Posted on 05/15/2008 2:55:58 PM PDT by jern
For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.
Suddenly belatedly all pretense is gone.
The Republican defeat in Tuesdays special election in Mississippi, in a deeply conservative district where, in an average year, Democrats cannot even compete, was a clear sign that the GOP has the political equivalent of cancer that has spread throughout the body. Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.
Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans long wilderness years in the 1960s and 70s.
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ROTFL! Good one.
bush threw Newt’s majority away,
doing the will of people that hate us.
Let’s just pray that they can hang on to more than 40 seats in the Senate.
Yes, but prepare for the strong possibility that they don’t.
RE-ELECT NO ONE....flush the GOP.
My intent in my post was not to lay blame on the media.
Only to point out that for the past five years, the Republicans have effectively and deliberately been 'branded' as clueless laize faire oil corporate suck ups by the 'reporting' AP branch of the media .....
When in fact many Republicans politicians do in fact go into their home communities where they speak to crowds, to small Chamber of Commerce type organizations and present good market-based, conservative solutions and ideas.
Again, my point is that the bulk of the public does not know of or read about these speeches or happenings because the reporting media distorts or will not report the events.
Pure and simple, it is political war by omission, rather than commission.
It is extremely hard, if not impossible, for a good conservative Republican to effectively showcase his or her agenda without the benefit of some honest reporting.
Yes, there are newsletters and emails, but they are not nearly as effective or wide reaching as a good "impartial" newspaper or TV story.
The large networks such as FoxNews (rarely) cover local political speeches unless they are controversial or sexy.
Look no further than last week when Obama claimed the US has 57 states, or when Obama claimed repeatedly that Afghanistan speaks Arabic (they speak an entirely different language)
If a Republican had made any similar mistake, it would have been ridiculed repeatedly by reporting media across the nation.
As it was, only Hannity reported it briefly, and Limbaugh perhaps once.
The GOP has been effectively branded as uncaring, corporate suck ups who could care less about the little guy.... and they haven't yet figured out how to get some honest reporting.
Disagree. Why did J.D. Hayworth lose in '06?
Why did Rick Santorum, perhaps the best spoken most conservative Republican in the nation, lose by nearly 20 percentage points in '06?
In my estimation, and I followed the "reporting' media very closely, was the lack of any honesty in reporting what Santorum actually said or stood for.
Likewise, there was absolutely no scrutiny.... no analysis of the positions (lack of positions actually) of the Democrat opponent.
Add in the effect of 20 years of MTV, BET, and public school/university propoganda.... and the Republicans are starting 25% behind before a race even begins.
I'm not quite as hopeful as you about another Reagan coming along at just the right moment. Reagan came out of an era that was really unique in both America's and Hollywood's history!!!
I hope just as strongly as you, but I still wonder where we're gonna find such a good hearted and articulate soul with vision a real leadership. Are there any more mothers out there with "the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world?" I wonder!!!
Actually we have a couple of good ones being handicapped by a bunch of yesman in the house leadership (Blunt, Boehner, etc) Mike Pence, Jeff Flake, John Shadegg, Marsha Blackburn, and my own RINO hunter Tim Walberg are five that come to mind. They need to bring an strong opposition plan, and get Bush to follow along with it by saying he'd sign there, but not Pelosi's.
You stay healthy and happy in spite of what the lousy liberals do to our once sweet nation and remember... Success is the best revenge!!!
Rove has NOT been helpful to the Reagan conservative movement, in fact he's worked much harm against righteous conservative Republicans with good leadership potential!!!
If Obama wins it will be a bloodbath down ballot. If McCain wins big, and his win would probably be big, then the GOP may even pick up a few seats.
And the party leaders are just like Hollyweird producers. “I don’t get it. We produced a movie with sex and gratuitous violence and it bombed. What do we do? I know! Make a movie with even more sex and more gratuitous violence!”
Oh! If only that were true!! We in CA are seeing our formerly conservative Republican platform and fiscal conservatism being literally and figuratively raped by a Republican in Name only (RINO)!!!
Remaining conservative Republicans in the state legislature are continually pressured to abandon their conservative colleagues on budgetary matters by our ridiculous RINO Governor who now endorses McMistake so we can replicate that in the national legislature!!!
Alas, their 'backstop' has holes in it larger than the fence they refuse to build.....
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