GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more (House) seats

Politico ^ | May 15, 2008 | JOHN F. HARRIS & JOSH KRAUSHAAR

[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 Tuesday’s 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.

[Rebelbase]

The way I see it, someone else must have profited from the Political Capital Bush was pontificating on spending after the 2004 election.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The conservative voting base is angry.

The conservative voting base has every right to be angry.

[roamer_1]

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.

As opposed to Republicans who... never mind...

[The Pack Knight]

I’m afraid you’re right, there. By and large the up-and-comers we do have are ether not yet ready or are simply not of the stature we need to get the conservative movement back on track.

I do hope that Mike Pence runs for House Minority Leader again. The reclaiming of our party at the national level will have to start in the House, and that would be a good beginning.

[The Pack Knight]

If McCain loses, it won’t be due to his position on global warming. Hardly anyone votes on that issue, on either side.

[Leisler]

You might of noticed that if it bleeds, it leads. The media loves a fight. However when you ‘leadership’ is bland, inarticulate, boring, process drones Well who would waste air time on people like that?

Say what you want, the Democrats are always manufacturing and providing street theater and dram for news airtime.

Reagan understood. Newt too.

[MinorityRepublican]

Well, McCain will probably get the votes he need to be our next President, particulary if he wins Ohio.

Unless he brings Romney on board, he won't be able to raise any money though.

[gitmo]

I think Rush’s analysis was insightful: “We are so screwed.”

[tubebender]

I had a call from a FRiend in South Dakota around 2:30 this afternoon telling me they will visit sometime next winter when they park their motor home in the SoCal desert and drive the car up here. We talked of high diesel prices and then he went on to blast Bush over out of control spending. I reminded him that oil prices had escalated to $125.00 a barrel since the DimRats had taken control of the senate and house and he should direct his displeasure to his Rat reps...

[RockinRight]

That pic though is 30% of voters. The others are grudgingly voting for McCain.

[ronnie raygun]

All thier fault, they sat back and watch instead of standing up and telling us what they really stand for!
What a shame! The republican party is the same right now as the democratic party. The parties of change
“sparechange, nickles and dimes” there is no real men with standards convictions and morals. They deserve what they will get. ZERO!

[SierraWasp]

I hear ya, but by friend in MO said that no matter how many facts he presented to his neighbor, she wasn't having ANY of it an it was almost as if she was sayin... "My fact can whup yer facts!" She got so emotional that it made my friend very uneasy.

The trick in politics is that no one ever does anything about anything until someone becomes concerned about something! Then on a MACRO basis with gobs of people... They don't get motivated collectively until somebody that buys ink by the barrel or owns a lot of radio and TV stations whips 'em up into a fervor. Then ya gits "Mob Rule!"

That's what my friend was worried about and that's what's happening and why our arguments will be no better now than peeing into the wind of emotionalism!!!

The pendulum is gonna swing against conservatism, even in the Repellican Party, no matter what, for the next couple of years, at least!!!

The mob is "fired up, and they ain'ta gonna take it no mo!!!" Their man is ridin high an ours is goin down an dat's dat, dude!!!

[SierraWasp]

Here's what I be talkin about in that last reply to ya.

And believe me, sometimes I hate it when I'm right. But conservative Republicans are about to be banished into exile, marginalized in EVERY regard, without representation to ANY meaningful extent. It's going to be depressing, but it will eventually make us stronger... much wiser and stronger.

We sit here on FR and say sagely to each other:"They can't do that to us!" But I'm here to tell you, they've laid all the groundwork and they CAN do "that" to us!!! And they will, for awhile.

[indthkr]

GOP RIP bump for later.........

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Hell,is that all? I figured more loses.Hmm/s

[353FMG]

“If America survived the Carter years and the Clinton years, then the Obama presidency won’t destroy us.”

I pray that you’re right, but the situation has changed since the Carter days. Since then we’ve experienced 9/11 and we have proof of the potential danger that our Muslim polulation presents to the safety of our country and we have also witnessed a drastic change in demographics.

We are living in an entirely different USA today — in fact I dare say that the situation today is more volatile than what it was on December 7, 1941.

[dforest]

Very smart, You are correct.

[353FMG]

“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.”

I too am retired and have two, well-educated sons with good jobs. Neither one is married, and they have their eyes set on Australia. I just hope that they will invite me to go deep-sea fishing when they get there.

[353FMG]

America has chosen the path of idolatry.

[PerConPat]

The mob is "fired up, and they ain'ta gonna take it no mo!!!"

Corrrrect! When the Rinos and Rats have finally brought the nation to a state of despair, perhaps malaise is a better term, there will hopefully be a revival, à la Reagan.

In the meantime, the dolts wasting oxygen under the fat part of the bell curve will be crying about being tricked into variable rate mortgages and being raped by big oil etc... It's one of those times in history when prolonged stupidity finally punishes fools while they thrash around looking for easy cures, but not for the effective and always difficult ones.

When a disgusted diplomat- William Bullitt- abruptly left the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, he stated that he was headed for the Riviera where he intended to "lie on the sand and watch the world go to hell." Smart guy, that Bullitt...