Posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Can anything be done to keep Bush from speaking at the Republican National Convention this year?
Somebody better tell the Pubbies to start acting like CONSERVATIVES again.
His approval rating sinks into the teens (likely).
It is definately Bush. Has anyone seen his recent press conferences? Painful. Thank you for Roberts and Alito but man what a price we have payed for his presidency. He doesnt even fight back and defend himself.
There is no leadership anywhere in the DC based GOP establishment. Do you even seen the minority leader or whip on TV?? I dont.
The southern Dems are winning as blue collar conservatives who yearn to keep jobs home, and spendings home. The GOP talks about free trade (blue collar job loss to foreign factories), and spending more money overseas in more wars. The new winning Dem coalition will be eggheads, minorities and blue collar Dems. In the past the GOP won narrowly with the help of blue collar Dems. Twelve years of turbulent economical times, ending with wars and rumor of wars has worn the blue collar Dems out and they are willing for change. The blue collar Dems are going to learn that more turbulent change is ahead of them when Obama takes office. It will be interesting how the blue collar Dems feel in 2012.
Childers, like the guy in LA, is called a “conservative.” I guess that means he will be leading some kind of revolt against Speaker Pelosi in favor of someone more centrist? Ha ha. So right leaning voters might have gone for Childers thinking he was OK when in reality he will help build the Demo majority that is moving the nation farther to the left, and closer to ruin. Pretty sad.
I was reading one blog that said the Republican Davis actually had voted several times in favor of tax increases as a state senator. I wonder if that dimmed some GOP enthusiasm for him.
What the HECK happened to the old Bush we all loved?? I man this man just does not shape perception/events anymore. He hasn’t held a 50% approval rating since just after his re-election. His entire second term has been under the water (no pun intended).
I fear I will never see a Conservative controlled Congress in my remaining lifetime. It’s a sad state of affairs when the only difference between democrats and Republicans is that they all have never been aborted.
No. But the threat of it is almost as effective.
The Dems already have a larger majority.
In 1994, the GOP won 230 House seats.
As of tonight, the Dems have 236 House seats. The Senate is another story, at least for now.
He never existed.
But for now, as most countries around the world can see, America is definitely Democrat Territory this year, I believe thanks to Bush, McCain AND various multiple factors you have cited.
Drat! We really needed a Ronald Reagan to get us out of this mess.
Not a Nelson Rockefeller.
Yep once again:
1. The failure of conservative commentators
2. Conservative bloggers
to defend a conservative president, come back to haunt them. Of course they choose to blame the President who is not running for reelection. But then again this is the GOP history. They threw Nixon to the wolves and were blown out in 1974. The Dims on the other hand defended the indefensible with Clinton and minimized their losses. But go ahead, blame the most conservative president since prior to WWII.
Republicans and conservatives have just lost their nerve. We’ve just had power “too” long. (Ha.)
Old history. But Nixon threw himself to the wolves.
“This is the GOP’s third straight special election loss, after Illinois and Louisiana. Somebody better tell the Republicans to start acting like Republicans again.”
These elections reflect mostly local issues. If you are a Republican and have a Republicam running in your area, make sure he/she knows the issues and is on the right side of them. Then, get your friends and neighbors behind the candidate. The Dems are beating us in the neighborhoods.
I’m not sure it’s because they aren’t conservative enough. It’s the 20% in the middle that can go either way. Right now they’re convinced that we’re in another great depression and nobody has a job despite the low 5% unemployment rate. They were also the ones who’d tell pollsters that the economy was terrible in 2005. Oh, and they actually think that the Dems can do something about it by taking it to the eeeevil corporations and the rich.
Rocky was considerably to the left of McCain. Even Giuliani. Even Nixon. Even Ford.
Well thank Rush and his stupid Operation Chaos for this loss. So many Republicans crossed over to vote for “big hips” that there weren’t enough left to vote in the MI primary.
I knew this (playing silly games with our votes) was a stupid idea from the start and now it is hurting us.
There is no way to put a positive spin on this.
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