Posted by
Doc Bryant on Saturday, November 11, 2006 8:00:02 PM
Well. My thoughts on the election. First off, I think that it is a
fresh opportunity for the Republicans. Those that occupied the Senate
lacked the intestinal fortitude to advance the conservative agenda,
and that cost them, and unfortunately many others, the election. The
Republican base issued a loud and clear message to the goldbricks in
congress by staying home in droves, and that message was, “If you
can't do the job, we will find somebody who will.” Or, as Trump
puts it, “You're fired.” The sluggards and cowards in the Senate,
along with the President in many cases, bucked the base one too many
times and only moved closer to us when they wanted something. That's
not going to get you votes, boys and girls. Like the Democrats in the
war on terror, the “moderate” Republicans just didn't have the
will to win. Illegal immigration was the straw that broke the
elephant's back. We wanted something done, and it didn't get that
way. Even now the White House is looking very forward to passing the
amnesty bill, and we can be assured that the 700 miles of fence that
was previously voted in will never see a penny of funding.
Could the base have handled this little rebellion better? Perhaps.
We could have tried to take the RINOs out in the primaries, but, in
all honesty, pickin's are always pretty slim there. The primaries
tend to have only one viable candidate and a bunch of loonies that
make me look like Michael Moore. Hence, starting right here and now,
we need to begin grooming some fresh blood for runs against some of
our old wood. If we can get strong leaders past the primaries we will
have no problem getting them elected to national office.
Another good thing that came from this election was that the
Democrats will be able to run roughshod all over the country,
assuming the remaining Republicans are still the spineless jellyfish
they have been these past four years. The Dems can do a lot of damage
in two years, and the whole country is going to get a good taste of
it. National defense will suffer (I hear they are already talking
about cutting the military budget). Seriously, what does it say about
a party when al Quaeda and Iran are celebrating the election victory
as if it were their own? Taxes will increase, which will stall the
economy. The liberal special interests will have free reign over
education, energy policy (OPEC will have us over the proverbial
barrel of oil), and the economy just to name a few.
Unless the rank and file Democrats get a handle on the radicals
that are still controlling the show, which I sincerely hope happens,
the radicals will complete the slow suicide of the party. The Dems
need more guys like Obama and Lieberman. They need to ignore the
likes of Kennedy, Ried, and Kerry, who cater only to themselves and
their extremist pals and not their constituents. If the grass roots
Dems don't clean house, their Marxist buddies are going to run their
party into the ground. They are already hemorrhaging votes from the
Blacks, Christians, and Hispanic sectors, because of their staunch
defense of abortion and gay marriage, and their treatment of
Lieberman shows just how they feel about moderates in their midst. If
they can't pull it together, the Republicans are going to be right
back in two years with conservatives that aren't afraid of a little
political ruff-and-tumble.