The GOP Will Have to Steal the Next Election Because They Cannot Win it

[kpete]

Friday, January 25, 2008

The GOP Will Have to Steal the Next Election Because They Cannot Win it

The Republican party is losing its "business base" because it's on the wrong side of every issue that will decide the Presidency and the make up of congress. Those issues include the economy, the endless war, ballooning deficits and health care. A killer issue is a fact gaining traction even among the GOP: the GOP is bad for a good economy. I've got the stats to prove that beyond any reasonable doubt. Also spelling doom for the GOP is the fact that even hard-nose businessmen are "fed up" with GOP myopia, its fanatical obsession with so-called "social issues", primarily, abortion and gay marriage. These are not the "wedge issues" they used to be. People are just sick of hearing about it! Give it a frickin' rest.

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........The GOP has presided over worse economic growth married to increased federal spending at least since World War II. The administration of Ronald Reagan should have been the wake up call. Reagan's tax cut of 1982 was followed by a depression of some two years. GOP types counter that following the recession, the economy rebounded with a boom. Hardly! At the end of two years of negative growth, in fact the worst "depression" since the crash of 1929, Americans were lucky that the economy merely resumed an anemic 3 percent growth rate, nothing to write home about. Big corporations could write off many losses but inividuals and families, as usual, were stuck with the tab. Many never really fully recovered.

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The GOP find hypocrisy expedient and a recent "debate" is a case in point. All GOPcandidates all but bowed low to praise Herr Bush who has now outspent Ronald Reagan with even less good, Keynesian effect! Reagan had been our biggest spending liberal, tripling the national debt, running up historically high deficits, doubling the size of the Federal Bureaucracy. None of it worked as planned because none of it benefited working Americans. Reagan had in mind "extending the traditional functions of government" but only in order to benefit the wealthy and the corporate.

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much (nice charts & links) more at:
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/01/gop-will-have-to-steal-next-election.html

[NightWatcher]

1. if the dems keep slinging shit tons of people will stay home

[tridim]

15. I bet 3/4 of that "ton of people" don't even know that shit is being slung. nt

[toadzilla]

2. well theyve stolen the last 2, im sure theyre not going to just quit all of a sudden.

especially since they've gotten away with it so well in the past.

[kimmerspixelated]

6. Exactly.

Rove and his "math" groups have probably already finished the software program.

[Iwasthere]

3. The stealing of this next one is in the works...

Once they have their man in place or decided the fix will begin.

[TahitiNut]

4. Well, they have inside help for any theft - so it's sure a possibility.

As I've said, the election is the Democrats' to lose. Tough job, but it seems they're up to it. Throwing Michigan and Florida in the shitter goes a long way towards taking a dive.

[malaise]

5. And they will try

just listen carefully to GENBC as they lay the spin groundwork.

[Uncle Joe]

7. I believe the article nailed it.

Thanks for the thread,kpete.

[Vinca]

8. They probably will steal it. They own the machines. nt

[annabanana]

9. Look for trumped up charges of "voter fraud" and unsubstantiated

claims of "dead people on the rolls" and people voting more than once and, of course, the "monster du jour" the illegal alien trying to vote in our elections...

(like someone without "papers" is just dying to go in and put their name on a Government database)

[bluethruandthru]

10. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.

I talk to people every day who have no clue what's going on in the world. They don't read anything but online gossip sites, they only watch American Idol or America's Next Top Model. They think everything in the world is fine except it sucks that gas costs so much. They think it would be kinda cool to elect a woman president..but everyone hates Hillary, right? - they don't know why..but everyone just does. They think Rudy is a hero and George Bush is a nice enough guy. That's about the extent of their knowledge of the current political climate... BUT you can be sure they'll vote!! Probably for republican because they've heard that "liberals" (that's Democrats, right?) are all evil and want to raise taxes.
:crazy:
Sad, but true!

[L. Coyote]

11. For proof, we have Nixon and Reagan re-elections! Plus Bush during Iran-Contra.

Maybe there is some sort of American pathos that favors gangster types!

[bluethruandthru]

12. No shortage of proof!

How about the re-election of the shrub? Even with all the hanky-panky at the polls...plenty of idiots still voted for him.

[Omega3]

13. they stole the last 2, what's stopping them again?

[FreepFryer]

14. All irrelevant, unfortunately. The US Electorate is too poorly informed to act on an informed basis.

They'll vote against gays and for war. This citizenry is the dumbest we've ever had in this country.

I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'm not.

This doesn't mean they won't steal it (again, as in 2000 and 2004), but it won't be because they can't win.

They can win - on the basis of the gullibility of the American people.

They cheat because they know no other way to guarantee a win.

[Sancho]

16. They ripped off the last two elections...so

what's new?!


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