GOP in panic mode:
"In this show, all of us combined, there's enough of you in this audience right here and now … that can confuse, and confound, and bewilder, and just absolutely send these guys into a tail spin. On election night, when those results start coming in, if the media commentaries are smiling because Republicans are losing, if key senators and key congressmen, many of whom are conservative and have excellent records, go down in the defeat … let me tell you something, in the end you don't have as far as I'm concerned the liberal media to blame. They will have played a part. But ultimately it's you, yourself … you have to blame."
Sean Hannity, tonight.
[Q]uite frankly, if the most recent "sea of blue" polls are anything to go by, the Democrats are on the verge of taking over both Houses of Congress. Or at least taking over the House and closing the gap considerably in the Senate so the next nomination the President makes to the Supreme Court would have to be a Souter clone to have a prayer of not having to face a filibuster, thanks to "maverick" John McCain. . . I think some alarm might be in order. The fact is that the GOP may be vastly superior to the Democrats in turning out its voters and getting them to the polls, but we cannot continue to cede the fence-sitters in the last days to an election to the Democrats and their 527s in the Fourth Estate. We're losing "Independents" (the most ignorant and therefore the most susceptible to Press/Democrat manipulation) 70:30 in all the polls I've seen, and rather than try to win them over and rally our own voters, we're counting on them not to show up. What's worse is that we're losing them to the Democrats over "macaca" and Foley's IMs when we could be winning them over on serious issues like the economy and national security. I don't care how good the GOP's GOTV operation is, We simply cannot ever afford to be so complacent. Most especially in an electoral environment like this. We have to be honest with ourselves here; we'd much rather be them looking at the polling numbers than us right now. All this bravado about how fake the polls are, how slanted the 2004 exit polls were, and how we're going to shock the pundits on the 7th is beginning to ring false. I have a recurring nightmare about Redstate in a meltdown three days to the election when it's too late to do anything about our collective decision to keep fooling ourselves. . . It's a long shot.
[Q]uite frankly, if the most recent "sea of blue" polls are anything to go by, the Democrats are on the verge of taking over both Houses of Congress. Or at least taking over the House and closing the gap considerably in the Senate so the next nomination the President makes to the Supreme Court would have to be a Souter clone to have a prayer of not having to face a filibuster, thanks to "maverick" John McCain. . .
I think some alarm might be in order.
The fact is that the GOP may be vastly superior to the Democrats in turning out its voters and getting them to the polls, but we cannot continue to cede the fence-sitters in the last days to an election to the Democrats and their 527s in the Fourth Estate. We're losing "Independents" (the most ignorant and therefore the most susceptible to Press/Democrat manipulation) 70:30 in all the polls I've seen, and rather than try to win them over and rally our own voters, we're counting on them not to show up. What's worse is that we're losing them to the Democrats over "macaca" and Foley's IMs when we could be winning them over on serious issues like the economy and national security.
I don't care how good the GOP's GOTV operation is, We simply cannot ever afford to be so complacent. Most especially in an electoral environment like this.
We have to be honest with ourselves here; we'd much rather be them looking at the polling numbers than us right now. All this bravado about how fake the polls are, how slanted the 2004 exit polls were, and how we're going to shock the pundits on the 7th is beginning to ring false.
I have a recurring nightmare about Redstate in a meltdown three days to the election when it's too late to do anything about our collective decision to keep fooling ourselves. . .
It's a long shot.
Redstate.
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