It will be a disaster. When Obama receives less criticism than John McCain here you know something’s not right.
Quick! The Republicans had better start taking a more liberal and leftward bent in order to make sure that they’re elected come November! Look how well it worked last time!
Mark
“We got heaps and heaps of what we sow” ~ Jack Johnson
They chose and backed the second worst candidate for president (only Julie Annie would have been worse), and he's been living down to expectations (his comments about the GOP using Barak Sharpton's pastor in NC). All of this Democratic infighting IS NOT weakening the dems. It's getting all of their dirty linen out in the public LONG BEFORE the election, and it's giving them massive amounts of free publicity. For every time McCainiac's name is mentioned, you'll hear 100 mentions of Obama or Clinton. The GOP looks like toast for Nov.
Isn't that the way of all politicians? Dig a deep hole and then claim to have the solution? The "reform" really needs to come from outside any current party or entrenched politico.
I have some advice for the RNC and for individual Republicans:
Whatever you do, don’t listen to Gingrich.
For all his faults this shows the loss Delay greatly affects the Party’s cohesion. They need somebody similar, if not better, to step up and take the role, of “The Hammer”, up.
Maybe they should have listened to the BASE, who have been telling them this for more many years!
Even after 2006, they still didn’t comprehend.
Instead, they set up the primaries to prevent a conservative nominee.
They have no leader to pull them up, they have no money, they have nobody to walk precincts for them,and they DO NOT have the courage to throw McCain back to Arizona where he belongs.
So, unfortunately, alot of pubbies will go down in the fall, still scratching their heads, and we will be left with socialists in power.
Never underestimate the Republican’s ability to lose an election.
This has all the hallmarks of a Bob Dole campaign.
I can only hope that the Republicans are waking up to the fact that they backstabbed and otherwise ignored their base.
Many seem confused at the lack of enthusiasm for their country club style of politics.
Theyare going to learn some hard lessons come November.
The GOP has leaders?
Huh. Who knew?
Not only did Woody Jenkins lose as I feared, but there is a real chance that the Wicker seat in MS goes Democrat this month. Also the Shreveport-based House seat is ripe for a return to “democracy”.
We are quickly headed to a one party political system.
In the end because of the sucess of OC and Obama having ended up becoming bloody, McCain will win the general by default.
The problem is that Republicans now do not stand for a sensibly-unified governing principle. Pres. Bush has done great things for America, but his triangulation in social policy has hurt his party. When conservatism is infected with the notion that to be conservative we must be ‘compassionate’, then the very underpinning of conservatism is rotted away. That principle, to me, is that one begins to conserve by standing up and providing for oneself. Compassionate conservatism decays that by insisting that there is a standing class of those who cannot (read: will not) do so and we, as conservatives, must help them.
I deny that principle, at least from a politically institutional point of view. It is one thing to be personally charitable for those one personally knows to be on hard times. It is another to order that everyone ‘pay it back’. That makes personal initiative a sin, for which those who achieve must pay. And there’s never any forgiveness nor absolution. You just keep paying and paying and you keep empowering the brokers who made up the whole charade in the first place. Their power grows as they more and more effectively steal money, always making sure to keep a nice slice for themselves.
This has bedeviled American politics since Progressive days before WW I, but it’s now endemic and systemic. This is an election where Americans appear determined to be stupid and to do so with a vengeance. They’d apparently rather cut off their own financial arms than stand up and be adults and take care of themselves, ignoring the chattering and power-hungry sets and getting on with life.
It’s 1968 all over again and, truth be told, I lived through the ‘70’s that resulted and I don’t want to do so again. I’ll vote to prevent it, to the extent I get the opportunity, but I expect to have to hunker down for at least the next two year.
Fair enough. Heaven knows that's how ya'll governed for the 12 years you were in power.
This is interesting, maybe, just maybe they need to make their message more conservative.
Then the money will flow back in and we will turn out and vote.
Or they can believe what McStupid believes ‘I can win without conservatives’.
IMHO I don’t think so.
Well, they are a self inflicted wound and brought this totally upon themselves for all their stupidity!! They have utterly failed Americans and conservatives. They wanted to be liberals, and now they are going to pay for it. I am sure they are going to get destroyed in November. I know no one around here, solid conservatives, who are happy with the party, the candidate for president, the other crap these fools are guilty of.
Please Newt STFU, you lost ALL your creds with your global warming crap.
I sure hope it was worth it you POS sellout.
U.S. MILITARY 2008!