Posted by
Georgiaboy on Monday, November 06, 2006 6:55:34 PM
I wanted to encourage everyone again to go out and vote. If you are thinking of staying home to teach the Republicans a lesson, you are making one critical assumption that is not necessarily true.
You are assuming that Republicans will be able to win the House back. While that is a distinct possibility with a strong presidential candidate in '08, don't count on it. The advantages of incumbency are numerous and powerful. Dislodging a Democratic Majority from the House of Representatives will be extremely difficult. Just ask the Democrats. They taught their people a lesson in 1994. They did not win Congress back in 1996. Republicans taught Bush Sr. a lesson in 1992 and we got Bill Clinton for 8 years. So, if you stay home tomorrow, you will have only yourself to blame 6, 8, or 10 years from now if a Democratic majority has held on to the House, stifling any progress on the conservative agenda.