John Cole Loves It From Behind

I mean blog traffic, of course. Otherwise why would his readers spam my blog with a link to his post denouncing the pledge?

Let the Republicans in Congress know that if they abandon our President and our troops, we and our dollars will be abandoning them in 2008.

No surrender, no retreat. It's time to fight for what we believe.

Then contact your Congressman and Senator. It's easy, just click on a state for phone and email.

Let the Republicans in Congress know that if they abandon our President and our troops, we and our dollars will be abandoning them in 2008.

No surrender, no retreat. It's time to fight for what we believe.

Then contact your Congressman and Senator. It's easy, just click on a state for phone and email.

Comments

[Neil]

Don't give your self too much credit, clown boy. For most out there, you koolaid drinkers are merely an amusement. Keep surging, lemmings. Hahahaha!!!!

[Oregonian]

Thanks for keeping this topic front and center, Dan. I love the pledge! (I've already signed it three times!)

The GOP has only been able to win elections over the past 20 years by saying one thing to their hard-core, nutcase supporters while saying something entirely different to the more rational minds in the general population. Just witness the events of this past week: Bush phones in his support to an anti-abortion rally (to avoid any pictures in the media) and then he speaks to the nation the next day and says that government should stay out of health care decisions made by patients and doctors. It's a total contradiction, of course, and it keeps up that delicate dance of deception that Bush does so well.

But the two-faced strategy only works if people are watching different things. When the eyes of the entire nation are on Iraq, it's going to be very hard to send out two different messages. And this pledge will only make it harder. The Republicans are going to have to choose between pleasing their lunatic base or pleasing the larger population. It's Real World vs. Riehl World and either outcome will end the GOP as we know it.

So bring it on and sign that pledge. Who knew that Zell Miller would turn out to be so prophetic? The Republicans really are about to become "a national party no more."

[yyy]

The pledge is vintage 28 percenter, whoever heard of a freaking fillibuster on a non binding resolution. Any political operative worth his salt, no matter which party, would die laughing at the idea of expending so much political capital and creating so much acrimony after the Dems just got elected based on ethics, accountability and results.

It is totally idiotic and nonsensical, so of course, it is embracec by Dan and his blogger cohorts, who most likely couldn't get elected dog catcher in their respective residences even by smearing the little old grandfather they were running against.

Laughable.

[sglover]

Come one, come all! Sign the Bush Lickspittle Pledge! The Fuhrerprinzip must be defended at all costs -- even at the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome!!

Seriously, Riehl -- clue me in on who employs you. There's some stock I gotta short.

[sglover]

Oregonian, these idiots are dead set on proving Abraham Lincoln's admonition that you can indeed fool some of the people ALL of the time. Stalin built his career on dupes like these.

[Oregonian]

Very true, very true. But "some people" aren't enough to win an election and Stalin didn't have to face the voters every two years.

A serious battle over Iraq could very well leave the Republicans with a handful of supporters and a corresponding handful of seats in the Congress.

[sglover]

"A serious battle over Iraq could very well leave the Republicans with a handful of supporters and a corresponding handful of seats in the Congress."

There's one thing about Bush the Lesser for which I'm grateful: I think he may have discredited the Republican Party for a generation. Not even Nixon could do that. You'd have to go back to Herbert Hoover for a similar "accomplishment".

So let's all hope that the GOP really does listen to the howlings of this Riehl moron, and his fellow travelers!

[Rick]

Sounds like a bunch of sophisticated Tim F devotees have fouled your nest, Dan.

Cordially...