"Someone remind me again why the Demwits won elections Tuesday."
IMHO:
The White House has failed to support and defend it's party, it's silence left the "guilty" tag hanging in the wake of manufactured scandal and smeers. The President has doen some great things, and he also abandoned his party on immigration. You can see it here, since the election returns - people are either cutting and running from the GOP, or pointing their fingers at everyone - a clear failure of leadership. Foley should never have happened, and it should have been addressed firmly, quickly, and in a way that encouraged NO debate. The White House was silent.
Lack of leadership in the houses. Sorry, but we've had how many years of control? What have we done? Sorry, missed opportunity is not a campaign plank.
Lack of any control over the media. Even Fox is off the plantation.
Weak candidates. Sorry, but it's true. We do not have the best and brightest running anymore - those people are too scared to run for office, because the Dems and the media will rip them apart and make their private lives public, and there's little help from the party or the leadership. We have weak, inneffectual candidates. There's some bright lights out there, but a lot of them simply aren't fit for office, are RINO's, or Foley's waiting to happen.
No platform. Even as a conservative, I'm hard put to really lay out what the platform is, especially when it comes to immigration, or policy on matters like Isreal. The White House and the Congress have failed to lay out the agenda, let alone work towards it. There's no path, it's just random meandering and reaction to distractions.
Can it all be changed? Yes. But the damage that the other side can do in two short years could be enough that even if we do get another Republican President, or get control of either house, we'll be cleaning up after Pelosi and her gang for the foreseeable future. Sure, her bumbling and idiocy and frothing at the mouth liberalism makes conservatives look good for the next race, but damn it, she's IN CONTROL now. That's simply unnacceptable, but now our reality.
I'm trying really hard not to cut and run on the GOP. I still beleive in the core ideas and beliefs, but I'm having a hard time seeing any leadership in it, and tired of watching those who i believe uphold those things get defeated by nitwit Democrats spewing utter nonsense. There needs to be a wholesale cleaning of house in teh party - the elections are just the beginning. From top to bottom the weak must be weeded out, the strong encouraged and supported, and a constant, unified front created to stave off the idiots in the Democratic party.
Again, IMHO. I'm not sure what the hell do to, either, but it's time to call it as it is - the leadership of the GOP failed it's party, big time. They can keep me, long term, if certain things happen, but I'm not even hearing hints of any of it. We have a LOT of work to do to make up for this loss, but under the current leadership...I'm hard pressed to get any motivation.
That's my honest assessment.
"The White House has failed to support and defend it's party, it's silence left the "guilty" tag hanging in the wake of manufactured scandal and smeers."
..and failed to defend itself as well.