What is wrong with the Republicans? Can't they fight? Everyone of them is going to go down in defeat without even a struggle.
Houdstooth, this is nothing new. At the beginning of 2006, at staff retreats, Republican staffers were being told by leadership that it was likely they would lose the majority.
They gave up in Jan of '06!!!!
Unwillingness to strike back at the rabid Democrats has been a trait of spineless Republicans long before the Bush Administration took over. Even, at a local level.
I remember a meeting of our county Republican committee many years ago where I did a presentation showing what we needed to do to win local elections. Thought our county chairman would have a heart attack. He stated and I quote: "If we organize and do any of the things you purpose the Democrats will jump all over us!"
I stood there with my "who cares what the Dims think" look on my face and others in the room did the same. Only a couple of people with spines backed me up and I left the meeting in disgust. I stopped working in campaigns for many years because the party didn't want to fight back against the Dems for their lies and personal attacks on Republican candidates.
One of the reason Republicans are weak in our county is because we have never had but a handful that was willing to take the fight to the Democrats. Most always, in my county anyway, the county chairmanship goes to some influential business man who is afraid that anything negative will hurt his financial statement.
We have problems finding any Republican who will run for public office in the county. We are unable to fill all the precinct committeeman positions. I think we have 6 right now and should have 16 plus sixteen vice committemen.
The past 2 county chairmen we have had are willing to take the fight to the Dems but we have been weakened as a party to the point that there is only about 4 of us to back them up. It's impossible to do much with so few.