Posted on 05/07/2008 3:50:49 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.
The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.
“There is an attitude that, ‘I better watch out for myself, because nobody else is going to do it,’” the member said. “There are all these different factions out there, everyone is sniping at each other, and we have no real plan. We have a lot of people fighting to be the captain of the lifeboat instead of everybody pulling together.”
In a piece published in Human Events, the Republicans’ onetime captain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warned his old colleagues that they face “real disaster” on Election Day unless they move immediately to “chart a bold course of real reform” for the country.
And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.
Although a top House Republican brushed aside Gingrich’s broadside as “hype from a has-been who desperately wants to be a player but can’t anymore,” the harsh words from Cole were harder to ignore.
“It was a pretty stern line that he took with us,” said one House Republican.
Where I live we have few minorities. Within 1 mile of my house I can count 20 Obama signs and not one sign for ANY OTHER CANDIDATE WHATSOEVER!
If Obama is the Dem candidate watch the White Liberal Guilt voters become orgasmic. Why? Because ‘they care’ and they ‘are enlightened.’
White Liberal Guilt - it's a mental disorder.
But can the country survive an Obama presidency long enough for the Repubs to get their stuff together?
Republican leaders better get their act together. It was Gingrich’s Contract with America that got back Congress from 40 years of Democratic control. Instead of pandering to special interests and adding their own ear marks to a bloated federal budget, Republicans should pledge to get back to basics with a number 1 priority for a realistic plan to get gasoline prices down.
This is the real reason why the GOP can't raise money and win special elections. McCain is going to take down the GOP with him as he gets trounced in November. God help those conservative Reps running on the downticket. They will have to run against McCain on issues like immigration, global warming, drilling in ANWAR, and closing GITMO.
Learn the lesson, Republicans...govern as conservatives, even if you’re in the minority.
Govern as conservatives ESPECIALLY if you’re in the majority.
My money has dried up for Republican committees because the dollars go to conservative and liberals in the party. I refuse to invest in such a political party.
Get back to fighting the libs—you don’t even have to be 100% pure—I realize we are a big party, but right now the Republicans lean way to far left.
That is a bit of an exagerration, don't you think? I'll vote McCain over the Obamanation or Clinton's wife, though...c'mon you have to admit he is better than those terrorist enablers.
Actually, from a political perspective, I suspect Wright did Obama a big favor by providing the perfect excuse to for Obama to distance himself from Black Liberation Theology; if nominated he will still receive the overwhelming majority of the Black vote, but he now owes the Wrights and Sharptons of the world nothing, if fact their political power (such as it was)will likely be diminished.
Obama owes his success to the diligence of government-run schools and their advocacy of ever more government. The government has molded the electorate and they are about to deliver government’s savior.
I’ve watched the ad and listed to Newt.
He agree’s with Nasty about we need to do something about climate change, he agree’s there IS a problem.
Enough said.
Until he recants he is nothing more then spineless RINOm
You’re right. And it’s really important to be a part of history.
It's tough to counter flat-out bald-faced lying, but I'll give it a shot.
I watched that debate twice, once live as broadcast on C-SPAN, and then again a few days later. Both times start to finish in the entirety, and both times because I've been following Newt and his ideas since 1994 and wanted to see how he'd handle "global warming".
First, he doesn't, except to concede (without argument) that there's something going on. Then he spent the remaining 95 percent of the "debate" convincing the audience (while undermining Kerry's position) that market-based, capitalist, non-coercive solutions are the only effective remedies to that "something" in the environment.
If you think about capitalist economics for just one second you'll instantly understand that Newt's 100 percent market-based approach will solve only "real" and not perceived. made-up, or illusory problems such as anthropomorphic "global warming". People won't buy non-solutions to non-problems.
SO the name of the game now is to convince folks to reject coercive government "solutions" and embrace capitalist approaches, and Newt is very good at making that argument.
As with you and your hatred for Newt, there's really no point in arguing with those who believe in "global warming".
I hate to say it, but this sort of determined ignorance (if you knew anything about energy policy, you would know your statement is just flat out absurdly wrong) is perhaps the biggest reason we are in the mess we are:
I shudder for the future of a country where voters are making decisions based on this sort of "knowledge".
Dump McCain NOW or get used to Prez Obama.
I think the Republican National Socialist Committee aka RNC is getting the message that they CANNOT win without the conservative vote.
So they follow McSocialist at their own peril.
The whole batch of Socialts within the party should go back to the DNC.
Conservatives need to keep the pressure on the RNSC aka RNC until them and McSocialist move to the rigbt.
>>>>>Newt is as much of a socialist as Al Gore with regards to the issue of global “warming.”
I come to threads like this one and get tired of countering the monumental ignorance that comes from watching a 10-second TV spot and reading one newspaper article (from The Boston Globe of all things).
You’re wrong, you’re naive, enough said.
Yeah, right.
While he has jumped on the GW money grabbing scam, he is miles to the right of McCain. - Or Bush.
>>>>>I hate to say it, but this sort of determined ignorance
There’s a lot of that here today. Flat out monumental stupidity.
There is nothing McCain, nor his cronies, apologists, or enablers can do or say, or threaten; no change, no apology believable enough, no VP nominee right enough, no, nada, nothing what-so-ever, no threat of the supreme court, no war on terror, nothing under the sun, nothing old, nothing new, that will ever, ever in this lifetime or the next, convince me to cast my vote for him.
Period.
> some of the people who had voted for Hilary said they will vote for McCain
We have outcasts from the Dem party right here saying the same thing right now.
Hillary and mccain are close enough so as to make that perfectly possible.
However, I see little joy for mccain come November.
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