Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Anyone can mouth off if they are not going to risk anything. Those people are easily dismissed as not having any convictions or confidence in their positions." Most people don't feel the need to constantly unzip in public.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy This conversation is for the people who sacked it up and are willing to risk a little in order to back up their opinion. You are more than welcome however to step up to the plate. I'm sure you will be the " passholder " for the rest of your life so why not win one from me? I think your scared your going to get another loss pinned to your resume.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Just the fact that you are willing to put something of value on the line to back up your opinion makes you a stand up guy. Anyone can mouth off if they are not going to risk anything. Those people are easily dismissed as not having any convictions or confidence in their positions. >> Some people enjoy gambling. Some don't. I live less than an hour away from two of the largest most well-run Native American casinos in the country. I visit them about once a year. I just don't like gambling much. You obviously do. Or as SPP said... <<Most people don't feel the need to constantly unzip in public.>>
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Originally Posted By RoadTrip Give it a rest, OK Beau?? I think it would be a pretty safe bet. As WK said most likely the Democrats will take the Senate but not the House, so it will be a push bet. I think it far more likely that the Democrats would take both than that the Republicans would retain both, but I don't really think either will happen. But why would I bet with you anyway? WK has at least met you and knows that you are real and where to find you. As far as I'm concerned you could be some 16 year old kid sitting at the computer in his underwear inside a 30 foot travel trailer parked up on blocks on an acre of land in the boondocks of Oregon. And I could be the same. So why on earth would you want to bet with me??
Originally Posted By Beaumandy William met me, I'm really 13 and live at the YMCA. Look, there is NO way the dems pick up either the house or the Senate even though STPH since late 2004 has been saying he can't wait till the GOP falls in 2006. When it comes time to go into the voting booth, people know the republicans keep them safer and let them keep more of their money and they don't hate god. And that is just the short list.
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Originally Posted By gadzuux This silly bet also trivializes something that's deadly serious and vitally important. This is not a sporting event, this is the real world.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 This silly bet also trivializes something that's deadly serious and vitally important. This is not a sporting event, this is the real world.<< This election is not deadly serious or vitally important, both parties are so corrupt and tied to lobbiests, that neither party should be in control. Its going to be the same crap no matter who wins this election. If you think otherwise, you are just fooling yourself IMO.
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Originally Posted By Dabob2 <It would take a miracle for Republicans to keep control of both House and Senate.> I think it would take a miracle for the Republicans to lose either one. A swing of 6 seats is HUGE when only a third of the senate is up, and as for the house, most districts have been gerrymandered to within an inch of their lives and are totally safe for the incumbents. Moreso than ever before, and far moreso than the last big swing in 1994. If Democrats do take either house over, it's going to mean huge dissatisfaction with the way things are going.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Dabob, I'm glad you came arond AFTER my bet with William. You are exactly correct in your assesment of the upcoming election and will not have to face the pain of being wrong. LOL When you break the races down and how many seats the Dems have to win to take over either the house or the Senate it is practically impossible for them to have a majority in either. Throw in the fact that the dems are promising cut and run appeasment, tax hikes and no other solid plan for America, there is no reason to vote for them, nothing.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 In your view. In my view, there are many reasons to vote for them, but the plain fact is that most people vote for incumbents, and even when enough of them are dissatisfied enough not to, the districts are so tilted to one party or the other that the incumbent is reelected anyway.
Originally Posted By ecdc Uh, Beau, it wasn't exactly an endorsement of Republicans. As we've seen in Texas, and my home state of Utah, the districts have been so rigged and fixed that they look more like bizarre puzzle pieces than normal congressional districts. Anything - the law be damned! - to keep those Republicans in power.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo I personally don’t know who is worse, the current GOP class, or the current Democrat class. The GOP seems so bought by corporate interests that they have little (if any) regard for the average American. But the Democrats seem more concerned about not offending certain segments of the population than doing what must be done to defend this nation. And both strictly cater the psycho fringes of their respective parties; tinderbox politics at its best. What a depressing age in American history. If there was ever a time for a third party…
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Did anyone see that Tom Delay might have to run again?? Now that would be hillarious if he came back Darth Vader style.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Anything - the law be damned! - to keep those Republicans in power.> Republicans neither invented gerrymandering nor are they the sole practioners of it.
