[rogerthedodger]

I think there is a disconnect between the party elites and the broad base, too. There's an article on WND today about Ward Connerly's attempts to pass a statewide law banning racial preferences in Michigan. The party leadership there is actually publishing statements in opposition to his efforts.

Everything was supposed to get better when we had the Presidency and both houses of Congress. So we all kept voting for the GOP because of that hope and the knowledge that it was the lesser of two evils. And where has that gotten us? Tell you what, intervening in Liberia ain't my idea of 'conservative.'

As a now famous maxim goes, the Dems are a train headed toward a cliff at 90 mph, the Republicans are a train headed toward the cliff at 70 mph. Either way, we're going over the cliff.

[Dan from Michigan]

The party leadership there is actually publishing statements in opposition to his efforts.

Michigan's party leadership is very conservative. That said, the main reason they oppose a ballot iniative(sp) is because they don't want a massive black turnout which goes 95% for the dems.

[Sid Rich]

With Bush as the engineer, the Republicans are taking us over the cliff faster than the Dems.