How Far We Have Come...

By BigGator5 Posted in 2008 — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

AND HOW FAR WE WILL GO

This bloody election season has lasted so long, that each phase seems like a lifetime ago. The tides of fortune this elections season have come and gone. People once thought politcally dead, have raised from the ashes and McCain, even if he doesn't win, will become legend from his implosion to his stunning candidacy.

But how much has really change and how fast? What you find behind the following link may shock you.

Rasmussen: Fred 28, Rudy 19, McCain 13, Mitt 10

I was just surfing the resent articles on RedState, when all of a sudden, I saw the above article on the Recommended Blogs in the right-hand side. Thinking the title odd, I click on it and check it out. I was confused by the article thinking it is resent as well.

REPUBLICANS
28% - Fred Thompson
19% - Rudy Giuliani
13% - John McCain
10% - Mitt Romney
05% - Mike Huckabee

Fred Thompson's polls this week are building off the bounce from his announcement last week. This is the lowest level of support that Rudy has ever polled.

So much for Huckabee's "surge" in support. He slips from 6% to 5%.

Now I can understand you Fredheads alittle more. You guys where all set to go out thumping for Fred Thompson. I can sympathized because I was once a Rudy supporter. I saw my man Rudy go from National Leader in the polls, to almost dead last in Florida. There was a time even I thought about quitting the Republican Party and going Independent. However, in honor of the only constant in the universe, things changed.

But I get ahead of myself. Let's look at the other poll.

DEFEATO-CRATS
40% - Comrade Clinton
21% - B. Hussein Obama
18% - John "Trial Lawyer" Edwards
03% - Bill Richardson

Hill's got this sewn up. Anyone who comes out and attacks her too strongly will probably permanently imperil their status in the Defeatocrat Party - .

Even people here thought Clinton was a shoe-in for the nomination. Now after a long and bitter fight, Obama has too many delegates for Clinton to catch up. It will now take an act of God to turn things around for her. Clinton's problem was that she thought she was inevitable. That line of thinking leads to contempt and complacency.

Currently, we are starting to get into that line of inevitability. Just because Democrats have torn themselves in half, we are beginning to think this is McCain's election to lose.

This is in fact, wrong. This is election is Republican's to lose. Even if McCain wins, he will be looking at a Democratic controll congress who might be able to over-ride his veto. When congress has a lower approval rating than that of Bush (I know this is over two months old, but things haven't change much here... yet), how is it that Democrats are still individually polling great? What is going on here? Do we really want to replace every Republican in congress before we start voting for them again?

I know a lot of RedState contributors fear McCain working with Democrats when he becomes President. It just might come down to that, if we don't stop thinking there is an inevitability to McCain's Presidency. I once gave into inevitability and have regreted it everyday since. So get out there, donate and vote for Republicans. At the end of the day, I rather them be incharge of Congress and the Presidency than either or none.

I have a couple of quotes I would like to share with you and hope they inspire you like they have inspired me:

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." -Shakespeare

"The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat, it is to prevail." -George W. Bush

"America is too great for small dreams." -Ronald Reagan

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Thank you for your Monday wake-up call by civil truth

The Presidential campaign makes for entertaining theater, and certainly an Obama victory could signal the end of the Republic, but as you remind us, Congress is a key player too (and here the picture for Republicans gets more grim).

After all, as you note, McCain's ability to effect his program (and to get suitable judges on the Supreme Court) will depend on the party margins in Congress. And for that matter, Obama would not have an open path towards destroying our country if his party does not have effective control of Congress.

The Republican party leadership in Washington needs to hear from the party and change course before our ship irreparably smashes to bits on the shoals of an unforgiving electorate, having lost its bearings and drifted too far from its home.

And Rightly So!

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Then What Was 2006? by BigGator5

Wait, then what was the 2006 vote all about? A test run on the punishment that we can inflict?

I'm currently willing to give Republican Leadership the benfit of the doubt. We have showed them that uncontrolled spending will not win them elections. Why are we electing Democrats who's mandate is to spend like drunken sailors?

Let's stop the inner-party blood letting. It will only hurt the rest of the country in the long run.

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I was not advocating Republicans voting for Democrats by civil truth

It was a bit early and I think my comment came out a bit garbled at the end.

What I meant was that the Republican leadership needs to hear what we're telling them and our Congresspersons need to start behaving with fiscal responsibility and less behavioral arrogance, or the swing voters will see no reason to resist the siren call of the Democrats. I mean, Republicans cannot compete with Democrats when it comes to free-lunch menus and ostrich foreign policies.

But I don't plan (or advocate) voting for Democrats purely to teach the Republican party leadership a "lesson" - the danger to the Republic of a runaway Congress is too high.

And Rightly So!

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5 by speciallist

"Let's stop the inner-party blood letting. It will only hurt the rest of the country in the long run."

Yes....Stop the Faction Wars.

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