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Friday, November 03, 2006
Mike Gallagher :: Townhall.com Columnist
Place your bets on the grown-ups
by Mike Gallagher
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This is it. The final days, the home stretch. We head into the weekend and then to the polls on Tuesday for what might just be one of the most important elections of our lifetime.

I don’t ever remember feeling so tired.

I’m tired of hearing people try to make excuses for people like John Kerry. I’m tired of hearing pollsters and pundits project a big victory for Democrats this Tuesday. I’m tired of hearing the vicious, bitter attacks on our President’s character by the likes of people like Keith Olbermann, a pseudo-intellectual Manhattan elitist who appears to be having the sort of on-air meltdown that the fictitious movie newsman Howard Beale of ‘Network’ had. I’m tired of the mainstream press relishing every bit of bad news out of Iraq or about the economy, while virtually ignoring all the positive stuff.

Most of all, I’m just tired of fighting.

But I’m not close to stopping. The stakes are too high. There might just be enough people on the fence that could be persuaded into doing the right thing on November 7th. And so I’m going to try.

Like it or not, political parties are defined by their most prominent members. We Republicans have had our share of headaches and embarrassments. Neither party is without its gaffes.

But at the end of the day, I’ll put the prominent Republican leaders up against the Democrats of 2006 any time. And we’ll all be able to agree that there is a world of difference between the two.

Just consider the people who help to make up the heart and soul of the Democratic Party: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, Keith Olbermann, Alcee Hastings, Marion Berry, Rosie O’Donnell, Barbara Boxer, and Barbra Streisand.

Compare that list to some of the more notable Republicans: George W. Bush, Denny Hastert, Bill Frist, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Sean Hannity, Rudy Guiliani, George Allen, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dick Cheney, John Cornyn, and just about every country music singer in America.

C’mon, it’s not even a close call. Face it, the Democrats are a bunch of angry, bitter, cynical people with no direction, no strategy, and certainly not a whole lot of positive things to say about the USA. The Republicans just feel like, well, the grown-ups. Continued...
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Mike Gallagher is a nationally syndicated radio host, Fox News Channel contributor and guest host and author of Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America.

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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 7, 2006 - 11:13 PM EST
demo's need to grow up
Growing up, in my opinion, means doing what one needs to do instead of what they want to do. In order to do this, a person has to be aware of what is really going on in the world and why. To achieve this awareness, one has to look at the world with a clear mind and a belief system devoid of lies. If someone believes they have been meeting their needs by lying and criticizing people in the way of them getting what they want, they have a real hard time growing up, because they are building their life on an unstable foundation. Eventually, their best-laid plans will come crashing down, often on top of people whose needs depend on these ungrownup people. The leaders of today’s Democratic Party seem to have all the symptoms of immature people likely to turn to drugs and/or alcohol to medicate the pain that they will surely inflict on themselves and, likely, all of AMERICA if the demo’s gain control of our government. Compound this with the fact that the Democrats really have no clear, rational plans of what they will do if they do take over the land where our children have to live. Moreover, this is a very dangerous time for that to occur.
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Date: Nov 7, 2006 - 10:20 PM EST
O breath
Eze 37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

Pray for the win. Pray for the wind. And pray for the windage.

The smart money was on Golieth.

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