'Miracle' needed to win back Senate

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid raised a few eyebrows yesterday on the Senate floor when he said it would take a “miracle” for Democrats to win enough races next year to take back the Senate.
What Mr. Reid doesn’t seem to understand is that the ‘miracle’ would be for the Democrat Leadership to find Faith and accept Truth. If they did that and changed their policies they would have a lock as the majority party.

Until that time, they will still uphold a litmus test for Judges that support a culture of life. Help end that test here.
 
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Maranatha:
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid raised a few eyebrows yesterday on the Senate floor when he said it would take a “miracle” for Democrats to win enough races next year to take back the Senate.
What Mr. Reid doesn’t seem to understand is that the ‘miracle’ would be for the Democrat Leadership to find Faith and accept Truth. If they did that and changed their policies they would have a lock as the majority party.

Until that time, they will still uphold a litmus test for Judges that support a culture of life. Help end that test here.
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Please don’t broad brush… you will find failure and glory on both sides of the isle…
 
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LoneRanger:
Please don’t broad brush… you will find failure and glory on both sides of the isle…
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I agree, failure on the left, glory on the right (wink wink, nudge nudge)
 
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Scott_Lafrance:
I agree, failure on the left, glory on the right (wink wink, nudge nudge)
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sheese… i guess i set myself up for that…😃
 
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LoneRanger:
Please don’t broad brush… you will find failure and glory on both sides of the isle…
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I did use the term Democratic Leadership in my comments. Was that brush not narrow enough?
 
The Commurats have lost their majorities, probably for a generation, maybe permanently. They have no ideas, no plans, nothing except to stop what Bush and the GOP want to do - refoirm Social Security and confirm judges who might take a critical look at the abomination that is Roe v Wade.

However, the Stupid Party will always have a Chuck Hagel, John McCain, Lincoln Chafee, Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, or Olympia Snowe who will stab the backs of the rest of the GOP with the sharpest knives in the drawer. **Always.

There is a solution. Pepole of faith can get involved and let their Senators know that filibustering judicial nominees must end.

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Why not create a Christian Democrat Party like in Germany, or a Catholic Center Party? There is nothing to stop its creation if enough people are disenchanted with the rest.
 
In fact I believe we are one of the only Western Democracies not to have a Christian Party in name.
 
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JackmanUSC:
In fact I believe we are one of the only Western Democracies not to have a Christian Party in name.
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I would love to see it, if for no other reason than to see how crazy the far left in this country would get (not taking dems here, just the left). They go nuts with underGod in the constitution! I can just visualize all the protests about the name of the Party, the values they would try to impose on the rest of the country, the part where the ACLU wouldn’t allow campaign posters to be hung up in public because they would have the word Christian on them, the outcries about how we are trying to create a theocracy. Wouldn’t it be grand?
 
Wy not? Belacuse all attempts to start a viable third party have been failures.

Political parties in the United States have the goal to get elected. They do not represent several, competitive, narrow points of view, as is in Europe.

For more than a generation, a political realignment has been taking place and it will continue. The Democrat Party ran the nation for decades because it appealed to people all over the US. This is no longer the case. Conservatives have long ago left the Democratic Party.

People simply don’t understand what it takes to get things acccomplished. One does not “sit back” and wait for a legistator or executive to take a specific course of action. The people must become lobbyists. Letters, e-mails, phone calls - this kind of pressure is what a legislator understands.

The ACLU, NARAL, AARP, etc. understand this. Their pressure upon the Democrats is termendous and relentless.
The other side must become just as tough and just as relentless.

Forming another party to split conservatives is just what the ACLU, AARP, NARAL and other groups like them want.
 
While I would love to see a “Christian Party,” I think it best to work within the present political system for now. Like JW above says, it would dilute Christian support and pressures on the other 2 parties. If this would happen, immoralists and amoralists would have just the opening they need to get their unGodly ideas through.

What we need is for more Christians to get energized, and say no with their voices and votes to issues and parties who defy Christian traditions. For example, abortion is a primary Catholic & Christian issue – no candidate from any party should receive a Christian’s vote if they are for continuing this holocaust, unless the other cantidate also supports abortion – then we must look to other issues such a marriage…
 
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JW10631:
People simply don’t understand what it takes to get things acccomplished. One does not “sit back” and wait for a legistator or executive to take a specific course of action. The people must become lobbyists. Letters, e-mails, phone calls - this kind of pressure is what a legislator understands.

The ACLU, NARAL, AARP, etc. understand this. Their pressure upon the Democrats is termendous and relentless.
The other side must become just as tough and just as relentless.

Forming another party to split conservatives is just what the ACLU, AARP, NARAL and other groups like them want.
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You are absolutely right and this IS what some of the Democrat activists are trying to do to breathe life in the party. Jim Wallis of Sojourners is suggesting the tactic of ‘changing the wind’ not changing the politician at the next election. He suggests and I agree that you can exchange one for another but what all of them understand is pressure from the voters.

We cannot split off to a third party and maintain our strength. What we need to do is increase pressure on the party that is aligned with our ethics/morals/etc so that they don’t try to push a RINO out on the stage. I think the Democrat party is hopeless. They have sold their soul to PP, ACLU etc and are not willing to risk losing that base for the remote possibility they can attract the values voters. I think our only hope is in the Republican party even though certainly the last few weeks have had me wondering…

Lisa N
 
Let’s not forget the Harry Reid is a pro-life Democrat. There are good people on that side of the aisle.
 
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BillyT92679:
Let’s not forget the Harry Reid is a pro-life Democrat. There are good people on that side of the aisle.
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He’s not exactly pro-life. He has claimed to be opposed to abortion, but his actions don’t follow. He has boasted of his good working relationship with NARAL President Kate Michelman, he voted to gut the “partial-birth” abortion ban, tried to take the teeth out of the Laci Peterson Law, and voted to overturn the Mexico City Policy.

According to NARAL: “Prior to the March for Women’s Lives, U.S. Senator Harry Reid co-sponsored and introduced the ‘Putting Prevention First Act’ – bi-partisan legislation aimed at increasing federal spending on women’s health, family planning [read: abortion], and contraception.”

National Right To Life (NRLC) Legislative Director Douglas Johnson Highlighted Reid’s Pro-Choice Views: “The news media has labeled Reid as pro-life, but for years he has usually voted against the pro-life side on the most important votes … Indeed, in recent years Reid has played a key role in obstructing both pro-life legislation and judicial nominees, and I expect he will attempt to continue doing so.”

– Mark L. Chance.
 
If he wants to be re-elected he better seem pro-life since he lives in Utah and the great majority of Mormons are pro-life.
 
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Maranatha:
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid raised a few eyebrows yesterday on the Senate floor when he said it would take a “miracle” for Democrats to win enough races next year to take back the Senate.
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This is the kind of arrogance that conservatives simply cannot afford. An astonishing number of American voters do not care very much about the issue of abortion (compared to say, what their tax bill will be next year), but** do** hold anyone with religious convictions to a higher standard of public humility and propriety.

This is a simple fact of life. A humble person may be admired by voters for holding the same views that an arrogant man will be condemned for. The first is seen as righteous; the second, as self-righteous.
 
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