Leading indicators point down for GOP
 

Obviously it's way to early to interpret the impact on the current political mood on elections in over a year, but certainly for Democrats the signs are pretty good.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/...epublican_woes

WASHINGTON - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that "there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs," the 19th century political party long extinct.

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Fundraising for Republican campaign organizations lags. That is strikingly so in the House, where the party committee spent more than it raised in each of the past two months, reported only $1.6 million in the bank at the end of August and a debt of nearly $4 million.

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Candidate recruitment has been uneven, particularly in the Senate, where Republicans must defend 22 of the 34 seats on the ballot next year. Democrats boast top-tier challengers for GOP-held seats in Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon.

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Additionally, nine Republicans in the House and three in the Senate have announced plans to retire. Some of those leaving are in midcareer, when a departure often signals pessimism about the prospects for regaining the majority. Democratic retirements total two to date — both are House members who are running for the Senate.

Re: Leading indicators point down for GOP
 

The democrats will win, even I know that, the country is changing and the culture of the country is changing, Bush & His Illegal Aliens have helped greatly on that one, the only thing the republicans have going for them is the jerks the democrats are running but of course the republicans are also running a bunch whiney cowards, we have no more American Heros, someday we will have a dictator the left wing in this country is already leaning towards that they seem to like the ruthless cruel dictators, I can't understand that one they go out of their minds if an American Cop slaps somebody's face then they run down and make love to Castro & Chavez :confused:

When the democrats win it all I hope they don't forget the Muslim Terrorist because the Muslim Terrorist will NEVER forget them.
Good Luck With Your Freedom, democrats want the government running your whole life and little by little your freedom "to choose" will vanish.

Criminals & Terrorists love Democrats (the new ones)
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Re: Leading indicators point down for GOP
 

We know that, Patters, duh. It's a shame but it is what it is and it will be a disaster for the country. Where you are wrong, not here but in general, is that this is just a normal cyclic swing it's not a sign of Republicans being out of control forever. But the next decade could be very, very ugly.

Re: Leading indicators point down for GOP
 

Of course, I think it's a normal cyclic swing, but the country overall swings left, and never swings all the way back to the right. Today's right-wing philosophy will be largely marginalized, just as what happened with the liberal philosophy of the 1970s. My guess is, if things go well, we'll have moderately liberal (what I'll call new liberalism) government until such time that conservatives reformulate their ideas in light of present day reality. They will have to come up with some kind of accommodation that appeals to both Hispanics and conservatives. That will not happen overnight. The next decade will be fine. You might not like everything about it, but the changes you fear will not happen overnight and will not happen to the degree that people like me want.

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Disaster?

The last time we had a Democratic president, if I recall correctly, we had peace and prosperity. The NASDAQ was over 5,000 and I had millions on my 401(k) account. With a Democratic White House, the next decade will be full of hope and opportunities. We will restore integrity and dignity to the White House. We will get rid of the real terrorists, Osama Bin Laden and his Al Queda thugs. Just like the Clinton era, it will be the decade of peace and prosperity.

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Well, Clinton II will have a stronger Democrat presence in congress. She's also more naturally liberal, I think, although I'm not sure we know what she is exactly.

I think the stock market will do fine and that's important to me and millions of others. However I expect a lot of money to be wasted on "global warming", taxes to go up for social security and medicare (probably not my taxes but taxes of higher incomes), lower quality health care that's at least as costly.

Basically I expect a drive towards the mean and I expect the lives of those with above average abilities to suffer for it.

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A small example and a small look at what America might become under the New Democrat Liberal Left Wing Rule. "SAN FRANCISCO".

Would any of you want to raise your children in that "loony bin"?

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A Hillary Clinton Presidency will be the best thing that could ever happen to Republican Congressman. 2010 would be like 1994 on steroids.

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The country moved to the right significantly during the decade of the 80's. Bloom County used to make hilarious cartoons about this where Bill the Cat was in the center of the Earth twisting a valve which would literally move the United States further and further "to the right."

Since then, we have not even remotely ever reached the level of liberalism that was in place prior to then - nor will we.

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Believe it or not it might be fun to watch that awful women try to run a country, fight the terrorists, raise taxes, increase new taxes, tell you and your family what Doctor to go to and then wait six months to have tooth pulled and while all this is going on little Muslim Back Packers will be waltzing through the airports and all the security people will be smiling and welcoming them because they don't want to offend them, she has a new one too, she wants you to give every child born in America $5000 then when they hit eighteen they can collect it and buy a truck load of coke to shove up their nose.

Many freedoms will be lost under Pant Suit Hillary, the Government will be running your whole life, yes it will be fun to watch all the liberals going to their government appointed Doctors.

The liberals don't like the idea of you having a Motor Home and Boat if the scum bag out in So Central LA doesn't have one so the liberals will try and find a way to take them away from you.
GOD HELP AMERICA but it might be a good thing because after Pant Suit Hillary the people will never elect a liberal democrat for another 500 years.
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Billy Blue Dress Said "I did not have sex with that women"
Pant Suit Hillary Said "Neither did I"
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