Create fiscal insolvency, including irresponsible tax cuts, corporate giveaways and massive spending increases.
Do not value your personal liberties. Divide voters on issues like gay marriage and immigration; challenge voters, and make it more difficult to vote. Allow the government into your bedroom. Let them be able to spy on your personal financial records and telephone records.
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Here’s another one: Base every argument on fear. That is, try to scare everyone into agreeing with you.” I should add that I would put this in quotes: “real conservative.” Because I believe that real conservatives appreciate what’s happening in their names by the leaders of the party dominating their ideology any more than the rest of us do. Other thoughts?
#106906 | Author: DonnaLadd | Date: Jul 14 2006
Also, a new poll shows the pendulum solidly swinging to Democrats this fall: Republicans are in jeopardy of losing their grip on Congress in November. With less than four months to the midterm elections, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that Americans by an almost 3-to-1 margin hold the GOP-controlled Congress in low regard and profess a desire to see Democrats wrest control after a dozen years of Republican rule. Further complicating the GOP outlook to turn things around is a solid percentage of liberals, moderates and even conservatives who say they’ll vote Democratic. The party out of power also holds the edge among persuadable voters, a prospect that doesn’t bode well for the Republicans. The election ultimately will be decided in 435 House districts and 33 Senate contests, in which incumbents typically hold the upper hand. But the survey underscored the difficulty Republicans face in trying to persuade a skeptical public to return them to Washington. The AP-Ipsos poll of 1,000 adults conducted Monday through Wednesday found that President Bush has stopped his political freefall, with his approval rating of 36 percent basically unchanged from last month. Bush received slightly higher marks for his handling of the Iraq war and the fight against terrorism, weeks after his surprise trip to Baghdad and the killing of Iraqi terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a U.S. airstrike last month. But a Democratic takeover of either the House or Senate would be disastrous for the president, leaving both his agenda for the last two years in office and the chairmanship of investigative committees in the hands of the opposition party. To seize control of Congress, the Democrats must displace 15 Republicans from House seats and six Republicans from the Senate. The AP-Ipsos survey asked 789 registered voters if the election for the House were held today, would they vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate in their district. Democrats were favored 51 percent to 40 percent.
#106907 | Author: DonnaLadd | Date: Jul 14 2006
Because I believe that real conservatives don’t appreciate what’s happening in their names by the leaders of the party dominating their ideology any more than the rest of us do. Exactly like I hate Operation Save the Silly Southerners and all the other brain-dead “Pro Life Christian” groups that come through and muddy the waters with their narrowminded and heretical ideas. They believe that they have some right to shout and bully everyone into thinking their way, no matter how wrong it is. There are extremes in both parties, and neither is the way America should go.
#106908 | Author: Ironghost | Date: Jul 20 2006
