Open Thread

May 8th, 2009 11:04 AM

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Reports of GOP's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated!

Within hours of Arlen Specter’s Democrat defection last Tuesday, the press pronounced the Republican Party dead...Yet, all this hand-wringing ignored some realities about the current American ethos that have absolutely nothing to do with Specter’s act of self-preservation, for on the same day the senior Senator from Pennsylvania announced his latest strategic metamorphosis, Rasmussen Reports revealed Republicans leading Democrats in a generic tracking poll of the 2010 Congressional elections...What this should tell average Americans is the same press that aided and abetted the Democrat takeover of Congress in 2006 as well Obama’s ascendancy to the White House last year are now doing everything within their power to make sure these results are not overturned any time soon.

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