IS GOP losing grip on power?

Tribune-Review ^ | May 28, 2006 | Salena Zito

[Badray]

You make some points.

What I see happening that stops the message from getting through to the GOP is that everytime we start to stand up to them, they tell us how much worse it will be under the democrats and we buy into it. Out of fear, we commit to voting the same SOBs back into office.

If we are going to play poker with the big boys, we have to at least learn how to bluff and make them sweat whether they'll get our vote or not. If we withhold the promise of our vote, we may at least get something good in exchange.

Once we start down the "any R is better than any D" path, they can safely ignore us and behave as badly as they want to because they are not afraid of us anymore.

[Les_Miserables]

I also admire Reagan but he had his significant failings. Bush I and Bubya Bush have taught me not to put faith in an individual but stick to the basics and guiding principles. I think this issue is precisely one that can be decided using common sense (a strength of RR BTW). Still I'd rather follow RR's example in general than that of the current POTUS even though he gave us the previous "amnesty" program and didn't follow up with proper enforcement. That troubles me greatly when using RR as a guide on this issue.

I agree w/you re Gingrich. The '08 debates will be interesting since he has indicated he will engage so the dialog includes the "right" elements. We shall see how it goes.

[stylin19a]

grip on power ? they never had it. They held\hold a majority, but govern like a minority.

[Digger]

It lost its way because we gave it the wrong directions. This obsession to elect a person that has an (R) by its name or being more popular instead of demanding Conservative credentials has forced the party become DNC lite! Collins, Snowe, Chaffee, McCain, Graham, Martinez, Specter, Schwarzenegger and even Bush have taken this parties principles and flushed it down the toilet. We have met the enemy and he is us!

Thank you. Hang on because soon here you will be called a disrupter or a lib plant or or in need of a tinfoil hat.

[VOA]

Dubya hasn't realized that his account of "political capital" has finally
been overdrawn on his support for illegals.

And some RINO Senators seem to have followed his lead.

[Digger]

Bill Frist looks to me like the dog that has finally learned how to pee on the rug, hit himself with a rolled up newspaper, and throw himself out the back door. How feckless can one person be?

Ever wonder why GW pushed hard for this RINO? Ever wonder why GW selected Harriet Meirs for SCJ?

[VOA]

"The people want our border enforced."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639095/posts
see post 73

[Digger]

The "Republican Revolution" that year gave the GOP its first taste in more than 40 years of being the majority party in both houses of Congress. On that one election day, Republicans gained 54 seats in the House, 8 in the Senate and 12 in governors' mansions around the country.""

Part of the Klintoon legacy.

[hdstmf]

Yes!

[hdstmf]

If I feel my doctor is still "practicing" medicine, I'll find a real doctor FAST.

[Bommer]

Yeah I know. Repubots can't handle the truth!

[txdoda]

IS GOP losing grip on power?

Hmmmm......*losing???*, nope....more like GIVING it away.

With many of the pubs insisting on *another* "ONE TIME ONLY" *scamnasty* they want to insure the dems will have the "grip" on power for YEARS.

[Howie66]

Actually President Peagan did have a significant enforcement element as a part of his Amnesty program in 1986 (Simpson-Mazzoli Act), however this aspect has never been seriously enforced. Had this happened (enforcement of the law), there is no doubt in my mind that we would not be facing this very serious dilema now.

[David Allen]

Yes, and it's very troubling. If there was a referendum, 70% of the US would say BUILD A WALL THE WHOLE WAY AND ENFORCE IT.

[winner3000]

(Already, Pennsylvania's primary showed an anti-Republican incumbent mood. Of 17 incumbent state legislators who lost, 13 were Republicans, including the party's two top state senators.)

It's the CONSERVATIVE voters who kicked these RINO Republicans during the REPUBLICAN primary! That hardly constitutes an anti-Republican incumbant feeling.

[David Allen]

Thanks. I read it and responded.

[I_like_good_things_too]

Yepper, after all, that worked out really well, didn't it?

[backhoe]

[Lester Moore]

Sad, the only way to take them to the wood shed is by our vote. Many of them could care less how we feel, they have shown this by their voting record and, many of them have became wealthy by possessing the office they are holding.

I think part of the problem is alzheimered, low testosterone, geriatric retiree's that can't keep up with current events anymore or perceive that they are deceived and manipulated, but they still vote, for Rat's and RINO's like John McCain.

Politicians love portraying Medicare, Medicaid, SS etc.. as being in a crisis so as to secure the alzheimered, low testosterone, geriatric retiree voting block along with the low IQ, welfare dependent voting block.

[Lazamataz]

i wrote this story

Interesting. I wish you had stressed the anger of conservatives at the neo-liberal Republicans. There are more entities at work here than just Republicans and Democrats -- you seem to focus on a contest between only these two monoliths, when in fact it is the loss of conservative support that spells doom in 2006.