[milan]

Call me laughably optimistic, but I believe the Republican Party is in deep trouble.

Has this guy not heard of the democrat party? If the Republicans are ripe for a fall, the democrats should already be gone.

[mewzilla]

Telltale signs of GOP desperation are everywhere.

Yeah, like all the Dems I know (myself included) who are voting Pubbie.

[milan]

In short, the GOP can no longer blame Bill, Hillary, Franklin Delano or Eleanor.

Yes, we can...and there are a hell of a lot of names missing from this list :)

[paul in cape]

Please put this guy in charge of the DNC!

[Jhensy]

Call me laughably optimistic

You're laughably optimistic.

[Flyer]

The White House has banned the media from covering the arrival of the flag-draped coffins of dead soldiers on all military bases; Bush himself has not attended a single one of these 340-plus homecomings

Unlike some Presidents that would use them for a lip-biting fake-tear photo op.

[camle]

in 2008 you are correct - the republicans have absolutele no one in the wings to take over when mini-me retires. the Hildebreast will run and trounce the republicans like no one's business, unless they start publicly grooming a successor.

[paguch]

What an idiot. Read into the second paragraph and you see Dennis the menace from Cleveland. I hope these lunes keep encouraging the far left to move the seven dopes further left. Then Hillary will come in on the center and we can dispatch the left once and for all.
Americans realise one thing. We used to think Democrats could not be trusted with National Defense. Now we know that they simply can not be trusted period!

[anoldafvet]

The next time an article like this is published, can we preface it with A CLYMER ALERT?

[DJ Frisat]

From blather like this, I can sense the impending bankruptcies of companies that produce syrup of ipecac and other emetics...

[PogySailor]

OK, who let this guy from a parallel universe in?

[Steel Wolf]

All I have to say to this article is this:

Grab an Al Franken book, stay tuned into CNN, logged into DU, and please please please keep sleepwalking towards that cliff, you delusional liberal zealots.

[Liberty Valance]

Horse hockey. The author of this tripe is apparently living in the parallel universe of stupidia.

[Jim Noble]

Let me share one from my town. The "community relations chairman" for the local Republicans has, in a website posting, called Democrats "neo-Nihilists" who are "greedily enamored with the destruction of this nation." Further, Democrats "eschew rational debate," "hate America" and consider Saddam Hussein "a hero."

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[section9]

You can't be serious!

This is from one of those "alternative" weeklies that have classified ads from "pre-op" transsexuals on their back cover.

This guy is about as relevant to the political debate as a Ted Rall cartoon.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[wayoverontheright]

The Democratic lineup contains two decorated war veterans, a Rhodes Scholar, a top West Point grad, a longtime legislator, a successful mayor and governor, and numerous other public servants, none of whom warrant such an undignified characterization

One of whom will soon have to explain how a tax INCREASE will not do harm to an economy so obviously improving because of a tax DECREASE.

[LS]

As a professional historian, I can tell you that the Dems are closer than ever to becoming the "Know-Nothings." They are in danger of losing the next election big-time, possibly the 7 seats in the Senate that strips them of their last vestiges of power.

And, as a historian, I can tell you that the voters generally understand that it takes a looonnnggg time to do anything---that's the way the Founders designed it. Hence, they gave the Republicans almost 70 years to do what they wanted after the Civil War, and then gave the Dems close to 50 years to do their program after 1932.

As much as some people here hate this, the fact is that the deficits will LARGELY GO AWAY as the economy improves and as the "baby boom" starts to retire and is taxed on their (now tax-free) retirement incomes.

There is a PHEONOMENAL study of this called "Birth Quake" done by several scholars, and while they may be leftists, they can read the demographic writing on the wall. Barring a catastrophe, many of these economies will get better "naturally" if Republicans don't indeed screw it up with higher taxes.

[Cuttnhorse]

The author is confusing wishful thinking with reality...mostly.

If I were writing the article I would have said that a good example of Rupublican weakness is the fact that even though they control the Senate, they can not get conservative judicial appointees through committee. Rupublicans, including the President, have done very little in fighting for judicial appointees. They have been cowardly in their support.

[smith288]

Call me laughably optimistic, but I believe the Republican Party is in deep trouble.

Ill call the white coats with the colorful pills...(who let this guy out of the pen?)

[mathluv]

Huh? Even Bush now admits there was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq. Since the pretext for this war is gone, even "moderates" like Johnson are forced to deploy semantic deceits (or what I call Republican pretzel logic).

He NEVER said there was. He said there WAS a connection between Iraq and Al Q.