They Think You're Stupid by Herman Cain

Bush, and the majority of U.S. House Republicans represent congressional districts in the so-called red states (Republican).

    The U.S. electorate seems to prefer strong leadership characteristics in their choice for president. The South in particular has preferred conservative presidents, in addition to men who exhibit strong leadership qualities. Ironically, two of our most liberal presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, were sons of the South and former Southern governors. So familiarity, coupled with regionalism, certainly played a role in their election and reelection campaigns, with the exception of the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. Bill Clinton was viewed as a stronger leader in 1992 than incumbent George H. W. Bush and a stronger leader than his opponent for reelection, Kansas senator Robert Dole. Since 2000, the South has voted almost solidly Republican in elections for president and U.S. Senate. The Democrat senators who retired in 2004, such as Bob Graham in Florida, Ernest Hollings in South Carolina, John Edwards in North Carolina, and Zell Miller in Georgia, were all replaced by Republicans.
    The election results of 2004 may signal the beginning of a period of dominance for the Republican Party at the federal level similar to the forty-year reign the Democrats had in Congress from 1955-1995 (see following table). But this dominance may not be realized if the Republican Party and its leaders do not do a better job of reaching out instead of expecting more people to reach in .
    The reason for this shift toward increased public support of Republican candidates is that the federal courts and Congress, under control of the Democrats, took control of our biggest social and economic issues away from the individual states. Those issues that did belong under federal purview, such as the federal tax code and Social Security, were so abused and weakened by congressional Democrats that they are now completely beyond repair. The time to replace them is way past due!
    The U.S. electorate has for now decided that the Republican Party better represents their social and economic values and ideologies than does the Democratic Party. The great irony in this situation is that Democrat-controlled House and Senate and liberal federal courts wrestled control of the big issues away from the individual states. For example, in 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court, led by a liberal, activist majority, decided in the famous Roe v. Wade case that women have a constitutional right to abort their unborn children. This ruling took away the power of states to make their own laws concerning abortion and made abortion-on-demand a federally-protected right.

    The federal tax code, enacted in 1913, and the Social Security system, enacted in 1935, essentially placed every citizen under the control and watchful eye of the federal government by mandating that a high percentage of the money we earn goes directly to the federal treasury to pay for entitlement programs and federal government spending we can no longer afford.
    In 1980 Congress established the U.S. Department of Education, which took control of education policy and curriculums away from local school districts and the states and placed it in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. In 1977 Congress established the U.S. Department of Energy, which took control of decisions concerning development of new and efficient energy sources from the private sector. Because of this, private energy companies are now unable to explore domestic energy sources or build new nuclear power plants.
    Finally, Democrats in control of Congress have sought to block the nomination of numerous federal judges proposed by Republican presidents whom they deem too conservative or who base their rulings too much on a strict reading of the Constitution. Instead, they have put in place judges from the Supreme Court on down who actively make law from the bench and who are unaccountable to the voters.
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