Why the republicans should (and won't) win in 2006/8

[Hope springs eternal]

You think it's bad now? Just wait. China hates us, Iraq is descending into chaos, Afgansitain is a coup away from square 1, the economy is ready to fall into a cliff.....

I don't want Democrats to fall into a trap. Remember Carter? We lost the WH for 12 years after that fiasco. Rethugs should win in 2006 and 2008. Keep it coming until the disaster hits. Then, clean up the mess.


Sometimes, the best thing for a damaged buidling, is to knock it down and start over.....

[BobBoudelangFan69]

1. Get Real. The Voting Machines Are Already Reporting ...

GOP sweep in 2006. 2008 vote talleys report complete GOP 'win' (fix) with no democrats in government.

[Toots]

2. What exactly about the Carter Administration do you consider a fiasco?

Was it all the scandals??? D'oh no scandals. Was it the huge deficit? D'oh no deficit. Was it all the war and killing? D'oh no war no GIs killed. Oh I know he lusted in his heart... Bingo the sex thingy...... right a real fiasco...

[BlueIris]

3. Nice try. Obviously you know JC doesn't need defending, but

I doubt this person is listening. Why waste your energy?

Man, the holiday season seems to bring this on, doesn't it? To all the sane people posting on this board: stop feeding them. It just encourages them to start more threads.

[Hope springs eternal]

5. Not what he did, but how he's viewed...

We all know Carter was a good guy, but face it, people disliked him. He had the balls to say to the American people's faces that they were greedy, ignorant and cynical. He was a good president in principal, but if principal was what mattered, would Bush be here today?

No, he would not.


Let the Rethugs win. Then, no amount of ESIS and Diebold can stop people exiling them out of the country...

[Jane Austin]

9. You have any quotations or citations for saying

"He had the balls to say to the American people's faces that they were greedy, ignorant and cynical"?

He didn't say any such thing, and I don't think for a minute he's ever believed any such things.



(Edited for punctuation)

[chalky]

4. China HATES us? China OWNS us. If georgie keeps pissing them off

they're gonna call in their marker--and boy, will we be ska-rewed.

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[Jane Austin]

7. And you are sure our country can be salvaged after 4 more years of this?

That's a risk we can't take.

[Johonny]

8. There's some truth to that.

But I think a lot more people see that coming now. In many ways the train wreck has already happen for many Americans. They want change now.

[immoderate]

10. Back in the day...

I had a left wing friend who promoted voting for Nixon. His reasoning was that Nixon's election would bring on the revolution.

Later on, he admitted that it didn't work out as he had envisioned. In fact, it seems as though the Republicans drew strength, became more radical as revenge for Nixon, and the loss in Vietnam.

Don't ignore that the situation is dynamic, and the opposition is always opportunistic. If we can win then we must, and press our advantages as we encounter them. To think we can only win because "they are so bad" diminishes our message. And as others have pointed out, we can't allow needless suffering.

--IMM

[wryter2000]

11. I wish that strategy worked

I remember liberals recommeding we vote for Reagan as governor of California based on the same logic. We know where that got us.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. How long do you think they should keep winning for?

Until this country has been reduced to rubble and brought back to the stone age? What makes you think there will even be anything left to salvage at that point? And what about the rest of the world? Should they have to suffer the effects of our insane rampages, environmental destruction, and general havoc just so we can give the Repukes all the time that they need to hang themselves?

Countries that get knocked down and "started over" rarely make any kind of meaningful recovery, and they often end up under some sort of long term totalitarianism. The mess will be too big to clean up, and it won't affect just the people in this country. That's too high a price just to make some sort of point about Republicans being bad.