
Why would I sit out the vote this November?
I can’t think of any reason whatsoever.
My son and brother just deployed to Iraq. Their deployments will last one year. Now, more than ever, President Bush and the U.S. military need a strong Congress to support them in their mission. Why would I sit at home pouting because the Republican Congress let me down on some issues?
Any Republican or conservative who could even contemplate sitting out Novembers election during a time of war (knowing it could result in a Democrat takeover) cannot be thinking clearly.
Up til now the Democrats have done their best but have only been able to hurt the troops by their words. If they win the House of Representatives in November they will do everything in their power to pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. In essence, Democrats want to take us back to the pre-911 Paper Tiger State Osama bin Laden found so compellingly weak.
I don’t want to even imagine what would happen in Iraq.
Everything is at risk if Democrats take back the Congress. Our courts, the War on Terror and even the economy. Just in case anyone reading this post doesn’t know, the Dow just passed a record high of 12,000 today. Median incomes are doing great.
I am one of the so-called “evangelicals” the Democrats and their media minions have been trying hard to convince that the Republican Party is the party of corruption and closeted gays.
If the Republican Party was composed completely of fat, geeky, short, frumpy, hypocritical, bad dressers, I would still vote for them over the Democrats, as long as they support President Bush and the War on Terror.
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I may be delusional but simply cannot believe our fellow Bush supporters would dream of sitting this one out. Cute boys!
October 20th, 2006 | #
Our enemies know that they cannot defeat us militarily.
They learned from Vietnam that the only way the United States can lose a war is by electing Democrats.
October 20th, 2006 | #
Ens. Nathan Woodward is deployed there as well. My beloeved and hunky nephew. I pray for all of them, every single day.
VOTE FOLKS. THEY REALLY NEED US TO SUPPORT THEM WITH OUR INTELLIGENT CHOICES at the ballot box.
October 20th, 2006 | #
God bless your men. I won't be sitting this one out either. Yeah, the choices are dismal, but at least there's a choice. I firmly believe that if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain, and I intend to preserve that right.
October 20th, 2006 | #
I agree. I am a southern conservative and typically vote a split ballot. I mean, Jim Cooper, a D congressman, has voted closer to my way on immigration thatn the president. But this time I am voting straight Republican. I think that there is too much at stake, and I resent that people are trying to manipulate me with the Foley scandal. Foley resigned in disgrace, that Democrat who did worse 20 years ago was given standing ovations. I know which party is closer to my beliefs, and I am voting for them all the way this time.
Trey
October 20th, 2006 | #
folks, I'm a principled libertarian, and a fierce independent. I deplore the abuses of both parties, and the money and lobbying that produces most of our "political" process and laws. I think we all know that even President Bush has said that Iraq had nothing to do with the "war on terror", contradicting his own Vice President. So, in reality the situation we face in Iraq can't be solved by a brave and competetent military. As much as we'd like to think so. Money, armies, and prayer will not work to force Iraq's three seperate tribes into a democratic nation. There has to be a change of strategy, since our soldiers are in the midst of a civil war there, and we can't solve it at the point of a gun.
That Iraq is the prime concern of Americans is obvious, and this election will be the defining referendum on that issue.
October 20th, 2006 | #
jason karov:
Could I have a link or cite of that bush quote?
October 20th, 2006 | #
Scare Tactics or Truth?...
Pelosi's World.... these are their issues. Where is national security? Where is reference to OUR safety? Where is anything on the war on terror, other than "cutting and running" with our tails between our legs....
October 20th, 2006 | #
I’m Not Staying Home...
In fact, I’ll be at the polls at 6 am, right when they open. Hubby needs to catch a train at 6:25 and we were able to accomplish both on Primary day last March.
Mom isn’t happy with one of our GOP candidates, but I persuaded her that underv...
October 20th, 2006 | #
Just found out that our Ensign is not a Lt.jg.! What restrictions are there on what can be sent on military e-mail addresses?
October 20th, 2006 | #
Why do you keep insisting that Bush is right? Where is Bin LADEN? Certainly not in Iraq. Iraq was never a terrorist threat, just another country (one of many) run by a bad evil dictator, but they had oil. What a waste of human life and money. All politicans are corrupt but it makes no sense for the Republicans to claim a divine right on morality when no one can lay claim to that.
October 22nd, 2006 | #
Who gives a rat's eardrum about Bin Laden. A head without a body is useless!
Republicans do not claim a divine right on morality - we just see so little of it on the other side of the aisle!
When a major national party has to ask itself how it can make the electorate BELIEVE that they have religious principles, that party is bankrupt! Welcome to the Democratic Party's reality!
October 23rd, 2006 | #
Very well said, Gayle.
October 23rd, 2006 | #
It'll Teach 'Em A Lesson...
Want to teach the Republicans a lesson? Vote them back into office. Then email and snail-mail them often! Keep them mindful that they are there only on your sufferance. And if they continue to hem and haw, if they continue to act like they need the Dem...
October 23rd, 2006 | #
Stay home? Let the Democrats take over? You gotta be kidding!
I never miss an election. Never.
October 23rd, 2006 | #
I haven't missed an election since I first voted for Ronald Reagan.
October 24th, 2006 | #
Hi Laura
I've been meaning to write to you....now I will...been reading your blog these past few days...how do you ever find the time?
Well, bless your brother and son and you guys, too!
Love
Bette
October 25th, 2006 | #
I've been thinking about you too Bette. Hope all is well.
October 25th, 2006 | #