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SunsetDreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 06:41 PM
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Conservative media forecast dark results if Dems retain majority in November
More fear, guess their internal polls might not be looking so good after all.
"We must win, or Amurika will pay!"

Conservative media figures have used extreme and violent rhetoric to drum up support for the GOP in the midterm elections and have warned of the consequences of continued Democratic majorities in Congress.

Conservatives warn of dire consequences of midterm elections

Blankley: "he country will be rocked to its core" if GOP fails to reclaim majority. In an August 9 Washington Times op-ed, Tony Blankley warned that the country will be "rocked to its core" if the GOP doesn't retake the House this fall. He also described a "foul and dangerous brew" that the Republicans will need to counter, a part of which, he said, is "the thwarting of the public will -- with glee -- by the entrenched, non-elected powers (in the courts, media, colleges and government bureaucracies)." After listing all the conservative policies he hopes will be enacted if the Republicans do end up with a majority, Blankley wrote:

No, what worries me is a scenario in which the GOP does not take back the House and at least make major gains in the Senate, or takes it back but fails to find the power to begin having a serious check on administration policies and actions. I don't say that with a mere partisan, boostering mentality.

Rather, if the upcoming election results fail for any reason (including GOP campaign incompetence) to empower the public's overwhelming desire to stop and reverse the "fundamental transformation" of the United States -- I suspect the country will be rocked to its core within the following months and few years.

Conservatives at Right Online conference use extreme rhetoric to stump for GOP votes in midterms.

While speaking at the 2010 Right Online conference, held July 23-24, a number of conservative media figures used extreme rhetoric to show support for the GOP in the upcoming midterm elections.

•Fox Business contributor Herman Cain expressed his hope that "in November of 2010, we're going to change the house of politicians back to the House of Representatives, the way it was supposed to be" and "take back our government."
•RedState's Erick Erickson, who is also a CNN contributor, stated: "We're coming. We're going to take over." Erickson later attacked the left for being "so wrapped up in this idea that we should all be equal" when, he claimed, "he only way for us to be equal is for us to be slaves ... to government."
•Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund said that "very 75 years is a generation that is called upon to do maximum sacrifices to keep this country free" and that "you're the next generation." He went on to say that former Democratic pollster Pat Caddell "says the polls he looks at shows this country is in a pre-revolutionary mentality."
•After saying that the United States had won against the British Empire, German militants, Nazis, and communists, radio host Kirby Wilbur declared: "We're at a crossroads in American history where on November 2, we will decide if we are the America of Van Jones and Reverend Wright and Saul Alinsky or the America of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson."
•Fox News host Andrew Napolitano told the audience that they were one of the few generations "granted the role of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger."


More at link: http://mediamatters.org/research/201008100058
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 06:48 PM
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1. GOPs are all fear based
and the only way to get those people to vote is to scare the hell out of them over some stupid wedge issue. That's why the party is flailing around so much, all the usual issues aren't working any more because people know the GOP gets in, cuts taxes for fat cats, and that's it. Period.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 06:48 PM
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2. Idiots.
They have ZERO good ideas, so what do they do?

They turn to that hoary canard: TERROR

:eyes:
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SunsetDreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 10:05 PM
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8. Exactly,
that's all they have.
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 06:52 PM
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3. What are they talking about?
I really don't get it.

:shrug:
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 07:09 PM
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4. GOP tactics: A pictorial (VERY pic heavy)
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SunsetDreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 10:08 PM
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9. LOL nice pics
I had forgotten about "B" girl. What a stunt she pulled.

The sheep at the tv screen about says it all. Thanks for the pics.
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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 07:12 PM
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5. That's interesting because where we're at right now is the result....
...of the GOP having been in the majority for 8 years. I wonder if the voting public will forget that come November? Sheeple will if they're told to I guess.

bytheway I'm not shocked at being an America of Van Jones, and Reverend Wright. I am shocked at being an America completely (including our government) owned and controlled by corprate interests. Jefferson et al warned about that, and lo and behold, here we are.

Interesting how these inbred, brain-rotted hyenas can twist facts into forms unrecognizable from their original state. And, sheeple sit there all ogle-eyed getting mesmerized by it.

The way we all ARE equal is that we are all slaves to corporations - who control the government and all the wealth in the nation. There is them - and us. That is all. If we want to survive, then we slave for corporations - we serve them. Otherwise, as far as they are concerned, we can just drop dead. Soon. That IS their attitude. Bank on it.

We are already slaves. But these conservative feces-flinging propagandists conveniently leave that part out.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 08:51 PM
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6. These clowns HAD the government (remember 2004?) and blew it.....
They really are the most ludicrous bunch of idiots.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 09:26 PM
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7. Since there are more Democrats and more sane republicans
along with the military and the National Guard, who do these "people" think they will overcome and take over the government if they get violent.

I posted a meaning of CONservative found in the dictionary and one of the meanings say..they think they have a divine right. Hits the nail on the head doesn't it. They think they have the divine right to rule this country and do what they want.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 10:10 PM
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10. Well I will agree on ONE thing with these guys
We are indeed in a pre-revolutionary or civil war environment. Boys you've had a lot to do with that.

And as the Empire falls those pressures will just get worst.

That said, this is standard now for BOTH parties it seems. FEAR.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 10:13 PM
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11. Dark results are called MOVE! They need to start looking for another country!
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 11:05 PM
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12. Sounds like they're about to junk that "majority rules" thing
Which is the first refuge of the tyrant. Can't win fair and square? Seize power. It worked soooo well all through the 20th century.
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