[jveritas]

Here you go. You call the Republican Party the stupid party when in reality they have won 5 of the last 7 presidential elections and won congress for 12 years since 1994.

[Antoninus]

Here you go. You call the Republican Party the stupid party when in reality they have won 5 of the last 7 presidential elections and won congress for 12 years since 1994.

They won running as conservatives. When they are perceived to have abandoned conservatism, they'll lose. People are not going to abandon their principles for fear that the other might be worse. Don't you get that?

If you want the GOP to be strong again, start calling for them to act like conservatives.

[Russ]

Winning elections is only a beginning. Once elected they must govern. At that they have failed miserably. Republicans were a minority so long that once they got the power they didn't know how to use it effectively. Now they are back into their comfort zone as a minority party.

[Spiff]

Here you go. You call the Republican Party the stupid party when in reality they have won 5 of the last 7 presidential elections and won congress for 12 years since 1994.

And then they screwed things up so much that the voters tossed them out of power. They've got less than 2 years to fix things or they'll lose the White House too.

[Noumenon]

My wife said of the GOP yesterday, "They call themselves Republicans only because they aren't Democrats." Think about that one.

I'll paraphrase Reagan for my take on this: the Republican party left me - I didn't leave them.

It may actually be better in the long run to have a flaming socialist like Clinton or Obama in office for all to see than to suffer the death of a thousand cuts with RINOs like Giuliani and Romney or traitors like McCain.