Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln.
Tuesday's elections, which shifted the power from the Republicans to the Democrats offers us Conservatives lessons that we would do well to remember in the future.
Before we get to the lessons, just a little note about how well we took this. While there was disappointment, it was not like 1994 when the Media, seeking to explain the election, decided it was angry white men who decided to avenge the 1992 election.That, of course, was non-sense, as were the 2000 and 20004 'stolen election' screeds from mental midgets about Florida and Ohio. No, when we lose an election, we stand up, brush the dust off and go forward.
Lesson One: Want But Settle. Politics is an imperfect world. True, it does not make sense for people who want Washington to be fiscally responsible to like a bridge to nowhere. It does not make sense for people who want moral responsibility to support a party where they looked the other way when there was a Pervert first class in their midst. But, it does not make sense to torpedo that party to 'teach it a lesson' when all it does is give the Democrats power to raise taxes to fund their own bridges to nowhere and to push the Gay agenda. Denny Hasert was not the Speaker of The House for the ages. But now you have Nancy Pelosi, who put the LIB in liberal. She not only wants to impeach Bush, she wants to impeach Laura Bush and spade that ugly dog of theirs.
It is sort of like 1992 all over again. You want to punish Pappy Bush for raising taxes but you help put in Bill Clinton, the only man ever to go into politics to meet chicks.
Lesson Two: Watch Your Mouth. Rush Limbaugh is really not a bad guy. He almost single handly resurrected the AM band of the radio dail. His 'children', the new talk show hosts range from bad to good but they all provide a prospective that you do not get on CNN or any of the network news shows or commentary. He was the new media before the new media came around.
However, Limbaugh saying Michael J.Fox was "acting" in his commercial for Claire McCaskill was just plain mean and stupid. Limbaugh point, like Ann Coulter's, is very valid: liberals like to use victims to create an invisible force field around an argument where you cannot discuss an issue without appearing to be discrediting the person. When liberals rallied around Cindy Sheehan, stating she had absolute moral authority because she lost a son in Iraq, Coulter correctly wondered if a mother lost two sons in Iraq, would she then have twice as much absolute moral authority than Sheehan? This you can think about. You don't think about someone implying they enjoy their husband's death. It gets everyone off topic. Soon, we are no longer talking an issue-we are talking about a person and how mean they are. It really gets us off track and we really need to stop it. Let Al Franken and those guys use the cut downs and the jokes.
Lesson Three: We Need Each Other. One of the first groups blamed when the votes went South were Evangelicals. It is always funny to me that you blame the one group that consistantly takes it on the chin for the Republican party. Yet, since, 1980, they have been the one group that supports Republicans with time and money. Here the Democrats are better than us. When they lose an election, they go screaming about Diebold computer voting machines. They don't blame African-Americans.
This is where tolerance would be a good thing because it helps you obtain your goals. Evangelicals need the Libertarians, who will bring an intellectual sense to the party and help broaden the appeal of the party. Libertarians need the Evangelicals to give the party of moral force, even though that might make the Libertarians shutter.
This election was not a good thing. I think it sends a signal to the Islamic facists that we are weak. But politics is sometimes the ability to make Chicken Salad out of Chicken Feed. The Republicans did that in 1994 after 1992.
Before we get to the lessons, just a little note about how well we took this. While there was disappointment, it was not like 1994 when the Media, seeking to explain the election, decided it was angry white men who decided to avenge the 1992 election.That, of course, was non-sense, as were the 2000 and 20004 'stolen election' screeds from mental midgets about Florida and Ohio. No, when we lose an election, we stand up, brush the dust off and go forward.
Lesson One: Want But Settle. Politics is an imperfect world. True, it does not make sense for people who want Washington to be fiscally responsible to like a bridge to nowhere. It does not make sense for people who want moral responsibility to support a party where they looked the other way when there was a Pervert first class in their midst. But, it does not make sense to torpedo that party to 'teach it a lesson' when all it does is give the Democrats power to raise taxes to fund their own bridges to nowhere and to push the Gay agenda. Denny Hasert was not the Speaker of The House for the ages. But now you have Nancy Pelosi, who put the LIB in liberal. She not only wants to impeach Bush, she wants to impeach Laura Bush and spade that ugly dog of theirs.
It is sort of like 1992 all over again. You want to punish Pappy Bush for raising taxes but you help put in Bill Clinton, the only man ever to go into politics to meet chicks.
Lesson Two: Watch Your Mouth. Rush Limbaugh is really not a bad guy. He almost single handly resurrected the AM band of the radio dail. His 'children', the new talk show hosts range from bad to good but they all provide a prospective that you do not get on CNN or any of the network news shows or commentary. He was the new media before the new media came around.
However, Limbaugh saying Michael J.Fox was "acting" in his commercial for Claire McCaskill was just plain mean and stupid. Limbaugh point, like Ann Coulter's, is very valid: liberals like to use victims to create an invisible force field around an argument where you cannot discuss an issue without appearing to be discrediting the person. When liberals rallied around Cindy Sheehan, stating she had absolute moral authority because she lost a son in Iraq, Coulter correctly wondered if a mother lost two sons in Iraq, would she then have twice as much absolute moral authority than Sheehan? This you can think about. You don't think about someone implying they enjoy their husband's death. It gets everyone off topic. Soon, we are no longer talking an issue-we are talking about a person and how mean they are. It really gets us off track and we really need to stop it. Let Al Franken and those guys use the cut downs and the jokes.
Lesson Three: We Need Each Other. One of the first groups blamed when the votes went South were Evangelicals. It is always funny to me that you blame the one group that consistantly takes it on the chin for the Republican party. Yet, since, 1980, they have been the one group that supports Republicans with time and money. Here the Democrats are better than us. When they lose an election, they go screaming about Diebold computer voting machines. They don't blame African-Americans.
This is where tolerance would be a good thing because it helps you obtain your goals. Evangelicals need the Libertarians, who will bring an intellectual sense to the party and help broaden the appeal of the party. Libertarians need the Evangelicals to give the party of moral force, even though that might make the Libertarians shutter.
This election was not a good thing. I think it sends a signal to the Islamic facists that we are weak. But politics is sometimes the ability to make Chicken Salad out of Chicken Feed. The Republicans did that in 1994 after 1992.
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