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Originally Posted by pan6467
I'm digesting what he is saying (the conservatives didn't lose, the people were duped into voting for Dems.,
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Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.
Got that outa the way
Rush is wrong, as usual. That's no surprise. The surprise is that Bush was right yesterday. The Dems didn't win, the republicans lost. You're correct in your analysis Pan. Look at how the gay marriage bans went and (in the states that had them) the death penalty votes. Straight republican sentiments are what carried the day. The people didn't vote for the democrats because they like left-wing views. They voted for the democrats because they're tired of the scandal and corruption the republicans have (again) brought to the political landscape. And they voted for the dems because, while they're not left wing, they're not right wing either. Most people are solidly in the middle, and the republicans in power have lately been so far out on the right that they're off the wing entirely.
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America is a penduluum and for the past 12 years it swung right and now it topped out, it's on a downward leftward swing and that will go for maybe a decade then the swing will start back to the Right.
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Here you may be wrong. The dems have 2 years to show the public that they can govern and govern well. If they do good work in these 2 years and help the country heal and grow, then they'll stay on the swing. If they don't, then they don't deserve the power any more than the republicans do.
In the end, what REALLY lost this election for the republicans was Rumsfeld. I'm convinced that if Bush had fired the hawkish SOB 2 weeks ago the dems wouldn't have made nearly as many gains as they did. I'm betting a lot of republicans are PISSED after yesterday's firing, too late to mean anything for their party.