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One of the millions of mindless far-left bloggers disagrees with my extremely obvious observation that 2006 was an election year properly characterized as an anti-Republican backlash:

Far-left blogger: No, John, Rick lost.

The blogger asks all of his “Republican friends” to come over to SantorumBlog and correct me for saying that 2006 was an anti-Republican year. Naturally, not a single one of them came, because they know I’m right. Millions of conservative Republican voters, angry at the Republican politicians, stayed home on Election Day.

Sure, the far-left and their friends in the media orchestrated one of the most horrendous and despicable smear campaigns in history against Senator Santorum, but the far-left and the mindless media drones would have voted against Santorum anyway. I’m sure that those attacks cost him some votes, but not nearly as many votes as he lost by supporting Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004, and not nearly as many votes as he lost simply by having an “R” after his name after four years of a Republican majority failing to attack conservatively.

Just look at the way some of these elections went. Some of these House seats are only going to be Democrat controlled for two years, because it’s obvious that the Republican base staying home in these heavily Republican areas is what got the Democrats in.

In 2004, Melissa Hart (R) of PA got 63% of the vote. In 2006, she got 48%.

In 2004, Sue Kelly (R) of NY got 66% of the vote. In 2006, she got 49%.

In 2004, J.D. Hayworth (R) of AZ got 59% of the vote. In 2006, he got 46%. He’s hoping that the provisional ballots, most of which are from Republicans, will pull out a victory for him, but it’s not very likely.

It goes on and on like this. The far-left might argue that Rick Santorum hurt Melissa Hart, but did he hurt Sue Kelly, J.D. Hayworth, and many, many other Republicans who either got voted out of office or re-elected by much closer numbers than in 2004, 2002, and beyond? Of course not. The Republican base, angry about spending, angry about a failure to make good on promises, and angry about the length of the Iraq War stayed home on Tuesday. And if the Republican politicians can convincingly get their act together by 2008, the far-left won’t know what hit them as most of their House victories from this year are snatched back away from them. Then since they didn’t listen to me, they’ll blame Diebold for their losses once again.

Republican Majority for Choice:

The pro-active extreme agenda of Senator Rick Santorum and his fellow extreme right cohorts such as Falwell and Robertson were responsible for the loss of this key Senate seat, among others.

Pa’s other Senator, Arlen Specter is still on the advisory board.

Some previous posts about RMC:

Specter’s Defense

Hunt for Real Republicans

Featherman & RMC

Renita Fennick

Rick Santorum lost the election for all the right reasons.

He’s passionate about his beliefs, even when they’re unpopular or old-fashioned.

He’s loyal to his party and his president.

He’s a devoted husband and father, even if it leads to criticism over where he lives.

He’s committed to principle, true to his conscience, and not afraid to stand up and defend his philosophy, even if he runs the risk of being labeled.

In an ideal world, that’s the kind of candidate who would earn the respect of all voters, even those who disagreed wholeheartedly and voted for the other guy.

But, in the practical world of politics, where the most popular guys are the ones who change their views with each opinion poll, and tweak their speeches to suit their audiences, it’s amazing that Santorum lasted as long as he did.

Pennsylvania voters may have gained a senator who is closer to their own beliefs, but they lost an honest man.

The message to the Republican Party is clear - reclaim your conservative roots or be condemned to minority status for decades.

The Republicans must immediately begin to convincingly work for the conservative principles which they promised to support when they got elected. As Michael Savage says, Borders, Language, Culture. Republicans had four years to secure the borders - they didn’t do it. Republicans had four years to make English America’s official language - they didn’t do it. Republicans had four years to get the garbage in the media out of our children’s faces - they didn’t do it. Republicans had four years to cut government spending - they didn’t do it.

The result of these failures, combined with the failure to fight back against liberal partisanship and lies, was the bloodbath we saw on Tuesday. President Bush is called every despicable name imaginable every single day, and what does he do about it? He laughs it off. That’s all well and good for Bush, but when he doesn’t go out and explain how he is being slandered, people start to believe those lies. It’s exactly the same with Senator Santorum.

I am optimistic that most Republicans will get the message and clean up their acts. They have two years starting now to prove to America that they’re sorry for breaking their promises, and that they’re now serious about supporting conservative values - which are American values.

I hate to break it to the moonbats who inexplicably continue to troll on this blog and post asinine comments, but America didn’t reject conservatism on Tuesday. America’s conservatives rejected the non-conservative actions of the Republican Party by sitting this election out.

Most Americans want lower taxes. Most Americans want to cut government spending. Most Americans want restrictions on abortion. Most Americans want to secure the borders. As George Will wrote, this election was a defeat for Republicans - not a defeat for conservatism.

Be honest with yourselves, moonbats. You just elected Bob Casey, a man who says he’s pro-life, anti-gay marriage, anti-embryonic stem cell research and pro-gun. Does it sound like you just voted against the “Christian fascists”?

Seven states voted to ban gay marriage on Tuesday. Only one state in which a ban was proposed did it fail - Arizona - and it failed by the slimmest margin. And that’s with the Republicans staying home! So much for the “AmTaliban” being repudiated.

Democrats win elections by pretending to be conservative. Republicans lost this election by not being conservative enough. The Republican Party must embrace conservatism for victory in 2008!

A bit of good news in an otherwise bad situation - Jim Gerlach and Tim Murphy have managed to get re-elected. That’s Alex’s and my Congressman, respectively. So while I have no regrets about giving Senator Santorum as much cheerleading as possible, it’s nice that it’s kind of like we both got something for our trouble other than the satisfaction of knowing we did the right thing.

I don’t agree with Gerlach on all of the issues, but he’s rated 10% by NARAL, so that makes him good enough for me. His opponent, Lois Murphy, was a former president of NARAL of PA! Thus she obviously would have done everything she could to promote the slaughter of the unborn.

My Congressman, Tim Murphy, is a lot like Rick Santorum. That is to say, he is superb. It hurt his numbers considerably, but he still survived the anti-Republican backlash by a wide margin, since he’s just that good. His opponent, Chad Kluko, is a moderate yet sleazy fellow who teamed up with the Post-Gazette in a last minute attempt to smear Rep. Murphy with nonsense. Normally newspapers don’t get involved in political campaigns, but we’re talking about the Post “We hate orthodox Catholics” Gazette here.

In another bit of good yet bizarre news, it’s looking like one of my favorite newer Congresspersons, Rep. Jean Schmidt, is also about to survive the bloodbath. Hey, don’t ask me how. Seems like all that praying got us one miracle after all. Rep. Schmidt created one of the greatest sound bites of all time when she read the words of a Marine to Rep. John Murtha - the words, “Cowards cut and run - Marines never do.” Of course the Democrats went crazy and she pretty much had to apologize afterward, but was that ever a great sound bite. Did I mention that Schmidt is Chairman of Cincinnati Right to Life?

With 99% of precincts reporting, Casey has won the election by 18%. Thank you all who voted for Rick Santorum. You know that you voted correctly, and you can be satisfied that you did the right thing against all odds. For those Republicans and conservatives who didn’t vote or who voted for Democrats, try paying attention over the next two years, will you? If you think that the Republicans were too liberal as thus had to be defeated, you don’t know anything about Nancy Pelosi.

The Republicans have lost the House, and it looks like we’ve lost the Senate by one seat as well. In a typical 6-year election, Americans went out and voted for “the other” party. Republicans got voted out of office in majority Republican states, so Rick Santorum in the majority Democrat state of PA didn’t stand a chance. The election could have been Ronald Reagan vs. Walter Mondale and Reagan would have lost.

Let me remind you - conservative principles did not lose in Pennsylvania. Bob Casey wouldn’t have won with just the support of the crazy pro-abortion socialists who were all over this blog gloating last night. Casey won by pretending to be “Rick Santorum-lite” - in particular, a non-Republican version of Rick Santorum, since anyone with an “R” after his name suffered yesterday.

Though our party lost big - make no mistake, we got killed yesterday - our ideas didn’t lose. We need the Republican Party to return to conservatism and get ready for 2008, hoping that President Bush uses his veto pen much more often over the next two years.

And don’t worry about impeachment. The Democrats might impeach Bush, which means that they’ll bring charges against him in the House, and then regardless of the evidence, every Democrat will vote to impeach. However, just like Bill Clinton was, he’ll be acquitted by the Senate. The far-left always forgets that you need 67 Senators to vote to remove an impeached president from office, not 51.

I’m convinced that Rick Santorum lost this election because of the “R” after his name and not because the people of PA rejected him personally. I take some solace in that. The people of America went out today and voted against anyone with an “R” after his or her name, which is clear if you look at some of the local races.

Rick Santorum could not overcome the weight of that “Republican” anchor around his neck, especially not in the majority Democrat state of Pennsylvania. His loss had nothing to do with his social conservatism. His loss had nothing to do with his strong positions on the issues. And that’s because his loss had nothing to do with him and everything to do with an anti-Republican sentiment, which is historically seen in the sixth year of any two-term presidency.

Captain Ed writes that 22% of Pennsylvania’s Catholics switched from Santorum to Casey.

That’s alot.

Republicans staying home, fine, I don’t agree with that attitude, but I can sort of understand it. But Republicans voting Democrat because the Republicans are not conservative enough? That’s just crazy.

With the votes actually being counted, it’s looking like Casey is going to win by some insanely high percentage. So now we know why Fox News called it so early. That couldn’t have happened without Republicans going out and voting for Casey.

So, folks, it’s looking like we’re going to have at least two years of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and either a Democrat controlled Senate or a barely Republican Senate. Frankly I’m too disgusted to analyze this foolishness - did people vote on Iraq (which the Dems have no plan for), did they vote on the economy (I guess it’s doing too well), did they vote for Democrats to restore fiscal responsibility to our government (Ha) or did they just say, “Bush sucks, I’m voting Democrat!”?

OK, people, here is what needs to happen NOW:

-Bush needs to solve the Iraq problem. Whatever he needs to do to win in Iraq, it must be done immediately. More troops, fewer troops, WHATEVER IT TAKES to leave Iraq a stable country. The Dems WILL pull funding from the Iraq War in order to force us to retreat. We have to win before that happens or else it really will become another Vietnam. It would be a catastrophe if Pelosi and her friends, after campaigning for our defeat in Iraq for three years, finally succeeded in making us lose that battle.

-Republicans need to re-commit themselves to economically conservative principles. Period. Economic conservativism is supposed to be the one thing that all Republicans have in common, but the Republican base has been infuriated by all spending.

-This wasn’t a failure of conservative ideas; it was a failure of the Republicans to be conservative enough, combined with the treasonous behavior of the media. Americans support conservative ideas. Americans want lower taxes. Americans want to protect the definition of marriage. Americans oppose judicial activism. Our ideas are right, and we need to cling to those ideas.

Just saw on the Fox scrolling ticker that Santorum called Casey to congratulate him.

I’d like to congratulate the voters of Pennsylvania for electing Pennsylvania’s next gubernatorial candidate.

Anyone else hearing massive voter machine failures around the state?

Here’s a link to various machinese by county.

Pa machines

I was Judge of Elections in Perkiomen Township (Montgomery county), we had 1400 voters out of 2600 possible.

Busy frigging day. I wish I could remember the numbers, but honestly I was in hurry to get the envelopes sealed and delivered.

KDKA

The polls are open, but voting machine problems have been reported at several polling places in Allegheny County.

County elections officials are not saying what’s wrong or how long it will take to fix the problems.

Pennlive

Polls were ordered to remain open an extra hour Tuesday in Lancaster and Lebanon counties due to glitches with new voting machines but state election officials said no major problems were reported around Pennsylvania in the first all-electronic general election.

“Every election has some glitches on every type of voting system,” said Cathy Ennis, spokeswoman for the Department of state, which oversees elections. “This is not atypical.”

PowerLine

I can confirm from the ground that Lebanon County was a mess earlier. The Board of Elections extended voting to 9 p.m.

Nearby Cumberland County also had problems with votes for Santorum being recorded for Casey and votes for Swann being recorded for Rendell.

RedState:

In wards 7, 19, 51 in Philly, PA, the crowds are going wild. Inside several voting locations, individuals have poured white out onto the polling books and the poll workers are allowing voters to go into the polls and vote without first registering. Several individuals are on hand demanding that voters vote straight Democrat.

Got this via email….

November 7, 2006

VIA FACSIMILE (717) 787-1734
Hon. Pedro A. Cortes
Secretary of the Commonwealth
302 N. Office Bldg.
Harrisburg, PA 17120

Dear Secretary Cortes:

As you are aware, there have been a number of reported instances today from the Counties throughout the Commonwealth, including but not limited to Allegheny, Butler, Westmoreland, Centre, Lackawanna, Erie, Bucks, Lancaster, Lebanon, Luzerne, Cumberland and Crawford Counties, where voters have attempted to vote for Republican candidates on voting machines (the “Voting Machines”) and these same Voting Machines incorrectly reflected either that those same voters voted the straight Democratic ticket or voted for the opposing Democratic candidates on a split ticket. Such malfunctions effectively disenfranchise voters and the results of the election may be inaccurate.

Because the Secretary of the Commonwealth must approve all Voting Machines for use in elections, we would respectfully request that you immediately take steps to investigate these reports of Voting Machines that malfunctioned, and that you determine the following:

a) the identity of the Voting Machines that were miscalibrated and/or malfunctioned and the serial numbers for those machines;
b) the precincts or divisions where the Voting Machines were located;
c) what time the malfunctions occurred;
d) whether technicians were called to repair the Voting Machines;
e) what time technicians arrived to repair the Voting Machines;
f) the names and contact information for the technicians who repaired these machines;
g) what exactly the technicians did to repair the Voting Machines;
h) how many voters cast ballots on the Voting Machines prior to recalibration; and
i) whether recalibration of a Voting Machine affects votes already cast on that Voting Machine.;

We also ask that you issue instructions to every County to not recalibrate any Voting Machine that has been identified as being miscalibrated, but rather impound the Voting Machine. Additionally, we request that a sufficient number of emergency ballots be provided to these affected Counties so that no voter loses his/her right to vote.

Secretary Cortes
p.2

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I can be reached at
610-574-9670 today.

Sincerely, LAWRENCE J. TABAS

cc: Harry Van Sickle, Commissioner
Hon. Thomas Corbett, Attorney General
Albert H. Masland, Chief Counsel to the Department of State

Rick hasn’t cured all diseases.  He hasn’t single-handedly ended all abortions.  He hasn’t returned all tax money to the masses.  Oh - he didn’t support Pat Toomey.

Therefore, he deserved to lose.

That is the basis of a handful of “conservative” holdouts who gave the state power over to the Dems.  They are proud of their efforts to “expose” the evil deeds of Senator Santorum.  They won’t admit it, but they simply hate the man - mostly becasue he didn’t support Toomey, even though Pat supported Rick’s re-election efforts.

Now we have a full-blown socialist, who successfully paraded himself around as a conservative democrat.  And he’s paired up with a full-blown socialist governor.

Imagine how hard it will be to build back the conservative base.  Imagine how hard it will be to find a candidate so pure that the self-righteous wing will be happy.  Then imagine trying to run that candidate against the Casey-Rendell machine.

Egads.

I’ve been asking these people for several months who the person will be.  They have no idea.  They can’t pick Toomey - he “stabbed them in the back” by backing Rick.  They can’t pick anyone currently in office - they have all voted for something that isn’t perfect.

Seems like we’ll be in for quite the ride.

Philadelphia’s 19th Ward.

The Santorum-Casey race just became more important.  Dems are now one seat closer to taking control of the Senate.  Remember the mess the last time?

Get ready for a SCOTUS appointee to come along soon…

This is unbelievable; now Fox News is projecting that Michael Steele will lose. Only 1% of the vote is counted… and with 1% counted, Steele is ahead by 11%! How can you possibly project that he’s going to lose from that data?! Are they using the phony exit poll data for these projections or what?

I’ll admit it - I’m not particularly happy right now with at least two media outlets projecting a Casey win. You can obviously tell how irritated I am from my posts.

But as far as I can tell, my vote hasn’t been counted yet. Less than 1% of Pennsylvania precincts are reporting, and that doesn’t include my precinct and many, many other conservative precincts. It isn’t over until ALL of the votes are counted; not less than 1% of the votes.

Those who thought Santorum wasn’t a conservative are in for a very big surprise.

Chuck Schumer was just on the tube giving his Democrat victory speech.  The only way I can sum it up is “build the bunker and hide your wallet.”

He’s ready to pull the troops from the Middle East.  He’s ready for taxpayer-funded tuition.  He’s ready for tax hikes.

The numbers of conservatives and GOP voting for Brown in Ohio are shocking.  But the Democrat plans that are coming (if they sweep) are even more shocking.

Chuck Schumer’s on now, telling us how he’s going to screw over America if Democrats take over the House and the Senate. I think we should all send President Bush a veto pen which he can use constantly for the next two years in case that happens.

Update

Howard Dean is on now, telling us how he’s a uniter, not a divider. He is so full of crap. Bush, just veto every single thing these Democrats try to do for the next two years if they take power. Don’t let them do anything.

Scratch that - ABC and Fox News are now projecting that Rick loses, because nobody actually voted for Bob Casey. They voted against Rick Santorum based on mindless hatred, lies, slander, and outright stupidity. They voted against Rick Santorum because of the, frankly, evil people who run the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pennsylvania’s other leftist newspapers.

These projections are based on a tiny percentage of the vote being counted and only have Casey up 4%, but these folks seem convinced that it isn’t going to shift in Santorum’s favor.

The polls are closed, so it’s time to turn off the extreme optimism and turn on the realism. All we can do is wait to see what happens. Now we find out if the contemptible MSM has succeeded in brainwashing enough people to vote for the empty suit Bob Casey. Now we find out if the unbelievably dishonest liberals have managed to make people vote against sanity.

To be honest, it doesn’t look too great. But if we lose, then that means we dedicate ourselves to fighting even harder against these maniacs. These liberals have spent the last six years calling George Bush the devil, demonizing conservatives, telling blatant lies with the assistance of their friends in the media, making up nonsense about Rick Santorum, and doing everything they can to make us lose the Iraq War.

Even if we lose every close race, I’ll still be optimistic for the future, because I know that we’re right on the issues. I know that Rick Santorum is right. I know that the liberals are madmen who seek to destroy truth. I’ve also read the Book, so I know that Truth ultimately wins out in the end.

If Casey was up by 10+ percent, this race would have been called by now (8:20pm).  We’ll see how everything shakes out!

I had to work today starting at 7AM so I couldn’t vote until 4:30PM. I have no doubt that many conservatives had similar “scheduling conflicts”. Make sure you call your pro-Santorum friends and family before it’s too late and remind them to vote! There are only about three hours left!

The ward I live in is heavily Republican, and I saw them turning out in high numbers when I was over at the polling place about fifteen minutes ago. That’s a good sign - but we have to keep it up until 8PM!

By the way, I had two Santorum signs which I was saving, since I figured that somebody would try to steal or damage my signs close to Election Day. I was able to fix the other two, but I put the two reserves out today anyway.

That means that all day today since the polls opened, I have had four Santorum signs in my yard. That will teach liberal vandals who hate free speech and personal property to mess with me!

Update

Just a reminder - DO NOT LISTEN TO THE MEDIA! Don’t even turn your TV on until the polls are closed. I have no doubt that the media is doing everything it can to suppress the conservative vote today.

Update 6:55PM

One hour to go! This is your last chance! We need every last vote!

Scranton’s Times-Tribune has some keys to the Santorum-Casey race.  It’s a fairly good read, but by no means comprehensive.  It fails to mention notables, such as the GOP GOTV efforts and the weather.  Still interesting, though.

Clicky-clicky.

Just for fun, and for a bit of posterity, post up your voting experiences!  Have a good story?  Positive news?  Negative news?  Problems?  Tell us what town and what you saw.

Let us know!

I recently voted at my ward’s polling location in Grove City.  GC is a conservative stronghold.  The townspeople created Grove City College.  We have far more churches than pizza places.  Our borough council hasn’t raised taxes in nearly 25 years.

We love conservatism.

Anyhoo…by the time the wife and I voted for Rick and Lynn, the polling location had enough voters to push the totals close to the entire count in 2005.  By the time we get through the afternoon and evening, those totals will be long since eclipsed.

So much for sitting this one out.

Granted, that doesn’t mean all the voters were conservatives - and it doesn’t mean that all the voters voted for Rick - but in an area like Grove City, this is definitely a good sign.

And it’s raining.

UPDATE: 4:30pm…Ward Five in Grove City is now 25% past the 2005 vote totals!  Definitely a good sign!

The liberals love polls.  They love to manipulate them every possible way then present them as fact.  The media love polls even more.  They are too lazy to dig into stories, so they count on polls to provide “news.”

Here we are on election day.  We’ve heard for months how conservatives don’t care and how conservatives are going to sit this one out.  We heard about this in 2004 - and look what happened.  We showed up, we voted, and the media and Dems cried about how we stole the election.  How dare we vote!

Here we are on election day.  We’ve heard for months about how conservatives hate Rick Santorum and anyone remotely connected to the Bush administration.  Yet, we are turning out to vote - in huge numbers.  We’re doing it again.

Perhaps we don’t like participating in polls.  Perhaps we don’t like listening to polls.  Perhaps the media, in their attempt to sway the election, simply report the wrong findings so often that they start to believe their own lies.  For months they have been telling themselves how it was going to be a GOP bloodbath.  Yet, we are turning out to vote - in huge numbers.  We’re doing it again.

Reports are coming out from across the Commonwealth.  There was a statewide effort to vandalize Santorum signs last night.  Dems are blocking GOP poll watchers in Philly.  GOP members are filling up polling stations - some with lines as long as fifty yards.

We’re doing it again.  We didn’t believe the lies.  Dems have - and now they are set up in a nice little pattern, waiting for that fateful push.  And they will fall.  Polling station by polling station, district by district, county by county, state by state.

On to victory!

*Update 6AM - I’ve been hit by vandalism! These liberals are desperate! Get out and vote and defeat them! See below*

Election Day is TODAY, November 7th, 2006! The polls are open in Pennsylvania from 7AM to 8PM. Verify your polling place and go out and vote! Bring your pro-Santorum friends! Call your friends and family who are on the fence and convince them to go out and vote for Rick Santorum! Ignore the media, just VOTE! We can do this!

From RickSantorum.com:

It’s Here - Last Chance

After months and months of campaigning, game day is here. I’ve been so inspired as I’ve traveled to every corner of our state these past few days. Enthusiastic volunteers and supporters are as energized as ever … and nothing motivates us more than our hope of defying the odds, once again, on Election Day.

And we will defy the odds with an historic victory if we put everything we have into today.

How can you help? Please do the following three things right now:

-Look up your polling place by going here and make sure you vote November 7th, Election Day.

-Open up your address book and call your friends, family, neighbors and others. Make sure they are turning out and voting for me as well.

-E-mail this blog to everyone you know, asking them to look up their polling place and to join you in voting for me.

If you have trouble getting some of your friends to vote because they’re on the fence over who to support, or they don’t understand why turning out is so important. Remind them that I’m the candidate who will make their security the top priority and fight to lower their taxes. I’m the candidate who will work hard for them every day, putting forth real ideas and real solutions.

You may also remind them that our opponent, Bob Casey, Jr., spent his final campaign weekend with Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi, after a planned event with John Kerry a few days ago. (Kerry cancelled last minute because he was taking heat for calling our military “uneducated” and implying that had they done their homework, they would not have been “stuck in Iraq.”)

Much is at stake in this election, and we don’t want to look back a week from now, a year from now, and wish we would have done more.

I am humbled by your support and your commitment to our campaign. As a team, let’s give it everything we’ve got.

Keep up the fight, and on to victory!

Update 6AM

As I was going outside to get my Pittsburgh Tribune-Review this morning, it was dark outside, but I couldn’t see my two Santorum signs. I walked toward them and then I found out why - in the middle of the night, some anti-property, anti-free speech liberal came onto my property and damaged my signs. The metal rods are all bent out of shape, and the signs themselves were thrown onto the ground. I’m going to go fix my signs in a few minutes before I have to go to work, but first I want to tell you what’s in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today. This poll question from yesterday:

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania voters will go to the polls to decide whether to return Republican Rick Santorum to the U.S. Senate. He’s opposed by Democrat Bob Casey Jr., the state treasurer.

Which of these candidates will likely get your vote?

Santorum: 1,746 (67 percent)
Casey: 851 (33 percent)

This is it, people! We have the momentum! As I speak Bob Casey is running his old dishonest radio ad in Pittsburgh, the ad which claims that Santorum’s Spanish website is different from the English version - a blatant lie, and Casey knows it! Casey is intellectually and morally bankrupt, and he and his agents will do anything to win. Don’t let them! VOTE!

Can’t argue with Chuck Norris:

Don’t Be MIA on Election Day

“I am an unashamed traditional warrior. What that means to me is that I believe our country was founded upon conservative faith and values, and that it will only be sustained by them as well.”

“You might not be in the military, but you can certainly still fight for freedom, right here on our own shores. How? By voting!

With the culture wars at full tilt, it is somewhat surprising that expected voter turn out is forecasted as low as 35 percent. This is particularly troubling since Democrats only need to pick up six seats to gain a majority in the 100-seat Senate. They need only 15 seats out of the 435-seat House to achieve their first majority since being swept out of power in 1994.

To not vote is simply a vote for the opposition. As British statesman Edmund Burke once said, ‘’Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.'’“

Senator Rick Santorum appeared on CNN with Larry King this evening.

Larry King: “Let’s go to Pittsburgh and Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania. He is in the political fight of his life to retain that seat. We invited his opponent Bob Casey to appear but he declined because of a scheduling conflict.”

May Casey and his voters have yet another “scheduling conflict” tomorrow.

Senator Santorum: “We’re gonna get a huge turnout tomorrow. I can tell you, there’s a lot of energy and enthusiasm that you heard behind me, and they’re gonna be out there working hard driving out our vote, and I don’t care what the polls say - we’re going to win tomorrow!”

Other “conflicts”

Casey & the NAACP

Simply put, Rick is a conservative.  Is he the most conservative man in the world?  No, but he is one of the most conservative in the US Senate.  Pennsylvania needs him.  The US needs him.

Rick clearly understands our national security struggles.  He unapologetically supports the troops AND the mission.  He knows all about international terrorism and can speak about it at length with true passion.  Rick is fully aware that there is evil in the world and that evil is aimed at Americans simply because we’re Americans.

Rick fights for the unborn.  He has worked tirelessly to end the horrific partial birth abortion procedure.  Yes, he has campaigned for pro-choice candidates, but Rick sees the big picture, which is my next point.

Rick is a strategist.  He understands that you will not change American culture overnight.  He recognizes that the liberals have been changing America toward socialism for the last 70 years.  He knows who will be the best allies to make the changes.  Sometimes that means reaching out to moderates in the party.

Rick is against wasteful spending.  Sure, he has voted for some bloated budgets, but only after they were cut down from massive budgets.  Sometimes pork-laden riders get tagged onto good bills, but Rick tends to support the good bills.  Some call this selling out, but the system is flawed, not Rick.  If the Congress worked as small towns (one item at a time), Rick would easily be one of the best fiscal conservatives in Congress.

Rick supports the Second Amendment.  He fought the maddening rules and regulations that the Clinton administration tried to force upon the people.  He fought the rediculous assaults on gun owners by the liberals in today’s Democrat party.  Rick continues the fight to this day.  He understands the need for responsible gun ownership in a free society.

I urge fellow conservatives to go out and vote for Rick.  He has a position of tremendous power in the Senate and can do great things for the Commonwealth and the country.  He’s a conservative.  A good conservative.  And he deserves your support.

K-Lo reports:

One Santorum volunteer I know reports knocking on 3oo doors in south central Penn. today, hearing most often: “These polls are absurd! I’m ready to show those media people how wrong they are!”

The Republican voters I’ve been calling in my precinct are saying the same, and they’re all coming to the polls.

Tribune-Review

Maybe even more than in his first miscalculation, McNickle is wrong to assert that ceding control of Congress to the Democrats for “a very brief blip” will have no real consequences. The first problem with this theory is this: Who says it will be only a brief blip? Certainly not the historical record on changes in control.

And do we really want to take that risk at this critical time in our nation’s history, a time when our actions, and the actions of our leaders, will resonate far into the future? Can we afford that risk when the leaders of the Democratic Party have repeatedly, consistently, proven to be incapable of adequately responding to today’s greatest challenges?

Remember, this is a party that expressed far more outrage over a classified program that allowed us to listen to terrorists than over the illegal disclosure of that program’s existence.

This is a party that, instead of participating in reasoned debate about the situation in Iraq, simply wants to withdraw our troops and abandon the Iraqi people — and eventually the rest of us — to the chaos and misery that would surely follow.

This is a Democratic Party that has opposed shielding America with a missile defense while weapons and technology proliferate.

The Democrats in Congress have proven unwilling to get serious about our security and granting them control of either chamber is a dangerous proposition.

A Democrat-controlled Congress also puts the greatest success of the last six years — the booming economy — in serious jeopardy. The Republican-passed tax cuts are having their intended effects.

American families are keeping more of their hard-earned money. American businesses are reinvesting in themselves, creating more jobs than ever before. Unemployment is low; homeownership, economic growth, the stock market and consumer confidence are all high.

But the aspiring Democrat chairman of the House tax-writing committee has told us on national TV that none of the Bush tax cuts is worthy of extending. Instead, he and would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi would happily preside over huge tax hikes that would disastrously undermine our economy and our competitiveness.

Update: Dale Light writes…

Get out and vote. Get out and vote. Get out and vote for Senator Rick.

Conservatve columnist Jack Kelly says “Throw the bums out”, but he also says to re-elect Senator Rick whom he compares to Lincoln and Churchill [here].

As I have said many times, and as Kelly and Toomey recognize, Rick Santorum is the best Senator of the bunch by far, and to lose him would be a terrible blow to the State and the nation.

Vote for Senator Rick!!! Save your anger for the primaries!

Pat Toomey says to do so! So does Jack Kelly! So do I!

Pocono Record

Call voters, knock on doors and take Election Day off to get the party faithful out.

That’s U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s formula for mobilizing supporters to prove polls wrong and retain Republican control of the Senate.

“There’s a ground game out there that the other side doesn’t have. There are a lot of things going on that no poll has seen,” said Santorum, R-Pa.

Fifty volunteers crammed Monroe County Republican headquarters at 8:30 a.m. Saturday to cheer their candidate.

One man asked Santorum what he could do to help.

“Bottom line is have the phones buzzing,” said Santorum.

It’s about leadership.

“I’ll never be ahead in a poll, but I’ll be ahead when it counts,” said Santorum.

He slammed Casey for running a low-profile campaign and defending U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s controversial Iraq gaffe on Tuesday.

“He failed the test of leadership. You know how easy that test was? Hillary Clinton passed it,” said Santorum, referring to Clinton’s rebuke of Kerry.

Call your neighbors.

Remind them to vote!

http://www.ricksantorum.com/YouCall

Do It.

Update

Hot Air points to this funny and educational video by Mary Katherine Ham:

Says MKH:

“Pop quiz. What’s the absolute least sexy thing on earth? Getting out the vote for the GOP? Yep, now that is unsexy. So, what do I do? I turn it into a dating line commercial. Ha. I love vlogging.

Sign up to make calls from home, right here. It’s gonna be all about getting out the vote, so start now. “There are so many fun and exciting Republicans just waiting for you to call them.” Hee.“

Here’s how not to write a get out the vote letter.

First, advice to blog readers.

I attach a letter I have distributed to the voters in my division. Feel free to duplicate it.

With that in mind, let’s get to the letter.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 7, 2008. Voting in our division will be at the Fleisher Art Memorial located at 719 Catharine Street. Polls are open from 7:00am- 8:00 pm.

This is an extremely important election and it is crucial that we all come out and vote. Ed Rendell, Bob Brady and Babbette Joseph are all running for reelection and deserve our support.

Voting date. Check. Sort of.

Voting Place. Check.

Candidates. Check. Well… except her name is Babette Josephs.

Office they’re running for? I have no idea.

Oh, we forgot Bob Casey, he’s running for something.

Well, Bob Casey is mentioned twice. That’s a lot right?

Wrong.

Because Rick Santorum is mentioned 11 times.

After saying vote for Bob Casey, they enumerate the reasons for voting AGAINST Rick Santorum. Apparently, they are legion.

The post is titled “Vote Against Hate”, but I fail to see anything but for Santorum.

Anyway… this is not the best part.

That’s this part.

Santorum is a right wing zealot who will be defeated but only if we all turn out and vote on November 8, 2006.

and

REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR BOB CASEY AND AGAINST RICK SANTORUM NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Emphasis added.

This blogger distributed the letter to voters in his precinct. Let’s hope he got them all.

If the Democrats lose in Philadelphia, it’s ’cause they did it to themselves.