Man, I hope you're right. I've had butterflies in my stomach for the last week, and they'll be there until Nov. 8th! I simply cannot stand the thought of Speaker Pelosi. What a horrible person.

If they anticipate such a "slam dunk," why borrow anything? Could it be the false reporting from the lamestream media isn't working as well as they first thought?

With the internet, the lamestream media has lost it's effectiveness in manipulating opinions and votes.

"If there's a massive anti-GOP wave out there, then you (a) don't have any money worries and (b) don't have any worries for seats in States normally safe for your Party."-MN

Good point.

OT: (AP)- N. Korea informs China of plan to conduct 3 more nuke tests:CNN+

I don't know why the right calls the Leftist News Media (LNM) the "mainsteam news media" when they clearly are NOT mainsteam.

1.The MSM nas been cowed by the Bush Admin. to
the point that they will only report Left-friendly
facts when those facts are indisputable.

2.Compare the conservative T.V. commentators to
the Liberal ones, they and their shows outnumber
the Left by at least 3 to 1.

3.Compare Conservative radio talk-shows to the
Liberal ones, the ratio is probably 10 to 1

4.Where is this Liberal MSM that you speak of???

5. Campaigns cost money, the dems ran out,
so what?

6.I'm new here, (the Wash Post closed down their
political discussions, where I occasionally
found intelligent cons.)Is it commonplace for
you guys to throw out unsubstantiated comments
like "the polling is bogus"???

Good luck to whoever is loaning the money getting paid back. Based on personal experience, the Democrat Party is not good at paying back campaign loans. Probably has something to do with their "entitlement" mentality.

I'm really hoping that any Democrat who runs an ad against conservatives attacking the deficit this year, in 08, or ever again gets slammed with this. How can Democrats be trusted to have a balanced budget when their own party's in debt? This really could be an early death knell for the Democratic party. If their party starts declaring bankruptcy after Air America declared bankruptcy, what does that spell out for a future America run by them? Maybe it's the same thing as happened with the socialists in Russia.

Interesting point Spook. Does that mean, if the loan goes unpaid it becomes an illegal donation?

Great observation Morris. Conservatives and Republicans should use this in their campaign ads.

Mark

If you believe the polls are wrong and that the American people will once again give the Republicans their vote, then it will prove to the world that U.S. has lost its' heart and soul and is a bankrupt nation.

I'm telling ya, the MSM has gotten it wrong - the polling is bogus: the Democrats are heading for quite the crash on November 7th...and the leadership knows it.

You are seriously deluded. NO ONE believes the Dems are in for a crash (ie LOSING SEATS) Even the biggest kool-air drinkers think that the GOP can "limit their loses" and retain control, but you are suggesting that the Dems are going to "crash"?

In your personal experience, even around your like-minded cult, haven't you noticed that the war is growing increasingly unpopular? You really think that the polls are wrong on this and that the war (and the administration that bungled it) is POPULAR?!?!? AND BTW, WHAT IS PLAN IN IRAQ?????

I think you are the one in for a "crash", my friend. I'm going to be very happy to check in on Nov 8 to see your lame excuses (probably "it's the media's fault", or "it's Foley's fault", or "people just don't understand Bush's vision") I'm guessing that you'll be blaming everyone except your party for the disaster they've become.

I'll see you on the 8th when you eat your words!

Canadian - "US has lost its heart" - why? because we won't elect wimpy leaders who will bow to the UN/Europe/3rd world dictators?

Coulterfan - before the Foley scandal, when the GOP was rising in the polls, there was talk that the GOP could have small losses and perhaps even pick up a seat or 2. The Foley scandal knocked the GOP off message but I wouldn't be surprised to see movement back to the GOP over the next few weeks. As for Iraq - I have yet to see a reliable poll putting support for the war below 50% so it is not Vietnam yet. And Bush has been explaining the plan in Iraq for 3 years.

'06 prediction - small GOP losses (2 senate, 5 House) that could be small GOP gains if the GOTV and GOP money advantage do what they are supposed to do.

Why don't Republican committee chairpeople (Iraq Study Group) report the good news from Iraq?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6062688.stm

"A "helluva mess" is how the former US Secretary of State James Baker is said to have described the state of Iraq - and the search is on for the least-worst option for US policy makers."

Baker's suggestions sound exactly like the Democrats! He's suggesting "security first" and "redeploy and contain". Gone are ALL of Bush's utopian fantasies about a "Jeffersonian Democracy which is a friend of the US and an allie in the WOT!"

WHAT IS Bush's Plan?

then it will prove to the world that U.S. has lost its' heart and soul and is a bankrupt nation.

This coming from a member of a demographic group (the Left) which never had a heart or soul and has been intellectually and morally bankrupt for as long as I can remember -- LOL!!

I'll see you on the 8th when you eat your words!

We'll be here.

Gone are ALL of Bush's utopian fantasies about a "Jeffersonian Democracy which is a friend of the US and an allie in the WOT!"

CF, saying it and wishing it doesn't make it so, but as a member of the Left, you certainly should know something about "utopian fantasies".

WHAT IS Bush's Plan?

Go back through the B4B archives. It's been spelled out in great detail, over and over and over and over and over in response to dense Donks like you who keep asking the same question over and over and over and over.

Another retired spook friend of mine emailed me an interesting article about James Baker a couple days ago. Here are some excerpts:

Baker reveals some of his views in a new memoir that does nothing to counter his reputation. That image is one of a lawyerly centrist eager to maintain his credibility on all sides of an issue.

In the book, Baker points out that people often asked him why the first Bush administration didn't overthrow Saddam Hussein. He said he would respond that such a move would have caused ``a military occupation of indefinite duration," many more casualties, and an increase in power for Iran.

But he quickly added: ``Am I implicitly criticizing President George W. Bush for having done 12 years later what his father's administration declined to do in 1991? No, I am not." (emphasis - mine)

and this:

But Baker's history indicates that he represents a change of approach more than a change of policy. There may be little actual difference between ``Stability first" and staying the course: Both would require staying in Iraq until the country is peaceful. (emphasis - mine)

And while ``Redeploy and contain" would change troop locations, it, too, could involve many more years of fighting.

If you Libs think the Iraq Study Group is going to validate your cut and run policy, I think you're going to be disappointed.

Go back through the B4B archives. It's been spelled out in great detail, over and over and over and over and over in response to dense Donks like you who keep asking the same question over and over and over and over.

I know, I know. . . We're out of there when we reach Baghdad, When we capture Saddam, when they have an election, when they ratify a Constitution, "we'll stand up when they stand down", etc.

Runsfeld said we'd be "down to 30,000" troops within the first year of the war! ALL of these 'milestones' have been met, but our force is LARGER than ever and we are suffering MORE attacks per day than before!

I've been paying attention to "Bush's Plan", BUT the "Plan" keeps changing. . .

Borrowing money for a political campaigns should be made illegal. There is no way to sugar coat it--this is wrong and the Dems (my own party) shouldn't be doing it.

But I disagree about the effectiveness of the tactic. If the borrowed $10 million were the difference in the Dems capturing the senate, can you imagine the amount of new money that would roll in to them? One of the reasons the Republicans have had so much money recently is their grip on power and the campaign contributions that go with it.

If the Dems take over, all those campaign contributions (read bribes) would flow the other way. It's gotta be WAY over $10 million every year, especially in light of the tremendous success of the K street project.

Making the borrowing illegal won't stop the corruption, but maybe it's something the left and right can agree upon. It probably won't change until the Repubs are back in power, though...they aren't doing the borrowing. Maybe in the next contract with America?

2 things: WASHINGTON (Oct. 19) - With congressional elections less than three weeks away, the Republican party's approval ratings are at an all-time low, with approval of the Republican-led Congress at its lowest point in 14 years, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday.

"Forty-seven percent of respondents said they were less in favor of keeping Republicans in control of Congress, compared to 14 percent who were more in favor of maintaining the current congressional makeup, according to the poll.

Only 16 percent of respondents approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest level since 1992, NBC said.

In October 1994, when Democrats held congressional majorities, Congress had a 24 percent job approval, NBC said. Democrats lost 52 House and 8 Senate seats in the 1994 midterm elections.

Bush had a job approval rating of 38 percent, down 1 percentage point from a previous NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released earlier this month after the Foley news first broke, NBC said.

Asked who they planned to vote for in the congressional election, 37 percent of those polled said Republicans and 52 percent said Democrats. The 15 percent difference was the highest disparity ever in the poll and up from a 9-point difference a month ago, NBC said.

The poll of 1,006 registered voters was taken from October 13-16 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points."

Yeah, righties....you just LOVE the Wall Street Journal...oh, except when it prints something you don't like. Then it's "junk polling" no better than dumb scientists talkin' 'bout global heatin' er whutever it's called. I mean, damn, it was cold today in my town, so they must be dumb!

Denial's more than a river in Egypt, boys. See you at the polls. >:)

There they go again, inventing straw men so they can knock them down and pretend they made some kind of point. Our fake coulterfan pronounces:

" know, I know. . . We're out of there when we reach Baghdad, When we capture Saddam, when they have an election, when they ratify a Constitution, "we'll stand up when they stand down", etc."

The thing is, the White House never said any of these things. Just as they never said Iraq would be a "cakewalk" or that WMD were the only reason we had to go into the country. But the Left loves to set up those straw men and then gleefully knock them down, and then strut and preen as if they have scored some debating victory.

As for all those speeches made by the President in the year or so leading up to the invasion, those speeches where he constantly reminded us that we were in a war that would last years, decades, even generations---those get ignored, or worse, denied. It is just so much more fun to invent false statements and then rebut them---and far easier than actually dealing with the facts.

I've been paying attention to "Bush's Plan", BUT the "Plan" keeps changing. . .

Geesh, all the other Libs here have been criticizing Bush for being too inflexible. Give me a frickin' break.

I don't have inside information that lets me predict the election outcome. I sense that the country, while not completely happy with the Bush Adminstration, is not as likely as we are told to have a knee-jerk reaction against all Republicans, much as the Dems would like that to be true, and much as they keep telling us it is.

But I did start noticing, months ago, and commenting on it here on B4B, that Ranty Rhodes was setting up her drooling groupies for a Democratic defeat by explaining to them, in her droning adenoidal meanderings, that the Republicans control the electronic voting machines, that these machines can be "reprogrammed" from the touch screens in each booth, and that the Dems were going to saturate the polling places with squads to take exit polling---"because, you know, like exit polls are like, you know, 99.9% accurate.."

In other words, the Democratic propaganda machine was setting its more gullible members up for a defeat. Of course, they had to set up so that the defeat was really just "another stolen election" so they were working on that. And that made me wonder what their internal polls were really telling them.

An Airhead I know defended this view that exit polling is nearly foolproof---never mind that it is a whole lot easier to manipulate "data" which essentially consists of check marks in a Big Chief tablet, made by an agenda-driven activist, than to manipulate a computer which can track all activity and provide a record of all votes.

So while I don't personally have the information or insight to make a prediction, I see the anti-Republican sentiment much stronger on the radical Left than on the street, where people are smart enough to understand that Bush is NOT more dangerous than bombers, that the economy really IS strong, and that Republicans do not really sharpen their teeth every night to make it easier to drink the blood of babies.

And I see signs that the Democratic bluster is just that, and that deep down they are not as confident as their posturing would indicate.

What's to stop a Democrat operative conducting an exit poll from taking note of bumper sticker on cars of people coming to vote, then polling those who have Democrat bumper stickers?

How can exit polls be accurate when they don't know if the people they are polling are telling the truth?

I tend to agree with Almiranta, I think the Dems are setting their supporters up for a defeat. Then they will blame in on the GOP suppressing the black vote, with the GOP manipulating voting machines, with claims of stealing elections.

I happen to be an election worker. My wife runs the elections in our Township. For the past week and for next week, she will be conducting exhaustive testing of each and every voting maching and the electronic tabulator to ensure that the equipment accurately records each vote. If the rest of the country is using similar technology, it is impossible to use the electornic voting equipment to cheat. Further, all the paper ballots are available for inspection.

The claims of GOP voter fraud is nothing more than the Dems acting like cry-babies.

If the rest of the country is using similar technology, it is impossible to use the electornic voting equipment to cheat.

You mean, (gasp) that Diebold is not bought and paid for by the RNC?

It is just so much more fun to invent false statements and then rebut them---and far easier than actually dealing with the facts.

Well, that would explain your whole posting style.

it is a whole lot easier to manipulate "data" which essentially consists of check marks in a Big Chief tablet, made by an agenda-driven activist, than to manipulate a computer which can track all activity and provide a record of all votes.

You've seen the video of the Princeton professors showing how the typical Diebold machine can be manipulated into false vote tallies in a minute or two, right? And how easy it is to spread the same manipulation code from machine to machine? Anybody who votes on such a machine should be concerned that it actually is registering the votes you cast.

But I guess you don't care much about voter fraud, right? Kinda violates your posting style as described above. Besides, that's too much thinking and stuff. And that can hurt.

You really have quite a thing for Randi Rhodes, by the way. Jilted lover?

*Chuckles*

I still want to know what the Dem's response is to the Diebold machines I vote on here in California. The ones with the nice paper reciepts that allow you to have a "paper trail" on the votes. They're really nice machines BTW.

I don't know why the right calls the Leftist News Media (LNM) the "mainsteam news media" when they clearly are NOT mainsteam.

Posted by: 777denny at October 19, 2006 04:54 AM

good point denny!!

So the jack ass party is deficit spending on their campaigns.

Oh the delicious irony.

SeesThroughIt,

Did you read my post? Or is your head so filled with cement that nothing can enter.

As we post here, election officials all over the country are conducting exhaustive tests of electronic voting machines to ensure that the votes are accurately recorded.

Here in Michigan, voters still mark a paper ballot (except those who are handicapped, who can vote electronically, but a paper ballot is still produced). The paper ballot is then fed into a tabulator which counts the vote. The tabulator is not connected to any type of internet or network connection. It is a stand alone machine. It is IMPOSSIBLE for it to be re-programmed remotely to alter the votes actually cast.

My wife is conducting the tests to ensure every vote cast is accurately tabulated. Once the tests have been completed and are certified as accurate, the "brains" of the tabulators are locked in a safe in the Clerk's office. No one touches it until the election.

Now unless Diebold has an literal army of safecrackers/computer hackers who are going to break into the thousands of city, township, village, and county clerk's offices and modify the computer pack (a double impossibility since each computer pack is different because of different local ballot proposals, millage proposals, local elections, etc) what you are alleging is physically impossible.

I don't care what the Princeton professors alledged to have accomplished. As far as Michigan and a number of other states are concerned, it is IMPOSSIBLE to alter the computer pack.

Oh God help us.....Princeton professors crack the machine on video, A-10 responds, "I don't care what the Princeton professors alleged to have accomplished." Right...so...evidence is bad and leftist; don't believe it?

Chris,

Read my post again. If the equipment is the same as is used in Michigan, it is impossible for them to remotely alter the computer pack. There is no connection to a network or the internet. There isn't even a modem or other communications device.

I don't care what the Princeton professors alleged to have accomplished." Right...so...evidence is bad and leftist; don't believe it?

Chris, you know by now that 'evidence' and 'facts' are a gateway drug leading to 'science'. Science is leftist and should always be countered with the Bible. . .