Byron York reports on the peddling of “The List,” which I mentioned last week.
He’s tracking down the source, which appears to be a small non-profit AIDS education group in California. But what interests me is this part:

As it turned out, at……

Election Day & Staying Home [Bill Bennett]

Okay, look. Now is the time for all good men—and women—to come to the aid of the party.

In 1960, Barry Goldwater famously shouted, “Grow Up Conservatives.” It took 20 years for that call to be heeded, and we got the expanded, entrenched Welfare State, a disastrous & humilitaing foreign policy in the meantime; and Ronald Reagan’s presidency was about attempting to roll back those 20 years as much as moving forward on a positive agenda.

Look, if you want John Paul Stevens replaced on the Supreme Court with a carbon copy, pro-choice, pro-racial preferences Justice, stay home.

If you want Donald Rumsfeld hauled before Congress every week justifying the war rather than fighting it, stay home.

If you want spending to increase even above the levels you are unhappy with now, stay home.

If you want Henry Waxman holding hearings on every aspect of the administration’s actions, stay home.

If you want to see the war in Iraq defunded to the point of withdrawal so that the worst elements in Iraq take over and a repeat of the helicopters-fleeing-Saigon-type-images come back all over again, signaling a decade-long disrespect and doubt of American power, stay home.

If you want to keep the border unsealed, stay home.

The stakes are large, we can’t afford twenty years, we can’t afford two years of this. If you want a change in your Congressional leadership, fine, wait until you have the election, then demand it, with a new GOP speaker and majority leader if you want…but let me tell you, a new minority leader and a new minority whip will not get you much, it won’t get you anything.

Two years ago we sent a message by reelecting the President, have things fallen so hard since then that we can’t muster those numbers again and see that the good should not be traded in for the bad? You want to rue a day? You will rue a day with John Conyers as head of the House Judiciary and Pat Leahy as head of the Senate Judiciary. Don’t do it. Please don’t do it.
Posted at 6:35 AM

The Democrats are the Whigs. The Republicans have become what the Democrats used to be. We’re all left out in the cold.

SouthernGent on October 9, 2006 at 5:18 PM

I’m not sure I get the Whig reference? Is your meaning the Ds are a party that has outlived its usefulness or relevance? If so, I would question your comparision, the Whigs joined with the abolishionists to form the R party if I am remembering my history correctly. So the Whigs evolved as it were. Not a bad thing in a political party.

(It’s entirely possible I have this wrong, any serious study of American history was many moons ago for me!!)

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Conservatives must ask: Would Ronald Reagan mope? Nope. We know that conservative ideas — the basic conservative approaches to public policy that have guided the party for more than a quarter-century now — are good ideas. Lower taxes, less regulation…

This is not a time to give up, but a time to fight. For us to loose is not an option. Second plave here means giving up. If you decide not to vote, or ( sorry AP ) vote for the enemy, do not complain to me when our days are darker.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/87789,CST-EDT-STEYN08.article

The October surprises continue. Will they affect the vote of Evangelicals and Conservative women?……

*shrug*

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been all over the place talking about what Democrats will do after they win Nov. 7. But it’s hard to take her seriously when she promises to “jump-start our economy and reform our economic policy . . . to address the needs of working families.”

Huh?

“Jump-start the economy”? That’s what President Bush did in 2003, when he pushed through bold, broad tax cuts to end a slump that began in 2000 under a Democratic administration.

Since the cuts took effect, the economy has added $1.26 trillion in real output, $14.4 trillion in net wealth and 5.8 million new jobs, while productivity has grown 10% and business investment 24%. Since 2000, total consumer spending has risen $1 trillion — nearly $8,000 per household — after adjusting for inflation. The Dow Jones industrial average is hitting new highs.

Then there’s the budget deficit, which the Congressional Budget Office reckons will come in around $250 billion. By our calculations, that’s about 1.9% of total output. In early 2004, when Bush vowed to halve the shortfall, it stood at 3.6% of GDP.

The fact is — and we’re dealing with facts here, not fantasies — this economy has done better than anyone expected, especially given the mammoth hits it took in the months just before and after Bush took over in January 2001. Democrats know this full well, despite their rhetoric.

What do the Democrats promise to do about all this prosperity? They’ll let the tax cuts lapse, socking millions with billions of dollars in higher levies. They’ll raise the minimum wage, hurting the working poor and those with the fewest skills and the least education. And they’ll extend jobless benefits, a move that in the past has kept unemployment high (but which today, at 4.6%, is below the average of the last 40 years).

They’ll also try to impose new regulations across the economy on everything from energy to broadband, punishing industries they don’t like and subsidizing those they do.

Worst of all, they’ll do nothing — absolutely nothing — to stop the growth in entitlement spending that will start to engulf the treasury beginning in 2009. Their solution as always: more taxes.

And this is just what they’ll admit to. Who knows what else is in store.

We may never have another election in which all the voters are supposed to be legal citizens.

The good news for me is that a “protest vote” is to vote against detestable scumbag Jim Moran (D-VA).

The bad news is that Moran’s district is as safe as can be, so it just doesn’t matter.

They said the decision has caused friction with officials at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which historically has been the only party entity to run commercials on behalf of its candidates.

No wonder the Republican candidates for the Senate have been doing so badly! It is about time the RNC takes over.

How sad the Foley scandal has sucked all the air out of the debate over the nation’s future. How tragic that many will now sit this election out for all the wrong reasons. When they wake up to find their taxes raised, the economy stumbling and their incomes falling behind, they’ll regret their lassitude. But then it will be too late.

We’re letting the Dhimmicrats win!

And then they reneged on it last week. While trying to trick people into thinking it was still going through. See Kaus.

However, I find that 23% number rather dubious. I would never imagine that much of a margin for the Whigs Democrats.

I’ll be just as inclined to sit it out if the Republicans puss out and offer up Hastert as a sacrifice to appease Pelosi and her NAMBLA supporters as I will if Bush doesn’t sign the fence bill.

For weeks before the presidential election, the gurus of public opinion polling were nearly unanimous in their findings. In survey after survey, they agreed that the coming choice between President Jimmy Carter and Challenger Ronald Reagan was “too close to call.” A few points at most, they said, separated the two major contenders.

But when the votes were counted, the former California Governor had defeated Carter by a margin of 51% to 41% in the popular vote—a rout for a U.S. presidential race. In the electoral college, the Reagan victory was a 10-to-l avalanche that left the President holding only six states and the District of Columbia.

No, I’m not predicting a landslide for the GOP.
Just saying polls don’t overly impress me.
I’m too old to be spooked by journo-political “science”.
Especially so when divisive personalities and/or events are in play.