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The Washington Post today ran with the headline, A Voter Rebuke
For Bush, the War And the Right. While voters were affected by the
war and their views of the President, among other issues, the
results show that indeed the election was a loss for the Republican
Party, but it was emphatically not a loss for conservatives or those
on the political right.
In nearly all of the major ballot issues at the state level,
conservatives won. For instance, ballot initiatives to recognize
marriage as being between a man and a woman won in seven out of
eight states with strong majority support. Voters also supported
initiatives to protect property rights against government
land-grabbers, and expressed strong support for tougher enforcement
of laws against illegal immigration, among other conservative
issues.
The 2006 election was a loss for the Republican Party but it was
in no way a loss for the Right, said Media Research Center
President Brent Bozell. Look at the election returns Republicans
lost. Look at the ballot initiatives numerous conservative ideas
and the principles of the political right were victorious all over
the country.
The Washington Post is trying to write the first pages of
the history of the 2006 election and it is trying, as usual, to
discredit conservative ideas by attaching them to the coattails of
the Republican Party. But that is not the fact and its certainly
not accurate reporting.
Today, The Washington Post is synonymous with Howard Dean.
Its time now for conservatives to denounce the blatantly dishonest
agenda that the Post is packaging as news.
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