With all due respect, Mr. Mehlman I feel I must be candid with you as a loyal Republican. At least the Democrats are showing some spine and doing what they do best. It is the Republicans that anger me and I am not alone. What exactly is Senator Frist waiting for? What did "we" win when we reached 55 Republican Senators? When are we going to start acting like we have a sizeable lead and force our mandate down their throats. Let them scream and complain-it's what they do.
I understand I am not a sizeable donor and am just a voice in the wilderness, but if you listen very carefully you will hear that I am not alone. Yes, I will still vote Republican straight down the line in every election. Yes, I will continue to donate a couple of hundred bucks. Yes, I will drive my Cuban in-laws to the voter booth so they can thumb there nose at Castro and vote Republican. But I do it with less enthusiasm. I can be taken for granted. I am not so sure that other voters can. Why would they come out in droves like they did in '04? when they were defending Dubya. They will not be as energized in '06. The libs will be. I know-I work in an office full of them.
That's me. I've only donated twice in my life and that was to Pres. Bush in 2004. What you wrote pretty much sizes up what I told an RNC solicitor yesterday on the phone. He told me what I told him they are hearing all the time from other Republicans.
I was very excited that President Bush won in November and that the Senate increased their seats but they have been a huge letdown since. They have let the Dems dictate the show ever since.
The Republicans (especially the ones in the senate) are a bunch of eunuchs. I can't get excited or enthused about any of them really. They need to quit with the "my good friend across the aisle, Senator so and so" crap. We have no friends across the aisle. 99% of them are ruthless cut throat bastards and their policies are going to completely destroy this country. All I've seen from the Republicans is rolling over. Why do I need to send more money so they can do more of that? Unless someone gets some testosterone injections or some unknown wonderful, charismatic, truly conservative Republican comes out of the woodwork, 2006 and 2008 aren't going to be good years.