April?s selections present a couple of firsts for the Fearless Philosophy Blogpost of the Month worth noting: the first 2-time winner, the first time 2 posts came from the same blog (by separate authors), and the first time 2 previous winners appeard…

I think congress is going to get spanked but the reps will still hold a (thin) majority in both houses this midterm. If that happens, I’m willing to bet that a lot of congresscritters will newly descover the religion of restraint.

And no, I will never vote for a democratic president again, so long as the democratic party remotely reseembles what it does today; because not only do you get a president, but you get a whole administration and executive branch. The damage Bill Clinton did in his 8 years is utterly phenomenal if you’ve seen it from the inside. Because its all “inside baseball” stuff the general public doesnt see it, but I think a democratic president and republican congress would do more damage than a democratic congress would do with a republican president.

I decided probably in 2003 I wouldn’t vote for Bush in the first presidential election I was old enough for.

For me, it was more the Christian Right business than anythine else, but as time passed the economic stuff has come to bother me a lot more.

What of the idea that having a pro-war Democrat in the White House, coupled with a Republican Congress, might be the best option? After all, Congress actually restricted its spending from 1994-2000, when they refused to spend money Clinton could take credit for.

We’d have a serious problem when openings on the Supreme Court came around, but I think it might be a good thing for our spending problems.

Honeslty, I think if the republicans put up any halfway acceptable candidate, the “I will not vote for a democrat for president until this war is won” demographic will be enough.

I’m a dedicated libertarian minarchist, and I’ll be voting with that demographic, because giving the reins to ANY democrat is even worse than if we were to have another GWB in office next term.

I don’t really expect the Democrats to win the White House in ‘08. Their entire strategy is shaping up to be “we’re against the Republicans, the war in Iraq, defending the country and want to create a socialist utopia”. I do think they are going to gain some seats in the House and, potentially, the Senate this year. And that will be the fault of a GOP that looks like a religious version of the DNC: spend, regulate, socialize stuff, spend some more ……. but all in the name of God.

The congresscritters new Kerry was a loser, after all they worked with the guy (he was one of my senators much of my life). THey also knew that he would be horrible for them in the mid terms if he won.

Did they throw it? No, they counted on GW to make a huge ass of himself after the election (which he did like clockwork) and thus improve their position for the midterms, and make it easier to put someone they actually want to get behind with full effort in for ‘08.

Multilateralism, Anti-Americanism, Tax Hikes, Kelo, and cowardly appeasement of America’s self-proclaimed enemies? If I wanted to live in a socialist dystopia as a dhimmi I’d move to France thank you very much.

What you see from democrats ARE their principles. They are nihilist to the core and it disgusts me.

At least with Republicans there is some slim hope they’ll return to their small government principles.

That pretty much sums up how I have felt about the Republican Party as of late.

They wanted to improve their congressional position, because it is the house of representatives contingent that actually controls the democratic party (along with their “fringe” donor element).

The best thing for the democratic congressional contingent has been the hostile to republican press, and G.W.B. as president.