HISTORIC VICTORY FOR DIEBOLD!
November 8, 2006


History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after
the election, accusing it of rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.

So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.

Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by pretending to
be against all three.

Jon Tester, Bob Casey Jr., Heath Shuler, possibly Jim Webb - I've never seen so much raw testosterone in my life. The smell of
sweaty jockstraps from the "new Democrats" is overwhelming.

Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction is how long it will take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to be
fitted for leotards.

Now that they've won their elections and don't have to deal with the hicks anymore, Tester can cut lose the infernal buzz cut, Casey
can start taking "Emily's List" money, and Webb can go back to writing more incestuously homoerotic fiction ... and just in time for
Christmas!

But according to the media, this week's election results are a mandate for pulling out of Iraq (except in Connecticut where pro-war
Joe Lieberman walloped anti-war "Ned the Red" Lamont).

In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the
war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses
House seats in midterm elections" - especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.

But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to
six Senate seats in a sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. Only for half-brights with absolutely no
concept of yesterday is this a "tsunami" - as MSNBC calls it - rather than the death throes of a dying party.

During eight years of Clinton - the man Democrats tell us was the greatest campaigner ever, a political genius, a heartthrob,
Elvis! - Republicans picked up a total of 49 House seats and nine Senate seats in two midterm elections. Also, when Clinton won the
presidency in 1992, his party actually lost 10 seats in the House - only the second time in the 20th century that a party won the
White House but lost seats in the House.

Meanwhile, the Democrats' epic victory this week, about which songs will be sung for generations, means that in two midterm
elections Democrats were only able to pick up about 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate - and that's assuming they
pick up every seat that is currently too close to call. (The Democrats' total gain is less than this week's gain because Bush won
six House and two Senate seats in the first midterm election.)

So however you cut it, this midterm proves that the Iraq war is at least more popular than Bill Clinton was.

In a choice between Republicans' "Stay until we win" Iraq policy or the Democrats' "Stay, leave ... stay for a while then leave ...
redeploy and then come back ... leave and stay ... cut and run ... win, lose or draw policy," I guess Americans prefer the
Republican policy.

The Democrats say we need a "new direction" in Iraq. Yeah, it's called "reverse." Democrats keep talking about a new military
strategy in Iraq. How exactly is cut-and-run a new strategy? The French have been doing it for years. The Democrats are calling
their new plan for Iraq "Operation Somalia."

The Democrats certainly have their work cut out for them. They have only two years to release as many terrorists as possible and
lock up as many Republicans as they can. Republicans better get that body armor for the troops the Democrats are always carping
about - and fast. The troops are going to need it for their backs.

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