Posted on 11/08/2006 11:46:14 AM PST by Risha
Republican Party in Shambles
John LeBoutillier Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006
The results are still coming in, but here is a quick analysis:
1) George W. Bush has been resoundingly rejected by the American people. His arrogance, cockiness, smirk, and condescension have turned off 60 percent of the American people.
2) Iraq has ruined the Republican Party — and the Bush presidency. The people are sick of it and want a change — pronto.
3) The Neoconservatives have infected the Republican Party and the conservative movement — and their influence needs to be reduced in order for us to regain our inherent support around the country.
4) The pre-election polls were almost entirely accurate, so please don't start with this "the polls are rigged" nonsense. In almost every Senate and House race, the polls of those races were within a point or so.
5) The last minute GOP spin that they "were closing the gap and picking up momentum" was total baloney — just like their repeated claims that "we are making great progress in Iraq."
6) Sadly, the Bush-led GOP has become just like the Clinton-led Democrats: a spin machine totally devoid of reality and truth. You can't trust ‘em to tell you anything. And the people no longer trust Bush.
7) Corruption was the other driving force in the election. The GOP House majority has grown fat, lazy, and crooked. They tolerated Mark Foley, feasted off of sleazy Jack Abramoff and covered up for each other as they grew arrogant and power-mad.
8) The so-called architect — Karl Rove — is overrated. All his — and Bush's — bragging about their "revolution" has gone up in smoke: they've blown it! They handed the Democrats the House, probably the Senate and the majority of governorships. Rove and Bush — as Daddy Bush did in 1992 — have betrayed Reaganism and allowed the Democrats back into power.
9 ) If you read this column you know we have been dead-on for seven years about how the Bushes would take the GOP and the conservative movement right over the cliff. And they have.
10) And we have been constant, too, about how Iraq was a disastrous mistake that need not have happened, and how arrogant, ignorant Bush and his "team" have severely damaged our country for decades to come.
11) And these arrogant in-the-tank-for-Bush radio hosts who do nothing but read the Rove-fed Talking Points: maybe they should try thinking for themselves for a change, eh? Claiming that "early voting and absentee ballots were breaking for the GOP" last week was patented nonsense! How would anyone know how votes are breaking before they are counted?
In sum, the Bush-led Republican Party and conservative movement are in a shambles. We need to start all over again. We need to get away from the Bushes — and from McCain who is too old, too arrogant, too out of touch to lead anyone.
Out of every disaster comes new hopes and new directions. We begin today — first by admitting our mistakes and vowing not to repeat them.
Hey, LeBoutillier. Paul Craig Roberts called, he wants you to pick up a quart of milk and some cheese on the way home. He'll be waiting in the doorway for you in that "special" outfit.
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As I understand, the average loss for the party of a 2nd term President is about 24 seats during the Congressional races in his 6th year. People are ready for a change.
We will get one, too. Considering that the economy is strong and that we have not been attacked in America in the last six years, we are unlikely to like those changes, but we *will* get one.
For two years Republican leaders have been going on that the Democrats cannot beat something with nothing. That is true, but the Democrats certainly can be *nothing* with nothing -- and the Republican Congress has stood for pretty much nothing for since the last election.
Sounds like kicking someone when they're down.
I'll choose my pundits elsewhere.
Thats how I see it. This wasnt a victory for the DNC as much as it was the MSM. They now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they can "shape" public opinion.
Control the flow of information and you control the people.
Didn't LeB lose his house seat years ago? I think he is still bitter. Look, Lincoln almost lost the election to McClelland when Sherman took Atlanta and Lincoln was the greatest president. roosevelt lost 40 congressional seats at the beginning of WWII. These things happen. Time to regroup.
He is wrong on almost every point. I think this had more to do with the Republicans in congress than with Pres. Bush.
PS: You will eventually be banned from FR.
Man! I can't tell the vanities from the NewSmax stories. They all sound the same to me today.
The Republican Party is in shambles? Good. No party has ever deserved it more.
Both parties should be destroyed and replaced -- in the case of the GOP by a truly conservative party. I leave it to the reader to discover what true conservatism is.
Why does newsmax tolerate Paul Craig Roberts? He is a nasty, vicious anti-Semite and general wacko. I think he and LeB are an item.
Huge Victory for the MSM...
Why?
PS: You will eventually be banned from FR.
I've hated you and every post you have ever posted?
"The ones that did vote for him stayed home to send a message to Republicans".
And what a bunch of jerks are they.
That much was obvious from the fact that a majority of the conservative ballot initiatives passed, the bad Republican candidates were booted (Chafee and Dewine, for example), and a majority of the incoming Democrats ran as conservative Democrats. While it does elect Pelosi by proxy, on the surface this election was a win for the Democratic party, not the liberal ideology. Time will tell if that is in fact true.
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