[JennysCool]

but the truth is that Democrats are now (alas) the party of the rich.

Hate to tell ya, Mona, but they've always been the party of the rich.

Mona Charen is one of the most dull and clueless columnists going.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"In 2002, 62 percent agreed with the statement "The best way to ensure peace is through military strength." Today, only 49 percent do."

Was the 62% an aberration based upon 9/11? I imagine it had something to do with that number but I could be wrong.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The Republicans screwed themselves by abandoning conservatism. That’s all it took. The greedy bastards sold us out, and they are now reaping their whirlwind. I once contributed handsomely, but no more. Bush and the establishment Republicans have been as charlatan as Clinton.

[Murray the R]

It's been true for years now that the GOP gets a larger percentage of its donations from small individual donors. What's new is that those individual donors have soured on big-government "compassionate conservatism."

[Murray the R]

Hispanic voters are about 12 percent of the electorate. In 2004, President Bush received 44 percent of the Hispanic vote. In 2006, only 29 percent of Hispanics told exit pollsters that they supported Republicans. Following the immigration battles of the past year, Republicans may have cause to look back upon that 29 percent with nostalgia. Justifiably or not (and often it isn't justified), Republicans are now associated with anti-immigrant feelings.

And we non-Hispanic 88% ... we're indifferent?

[ruination]

Republicans may have cause to look back upon that 29 percent with nostalgia

And amnesty would have made their prospects better?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Since when do we believe the polls?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Is the Republican Party standing on the edge of a cliff?...If it continues to crap on the base it is...

[Pelham]

Is the Republican Party standing on the edge of a cliff?

I figured Dubya had already pushed the party off the cliff with his amnesty obsession.

[Paperdoll]

I heard that McCain-Feingold delivered the Democratic Party into the coffers of none other than George Soros.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320747/posts

You might have to search for it, but it’s there.

[claudiustg]

The Republicans might very well win the White House in spite of themselves. The Congress is lost, however, for the foreseeable future.

Reasons:

1. The war. Not that we’re fighting it, but that we’re fighting it incompetently. The people have not been rallied to it and given a role to play. The military has not been substantially increased in size. Large numbers of contractors are being employed at incredible expense to do the jobs our soldiers and the Iraqis should be doing. We’re building an “embassy” in the middle of Baghdad that only Joe Stalin could love. If progress is being made it’s too little, too late. If we want to stay in the game, we’ve got to deliver. A troop increase is now known as a “surge”.

2. The border and amnesty. Our own President and Party leadership attempted to sell us out in the most brazen and thoughtless display of political arrogance and ineptness that I’ve ever witnessed. The country is swamped with illegal aliens, the border is wide open and less than nothing is being done about it. They talk about deportations and mean letters of deportation.

[goldstategop]

I read Mona Charen's article: I'm more sanguine. We've survived as a minority for a long time. And we'll survive as a minority again, as we're doing now. As long as remain true to our convictions, we'll be able to ensure the America we revere will be around for our children and our children's children.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[sirchtruth]

The first time I saw Bush chumming it up with Kennedy I got this sick feeling.

Bush went on to prove how stupidly moderate he is and now has proven to be no
friend of conservatives.

[sergeantdave]

I don’t spend money on socialists. The local bartender is more deserving of my money than the current crop of RINOs. In fact, I’m now spending more money for center cut pork chops for the cat than I’m giving to politicians. (The dog gets ground round.)

[Duke Nukum]

Is the Republican Party standing on the edge of a cliff?

If the Republican party leadership in the congress read in the New York Times that they were standing on the edge of a cliff and they should jump over the edge, and there was no cliff nearby, they would appropriate funds to build an artificial cliff so that they could do what the Stalinist newspaper of record told them to do.

It's very sad, really, I used to write to the leadership and tell them to ban the NY Times from the GOP offices but they don't listen to me. If I was the NY Times they would though.