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In the late 70s and thru the 80s and 90s, when the GOP was growing into the dominant party in SC and eventually making SC nearly the one-party state it is today after having been a one-party DEM state from the Civil War thru the 60s, local media dominated by liberals, ALWAYS highlighted stories that focused on problems and how the DEMS cared and that the GOP hadn't solved or didn't care to.

Respectfully submitted in response to challenge from MartinAKnight's thoughtful call to alarm, but please don't panic! see link

http://www.redstate.com/blogs/martinaknight/2006/oct/17/never_time_to_pa...

They ALWAYS emphasized how the GOP could lose and the DEMS could win, just like the MSM does and has since the 80s and Reagan forward and increasingly so after the advent of the NEW MEDIA.

What is pathetic is to have our beltway conservatives fall for it, first in 1992 and now in 2006. For Fred Barnes and Cal Thomas to say that they are sure we will lose the House and/or that it could do some good? Boggles the mind. Who cares what they think will happen. The game will be played.

Most Americans in a recent poll that has not changed except in our direction for decades is that over 60% of Americans describe themselves as conservative or very conservative!!

These people are not going to vote for Democrats.

Get out the vote? Well duh. Yes, chatterers, the Election will be decided by ACTUAL VOTES ON ONE DAY, ie ELECTION DAY, November 7, 2006.

What is so funny, is that the whole "get out the vote" mantra was always mainly seen as a democrat mantra, because, at least since the 80s, as a Democrat Party official, I knew that GOP voters were self-motivated. It was my former party that had to harass and cajole and herd ginned up victim voters like cattle.

When people become republicans that is the evidence of their motivation. They GET OUT THE VOTE like breathing. They become republicans TO VOTE!

They understand that really ALL that matters is to vote. Congressmen are voting machines to exert our will. That's all they are. All that matters is if our side outnumbers their side so that our policy preferences can prevail. That's all that matters, and its bad liberal policies that causes people to BE republicans in the first place.

Yes, there are some that can be discourage from voting, and that can be a danger, which, again, makes the "smart" conservative beltway boys all the more wrong to join in a chorus of conventional wisdom that is but sound and fury signifying nothing. Nothing anyone says can prevent a voting machine from tallying a vote made by a GOP voter at their polling place on November 7th.

The fact is that NO MATTER WHAT THE MSM POLLS AND TALKING HEADS SAY, our people can freely go to the polls and vote our GOP reps into office in a landslide. The talk cannot effect that unless we let it, and the only way any significant number let it happen is if they take Barnes and Co to heart and give up.

The election has not begun. The Election begins at 12:01 AM on Election Day, November 7, 2006 at Dixville Notch, NH and ends at 8 PM in Hawaii.

The GOP doesn't have to "come back" from "being behind."

We are tied now and will be until the first chap at Dixville Notch comes out of the booth and outs us ahead by one vote.

Courage.

A civil/criminal trial lawyer for two decades in federal and state courts throughout the South and presently Vice-President of a multi-state real estate investment firm headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Mike "Gamecock" DeVine was a long-time SC Democrat party official until his June 2001 conservative epiphany. DeVine regularly writes about legal issues; economic issues given his phi beta kappa econ major education; political issues given his past experiences as an official in the South Carolina faction of the world's oldest political party; and about the virtues of conservative political thought, policies and values given his June 2001 epiphany that led him to leave the Jack Asses to advance a n elephantine we never forget, Reaganite, conservative agenda to save an anti-Borkian America "Slouching towards Gomorrah." Moreover, as Legal Editor and conservative voice of The (Decatur, GA) Champion newspaper, (legal organ for DeKalb County in Metro-Atlanta Atlanta), he was the one of first columnists in the nation, soon after September 11, 2001, to comment on the likelihood that captured terrorists in Afghanistan would be deemed to be illegal enemy combatants not entitled to Prisoner of War status under the laws of war. He also wrote four dueling editorial debate columns against then Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney after her disgraceful statements after 911 and before her firs ever electoral defeat in 2002.

This Rooster knows from whereof he crows!!!

http://devine-gamecock.townhall.com and www.race42008.com

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan