Hot Air has an interesting update on Lieutenant Governor and defeated US Senate candidate from Maryland, Republican Michael Steele. He’s black, conservative, engaging, intelligent and Catholic, and he nearly turned the Maryland political landscape on …

Ummmm, no, that’s just plain wrong. A fertilized egg has a vastly greater potential to become a human life than does sperm.

the Treason Party (your party)

Ah, a breath of fresh jingoism. Always stirs the senses in the morning.

One terrorist strike in the USA on your watch and your party will be out of business for years to come.

No, actually, I’m pretty sure Bush will get the blame for it and your party will be out of business for a good decade or two, given that the public doesn’t support your agenda on gays in the military, civil unions, abortion, etc…

And thus if you fail on national security, your big issue, your entire party will collapse everywhere outside of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.

And given Al Qaeda’s boast to blow up the White House and that they will bring terrorism to the United States again, I’d say your party’s chance of staying in power or gaining the White House in 2 years to be near zero.

If there is a terrorist attack on American soil, the blame shall fall on you. 60% of the public believes the Iraq War has made America “less safe” and thus if there are any further terrorist attacks and they are conclusively linked to Iraq, the anger that will wash over this country against you will be unimaginable.

Unlike you, however, I don’t actively pray for terrorists to murder American citizens to help my political party in an election. A lot of you seem to be doing that nowadays. While you’re lecturing us about love of country.

Between now and 2008, the Treason Party (your party) is gonna screw up the war on terrorism, as surely as the sun rises. You can’t help yourselves. Your party doesn’t have the foggiest idea other than cut and run.

And those moderates who were upset with the war as run under Bush, that gave you the margins you needed to win, PLUS the Republican voters who sat it out are going to vote your party out again.

One terrorist strike in the USA on your watch and your party will be out of business for years to come.

Opposition to the NSA terrorist tracking programs, giving captured terrorists ACLU lawyers and access to the courts, opposition to interrogation, and your innate hatred of the military will be all that is needed for the Republicans to beat you after the next attack.

Especially as they remind the voters that when the Republicans were in charge there were not terrorist strikes in the United States.

And given Al Qaeda’s boast to blow up the White House and that they will bring terrorism to the United States again, I’d say your party’s chance of staying in power or gaining the White House in 2 years to be near zero.

You know, Grabrook, most of the bloody Senate seats that you damn Dhimmis won, you won by 1-2% of the vote–hardly what I’d call a popular “mandate.”

By the way, the Senate isn’t what matters when it comes to gauging the will of the people. The House is. The senate will always tilt in favor of conservatives and Republicans because there are more “red states” than “blue states”, and hence if every red states just elected Republicans and every blue state just elected Democrats it would 62-38 for the GOP. Winning in your own territory does indeed count for a lot. What matters more is the House and the popular vote.

The exact numbers are still fuzzy, but it’s clear at this point that the Democrats won the popular by at least the 8% margin Republicans won it by in 1994, which I’d say gives us a pretty big damned mandate. More likely than not, we won it by 10-12%, which is the largest mandate that would be required since the 70′s.

SAY WHAT?
I live in Texas and we LOVE John Cornyn–what are you smoking?

I’m smoking SurveyUSA:

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrack.aspx?g=3478c82b-c958-4d76-bbb1-8d52710ab2e6

Cornyn’s approval rating is about 25% lower than Hutchinson’s on average. If I were to guess, I’d say it crashed after that whole, “Well, violence against judges isn’t that irrational guys. Come on.”

You know, Grabrook, most of the bloody Senate seats that you damn Dhimmis won, you won by 1-2% of the vote–hardly what I’d call a popular “mandate.”

Oh, but Bush winning by 2%, that was a mandate, right? That’s what everyone in your party was saying after the election.

Even John Cornyn in Texas is unpopular,
Grebrook on November 12, 2006 at 11:31 PM

SAY WHAT?
I live in Texas and we LOVE John Cornyn–what are you smoking?

You know, Grabrook, most of the bloody Senate seats that you damn Dhimmis won, you won by 1-2% of the vote–hardly what I’d call a popular “mandate.”
And those guys ran by running as “rightist” or moderate Democrats on GOP-lite type platforms.
You’d better quick talking out of your *ss–that’s hazardous to your health and ours!
We’ll see you at 2008 at the polls…if we’re alive. Or should I say Im shAllah?

/sarcasm

One of my links didn’t make it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_election,_2002

Yes, I’ve seen that page before. I’m curious as to what you see on it that I don’t. Know what I see? 21 Republicans who have to defend their seats in 2008, and only 12 Democrats, all of whom are popular with the exception of Lautenberg, whereas you have about a half dozen senators who are unpopular.

And since we already know there’s going to be an organized attempt to oust Lindsay Graham in South Carolina in his primary, things may turn from bad to worse for you in 2008. At best, you’ll break even. At worst, we could probably pick up as many as 5 seats if the governor of NC runs against Elizabeth Dole and decimates her and Susan Collins retires to give us an automatic victory in ME, as well as Mark Warner running against John Warner in VA. Wayne Allard, Sununu and Gordon Smith are all toast. Even John Cornyn in Texas is unpopular, and nutjob Jim “God blew up the Twin Towers” Inhofe from Oklahoma. If the Dem governor out there runs against him, he doesn’t stand a chance. All of this will be just in time for President Clark, Obama or Clinton.

Besides, most of the embryos that will be harvested will from Blue-state mothers, and abortion is already decimating the Blacks, which was Margaret Sanger’s plan from the start.,

First off, women giving up embryos to be used for that type of research does not prevent them from having children. Your statement is bizarre, if nothing else.

Secondly, Hispanics have an intensely higher birthrate than whites, as do Asian-Americans, and both groups are Democratic. Asians by a varying 15-20 point margin and Hispanics by a 50 point margin (now that you shot yourselves in the foot on immigration).

And yes, the 2006 was a landslide election, specifically in the groups that mattered. A 22 point margin of victory among youth voters is the defition of a landslide.

Grebrook: way to add to the discussion. Clearly, not every doctor uses human life as a tool. Embryonic stem-cell research DOES do that, and that is what Steele is warning about. When you start treating human life as a commodity, big ethical problems are not far behind.

And do you really not understand the difference between an embryo and a sperm?

Anyway, this thread is about Steele as RNC chair. If the impression he has given off these last few months is the real Steele, I think the GOP has got to get him doing something bigger than Lt. Gov.

Who wants a mustache ride?

Grebrook, you aren’t a Nazi. You’re an idiot. There’s a difference.

I’m curious, weren’t you one of the jackasses screaming, before the election, that “THE POLLS ARE ALL LIES BY THE MSM WE’LL KEEP BOTH HOUSES FOR SURE”.

Yeah, thought so. Nice call there. You’re a regular Newt Gingrich.

Howard Dean commented on 2008 earlier today on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace:
WALLACE: And finally, Barack Obama’s experience to be a presidential candidate in 2008.
DEAN: Look, Barack has done an enormous amount for the party. I don’t…

http://www.gop.com/GetActive/WriteNewspapers.aspx

Yes we can. Whenever we discuss stem cell research it’s obvious we’re discussing the more controversial embryonic kind. Stop playing dumb.

Your the one that made the misquote, not me.

And I think the Nazi defense would have been they were trying to save human life also. They just were not very particular about who’s life they had to destroy in order to accomplish that.