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GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more (House) seats
Politico ^ | May 15, 2008 | JOHN F. HARRIS & JOSH KRAUSHAAR

Posted on 05/15/2008 2:55:58 PM PDT by jern

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To: jern
The GOP should be happy. It brings them closer to their socialist brethren.
41 posted on 05/15/2008 3:22:39 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: napscoordinator

I remember driving from Colorado Springs to Indianapolis in a VW bug, with a 3 month old baby. Ran out of gas in Kansas and could not find a gas station open anywhere

Americans want that misery and they are going to get it.

Try it, you will not like it.


42 posted on 05/15/2008 3:23:16 PM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: jern

Its over. We got a liberal running and the Republican party has no values and won’t stand for anything conservative. This country is going to be a wasteland very soon. Ok for me, I’m retired and my daughter might make it ok but my little grandson is going to have a really tough time. You got people in this place that want power more than a future for the country and even there own kids much less anyone else’s kids.


43 posted on 05/15/2008 3:23:36 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: SierraWasp
He had developed a close friendship with one of his neighbors in his up-scale Ozark neighborhood and they got into a discussion about the horrible gasoline prices. He related to me how this dear new friend just turned on him in an instant in white-hot rage because he wouldn't agree with her that it was all Bush's fault. Furthermore, she was so filled with venom at anything Republican that she couldn't slow down or stop her unmerciful tongue lashing of my conservative former CA friend!!!

You are so right. The public are incensed about gas prices, and they want Republicans out of office...

44 posted on 05/15/2008 3:23:44 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: jern

and to top it all off our government really cut our throats today.


45 posted on 05/15/2008 3:24:47 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: indylindy

I remember driving from Colorado Springs to Indianapolis in a VW bug, with a 3 month old baby. Ran out of gas in Kansas and could not find a gas station open anywhere

Now that is bad. Yep the Democrats are going to make it exactly like that and the Republicans (not us conservatives) are going to look at each other wondering what went wrong.


46 posted on 05/15/2008 3:25:43 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: jern

I was a member of the GOP when it had meaning. Strong military, low taxes, limited government, and personal responsibility. That GOP is gone.


47 posted on 05/15/2008 3:26:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: jern
At least most of the Republicans who lose their seats will have a terrific pension plan and other benefits unknown to us among the lowly masses.
48 posted on 05/15/2008 3:27:12 PM PDT by Radix (The Army Times will not let me post "their images" of OUR Troops on Free Republic)
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To: cripplecreek

“Anybody got a fork?”
I have a runcible spoon, a spork. Is that okay?


49 posted on 05/15/2008 3:27:44 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Perdogg

"Supporters reach out to touch the hand of democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) after he spoke at a rally in Dallas, Texas February 20, 2008."

If McCain shows up in a rally where I live, I seriously doubt if I'll have this kind of energy to go out and try to shake his hand...

50 posted on 05/15/2008 3:28:03 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: eddie willers

Yes, but every time the Dems are in power again in the House and Senate, they add more and more and more bureacracies and bureacrats all of whom are left-wing.

They create more and more useless government programs nobody can get rid of.


51 posted on 05/15/2008 3:28:22 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: Rebelbase

I take umbrage at your tag line. McCain has already proven to be nowhere near as good as Bush. He’ll likely lose to an utterly incompetent Dem, but if McCain somehow wins, in less than a year, Americans will look fondly back at the Bush years as a “golden age.”


52 posted on 05/15/2008 3:30:48 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: jern
Like many in his party, Edwards said the GOP’s main hope for avoiding a blowout this fall rests in having candidates liberate themselves from their national party label and run on local issues.

The GOP won both the House and the Senate by NATIONALIZING the election and every since they have worked overtime to forget it and to run away from conservative issues.

53 posted on 05/15/2008 3:31:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Jay Howard Smith
The only good news is, it is out of desperation such as this that truly tough and determined organizations are formed. The GOP has been like a once-proud, muscular NFL linebacker who skipped spring training, ate donuts, and put on 40 pounds of lard.

But getting back in shape will be a . . . . itch.

54 posted on 05/15/2008 3:32:45 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: Rock&RollRepublican
why doesn't some good conservative Republican make a speech and set things right

The problem goes beyond someone making a speech. The problem is that the GOP has abandoned any pretense of having a coherent set of values and it shows. Until the Republican Party takes up the mantle of reason, individualism, and capitalism, it's going to continue to fail.

55 posted on 05/15/2008 3:34:14 PM PDT by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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To: eddie willers
For all you youngsters out there....it looked a hell of a lot worse in 1976. Four years later we got Ronald Reagan. Buck up

Things are different today, most notably demographics.

Blacks & Hispanics are going to vote rat no matter what, Look how crappy things are in the inner city, yet no matter how bad things are they still put one rat in after another.

Well, we are going to have even more Hispanics in the coming years, so another Republican Revolution like 1980 & 1994 will be impossible

56 posted on 05/15/2008 3:34:24 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Rebelbase
With the clear signs of how much trouble the party is in, it is going to be harder than ever to persuade donors to open their wallets on behalf of candidates this fall.

Maybe if your message was something other than, "We aren't as liberals as the Democrats", you might get a few dollars.

57 posted on 05/15/2008 3:34:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta; Dog Gone; thackney; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
"The public are incensed about gas prices, and they want Republicans out of office..."

I know! And it matters not that GovernMental EnvironMentalists with their overtaxation and over-regulation are the direct cause even more than the futures speculators who follow the news, or certainly the oil companies who follow their geologist's noses!!!

58 posted on 05/15/2008 3:34:43 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Electing Juan McGore President, or any Dem, would be Super Power economic suicide!!! Vote Nader...)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Yah, I think we're all there. I can't vote for this boob.

The thing is, the Dems were THERE just four years ago. We had them on the ropes. If the GOP congress had come out and tightened up all spending, secured the border, crushed the Dems in some key votes, gotten that nimrod DeWine to vote for ANWAR, and so on, the Dems would have been in deep, deep trouble.

Instead, from 2002 on, they held together and refused to throw ANYONE overboard, no matter how corrupt. They voted as an impregnable bloc, and obstructed, obstructed, obstructed.

Or, in historical terms, they were perfect examples of Roman general Fabius. Buy time. Regroup. Reorganize. Don't let the enemy have the knockout blow.

59 posted on 05/15/2008 3:36:05 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: garbanzo

The GOP will have at least one from my state.
What is the least the GOP has had we may set a new record.


60 posted on 05/15/2008 3:36:25 PM PDT by Big Horn (I am bitter, I just want to eat my waffle.)
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