Senior McCain aide: The GOP is a 'shrinking entity'

CNN ^ | April 24, 2009 | Rebecca Sinderbrand

[St. Louis Conservative]

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“It was communicated back to us very clearly from within the party that not only was Senator Lieberman not acceptable, but any pro-choice nominee was not acceptable, [and] it would lead to a floor fight at the convention with an alternate nominee for vice president put into play.

“Blowing up the party wasn’t one of the menu items of things that were going to improve our situation,” he said.

Schmidt also criticized his party’s political performance in the early days of the Obama presidency.

“As a matter of reality, in the first 100 days, [the Republican Party] has not done anything to improve its political position with regards to the fact that it has been a shrinking entity,” he said.

Last week, the former McCain aide told a group of gay Republicans it was critical for the party to seriously weigh support for same-sex marriage.

[Tarpon]

And only Megan can save us all ...

[al baby]

John its past your bedtime

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, that would cause a flood of support for the Republican Party. I would be reregistered as an independent by the next morning.

[JohnBrowdie]

his boss had a lot to do with shrinking it.

[bgill]

With much of the fault being McLame’s.

[DallasDeb]

Why would he think going pro-choice and pro gay marriage would make the Republican Party any different from the DemoncRATS? He needs to leave the Republican Party for sure. I don’t mind that kind of shrinkage.

[kabar]

It is shrinking because it nominated a self-described maverick like McCain to be its standard bearer.

[top 2 toe red]

“Well...isn’t that special?”...[my best church-lady voice.]

[Tarpon]

It’s just so much nonsense coming from the loser

[LibLieSlayer]

No worries mcnasty and daughter bertha butt macamnesty... leave the party... it can shrink by two if it is you two that leave it!

LLS

[Gaffer]

This attitude is pervasive from the old guard Republican establishment that has been perverted by Washington DC. Compromise your morals, ethics and standards to gain political power. It seems to me we have 55% of this country already doing that in the name of pandering Democrats and liberals.

Frankly, I don't want to see another damn Republican that has spent any damn time in Washington - period! For that matter, I don't want to see Huckabee, Romney, Paul or any of them, regardless of whether they've stepped foot there. The only ones I want to see are the likes of Sarah Palin. If she runs, I'll give and give and give - why not? Might as well before the damn Obamanites get it.

[Sylvester McMonkey McBean]

RINO’s are an endangered species? Who’d have thunk it?

[Eagles6]

Yeah. Had nothing to do with throwing the base under the bus, support for illegals and cap and trade.

What clueless nitwits.

[Moonman62]

People like the Bush family and John McCain put the GOP in its current sorry state.

Their belief that the non-acceptance of gay marriage and immigration lawlessness is the real cause of GOP decline is testament to that.

[thefrankbaum]

The reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.

[Snickering Hound]

Time to go the way of the dodo bird and passenger pigeon.

[AdaGray]

The McCains are losers.

[Migraine]

Shrinking, static...? Whatever it is, the GOP is irrelevant at the present time.

Only change in that equation will be baraq overreaching; or we get creamed by terrorism. I don’t cherish the latter.

[AdaGray]

No watch this idiot vote for nationalized health care.