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.
Are you voting for Democrats believing that they will give you the conservatisim you want?
You forgot....Thank you Mr. Huckeebee.......
You don't understand Newt's position on "global warming" at all, do you.
No, your ignorance and naivete is showing. I watched Newt in that pathetic global warming "debate" with Kerry. He gave the entire FRAUD/HOAX credibility. And Newt's commercial with Pelosi did the same thing. Then he tries to give some lame statement to pacify dupes like you...
McCain wasn't my choice but NOTHING will stop me from voting for him in Nov.
They refuse to understand that about 50% of the electorate is dependent on the taxpayer, via the govt.
Those people will vote for the dem.
Now, we have untold numbers of illegal residents, many of whom are probably voting, and who have been indoctrinated into believing they are entitled to certain things.
They, too, will vote for the dem, no matter who it is.
The rest of us working class stiffs are nothing but a paycheck to them.
Yet, somehow the RINO’s believe they can capture some of that vote on “issues.”
The gimme constituency doesn’t care about issues.
They want bread and circus tickets.
The RINO’s spend too much time in the DC Echo Chamber, and it looks like they will remain there until their socialist replacements boot them out.
If you understood Newt's "global warming crap" you'd ask the mods to delete your post.
But some carry such raw hatred for Newt that personal and intellectual shame have no meaning to them, particularly when they are grossly and/or laughably wrong.
It's the same mental flaw we see with McCrazy every day.
This Republican disarray,IMHO, is caused by Soros-type money interfering with everything...
State Senate President Tim Bee is running against Giffords in your district:
http://www.timbee.com/
That was my first reaction when it became clear he would be the nominee.
I'm not so sure now primarily because of the exposing of each other that BO and HRC continue to do.
Problem. Those were already our seats. What's troublesome is that we haven't won back a single House or Senate seat from the rodents since before 2006, and they've already picked up 2 more of our House seats (neither of which had gone Democrat since 1974 and 1972, respectively, one of which was the seat of the former Speaker) and perhaps a 3rd may fall by next week.
I'll try to remember that next time I see the ad with Newt hanging out on a loveseat with Pelosi, calling for action to combat 'climate change.'
No, that seems spot on from my vantage point in the bitter clinging South. Term limits would go a long way in my book.
Hey, King Juan McCain has decreed that his campaign will NOT malign Emperor Obama with criticism (fair or not, it seems). How can we lose?
Aw crap, how many of those scared Pubbies think the answer will be to lurch left? I wonder if Newt told them to embrace glo-bull warming?
Just for the record I will NEVER vote for McCain.
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