Posted on 09/17/2014 5:30:01 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
The ONLY thing I can think of is “Hey we’re not Obama”... thats pretty much it...
Show us where there has been any significant change in GOP campaigning?
This story is lefty propaganda.
Indeed.
Understand this - the GOPe doesn’t want a landslide win.
That would make them accountable to DO SOMETHING to stop the Obama agenda,
which, for the most part, they don’t really oppose -
they just want to be in control of a bit of the spending,
go to the cocktail parties,
and get all the perks of Congressional membership.
Like you or someone said, too many RATS jumping out of windows, the pollsters were told to fix up some good news, and I don’t think it’s below Nate Silver to sauce his own data up for the cause.
I can’t disagree with that;)
My take as well. Take a look at today's Quinnipiac University polls for the Iowa Senate and the Colorado Governorship. The GOP is up big in both polls. Surprisingly big.
I think this whole "standing for nothing" business is just total crap. It may apply to the national GOP but what counts is the individual races.
Do we really have candidates running for Governor or the Senate who are just talking about Obama and the failure of the Dem agenda? I seriously doubt it. Anyone who believes that needs to provide some evidence.
I'm really tired of the whining.
Frankly, I don't even think it matters. The choice is now essentially between extreme progressive vs. progressive lite. The only difference is that progressive lite prefers to gradually phase in its extreme progressivism. I firmly believe we are at the point where the answer to our country's problems are no longer poliltical but spiritual. Which doesn't bode well. Pray for revival.
I am too. This whole strategy is to ramp up GOP divisions prior to the election so that people stay home in a hissy fit.
More years of Hairy Reid gives me a hissy fit.
I’ve stopped reading these doom and gloom articles. They come out every election season. They are meant to depress conservative votes. I have better things to do than worry about how the GOP is going to “blow it” (if its even true, which it very likely is not).
You could be right. I don’t think elections here mean much because once voter fraud became okay, there is no hope of changing anything by voting.
Depressing thought.
The GOP Party is almost dead. Here in NY it’s been dead for years, ever since Ed Cox took over and failed to inspire the party committee’s accross the counties. He was/is only interested in the title to help him get more coctail party invites.
This is why I like the Tea Party - it’s grassroots and helps GOTV.
You just have to look at Obama’s re-election to see what you’re saying. I pretty much lost confidence in the American voter after that, so yeah...Dems could pull it off in Nov.
The Republican Party is so afraid of telling the country what they believe that theyre willing to waste a golden opportunity to win the Senate. The campaign wizards who have lost three of the last four elections are all based in Washington and New York. Theyre afraid of the liberal media and theyre afraid of the power of the press. Rather than defeat the left at their own game, the party is swayed by the insular political press. In reality, conservative ideas arent offensive outside of the beltway and Manhattan. The Republican Party should be embracing basic family values and conservative economic policy.
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I agree, but I don’t think it’s an accident or incompetence on behalf of the GOPe. They know exactly what they are doing. They despise the rank and file outside the beltway.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
(Apologies to Buck Owens and Roy Clark)
GOPe: “Pheww!!! For a while there, I thought we were actually going to have to do something to oppose Obama in his last two years! I’m glad that’s not an issue anymore!”
Nevertheless, its been clear over the past few weeks that there hasnt been a shift towards Republicans. If anything, in several states, there has been a shift towards Democrat candidates.
And, this statement is based on what data? Thanks.
And, the adaptation from my college days:
Gloom, despair, and DiffEQ on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for DiffEQ,
I’d have a 4.0
Gloom, despair and DiffEQ on me!
Is it possible that both DIMs and GOPe “lose”? WDC does desperately need fumigated from the weasels on both sides.
Sorry, but I see no evidence supporting conservatives like Cruz gaining stature under the weak-kneed R leadership. Instead, Cruz gets slammed for doing the right thing - such as the budget showdown.
It is seriously screwed up when the party that stabs you in the back then screams at you that you "must" support them. (Not you - but the GOPe)
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