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Monday, March 19, 2007
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
The One Party Rule
by Rich Galen
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


My mega-strategic thinking is still this: Ideology is going to play a minor part in the thinking of most primary voters in each party. The big issue will be: Who has the best chance of winning?

This will change as the various candidates' campaigns ebb and flow as they certainly will over the next 10 months.

If Hillary loses her lead to Obama; which Republican will GOP voters think has the best chance of countering him?

If Al Gore gets in later this year, does that mean Republicans will look to Fred Thompson?

Before you place your house and kids' college fund in jeopardy by betting heavily on one candidate or another remember the cautionary tale of Howard Dean.

In December of 2003, Governor Dean was the Democratic nominee-presumptive. Then, about three weeks later, the good folks of Iowa went to their caucuses and decided that John Kerry, now Howard Dean was their guy. Three weeks after that, the Dean campaign folded.

Starting today, every Republican should repeat the Democrats' mantra: Giving one party control of both the Congress and the Administration is just … too … dangerous.

On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: The latest CNN poll of Democratic contenders, and a link to the NAM web page about this conference. An amusing Mullfoto which might take you a moment to understand why I thought it was amusing; and a Catchy Caption of the Day.

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Mar 20, 2007 - 3:26 PM EST
Americans wiser than one might think
Besides the repeat of several urban myths (e.g., Bush the First stopped Scharzkopf from taking out Saddam in Gulf Storm)Americans are actually often wiser then we give them credit. Several pollsters and think tanks back several elections ago were amazed that the probable voter actually considered the balance of power between the two houses of Congress and the White House when voting for otherwise "equal" candidates. The probably voter has believed for sometime that the Judicial Branch will remain liberal and Democratic for a while longer.

What happened for a brief time is that the probable voters decided that maybe they should give the Republicans a chance to fix things and elected them into power in both the Senate, the House and the presidency. A big portion of Republicans got arrogant, caught Potomac Fever and screwed up. In the middle of a war that is NEVER a good thing.

That the Democrats lied and made promises they had not intention of keeping is absolutely nothing new in American politics. Remember both McKinley and FDR ran their campaigns promising to keep America out of any foreign wars at the same time they were preparing to enter the wars.

There is a difference in parties; there is not a difference in politicians once elected. They go to Washington and a large percentage forget why they are even there and who voted them in. Still again that is nothing new, being going on since democracy was invented.
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Reply # 2
Date: Mar 20, 2007 - 12:17 PM EST
Corruption, Tamalak?? Surely you jest
To quote my favorite lefty, J. McEnroe, "you cannot be serious!" What corrupt leaders? Republicans who are actually corrupt like Duke Cunningham or Mark Foley are drummed out of office and/or out of the party. Those who have done nothing but who have had scandals manufactured for them out of whole cloth by Democrats, like Gingrich, Lott, Libby and Delay, resign or are back-stabbed by other weak-kneed Republicans. Look for Gonzalez to take the knife any day after yet another manufactured "scandal"

Contrast this with the Democrats, where the corrupt not only stay in office, but are elevated to leaderhsip positions. Let's review a partial list:
- Bill Clinton - too many scandals to list
- Hillary Clinton - ditto
- Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy - dead mistress at the bottom of a river
- John Kerry - traitor, lied about troops under oath and illegally met with enemies, probably received dishonorable discharge
- Bill "Cold Cash" jefferson - enough said
- Gerry Studds - statutory rapist, Dem hero
- Harry "Swamp Land" Reid - bogus land deals
- Robert "Sheets" Byrd - KKK Grand Wizard
- John "Abscam" Murtha - unindicted conspirator
The list goes on and on; the Democrat party reeks of corruption. They just have the advantage of owning the media.

Re one party rule, Democrats proved very effective at obstruction. Bush was stymied in judicial appointments, Social Security reform, tort reform, tax code reform, making tax cuts permanent, etc. Minority Republicans, on the other hand, can be counted on to roll over and play dead as always.
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