Crunch Time: Time to Vote
Its crunch time. After today we will know how the nation’s capitol will move forward on the war on terror, taxes, and family values. Ask the Republicans and they will tell you we need to stay in Iraq to keep America safe, low taxes to keep America’s economy chugging along, and a return to family values with issues like abortion and gay marriage. Ask the Democrats and you might get an answers like: we need to withdraw from Iraq now, raise taxes on the rich, and have ‘reproductive choice.’ This difference is between staying the course and change. Understanding the what this election is all about is essential—something with which the American people have been lax.
But there are indications that the American people are waking up to the realities of a Democratic win. By Nancy Pelosi’s own admittion, a Democratic win would mean raising taxes, a pull back from Iraq, abortion on demand, legalized gay marriage, and raising the minimum wage. This would mean Nancy Pelosi would be speaker of the House and third in line to the presidency in the case of a disaster. The question is—can our country survive under the leadership of a bunch of liberal Democrats? As the election has gotten closer, the American people are beginning to back off supporting such a liberal agenda. After all, these are the same people who do not support our troops.
Now even the New York Times is beginning to warn their fellow Democrats (the Times is very liberal and has not endorsed a single Republican candidate this election) not to expect too much from this election.
In most midterm elections, an out-of-power party picking up, say, 14 seats in the House and five seats in the Senate could call it a pretty good night.
But for Democrats in 2006, that showing would mean coming up one seat shy of taking control of both the Senate and the House. And it would probably be branded a loss — in the case of the House, a big one.
For a combination of reasons — increasingly bullish prognostications by independent handicappers, galloping optimism by Democratic leaders and bloggers, and polls that promise a Democratic blowout — expectations for the party have soared into the stratosphere. Democrats are widely expected to take the House, and by a significant margin, and perhaps the Senate as well, while capturing a majority of governorships and legislatures.
These expectations may well be overheated. Polls over the weekend suggested that the contest was tightening, and some prognosticators on Monday were scaling back their predictions, if ever so slightly. (Charlie Cook, the analyst who is one of Washington’s chief setters of expectations, said in an e-mail message on Monday that he was dropping the words “possibly more” from his House prediction of “20-35, possibly more.”)
Some Democrats worry that those forecasts, accurate or not, may be setting the stage for a demoralizing election night, and one with lasting ramifications, sapping the party’s spirit and energy heading into the 2008 presidential election cycle. (emphasis added by TRS)
This is like saying, ‘I thing we will win and win big, but there is a chance things may not work in our favor. So be ready.’ I have been saying for some time that the Democrats have been counting their wins before the voters go to the polls. When push come to shove, the American people understand their pocketbooks and their way of life is under fire from the Democrats. No wonder the Democrats are beginning to worry.
Hopefully the American people have waked up. Republicans may not be happy with some of their representatives in Washington, but at the same time they understand that a Democratic win will not be good for the country. Democrats may hate George W. Bush, but it is harder to vote against a candidate than for one.
This election is extremely important. It comes down to whether to vote for higher taxes or lower taxes, abortion on demand or support life, cut-and-run from Iraq or defeat the terrorists while away from America, let the terrorists do what they will or to listen to their phone calls, let the UN run America or let us run ourselves, open borders or protect our borders, blame America or support America, call our troops terrorists and stupid and murderers or support our troops, and do what ever you want or a return to family values. In all cases the former are the Democrats while the later are the Republicans.
There are very good reasons to support Republican Party candidates this election and making sure you vote for them is paramount to keeping America safe and prosperous.
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