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To: JDN who wrote (183834)10/24/2006 5:58:47 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793955
 
dumb no.,, lazy most likely or culture . they listen to tv , papers and believe what they hear. average worker will vote with union boss. teachers are voting with democrats, so we have large blocks that hardly ever switch.. so we cross out the red and blue and the only thing left is those districts in competition to determine which way the house will go. it will be tons of money in the few days to try to influence the vote, massive tv coverage , rumors, and newspapers coming out for democrat or republican to influence vote.



To: JDN who wrote (183834)10/24/2006 12:44:09 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793955
 
Dems Play Hide-and-Sneak Before Midterms Written by Joan Swirsky
Tuesday, October 24, 2006


The midterm elections are less than three weeks away and Democrats are
playing Hide-and-Sneak. They are hiding their major players from
public view and using the liberal media to sneak in a dishonest
message about what they really stand for. Why is this?

It's because showcasing liberal House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi
would inform the American public that she wants to raise their taxes,
cut and run from Iraq, disrupt our booming economy by raising taxes
(and the minimum wage) and support her fellow leftists in impeaching a
sitting president. Pelosi, who would become House Majority leader,
thinks this election "shouldn't be about national security," has
consistently voted against military and intelligence funding, is
inveterately for abortion and illegal immigration--and is against the
Boy Scouts!

It's because putting liberal Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid front
and center would negate his oft-repeated accusation about the
Republican "culture of corruption" by placing on the front burner his
own scandalous land deal (small investment, huge windfall, suspicious
circumstances) and his decision to use campaign money to pay for
personal Christmas gifts. Reid, too, would raise taxes, cut and run
from Iraq, raise the minimum wage, and jump on the impeachment
bandwagon.

It's because ultra-liberal, far-left Democrats--which is all that
remains of this sorry party--want to keep front and center the recent
scandal involving Tom Foley, the Republican Congressman from Florida
who resigned the day his sexually suggestive e-mails to pages were
revealed, from being compared to Democrats Barney Frank's and Gerry
Studds' actual, physical, lustful sex with pages and the fact that
they were only slapped on their wrists and rewarded by liberal voters
from Massachusetts with numerous reelections. And they certainly don't
want a replay of Bill Clinton's sleazy serial sexual encounters.

It's because Democrats don't want you to know that our economy is
booming, that the Dow Jones average is the highest it's been in its
history of over 100 years, that gas prices have plummeted, that the
housing market is making a stunning comeback, and that unemployment is
at an all-time low.

It's because Democrats don't want to remind you of the democracy that
now exist in Iraq, and of all the positive things--the opening of
schools and hospitals, the building of infrastructure, the
emancipation of women, a free and flourishing press, etc.--that our
heroic troops have accomplished. And they certainly don't want to tell
you that if we cut and run from Iraq (their most fervent wish) the
terrorists will prevail and it won't be long before they invade our
shores.

It's because Democrats don't want you to know that their hero, Bill
Clinton, failed utterly to deal with the looming threat from Iran,
gave away our nation's most precious national security secrets to
Communist China, endowed North Korea (a longtime enemy and antagonist
of America) with the means to build a nuclear arsenal that now
threatens the entire world, and threw his full support to the most
corrupt organization in the world, the United Nations.

It is crucially important to Democrats (read liberals) that they hide
the people who tout this doom-and-death-to-America ideology, and they
trust that their fellow leftists in the media, who are immensely more
articulate, will sneak in their message in the guise of "objective"
journalism.

It's because Democrats don't want you to know that, should they win
the House and Senate, the most liberal politicians in the
country--Dodd, Kennedy, Leahy, Biden, Rangel, Conyers, Waxman, et al.,
would chair powerful committees and immediately try to repeal the
president's tax cuts, increase taxes, increase the minimum wage, lobby
for liberal judges to the Supreme Court, make drastic cutbacks to
domestic surveillance, reintroduce socialized medicine, continue to
applaud classified leaks that put our country and our troops at risk,
and, as always, continue to abet and appease terrorists.

It's because Democrats don't want you to know that when it comes to
the most urgent issues of our time--national security, the War on
Terrorism, and the importance of maintaining a healthy, indeed
thriving, economy--they have no ideas! Other, that is, than their same
old failed policies of taxing and spending, glorifying abortions,
retreating from military conflicts, supporting that cesspool of
corruption, the United Nations, facilitating illegal immigration, and
generally and regularly--both here and abroad--undermining America
(as, among others, do Clinton and Carter).

But to demonstrate how nervous Democrats really are, and how little
trust they place in the polls and in themselves, they are already
screeching--as they did in 2000 and 2004 about those "stolen"
elections--that the 2006 elections, a la the Diebold electronic voting
machines, will "fix" the numbers to favor Republicans.

The Democrats and the liberal media can play hide-and-sneak until
November 7, but even the most self-deluding among them know that the
American people are not self-destructive enough to give them a
majority vote.

Prolife posted this on Bush 43.



To: JDN who wrote (183834)10/24/2006 1:20:43 PM
From: ManyMoose  Respond to of 793955
 
The problem is not that we are dumb, but that collectively we fail do do our own thinking. We let the media do it for us.