Posted on 05/07/2008 3:50:49 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.
The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.
“There is an attitude that, ‘I better watch out for myself, because nobody else is going to do it,’” the member said. “There are all these different factions out there, everyone is sniping at each other, and we have no real plan. We have a lot of people fighting to be the captain of the lifeboat instead of everybody pulling together.”
In a piece published in Human Events, the Republicans’ onetime captain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warned his old colleagues that they face “real disaster” on Election Day unless they move immediately to “chart a bold course of real reform” for the country.
And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.
Although a top House Republican brushed aside Gingrich’s broadside as “hype from a has-been who desperately wants to be a player but can’t anymore,” the harsh words from Cole were harder to ignore.
“It was a pretty stern line that he took with us,” said one House Republican.
No candidate would have any trouble if he would get out there and speak directly. Tell the truth about the war, about the economy, about Muslims and terrorism, about global warming. Don’t try to out-liberal the liberals or be liberal-lite; be a conservative, but tell the people why.
I will never, to my dying day, understand why Republicans won’t do that.
Sue Myrick, a solid conservative, who has bucked the RINO’s, won with 92% of the vote.
Patrick McHenry, another solid conservative, who also bucked the RINO’s, won with 67% of the vote.
They turn out the base.
Newt wants us to follow him and the other libs off of a cliff.
No, many don’t understand Newt’s GW position, but hey, it makes for pithy posts.
Newt is right, of course. His statement has loosed a tirade about the failures of the past 8 years, and not a word about solutions - which is what Newt is talking about.
During this Dem mess of a nominating process, we should have been articulating a CLEAR, CONCISE MESSAGE about our positions and how they differ form the Dem socialists.
A new Contract with America, if you please. But no, it is NOT being done and Newt is being strung up here for pointing it out.
How myopic.
2) We need more RINOs.
3) Republicans need to work harder to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats.
4) Republicans need to maintain their cowardly silence so they can preserve their own seats!!
5) Give us more of Lindsey Graham and Chuck Hagel!
6) John McCain and the RNC need to criticize state party's more often!
All these things have been so effective thus far. The RNC coffers are full, right? There are millions of campaign foot soldier volunteers begging for work, right?? Oh.
40 years in the wilderness.
A month or two ago, I might have agreed with you. Now....I believe McCain will lose.
He may lose big time. It will be the fault of the GOP and McCain when he loses.
He is a terrible lackluster, boring candidate. It will be easy for the Dems to make him into Bush, 3rd time around.
Isn't it truly stunning that this is so true while it's equally true that many of these same cowards harbor delusions of grandeur that they can be President and face down the thugs of the world where getting called mean names is just the appetizer?
This gas price spike is manna from heaven for the party that is not against expanding domestic oil supplies and coal usage, but God forbid they'd say a word. You cannot get people focused any better on an issue than how they are focused on energy right now, and yet there is the Stupid Party doing their usual Claude Rains routine.
Even the Irish Socialist George Bernard Shaw admitted this: "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
I only pray that all the folk posting here today call their congressfolk to hound them about the futile and thus disastrous course we're on--and to plead with them to stand for conservative principles. As Maggie would say, we must not give in and hand the future of America to socialism--or worse!
Regards . . . Penny
Obviously.
This country is/has been screwed for years and the next several generations will reap our mismanagement as a result. Most likely they will expand on the insane policies that brought on the huge bureaucracy in the first place.
Bears repeating.
Yeah, I should have added "selling the country down the road for financial gain". That would have encompassed the illegal invasion, as well as numerous other policies adopted by this and previous Congress'.....
Only one thing, when your policies fail to achieve their stated goal, say it's a (fill in the blank) crisis, and claim that "we just didn't go far enough." And now we need to do more (of the same thing that screwed stuff up in the first place)
Woody Jenkins may indeed have been a bad candidate in LA, but what about the loss of Dennis Hastert’s seat??
The other half.
Thanks to Rush's Operation Chaos, we now have a moderate candidate for governor and the 12th district has a liberal DC lobbyist who worked very hard to promote the last immigration bill as our candidate for the NC Senate.
Thanks again for the fresh crop of RINO's Rush! Those voters who crossed over to vote for Hillary's losing effort, could have made a difference in helping conservatives regain some kind of foothold in the Republican party. The Jews wandered for 40 years in the Sinai Desert before they were allowed back into the Holy Land. How long is it going to take before we realize that our leader has to be a politician, not a talk-show host?
I resent the word "our." I voted libertarian when the choice was available, but most of my fellow voters are addicted to leviathan government
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