13 Reasons to Vote Republican in Nov

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

Many thanks to Mona Charen for an excellent article in NRO. She has compiled a nice, neat list of Republican accomplishments and Democrat failures over the last few years. Take a look and see what you think...

1) The economy. More than 6.6 million new jobs have been created since August 2003. Our 4.1 annual growth rate is superior to all other major industrialized nations. The Dow has set record highs multiple times in the past several weeks. Productivity is up, and the deficit is down. Real, after-tax income has grown by 15 percent since 2001. Inflation has remained low. As Vice President Cheney summed it up at a recent meeting with journalists, “What more do you want?” The tax cuts proposed by President Bush and passed by a Republican Congress can take a bow.


2) The Patriot Act. Democrats and liberals mourn this law as a gross infringement upon civil liberties. Yet the much-discussed abuses simply haven’t materialized. The law has, on the other hand, permitted the CIA and FBI to cooperate and share information about terrorist threats — at least so long as the New York Times isn’t publishing the details of our counterterrorism efforts on the front page.


3) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, to which liberals clung with passionate intensity, has been cancelled, permitting us to work on missile defense. In the age of Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is anyone (except Nancy Pelosi) sorry?


4) Immigration. Republicans in Congress insisted upon and got the first serious immigration restriction in decades. On Oct. 26, the president signed a law that will build a 700-mile fence along our southern border and, what is more important, does not offer amnesty.


5) There has not been another terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Who would have predicted that on 9/12?


6) Libya has surrendered its nuclear program.


7) A. Q. Khan’s nuclear smuggling network has been rolled up.


8) John Roberts and Samuel Alito sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.


9) Those Democrats who do not want to close Guantanamo Bay altogether want to give all of its inmates the full panoply of rights Americans enjoy in criminal procedures.


10) Democrats believe in immediate withdrawal from Iraq. If they succeed in forcing us to leave under these circumstances, the United States will suffer a stinging defeat in the war on terror. The terrorists already believe that they drove the Russians from Afghanistan and Israel from Lebanon and Gaza. They are convinced they chased us out of Lebanon in 1983 and from Somalia in 1993. According to Osama bin Laden and those who share his views, we are militarily strong but psychologically and spiritually weak. Like it or not — and no one likes it — we cannot leave Iraq now without utterly and decisively validating this analysis. We might as well run a white flag up the flagpole at the Capitol.


11) Democrats would like to eliminate the terrorist surveillance program.


12) If Democrats achieve a majority in the House, Barney Frank will chair the Financial Services Committee, Henry Waxman will head the Government Reform Committee, and Alcee Hastings will chair the Intelligence Committee.


13) Democrats believe that the proper response to Kim Jong Il’s nuclear test is “face to face talks.” That’s what the Clinton administration did for years. It worked out well, didn’t it?

[markyj987]

Texan...great list. Now, can I make a stupid joke?

Democrat...chair the Intelligence Committee....

Is that an oxymoron? LMBO!

[Swamphunter]

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Texan...great list. Now, can I make a stupid joke?

Democrat...chair the Intelligence Committee....

Is that an oxymoron? LMBO!

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[Yellowhammer]

Just remember to get out and vote.

Down with the dems.

[oldksnarc]

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10) Democrats believe in immediate withdrawal from Iraq. If they succeed in forcing us to leave under these circumstances, the United States will suffer a stinging defeat in the war on terror. The terrorists already believe that they drove the Russians from Afghanistan and Israel from Lebanon and Gaza. They are convinced they chased us out of Lebanon in 1983 and from Somalia in 1993. According to Osama bin Laden and those who share his views, we are militarily strong but psychologically and spiritually weak. Like it or not — and no one likes it — we cannot leave Iraq now without utterly and decisively validating this analysis. We might as well run a white flag up the flagpole at the Capitol.


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And. there's the rub. The politicians got in the middle of VietNam and we pulled out with our tails between our legs.

History is starting to repeat itself and the politicians are turning this war into the same political quamire that we eneded up with in the 1960' and 70's.

At least this time everyone is supporting the troops - so far. Except for "you-know-who."

[rifleman25]

I hate Dem's more than anything. If there is a god and he loves me we will win the house and senate again.

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

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And. there's the rub. The politicians got in the middle of VietNam and we pulled out with our tails between our legs.

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Main difference between then and now is that the Vietnamese didn't have the plans or the means to directly attack us at home. The terrorists do, and if we don't defeat them in their home countries, we'll be fighting them in the streets of our's.