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JMR

Hey, I've just been accidentally sent an email response to Durbin from our insane bretheran over in Hate Hate land.

From: Prince Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, Daily Kos

To: Dick Durbin

SCREW YOU D.HEAD...and you can take your stupid ****ing 10 points and shove them up Lieberjewman's kosher.

Here's what the millions of my subjects DEMAND that you ****ing do, you ****ing ***t.

#1. Expropriate all private property immediately, you ****ing running dog capitalist

#2 **** Bush, then kill him (after a fair trial)

#3 IMMEDIATELY arrest, imprison and try all US troops as ****ing WAR CRIMINALS, then frag them (though we still support the troops)

And so on.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

Dickhead Durbin truly believes with his DEM colleagues that appealing to the likes of the Daily Koz will help grow their new majority in Congress.....

I believe that this rank "sucking up" to the radical elements of the left in this country will quickly turn the majority of Americans off the DEMS forever and that the next two years will see a collective suicide among DEMS politically for years to come......

In their newfound glee and thirst for power, they will outdo the GOP in corruption and spending to such an extent in two years time, that they'll be thrown out of power in '08.......especially with regards to the tactics they are now using to block funding for Iraq and judicial nominations.....

Barak, Hildebeast, Chrissy Dodd and Joey Biden are GOING DOWN in '08 led by the Pied Piper of negligent homicide -- Fat Ted Kennedy.....

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

Oh please!!! Left wing nut jobs setting the senate agenda? What catches my attention is the "Rebuilding Americas military" bit. The last time the dems rebuilt the military was with Carters little stint, and if thats rebuilding the military, we need to issue all the men little white flags, cause they wont have any bullets, gas, vehicles or ammo. There platoon size will be cut in half, there will be no pay raises, cause after all, they feed you. Gays will run rampant in the showers and training will be a thing of the past. Some rebuilding the dems do.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Dick Durbin is one of the phoniest people on this planet..just listen to any Senate floor speech which I call asinine dribble, he is a leftist/commie through and through, and a Hollywierd wannabe, he fits right in if you ask me...talk about the enemy within, he personifies that phrase.

"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under."  Ronald Reagan

Slick marketing by Durbin.  The same slick marketing that thumped the Republicans a few months back.   

It's all about politics and politics are all about selling a product - the politician.

As repugnant as it may be, selling themselves is working for the Dems and the Republicans had best take notice.  The Dems do not hire the best minds in foreign policy, the most virtuous social developers or the best economic advisors, they hire the best PR and marketing teams.  As we all know by now, the Dem strategery (God bless you Dubya) is not about what is best for the country, it is what best retains or gains Democrat power.  Now Republicans can sit back and hold their noses or they can study the playbook of the last election and employ some of the Dem's techniques.  Some might argue to do so would be sinking down into the Democrat gutter.  Unfortunately, the gutter is apparently what most Americans (think voters) prefer.   Example 1 - Rosie-Donald feud has gotten more press than taking out the al qaeda mastermind of the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa.  Example 2 - Programs similar to Little House on the Prarie have long been replaced by seedier shows such as Desperate Housewives.  With less and less Americans seeking spiritual growth and more and more people seeking to secularize our churches I don't see a positive change anytime soon.  I'm not sure most Americans have the mental capacity or simply the desire to exchange virtual feel-good pleasure for realistic sacrificial virtuous behavior.  The politician that offers what the people want to hear is the politician that wins.  Even (or especially) the moonbats at Daily Kos like to think a US Senator values their opinion. Whether they believe it or not, they still like to hear it.  Only a relatively small amount of Americans understand that Durbin doesn't give a rat's ass about their input and that would be your die-hard Republican voters.  Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be enough of them and the Republicans need to gain some of the gullible American voters to win.  

Oh sure, it's nice to promise everything to everyone and every now and then throw a minimum wage increase bone to the masses.  However, the beauty of the Dem plan is that they don't have to pass any new legislation to achieve their social agenda.  All they have to do is tell the people what they want to hear to retain power. Retaining power facilitates appointing judges who take it upon themselves to pass new legislation for the Dems.  Example - the only laws(?) that have been enacted supporting perverted (same)-sex marriage are by the judiciary, not the legislature.  The Republicans get roasted over the coals for proposing a constitutional amendment to define marriage while the Democrats appear to be taking the high road by not getting involved.  All the while the Dem's judicial appointees are doing their dirty-work for them.  No matter if the voter desires legitimizing deviant sex (same-sex marriage) or is for traditional marriage it is a win-win for Democrats.  To the conservative voter the Dem answer is blame it on the courts. To the Dem voter the Dem answer is we agree with the courts.  The Terry Schiavo case is another perfect example.  Same with abortion on demand.  The Republicans take a stand for the dignity of life while Democrat appointed judges do the dirty work for the Dems.  Another win-win for Democrats that stood on the sidelines pontificating about personal choice while tsk-tsking the Republicans for interfering with the courts.  Meanwhile, our mentally-challenged American voters believe that if a court says so, why it must be so.  If the Republicans took the opposing position as the courts, then in these same voters minds, the Republicans, that lost in the courts, must be wrong.  So they vote Democratic and the Democrats appoint yet more similar judges and we go full circle.  I would only add that the Dems don't seem to care about their precious 'checks and balances' when it comes to the courts. No explanation necessary....

Point - A majority of American voters are more interested in star-power (Obama), appearance (Pelosi) and hearing what they want to hear (Durbin outreach) than dealing with uncomfortable realities such as living in a world where the next Hitler is about to get Nukes and possibly (gasp) having to provide for their own healthcare.  Throw in a biased media and the Republican task of regaining power becomes even more remote. Until another Reagan comes along, if the Republicans are going to stand any chance of regaining power they had better take some tips from Dems like Durbin and start making some similar  PR moves.  It would be nice if politicians ran on principle; however, since time began in politics it is not what you do for your constituents, it is what you can do to your constituents (selling yourself to the majority of your constituents).

I truly wish most Americans championed virtue over "star-power" and seeing through the BS offered by the Dems and echoed by the media but obviously they prefer hearing what they want to hear from the Durbins of America.  The question is are the Republicans listening.