With the losses in Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as the large number of retiring Republicans, it seems to me it could be much worse than that.
The GOP has no one to blame but themselves, as well as a pathetic lack of leadership in a party that holds the White House and, less than two years ago, held both houses of Congress as well. By indulging in an orgy of government largess, the Republican Party compromised its long-term message in exchange for short term political gains. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, an embarrassing number of Republicans in Congress have decided to retire rather than face the voters.
The Republicans will be fortunate to keep the losses under 20 seats. Regardless, if the party doesn’t get new leadership and a new message before 2010, then it won’t look like the GOP of the 60s and 70s, but rather then 30s and 40s. The leadership isn’t going to come from the White House, either, regardless of who wins in November, so someone else is going to have to step up.
Unfortunately, no one springs to mind.
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!!!
He was devastated and wanted me to reassure him that this attitude hasn't become widespread. I could not. Furthermore, I had to try to prepare him psychologically for the depressing news that's going to decimate conservatism as well as Republicanism for at least the next two and a half years!
The pendelum that swung so high and hard in 1980 for Reagan Republicanism/conservatism and against creepy Carterism/Demonicrats and that swung our way again in 1994, is headed back the other way right now and is going to knock a whole lot of good that's been done into the deep pit!!!
So as it says in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit And The Pendelum," "Quoth the raven, nevermore." Conservatism will be driven from the Republican Party for a time before making a smashing recovery in the future, after the Dems screw everything up beyond all known recognition!!!
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.
and to top it all off our government really cut our throats today.
I was a member of the GOP when it had meaning. Strong military, low taxes, limited government, and personal responsibility. That GOP is gone.
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.
My prediction is 26-35 house seats lost.
5-7 Senate seats lost
And thats being optismastic
The conservative voting base has every right to be angry.
GOP RIP bump for later.........
Hell,is that all? I figured more loses.Hmm/s
bush threw Newt’s majority away,
doing the will of people that hate us.
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!”