Before The StormThe GOP should think about embracing smaller, less intrusive government.
Why the spineless Repubs are limply allowing the blame for high gas prices, recession, etc., to be placed at their feet ... just because there happens to be a GOP president ... is beyond me.
I don’t get paid the big bucks as a political consultant or RNC staffer, but even I would have sense enough to put out ads and talking points to say:
“Two years ago before Democrats controlled Congress, gas cost $x per gallon, inflation was at x%, etc. After two years of Democrat control of Congress, gas costs $x per gallon ... etc.”
Why are the idiots on our side not pushing back against this notion that the President runs the economy, controls gas prices, and personally sets the price tags on milk at Walmart?
Aargh....
DINO trumps RINO
Don’t forget the engineer of 2006 Mehlman is now working for McCain.
McCain is going down fast and he is too clueless to realize.
A warm bowl of oatmeal provides more excitement than McCain.
The Republicans have abandoned their core principles. The only people who haven’t figured this out are the party hacks.
The guy they ran in Mississippi wasn’t a RINO. The fact is, the swing voters can be idiots, and they’re acting like idiots right now. We’re simply going to have to buckle down, and ride through the coming darkness.
The base is pissed off and demoralized. That is why southern Republican seats are being lost to conservative Democratic candidates. 2008 will be a disaster for the Republican party as you can not win elections without your base.
Why is the base so upset?
1) The base shocked the MSM by getting Bush reelected in 2004 despite huge turnout by the Dems for Kerry. With a Republican congress, Bush and Rove preceded to tell the base to kiss off through a variety of stupid moves (amnesty, huge deficits, Harriet Miers, etc.).
2) The RNC made it quite clear that the conservative base would just have to get over it and accept their wisdom in shifting the party to Democrat-Lite (they supported guys like Specter and abandoned conservative candidates).
3) Even after the 2006 slaughter of the Repubilican congress, the idiots running the party continued business as usual by once more pushing for amnesty and spending like there was no tomorrow.
4) The 2006 secure border fence act was immediately ignored by Bush and company the second the election was over (treating the base as if they were stupid children that could not connect the dots). It was finally gutted in the midnight hour by Republican Hutchinson in 2007.
5) The free market globalist pro-business faction of the Republican party is completely clueless to the economic difficulties of the average American. Industrial outsourcing, labor exploitation insourcing, and bailouts for billionaire investors and bankers who should go to jail for there stupidity and greed, has further convinced the base that the leadership is out of touch. For example, defending credit card companies who act like ruthless loan sharks does not win you elections in difficult economic times (recent Republican congressman did this on Lou Dobbs last week).
6) Even when the base shut down the money to the party, the leadership still kept chanting their mantras as if nothing had changed. These guys are completely clueless and will be shocked when they are wiped out in 2008. It may make 2006 look tame in comparison.
Unfortunately, it is way to late to save the party from this long coming comeuppance. They were put in charge of the country and failed their base so badly that the base will not lift a finger to save them.
Wait 'til they see what happens to 'em in November.
Meanwhile, in my liberal town near Hartford CT our town budget was shot down again by voters. Same thing is occurring in neighboring towns.
People are fed up with bloated government, but will any leaders listen?
Boy, are we in deep, deep trouble.
We need to get back to what republicanism really means. We have too many rinos and we’re becoming democrat-lite. It’s disgusting and disheartening.
The slaughter in November will only push the GOP further left. As in I expect in the mid term elections, they will try to run to the left of the DNC.
Which will leave me and mine with some very hard choices. Trouble is, there is no place left to go.
