How is there any hope for a GOP victory in November, 2006?

Answer 1

Paul Krugman, in a May 27 article in the New York Times titled "Stating the Obvious", wrote that "the gimmicks used to make an $800-billion-plus tax cut carry an official price tag of only $320 billion are a joke, yet the cost without the gimmicks is so large that the nation can't possibly afford it while keeping its other promises; ... The people now running America aren't conservatives: they're radicals who want to do away with the social and economic system we have, and the fiscal crisis they are concocting may give them the excuse they need."

Two days later, Peronet Despeignes, reporting in the Financial Times of London, wrote that "The Bush administration has shelved a report commissioned by the Treasury that shows the US currently faces a future of chronic federal budget deficits totaling at least $44,200 trillion [the deficit is currently at about six trillion dollars] in current US dollars."

That's trillion with a "T". To put that terrifying figure in perspective, Despeignes reported it to be the rough equivalent of four years of US economic output or 94% of all US household assets, and that "closing the gap would require the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 per cent across-the-board income tax increase."

The next day, on his Public Television show "Now", Bill Moyers was blunt. The Bush Administration, he said, kept news of this impending debt from the public "lest it throw the fear of God into Congress and the financial markets and cost them the tax cut for the rich." Moyers went on to say that "we are watching the country's future slip deeper and deeper into a black hole of red ink."

Answer 2

If the the Republicans would start acting like Republicans, it wouldn't even be close. They are trying to outspend the libs, and despite holding both Houses and the White House, they run scared of the media and the libs. Of course, we could always hope the Dems actually admit what they stand for, and it would be a landslide. If the GOP loses, they have only themselves to blame.

Answer 3

I sincerely hope there will be no GOP victory in November, but they will start the always popular gay bashing and abortion panic. And hope the people will get so worked up about gays and it will deflect the focus from Iraq and gas prices, and their corruption, and of course Jack Abramoff. So instead of people focusing on our image in the world because of this administrations arrogance and corruption, they will be focusing on if me and my girlfriend should have the right to marry.

Answer 4

Well if they can get the homo panic buttons working. Everyone forgets or don't care about Abramoff. Get ever one to still believe in perpetual war on terrorism, drugs or whatever fear-of-the-year. Ignore the public debt. Ignore the tax cuts for the rich and not for the middle class. If the GOP can do it again like before ..yeah they will do well.

Answer 5

It depends on how much misinformation the democrats put out that everyone believes and who is running for president. Hopefully no more democrats trying to steal the election like Gore tried to do when he realized he had lost but wasnt willing to admit it...at first.
Yes the Republicans have a chance to win. It just looks bad because the conservatives haven't really tried to stand up against the liberal lies and propoganda.

Answer 6

They will do something in Oct. like kill Osama and play on that through the election. They will also rig as many elections as they can in order to fix the election. But if enough people are fed up with the criminals that are holding office now that will not happen. They will come out and vote.

Answer 7

Only in the areas where there is electronic voting. Then you will see the Republican come back to win in the late evening. It sucks because I'm a conservative and most of the neo- conservatives don't represent my viewpoint. I may vote Dem just not for Hillary.

Answer 8

Give them time and they will bring up gay marriage again, use "terrorist" every other world to scare people, bring up the estate tax again, bring up late term abortion again, and so on. When all else fails, Fox News will create lies and spread them like they do everytime (and let's not forget Karl Rove will pay a few people off to make up stories about the Democrats).

Answer 9

AP reports today say that half of all Americans still believe Iraq had WMDs when we invaded them. Of course the GOP could win, clearly the American people have no idea what goes on.
"Fool me once, shame on me, but we have an old saying in Texas, I think it's in Tennesse, you can't get fooled again".

Watch them fall for it again.

Answer 10

Republicans secrete weapons Hillary or Kerry...hahahaha