through the Republicans. I see amnesty for illegals coming before 2012 regardless of who controls the Congress. After that it is Democratic control for many years and the only revolution after that point will split the country into 2 to 3 pieces.
FTM| 7.21.10 @ 6:42AM
You forgot to add, "if and only if the Republicans have the reproductive fortitude to tell the congressional Democrats who the won the election and that Obamacare is repealed, the US is out of the UN, the UN is out of the US, illegal immigrants are going to be deported upon detection and so on." The Republicans, based on the assumption that they win veto proof control of both houses of congress, have to take this opportunity to begin undoing sixty years of liberal/progressive political restructuring of America, repeal GATT and NAFTA, abolish the 35% federal income tax on businesses, pay down the double damned national debt and get the show back on the road.
The Republicans need to dismantle the EPA for example. Take the Dutch skimmer ship that didn't quite comply with the EPA's clean water standard. If the Dutch ship was only fifty percent efficient in reclaiming spilled oil, using the ship is worse that doing nothing how? Everybody at the EPA above about a GS10 needs to be fired for stupidity above and beyond the tolerance level of the average private sector employee.
If the congressional Republican majorities in the House and Senate have to guts to do what is necessary which I'm sorry to say, I bet they don't.
Eric Cartman| 7.21.10 @ 9:57AM
What he said!
Eric Cartman| 7.21.10 @ 10:06AM
What Am Spec should do is compile a list of the house and senate Republicans with contact numbers and email links and a running tally of votes. Put the list under its own icon or banner on the home page. For our part, we will need to call and politely (wink, wink) remind them who they work for every week and the performance we expect from them. These people need to be hit over the head with a 2 x 4 every so often.
Irish22| 7.21.10 @ 11:58AM
Here! Here! We need a method to convince Republicans (since we seem to be stuck with them as the best alternative to Socialists) that fiscal responsibility will get them elected. Once there they must dismantle the welfare programs they have created for rich and poor alike. Stop lying to the American public that any politician (or political party) can "fix" the economy.
Let's (let the economy) roll!!!!!
Bruce | 7.21.10 @ 12:09PM
Simple:
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
Eric Cartman| 7.21.10 @ 12:13PM
Thanks, Bruce. I'm bookmarking! Still would like to see soothing similar on Am Spec.
Boomerbabe| 7.21.10 @ 7:17PM
Thank you, Bruce! Now we can put our speed dials where our mouths are! Maybe the most valuable posting of the day...
Linda| 7.22.10 @ 3:59PM
I sure hope and pray we get some serious Teapartiers who are "regular" folks--not RINOs.
Deborah D | 7.21.10 @ 7:02AM
Thanks for this article, Mr. Ferarra. I need some encouraging news! The Repubicans will have their hands full when/if they're able to take back the House (and the Senate!) this fall. So much to undo. I hope they have a plan of action, and that they select real conservative leaders who truly understand what's at stake here. Please continue to be a bug in their ears, Mr. Ferarra. Send them this article!
wholesale | 9.8.11 @ 10:39PM
I agree with you.
xk3y
claire w solt| 7.21.10 @ 7:10AM
I am waiting to see a promise to return the federal government to the enumerated powers, not gradually, but immediately. Anything less will be a hugh disappointment.
Linda| 7.22.10 @ 4:00PM
DOUBLE AMEN to that sentiment!!!
Ret. Marine| 7.21.10 @ 7:43AM
I am getting sick and tired of this game being played by you and most of the so-called Republican's. If you have yet to understand these parties, the R's and the D's are one and the same you are doing nothing to the recourse of solving the mess we find this country in. In fact, you are part of this massive big grubmint up in our faces demanding We the People to sucumb to the nasty un-Constitutional society of teet suckers.
If you, at the County, State and local levels are not inviting the Repeal Planners, The fiscally responsible, small conservative Government, less taxes responsible players in the fold or incouraging those of a Conservative mindset, you are also part of this problem. What we have here is a mindset of "if only the Republicans take back" both the House and Senate plantation mindset. I want nothing to do with either party. Our founding Fathers also understood the grave dangers We the People will find ourselves in if we were to relent to this mindset. We are a Representative Republic, not a democracy, marxist rebels, progressive/repressive wannabe controlers of the communities. Please "stop already" with this bullshale, you are setting us, "We the People" up for a grim reminder of what evils We as a Nation face with this glorified non-sense and while I understand the needs to "pump up the base" and get everyone of like mind riled up for what We the People know must be done, you give us no encouragement as to the solutions for this tainted political crap most of reconize for what it is.
We the People, having gone through a long train of abusses reconizing the need to steer this Nation in the direction of our intended forcasts will not, nor shall we ever, reconize the politics, such as they are today, be content with the half assed simpleton's excusses for the waste laying of our way of life.
If we are to continue and expand upon the very idea of freedom within our life time, we must accept that there is a need for a "Revolution" and the lying aside of all those who are the willing participents of this design to perish forever among our ranks. Anything less is to admit we have lost this God given "will" to impose our greater visions for the all of humanity and demand a Representative form of Government while ensuring equal treatment for all.
ds80| 7.21.10 @ 8:39AM
Yours is a very tedious post, RetMarine. So this is just a "game being played by" Ferrara? I don't think so.
"you give us no encouragement as to the solutions" ... ? Shouldn't those ideas be coming from you, RetMarine? Aren't you We The People?
Ret. Marine| 7.22.10 @ 4:57AM
I am in fact involved in the community, and at the State level. What I have witnessed thus far concerning the solutions it seems is the need for these critters of political discourse is acceptence and self loathing on a verty large scale.
These idea's do come from me at times there ds80, I have also found these critters usually do not take serious enough for the needs toi get back to the basics of our Constitution. There is a mindset out there that they want to get along to go along with some of most outragious conformation of what the majority wants, and that majority it seems, involves the usual suspects and their wants and wims, kinda like the usual of a child, if
I can't have it my way, I'm taking my toys and going home to let it brew for another cycle. We can't fix stupid on such a large scale.
Carpenter| 7.21.10 @ 9:58AM
If, as you say, the R's and D's are just the same, isn't that because we conservatives permit it to be so? Get out from behind your computer, retired marine, and get active in holding your local Republican Party's collective feet to the fire and insist that they reflect strong conservative principles or make way for someone else who will.
Dark hints about a violent revoltion are absurd in the context of basement bloggers whose engagement is always going to be limited to verbal sniping rather than willingness to rebuild afterwards.
Margie| 7.21.10 @ 11:17AM
Well said ds80 and Carpenter. RetMarine~ you know that we already HAVE a representative form of government. What we need to do is restore the party that best represents us, and that is the Republican party. Don't fall to the lie that the parties are the same. The insidious creeping of the Left through Libertarianism wishes for us to do so, but the truth is that unless we get involved in electing conservative candidates IN the Republican party~ then we are allowing our nation to fold, to the enemy, and the real enemy is the communist Democrat party~ NOT the Republicans!
Linda| 7.22.10 @ 4:11PM
Unfortunately, to a great degree, RetMarine is right--and yet different. R and D have been different only in degrees. We must totally purge this bigovernment, bigentitlement octopus once and for all.
However, remembering a certain D, running for president awhile back saying, "It's not about values." And enough people (NOT ME) bought it.
We also MUST also focus on social conservativism--Hello, don't be afraid of the abortion issue. Do you know how much more $$$ this country would have if it hadn't k8lled over 50B babies? Trillions (yes, with a T). Also, social issues cover items such as trustworthiness, honesty, no greed, etc. I mean if someone is going to cheat on his wife (or husband) they'll cheat on their country (paging agore).
I think we need to have the social convervatives at the table as well.
Doctor Right| 7.21.10 @ 11:47AM
Saying the current crop of Republicans in the House and Senate leave a lot to be desired is 100% accurate.
Saying that Republicans and Democrats are one and the same is flat-out delusional.
For example...I despise John McCain. But if McCain had won in '08, the recession would have ended in early '09, we would not have "Obamacare", we would not have the "Bank-Bill", we wouldn't be "negotiating" with the Taliban, and we PROBABLY wouldn't be getting Cap-n-Trade or amnesty.
So seriously...Let's get real. Republicans are NOT the same as Democrats.
Feckless? Gutless? Yup. But not Liberals and socialists.
Margie| 7.21.10 @ 12:27PM
To borrow a phrase oft used by the loveable fuzzball and Dr. of Democracy~ Rush Limbaugh~ "Right on, right on, right on!!"
South Texan| 7.21.10 @ 4:10PM
You are fooling yourself about McCain. He has favored Cap-n-Trade, Amnesty and other favored Democrat programs. There is some hope for things to improve by electing the right people but I think that most of us conservatives will be disappointed. The polls are fake. They will begin to show that the Democrats are gaining as we get closer to election day. Then with control of the voting machines and Acorn tactics it will be difficult to get good people elected. Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.
Linda| 7.22.10 @ 4:15PM
Yeah, the fact that the Rothchilds, in Germany, are behind our voting machines/software is not too good for my heart.
However, given the mass anger, the regular parties, hopefully, won't pull anything too stupid unless things are looking close--and I don't see how that could be unless there's a lot of fraud (yeah think?)
bill granberry| 7.23.10 @ 1:21AM
Everyone please don't forget...John McCain was for TERM LIMITS....but not for old John, he loves POWER toooooo much..
xcon| 7.23.10 @ 8:58AM
John McCain was all for;
1) Amnesty
2) Cap-n-tax
3) Taking more of your money(no tax cuts)
4) TARP
5) Bailouts
6) Not appointing judicial conservatives.
Even if he wanted to there would not be a chance for a conservative justice to get through this senate.
Maybe we would be here faster since he could have possibly co-opted some republican resistance into the assenting democRAT group.
We're lucky he didn't get elected.
RetParatrooper| 7.21.10 @ 4:53PM
The America f our founders is dead. It cannot be resurrected and will not be. The stake of trillions of dollars of debt has destroyed this nation's economy and thus it's might. The people who care for nothing but rhetoric murdered America by voting for radicals who ahve completed the revolution from freedom and capitalism to government central planning and socialism. If you love Cuba you'll love the NEW America
arlo price| 7.21.10 @ 10:28PM
BINGO!!!!!!! We have a winner!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frankly, this bloodless coup bores me. "LET"S ROLL"!!!
martin j smith| 7.21.10 @ 7:49AM
First win the election--then get on the ass of any Republican who even thinks about playing with democrats. In my view very vocal demonstrations telephone calls etc are needed and will be early on to get thru these heads what the people expect of them.
JimP| 7.21.10 @ 8:05AM
Thanks for the rousing column Mr. Ferrara!
One question though. Who are the "Republicans who run exhibiting New England Yankee culture have proven they can sweep the region. "? I'm not sure to whom you are refering and would like to know just for information.
Ken| 7.21.10 @ 3:21PM
Scott Brown ???
JimP| 7.21.10 @ 7:23PM
Ken:
LOL. That's a good one. Let's hope not.
Louis Jenkins| 7.21.10 @ 8:10AM
Wow! Hope springs eternal. Not the hopey changey attitude of the Pretender n Chief, but a real difference. This country needs an enema, but I doubt it will get one. Let's all show up in Nov. and then we can talk about the real change that has taken place. Until then were counting sheep, or goats, which ever suits you.
Cabermon| 7.21.10 @ 10:13AM
Bingo, Louis! Congress does indeed an enema to flush out the bad humours. To paraphrase the late Walt Kelly in the comic strip "Pogo":
"We have met the enema and he is us!"
Fire when ready.
russel| 7.21.10 @ 10:33AM
Yeah , it's still too early . After the election , count your chickens and go from there . It took the socialists fifty years to get where they are . So , we do it in reverse . Too many nay-sayers here , you aren't doing anyone any good .
Linda| 7.22.10 @ 4:19PM
Actually, it took alot closer to 100 years! I do hope we can, with the Lord's help, clean it up sooner than that.
But the article is right. We MUST begin at the lowest level, the school districts, to reverse this disaster--and get rid of the DOE!
Harry the Horrible| 7.21.10 @ 8:33AM
I'll believe it when I see it, not before.
ACORN (or whatever its called now), SEIU, Public Employee Unions, Teachers Unions, etc. are engorged with billions of "stimulus" dollars.
The DOJ has pretty much announced that voter intimidation by "protected minorities" is okay with them.
The Federales have gone out of their way to protect opportunities for voter fraud, like trying to stop voter ID laws.
It also doesn't help that articles like this have set the bar so high - if the 'Pubbies don't win both the House and the Senate, it will be an "endorsement" of Obama's policies.
And, of course, the 'Pubbies have been SOOO effective in countering Democrat nonsense in the past.
Melvin| 7.21.10 @ 8:43AM
"I hope they have a plan of action, and that they select real conservative leaders." As Deborah D noted, this hope might be misplaced to a certain extent.
From the minute that Bill Clinton was sworn in as President for his first term, it was common knowledge that Hillary Clinton harbored the same ambitions as well. Many, many years passed and when it came time for Hillary to run, but Barrack interfered with the coronation the Republicans leadership came up with John McCain to run against Barrack Obama.
Point being, the entire Country knew that John McCain didn't stand a ghost of a chance against Barrack Obama, or even Hillary Clinton but the Republican Party Leadership pushed McCain nevertheless even though it was a losing proposition .
If the Republican Party Leadership couldn't come up with a viable Conservative candidate or even a Conservative political plank all those years, what makes us think that they will come up with any viable options if they should win the House and or Senate?
Seventy plus percent of the Country wants lower taxes, less intrusive government, slash the deficit and at times have been very forcefull and vocal about it, but the Republican Party Leadership still sits there like stone statues scratching their chins, saying, "Weelllll, we don't think that is such a good plan. We think that we should do nothing, and be more bipartisan, and let the Democrats hang themselves while we take the safe approach."
There are those younger and full of fire Congressmen and Senators that want to take the fight to the Democrats but the Republican Leadership stifles or silences them completely to the point to where the young political warriors say, "The hell with it, whats the use of even trying?"
John Boehner, and to a lesser extent Roy Blunt, and Mitch McConnell ,John Kyl, Lamar Alexander
John Thune, John Ensign, John Cornyn appear not to be up to the job of taking it to the Democrats aggressively.
But on the flip side of the coin we need them for their knowledge of House and Senate rules, so we just cannot kick them to the curb as much as we would like. It is definitely a conundrum.
JimP| 7.21.10 @ 8:47AM
One third (1/3) of Rep Party primary voters are the ones who gave the nomination to McCain. The other primary voters were split on various other candidates. Hopefully next time there will be a Reagan conservative that the other 2/3 can all support.
Margie| 7.21.10 @ 11:21AM
The ones who gave us McCain are the Democrats who got to vote in our open primaries, and yes, some Republicans wanted him as the nominee~ but NOT most of us! If Fred Thompson hadn't dropped out of the race, I believe we would have President Thompson right now, instead of Obummer.
Fargo44| 7.21.10 @ 11:27AM
@Melvin: "Republican Party Leadership pushed McCain nevertheless even though it was a losing proposition"
That is untrue. McCain was saved by Joe Lieberman who help him upset Romney in NH. I agree Bush II had done such a horrible 2nd term that avoiding a Democratic president was nearly impossible -- but Romney would have beaten Obama in the debates -- McCain merely made a fool of himself. Romney would have also taken the fight on instead of stupidly ignoring Wright, Ayres and the other vulnerabilities of Obama. Romny would not have acted like a compete clueless fool in the bank meltdown like McCaine either. Don't know how it would have turned out though. But you have to blame McCain on the primary voters.
JimP| 7.21.10 @ 7:27PM
Fargo44:
Great descriptions of McCain. "... complete clueless fool ..." - wonderful.
davelnaf| 7.21.10 @ 9:15AM
It looks good for November. Good article. But the disciple of Saul Alinsky and his minions in Congress are a tricky bunch and, as the author points out, some voters are easily fooled. These people are inclined to buy Obama’s bait and switch—and any number of cons in between—because he is, after all, president. They cling with an almost religious-like conviction to the notion that American presidents are never as bad their detractors claim or, Heaven forbid, as bad as those elsewhere on this benighted planet. But by now the O’s unbelievable mismanagement skills must be giving a far larger number of them pause for at least some concern.
The dregs of the Democratic Party—and, of course, I’m not referring to its loyal voters—will become permanently sidelined in the near future, either run out of Congress or marginalized within it. And this result cannot come too soon. Their con-job must come to an end.
I look forward a future State-of-the-Union Address when Obama is no more (hopefully in exile). But I would rather that Fox did not search out Nancy Pelosi’s by then even more bitter visage for visual commentary (or whatever it is termed). I would rather see her silently walk the halls of Congress for years to come, not as a mere specter of Congresses past, but as a reminder to RINOs and the few reasonably sane Democrats that survive the coming upheaval of the likely consequences of presuming that they are far, far smarter than the American people.
geokster| 7.21.10 @ 9:54AM
from Texas:
I predict Hillary will resign as Sec State mid to late 2011 and begin her campaign for the nomination as she surely still has presidential aspirations.
Remember, 2008 was supposed to be her turn. She hasn't forgotten about it, you can bet on it.
I made this same prediction on a thread over on PJM the other day and was loudly poo-poo'ed in the comments section. I guess we will have to wait and see who is right about what her ambitions really are all about.
JimP| 7.21.10 @ 10:08AM
Sounds reasonable. Kennedy challenged Carter under similar political/economiccircumstances. You are not the only one predicting she will make a challenge. Several pundits have done the same. Wonder what was the problem for the PJM commenters? Maybe they were Obama folks working in a Soro boiler room.
O'Riley| 7.21.10 @ 10:47AM
What is PJM, please?
Ned| 7.21.10 @ 11:06AM
pajama media...?
geokster| 7.21.10 @ 12:51PM
Yes indeed, Pajamas Media.
http://pajamasmedia.com/
An Observer| 7.21.10 @ 1:39PM
It is reasonable and not just because Hillary "wants" to do it. She may be asked to do it by whole sections of the party that up until now have been quiet.
Brian Mc| 7.21.10 @ 9:54AM
I will not believe this country to be on the right path until I see, with my own eyes, the Alien being led away in cuffs.
The conspiratorial corruption that permeates every facet of government must be swept away, in some manner, for this to occur. The same is the only reason we still see Barney Frank holding political office and must continually fight back the waves of nausea that assault our collective throats whenever he tries to speak from a position of authority. Where did I set my vomit pail...?
Ret. Marine...I am afraid you are correct, sir.
Ted Jones| 7.21.10 @ 10:34AM
You speak of conservative Republicans like you are speaking of the leadership of the party. What I have seen is that that leadership is wimpish at best. I live in New York's 23rd congregational district which elected a liberal democrat largely because the state Republican leadership supported a RINO who dropped out of the race AND SUPPORTED THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE rather than the real conservative one.
Bottom line the Republican leadership needs to stop shooting themselves in the foot and get with what the grassroots believes.
R Martin| 7.21.10 @ 10:41AM
Economic politics dominated the 1992 presidential election, and I hope it will do so in the 2010 mid terms. At one point in 1992 Ross Perot actually led the other two contenders with a campaign based solely on fiscal responsibility. In the end Perot revealed himself to be a kook, and he faded but still got a good slug of the vote. This year the economic situation is far darker than it was in 1992, perhaps supporting Ferrara's optimism.
However, he should not celebrate the possibility of a Republican senate victory in Delaware. The likely Republican candidate, Mike Castle, is much closer to the politics of Arlen Specter than Sharon Angle. Castle supported the Democrats on Cap and Trade and Finance Reform, and he could not be counted on to overturn Obamacare or other Obama legislation. Some of us Delaware conservatives are still hanging on the thread that Castle can be defeated in the primary, but that's a very long shot.
bill carson| 7.21.10 @ 10:44AM
This article reminds of a funny line from the movie 'Pulp Fiction' uttered by Harvey Keitel. Remember his character admonished his fellow bad guys not "to start sucking each others' d__ks yet."
The writer here says "America is not, and is never going to be, a socialist country." I don't accept that statement at all. If it were true, Democrats wouldn't have a virtual dictatorial choke hold on this country with overwhelming majorities.
Sounds to me like we could easily keep going down the socialist path. Is there anyone reading this who doesn't think that there could easily be some event or development that would cause the Democrats to keep most of their current power? The American public is highly attracted to socialism or it wouldn't have put Obama in the White House and given 60!! seats to Dems in the Senate.
So the advice from the character in that movie is very relevant, isn't it? Republicans better get much better organized about what we're for, not just attacking the little messiah.
martin j smith| 7.21.10 @ 11:01AM
I sense that voters --the vast majority are not buying BHO and his p[arty's agenda. That said they aren't buying the Republican Party either.
BUT\
In my view this will be a referendum election YES/NO on BHO et al. Not which party do you love. Sonow if Republicans stopped acting like WINOS-"Winning iis No Option" and behave themselves politically speaking they might not just "cruise" they will
"plow" to victory. Voters have to get on their case.
Margie| 7.21.10 @ 12:36PM
Ha! WINO's~ excellent. Great post, so right on. I'm like what yiu say~ that is, I'm not in love with my party. I just want the Communists to lose. And I know how to do it, by voting Elephant and not Donkey.
I love what you said~ if the Pubbies will behave themselves politically speaking~ they can plow to victory!
Prayer and action (by we the people) will get this done.
JmsA| 7.21.10 @ 7:40PM
"Prayer and action (by we the people) will get this done."
From your lips (or fingertips) to God's ear, Margie.
gearjammer| 7.21.10 @ 11:02AM
Cut the r and d nonsense - even a congress and white house of Rhino's would not push the country over such a cliff. Say what you want about people like Gordon Smith and Mike Dewine they were not destructive and vile as this bunch. Please give it a a rest there are not enough conservatives who meet the qualifications of the purist on this site. Leave Snowe and Brown alone they win in blue states-worry why you glorious conservatives can't pick up a senate seat in west virginia. We need a big army to fight these animals.
Anonymous| 7.21.10 @ 11:03AM
Mr. Ferrara, I hope you are right because if there is no political earthquake, America will succumb to the Socialism of Obama/Pelosi/Reid, and America as we know it, will only be an imagination for all of us and our posterity.
Jim Hlavac | 7.21.10 @ 11:12AM
Three scenarios:
1. If the Democrats keep control, things will be all the worse, thus bringing bigger disaster in future years for them.
2. The Republicans get control, and squander it by going Dem-lite, thus following scenario 1.
3. The Republicans get real, go TEA, and actually do something.
In any one of the three, the TEA folks win. The game is over. Either we fix it before it fails, or after. If the Democrats and Republicans simply fade away, oh well, life's tough.
But there's no reason to think that TEA Party people will anymore be lulled into complacency. The problems are too real, and cannot be swept under the rug with a presidential commission and a little nip and tuck to kick the problem down the road. This is the end of the tunnel, folks. The train is going in one direction or the other, but change is a-coming.
alponse jones| 7.21.10 @ 11:14AM
I am for anything that pushes the neo marxists from power and the end to the reid, piglosi, hussein cabal that is destroying the country
But what of these rumors that south carolina's grahamnesty is going to switch parties.
Whereas grahamnesty is no doubt a died in wool leftie, it's hard to believe he would commit political suicide in this political climatre.
Tuco Juan Benedicto Pacifico | 7.21.10 @ 11:26AM
Tuco: "Bill Carson...Are you sure??" Blondie: "Sure I'm Sure." Lights the fuse.
Tuco| 7.21.10 @ 11:28AM
Hey Bill, My mistake. It was Arch Stanton. Bill Carson was in the wagon, correct??
Tom in KS| 7.21.10 @ 11:43AM
The Rs need to spell out a revolutionary list of changes and come up with a revolutionary leader to make them happen. If they continue to be RINO and not conservative protectors of the Constitution, we will continue to slide into European socialism.
Len| 7.21.10 @ 12:06PM
Ron Paul is available and has a plan for getting rid of the federal reserve, social security and the many other unconstitutional programs in this country.
Seriously, when people make comments like yours that ignore someone who has been laboring for a long time for constitutionality I have to wonder just how serious you conservatives are?
Len| 7.21.10 @ 11:44AM
So once the repugs gain control we'll see an end to subsidies, the federal reserve, military bases overseas, the drug war, foreign aid, or is it just the unconstitutional enactments by the left that will be gone after?
Louis Jenkins| 7.21.10 @ 11:47AM
Fox News: A Tea Party Caucus has been formed in the District of Crimminals. For now it appears a dozen or so congressmen have signed on, so we'll see what happens.
Ken (Old Texican)| 7.21.10 @ 11:58AM
Peter,
From your keyboard to God's eyes.
As I have posted before, I believe November is our last chance to turn this bus around.
I also think many incumbent Republicans are keeping a rather low profile through the primaries, testing the actual strength of the conservative block/base. They will be carefully studying the voter turn out in these R primaries.
Look folks, if "getting re-elected" is their most important "carrot", then we gotta' let them know we are serious.
I got another suggestion: Go on line and send $10 to the national Republican party. They will begin mailing you constantly. Send their letters back saying (briefly please), you are reserving your contributions to selected conservative candidates.
Petronius| 7.21.10 @ 12:00PM
The Republicans do not want to win. When they did win they didn't govern. The GOP wants the good old days when the Dems did all the legislating , appropriating, and integrating, while the Jerry Ford types attempted masterbating. They would cut up the tax touch and meet each other on the 1st tee Friday mornings before jetting home and telling us not to bother them. Rush is right. They just want to join the clique. We're toast. Get used to Big Sister watching you and calling each other Comrade.
Ken (Old Texican)| 7.21.10 @ 12:21PM
Petronius,
Are you going to vote? Did you vote in 2008?
Ross Kaminsky | 7.21.10 @ 12:32PM
It's interesting to see political betting on Harry Reid over at InTrade.com.
In the last month, he's gone from the mid-40s (percent chance of winning) to about 60%.
As political betting becomes more popular with the "average" person rather than just people who are really paying attention, it seems to me the accuracy of the predictions has declined substantially.
I sold some Reid around 54% and am offering some more around 60%...
Dean| 7.21.10 @ 1:31PM
Even the defeated Democrats will still be an albatross around the neck of the republic. They will receive generous pensions and slide effortlessly into lucrative lobbyist positions.
I recommend adding to the Navy's shipbuilding appropriation funds to build a couple reproduction Greek triremes. We could use the defeated politicians as rowers. It would be a suitable punishment for the bastards!
jack| 7.21.10 @ 1:53PM
Anyone remember Newts 10 promises in mid 90s? Republicans forgot most to them. The tax system must be scrapped cause thats where theives in congress derive their power. Flat tax with no deductions for anyone. No home mortgage deduction. None. Nothing. We must return to the real world. Companies like GM must go through BK. This financial bill must be scrapped. Obama must be scrapped but
Republicans have to find a way to cover those who can not get insurance. The medical system has not been free market in our life times. There is no consumer power to shop price.
Oldefarte| 7.21.10 @ 2:00PM
Great editorial, Peter, and I hope and pray that your predictions come true. Previous to your article, I also reasoned to to possibility of a Hillary challange to Obama in 2012. Bill Clinton won by moving the Democratic Party towards the center, and away from the liberal extremism of the Kennedy faction that they're historically famous for. Now, with the extremely radical policies of the ultra-liberal Obama policies exposed, the DP will be forced to revert back toward the center after the November forward political losses. In this sense, Obama's election, though destructive and painful for the country temporally, may bring forth a lightning rod of political success for Republicans. It all hinges upon American taxpayer-voters VOTING going forward!!!!
Mattled| 7.21.10 @ 4:11PM
I was poo-poohed back in Dec 08 when Hillary took SecState.
No one has ever come up with a good explanation of why she would take the job.
She lacked Foreign Policy chops. No way she is waing til 2016.
He will step aside and announce his support for her some time next year. He will be hailed as a hero and unselfish, blah, blah.
He doesn't have it in him to wait for the billions, multiple billions, in ex-prez. Hell, he doesn't have it in him to do one term. He's bored. He will be treated like royalty all his life. Why bother a second term?
Don't be surprised some time in the very near future outed as a major shareholder in Petrobas (sent two billlion there for drilling because soros asked him to).
Hopefully someone with cajones will have the "audacity" to investigate him.
gearjammer| 7.21.10 @ 2:50PM
Conservatives are not all fighters. A lot of the fighters needed are often politically agnostic.They simply question things. Rote conservatives dislike being questioned just like rote liberals. We really should question authority-when is the last time a network news person ever had to answer tough questions , a pundit on msnbc. Can you imagine any of these clowns standing up to an intense grilling by a truly smart person versed in the matter at hand. Sadly the same is true for Libaugh, et al. One way know it all communicators are not adequate.
Anthony| 7.21.10 @ 3:39PM
This November's election will finally tell us once and for all if the R party is part of the solution or is part of the problem.
If these gutless, voiceless, hacks don't stand up for what is right, well, we'll just have to deal with them after the Ds are dispatched by the PEOPLE.
David| 7.21.10 @ 5:34PM
Retired Marine, your rhetoric is playing into the hands of the left and their media enablers. They love to hear you talk like that. I am for conservatives, too, not simply someone with an "R" by his/her name. But people who talk like you had better be careful because you will incite someone with big personal bucks to run in a third party come 2012. Who do you think is going to come out ahead in a three-way race..........hmmm?
That is what I think the strategy is going to be anyway. The most powerful and rich people in the world, who are also globalists, internationalists, etc., are going to ensure Bam Bam is re-elected by putting up a third-party candidate to syphon votes from the CONSERVATIVE candidate that we nominate for 2012. You know one of those flippin' "I am an economic conservative and social moderate/liberal types" that always seem to disappoint us when they are in office.
Which brings me to do this: I heard 2 farmers talking, and one said to the other: "You know, Obama is like a turtle on a fence post". The other farmer, with a puzzled look, asks, "what do you mean?". He explained, "well, you know there is something just not right about him being there, you know he is not supposed to be there, you know he had a lot of help getting there, and you know he doesn't know what to do once he is there."
Linda| 7.22.10 @ 4:36PM
OH MY GOSH!!! That's a scarey thought! I never thought of that. Oh, we gotta do something about that.
Gerald Stephens| 7.21.10 @ 5:59PM
OBAMA the WHITE MAN"S FOOL
Obama’s background is totally void of evidence that his intellect is anything above average at best. He was merely a convenient shill drawn into a seriously elaborate ‘Manchurian Candidate’ attack on the United States, the Grand Bloodless Coup. The strategy required decades of exquisite, laborious, and detailed construction. The theory and ground work had been put in place over the span of generations. The plotters drew upon the best of the communist, progressive theses available, Engles, Marx, Lenin, and the American contributor, Alinsky.
The final requirement was recruitment of a male person from an ethnic group within the country that would be easily and emotionally drawn to the group by the individual chosen. It is conceivable that Obama was identified and preened by his favorite communist uncle, then the early years further nurtured in a culture totally foreign to that of America. His college years are spent surrounded by communists, admittedly of interest to him.
A humble college credential being totally insufficient to his future role, he transferred or was more likely transferred to Columbia University. Again it is admitted that he ‘came’ under the influence of a serious lefty professor. Now, along with his minority status, he was inducted into Harvard Law School, an institution accepted by the general public as one of great stature, known to others as a harbor for radicals. A contemporary symbol of just how radical is found in the person of Ms. Kagan. Coincidence one might ask? Or part of the Manchurian effort?
Now the key inquiry is where are any prominent or even significant black people to be found in this fool’s past? Whitey’s hand is never absent in Obama’s accent. Communist radicals, corrupt politicians, union leaders and gangsters, are all white. They found and groomed the perfect ego, one to serve the essential purpose of whipping the minorities and liberals into a frenzy. Absolutely masterly!
Once in power they surrounded him with a few token blacks resembling the subservient Holder model. Even these were of such quality that they were rapidly identified as unfit to serve and some driven out. Again it was a segment of the plan to demonstrate vicious white American racism. Even his cherished black pastor was sacrificed. The score card shows that these vacancies were filled with more white radicals.
Alinsky advocated two principle tactics for the process of overthrowing government. The first was to convince the working masses that the government’s prime objective was to keep them in a slave status. The second was to create chaos within the economy, culture, and government itself. Once accomplished the revolution would be easily fomented.
Did someone say revolution?
WAKE UP| 7.24.10 @ 1:26AM
Guess who said this, in a speech at a public rally in Manhattan, about two weeks after the Kennedy assassination? :
“The American government is trying to trick her twenty-two million ex-slaves with false promises that she never intends to keep. The crooked politicians in government are working with the Negro civil rights leaders, but not to solve the race problem. The greedy politicians who run this government give lip-service to the civil rights struggle, only to further their own selfish interests, and their main interest as politicians is to stay in power. In this deceitful game of power politics, the Negroes are nothing but tools.”
WAKE UP| 7.24.10 @ 1:28AM
Malcolm X said it.
RCV| 7.21.10 @ 7:04PM
Do you not realize how preposterous this scenario is on its face? If you were to carefully set out a "Manchurian Candidate" plot, the very last person you would pick is a black man who grew up in Indonesia, had very little experience, who had attended Rev. Wright's church and knew William Ayers! Oh yes, that would have been an odds-on favorite for election!! You would have chosen the kind of person chosen in "The Manchurian Candidate" - war hero, blue blood, all-American background.
You guys get nuttier by the minute. Truly.
Nick| 7.21.10 @ 8:15PM
RCV,
Unles, of course, you know that we know, that you know, that we know, that you know, that we know, that you know, that we know, that you know that would be the last person in the world you would cast.
Then it makes perfect sense, ya' know?
RCV| 7.22.10 @ 1:46PM
I'm with you, Nick. I read all about it in "The DaVinci Code".
WAKE UP| 7.24.10 @ 1:29AM
Guess who said this, in a speech at a public rally in Manhattan, about two weeks after the Kennedy assassination? :
“The American government is trying to trick her twenty-two million ex-slaves with false promises that she never intends to keep. The crooked politicians in government are working with the Negro civil rights leaders, but not to solve the race problem. The greedy politicians who run this government give lip-service to the civil rights struggle, only to further their own selfish interests, and their main interest as politicians is to stay in power. In this deceitful game of power politics, the Negroes are nothing but tools.”
- Malcolm X
Pretty nutty, eh RCV? Try having that both ways.
Wizard| 7.21.10 @ 9:09PM
Mr. Ferrara - as someone else above mentioned - you really do need to send this link to all the Republicans in Congress so they can use it as a selling point in the upcoming elections - especially to Nevada.
(Uncle) Tom in Michigan| 7.21.10 @ 10:09PM
I can guarantee the Republicans will step on their own d---s.
I am SO disgusted with the Party of Stupid after allowing the confirmation of that THING, Kagan and FinReg (My God! They let Frank and Dodd write it - they should both be in jail! And, Scott Brown - what a waste of food!) that I am actually thinking about leaving the country.
A buddy of mine just got a job in Shanghai. I speak Japanese fluently and, I may just move to Tokyo.
Keep voting for any Democrats and any "moderate" Republicans and, you people can keep this country.
Sayonara, dudes!
Cow Rie| 7.21.10 @ 10:41PM
Great rah-rah article. The problem is a lot of Republicans are Fools - witness the implosion of their candidates and the weak leaders in the Senate and Washington establishment. A lot of Americans are Fools. They are not self reliant, indepenent, civil people. You have an ignorant generation raised by Popular Culture media (witness the recent obsession over LindseyLohan and Mel Gibson). Many know nothing of free enterprise, freedom of the individual, American heritage, or civics. They are the Democrat's fodder and parasites of the State. Also, many of these people suckle at the tit of Mainstream Media and Progressive Internet media. They can't think for themselves.
A lot of work neds to be done NOW and after the election to remove Liberal/Progressive elites in elected office, academia, the media, and the bureaucracies. Dismantling the Socialist Bureaucracy probably will not happen. Have any Bureaucracies ever been peacefully controlled in human history? They are the Monsters of Liberal tyranny. That is why the current Democrats don't care. They think their Obama/Left legacy has been cast.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Not so fast on Mark Kirk| 7.22.10 @ 12:16AM
You forget that Chicago demographics dominate Illinois elections.
Chicago is owned by the Daley Democratic Machine.
I have no doubt that machine can deliver however many votes are required to elect Giannoulias.
You heard it HERE first.
Smirking Weasel| 7.22.10 @ 2:05PM
What a steaming pile of crap from a professional Republican. Pimping Fiorina and Whitman is flacking for affirmitive action incompetence; at least Jerry Brown doesn't scramble to hide his nitwittery. Indiana may be stupid enough to reup Their Bitch Mitch, but giving another taxpayer funded job to sleazy political hack Dan Coats requires outright imbecility. Ill-e-noize is the true home of sleazy hack pols and that point needs to be reinforced to the nation at large, so send the incompetent and corrupt Gianawhatzahoosits to DC and let Kirk the Jerk Hessian up for real-be nice to see some who actually deserves it(Petraeus?-if only!) get their head blown off on the other side of the globe for no good reason whatsoever.
Myrtle| 7.22.10 @ 3:07PM
IF I still have the freedom of speech, I would like to state my opinion. The November 2010 election is done the same way the 2008 was, there is no doubt the DemoRATS will not lose as many seats. Meaning, the entire dirty politics of Chicago, along with the Communists that have been involved and Soros have their say, not legally though, the sitting Congress probably will not have a problem. It is such a disgrace that we, the legals, cannot vote our one vote for our person and win. Illegals are taking over our elections. NO Felony discharges should EVER be allowed to vote. It has been the law for years.
kenny bunkport| 7.22.10 @ 4:21PM
gop gains: house 24 to 30, senate 5...and that's pretty amazing considering the party's approval number really stink
Stephen Browne | 7.22.10 @ 5:31PM
The last time the Republicans won control of congress - they betrayed us.
With the first TARP George W. Bush opened the door Barack Obama walked through - and only a short time after Bush made the most eloquent speech in his speech-impediment life in favor of free enterprise.
OK, so we've got nobody else to turn to. Just remember, Dante reserved the lowest bolgia in the Inferno - for traitors.
ari| 7.22.10 @ 6:45PM
if you're right, this is the best article I've read this week.
JR| 7.22.10 @ 11:41PM
For Republicans to really knock the ball out of the park this Fall, they will have to portray the American people as honest folk that can still achieve properity and happiness through self improvement and hardwork and not as helpless victims of an overreaching government.
Republicans have to get the message out that they will re-open the avenues to self-advancement and self-reliance... no matter what form they will take or what needs to be repealed, etc.
Longplay| 7.23.10 @ 12:05AM
I've heard these rumors about a Hillary challenge in 2012, but her incompetent and downright pathetic performance in a less challenging position shows how over-hyped she is. She's the perfect axample of the Peter Principle.
ogee| 7.23.10 @ 1:33AM
A couple things to remember.
Don't sit this out.
Request a paper ballot.
Use only paper to vote.
Vote for constitutionalists.
Pass it on.
Benjamin| 7.23.10 @ 5:36AM
I pray these predictions come true. I am more optimistic about the House where we will add to a decent group of conservatives . . . but the Senate worries me. I'm afraid we'll wind up with RINOS like Kirk from Illinois and Castle from Delaware. McCain will probably win, and return to his old tricks, and we'll still have Snowe, Collins, Brown and Goober Graham. Oh well, too bad we can't clone Jim DeMint.
Here's a prediction of my own. The GOP wins the House and we get subpoena power so we can unleash Darrell Issa. The American people learn A LOT about Barack Hussein Obama, and like Mr. Ferrara predicted, he does not seek reelection.
Answers1| 7.24.10 @ 12:32AM
Keep up with the 'Obama is a socialist' meme...eventually it will be accepted as fact by all, including future historians.
Chris| 9.24.10 @ 12:48AM
The writer of this story,must be a retard to say" don't get fooled by the democrats".Most people still remember how Republicans have screwed this country up.
wholesale | 9.19.11 @ 11:12AM
I am so sorry to hear that.