WaPo to GOP: You Are Doomed (Part III)
So Says Our Democrat Poll Subjects
By Erick Posted in 2006 — Comments (21) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
This morning I blogged about this Jim VandeHei WaPo story in which "security moms" have decided they've had enough of the GOP. VandeHei quotes one "Jean Thomas" from Columbus, OH.
Jean Thomas, a married mother of one, said she still feels a pang of fear every time she boards an airplane for work travel around the Midwest. "Terrorism," she said, "is the biggest concern on a daily basis."
But she said she is "pretty frustrated with politics driving decisions" in Washington. That is why she said she is strongly considering abandoning her support of Republicans to vote for the Democrats challenging Rep. Deborah Pryce and Sen. Mike DeWine on Nov. 7. Polls show that both Republican incumbents from Ohio are acutely vulnerable.
There appears to be just one problem. RedState has learned that there aren't too many Jean Thomas's in Columbus, OH. In fact, we're pretty certain the Jean Thomas quoted in the article from Columbus, OH is the same Jean Thomas who has voted in every Democratic primary since 1998. Why are we so sure? Because a source we have gave us enough information to pinpoint which Jean Thomas was talked to and we could go from there to confirm her Democratic voting record.
So, um, what point was VandeHei trying to make again?
(BTW, we have not ourselves called Ms. Thomas. We've tried, but get an automated message that there is something wrong with her phone line. The only other Jean Thomases who Mr. VandeHei could have talked to have said they were not in the story)
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But this seems to be par for the course from our impartial and unbiased MSM. They really are little more than the propaganda wing of the Democratic party.
"In 2004, exit polls showed, Bush won a second term in part because 56 percent of married women with children supported him."
Exit polls had Kerry winning by a landslide, too. If the MSM wants to base their reality on exit polls, I won't stand in their way.
Married women (married people in fact) are more likely to vote GOP. I assume that is partly why the Dems are so anxious to do away with marriage.
There is no evidence anywhere that the Democrats (or anyone else of any significance) wants to do away with marriage. I realize hyperbole has its place in politics, but can we at least keep the exaggerations somewhere within telescope sight of planet Earth?
If the Democrats like marriage so much, whey do they want to dilute it into meaninglessness?
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"In this day and age, you're not going to get a fair shake in the media" -- Lance Armstrong
that anyone wants to "dilute" marriage. So gays want to marry-- so what? That hardly dilutes the institution. Would you claim that if working people want to become business owners instead we risk diluting private enterprise? But even that's not a good analogy because there are very many working people, but rather few gains, as percent of population. If gays are as many of 5% of the population and half of them marry any "dilution" effect would be very small, quite swmaped by the ongoing high tide of straight people divorcing.
Your comment is so full of unspoken assumptions and ideology that I have trouble deciding how to begin to reply to it.
Who said allowing homosexuals to marry, which is currently allowed in all fifty states and as far as I know has been allowed for the entire history of the nation, was a dilution of marriage? What does homosexuality at all have to do with marriage?
And I don't understand what your other comparison has to do with the subject at hand.
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"In this day and age, you're not going to get a fair shake in the media" -- Lance Armstrong
the infamous "anonymous GOP insiders" who always predict doom and gloom. I wonder if the "insiders" are people tied to former Republicans like Kevin Phillips, Bob Barr, Arianna Huffington, or RINOS like Hagel.
To pull an Andrew Sullivan, I'm not saying, I'm just airing some poossibilities.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
In our rush to publish a story published on August 18th, we incorrectly titled a page A01 story.
Our original title was "Republican's losing the Security Moms".
The intended title was "Security Moms voting Democrat since 1998 will continue to do so ignorantly into perpetuity"
Our apologies for the misprint.
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
"The Road To Freedom Is Seldom Traveled By The Multitude" Madhouse Thought
(Correction runs at the bottom of page A13)
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
That's how I read it, anyway:
"Andrew Kohut, who directs the Pew poll, said the "negative impact of Iraq is hurting not only Bush but also the Republican Party as well." No longer, Kohut said, is "terrorism alone enough to keep" married women and other voters in the GOP fold."
And what's with the "married mothers", shouldn't that be "married mothers of one"? I didn't see any married mothers of four" quoted. All of the "married mothers of one" that I know are either young and liberal with no set plans for future children or they are older liberals who have had their one and only "designer child" configured for minimal environmental impact. Yes, it's anecdotal but just my personal observation. YMMV, as they say.
I am also suspicious of Ms Moore and her concern about Republican neglect of domestic issues as the reason she'll vote Democrat in 2006.
What happened to the culture of corruption thing?
Whenever someone says to me that they used to be a Republican but switched because they just couldn't take it any more, I ask them which Conservative policies in the past they were in favor of that they now reject. Were you pro-life and changed your mind on it? Were you pro tax cuts and have had a change of heart? Did you used to be for small Government but now want huge bureaucracies? Were you against affirmative action but now support quotas?
Usually, you find out that they were always liberals, but like most liberals, they think it's OK to lie for your cause.
"The Road To Freedom Is Seldom Traveled By The Multitude" Madhouse Thought
Hi, Brian. I'm a Republican, but I cannot ....
One of the reasons I like Bob Novak is one morning, on Washington Journal, when greeted with a C-SPAN caller who claimed to be a Republican, he scoffed and replied along the lines of, "C'mon. You're not a Republican."
I recall a similar fraudulent story a year or two ago where a national TV news report portrayed a woman of similar leanings as a Republican-turned-anti-Bush, and it turned out that in fact the woman was a Democratic activist, or something like that. I remember the video was posted on-line. It may have even been here on Redstate, but I don't remember enough details to search for it.
I remember it was a CBS news report about prescription drugs. It was around election time in 2004 and CBS portrayed the woman as a Republican senior citizens who was disenchanted with her party and President Bush. The woman went on to bash everything Bush.
It was discovered later that the "Republican" was a democrat activist well known in the activist community.
Now I remember. It was an anti-draft activist named Beverly Cocco who CBS originally portrayed as a good Republican who was turning against President Bush. Rathergate had the story, as did BeldarBlog and INDC Journal. Bird Dog had a diary entry on it.
Someone writing in the Washington Post, either 'slanted' the story or 'just made it up'!?!
wow...
This hardly ever happens...more than maybe twice a day?
dog bites man...no news.
It does however speak to the 'how can the voting be sooooo far off from the polling?!'
that her voting record was photoshopped into the story?
It would be troubling to think that a journalist would alter the facts to fit a thesis. Very troubling. A cause for concern. Why, journalism is the very foundation of our republic, and well, this is just a troubling insinuation.
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More brilliance such as that can be found at the Academy. And yes, I know how pretentious I sound.