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What's at stake...
Vanity | October 7, 2007 | me


Posted on 10/07/2007 7:46:22 AM PDT by Jagman


What’s at stake…

As we sit here debating Rudy’s abortion stance or Ron Paul’s ideas, here’s a little thought exercise that should clarify what’s a stake for all of us in the upcoming election. Analysts often pursue a worst-case scenario in order to outline the scope of an issue. Here’s my version of such a scenario for 2008:

1. Hillary! wins the Whitehouse.

2. Due to the retirement of key Republican Senators in states with a heavy Democrat base (sorry, I refuse to call them blue states), as well as incremental wins elsewhere, the Democrats not only pick up Senate seats, but win a filibuster-proof majority.

3. The Democrats continue to pick up seats in the House.

Now, here’s the fun part: With total governmental control, what do you think the Democrats will do? Unlike the Republican when they were in power, the Democrats do not worry about imposing their ideas on the country at large. Here are several random, worst-case notions, and I’m sure you can add to the list:

1. Pull out of Iraq, leaving in the wake the same magnitude of damage they visited on South Vietnam in the 1970s. Also, cancel star wars research, and cut military budgets across the board.

2. Raise taxes, and put in place new taxes! Everything from a hefty carbon tax for global warming to new entitlements for everyone except those actually paying for everything.

3. Open the borders! Make America a “Sanctuary Nation” for anyone and everyone who wants to enter the country.

4. Hillary! healthcare: socialized medicine becomes a reality.

5. Settle scores. With everyone from W to Rumsfeld to maybe even you and me, if we fall into their sights.

6. Impose the Fairness Doctrine! No more Rush, Laura, etc. – and perhaps no more Fox News.

7. Stack the court system! From all-democrat attorney generals to packing the Supreme Court (remember, with a filibuster-proof majority, the Dems in the Senate could appoint Barbra Streisand as Chief Justice and get her through) the justice system will abandon original intent faster than Justice Souter abandoned his principles.

8. Abortion on Demand! Just as Planned Parenthood set up an abortion factory in Aurora, Illinois, one will be coming to your town, too.

9. Gay marriage becomes a federally mandated reality.

10. Repeal the Second Amendment.

11. Etc.

Certainly, the above would be the worst case scenario, and there’s no way they could accomplish all of these without feeling the sting of a voter rebuke in two years, but what if they could accomplish just half of these goals, or a quarter of them, or maybe even one or two?