[Engraved-on-His-hands]

This article focuses on the Tennessee Senate race and how that mirrors national problems within the Party.

[Rosemont]

"What's wrong with the Republican Party"


RINO Carlito Hagel, RINO Chafee

[Jabba the Nutt]

With few exceptions, elected Republicans are cowards. Start from there to figure out what's wrong with the GOP.

[King Moonracer]

Either spina bifida or scoliosis; either way they have a weak spine.

[Cobra64]

"What's wrong with the Republican Party?"

[Quark606]

"What's wrong with the Republican Party"

Actually, not a whole lot.

[AdvisorB]

There is nothing wrong with the Republican that my election to the POTUS couldn't fix.

[Popman]

"What's wrong with the Republican Party"

It's filled with politicians rather than Conservatives

[proxy_user]

This is not surprising - kind of like putting all the men in the US into the army, and then discovering half the army is below average in intelligence.

Naturally, if the GOP starts to be such a large majority it includes nearly everyone who is not a left-wing kook, this is going to start happening.

[tkathy]

The republican party and all it's elected officials has the entire MSM against it, continually cheap shotting it and back stabbing it. This is a huge problem, and it is important to realize it.

[grapeape]

They are not doing what we elected them to do. The more power the republican party gets the less conservatism has. It is quite a mess we have.

[Reagan Man]

What's wrong with the Republican Party

It would rather advance the liberal agenda of the Democratic Party ---- more government, more bureaucracy, more welfare state and amnesty for freeloaders.

Sure don't sound like Ronald Reagan's conservative GOP and for good reason.

[em2vn]

The leader of the party is a Rockefellar Republican. He isn't a conservative. That's what's wrong.

[GeronL]

Unfortunately, a cadre of constitutional obstructionists has split the Republican Party, diminished party loyalty and taken public support for the President and Congress to historic lows

Whoa, are they blaming conservatives?? Say what??

Townhall went lefty??

[DesScorp]

There's not nearly as much wrong as whiners are saying, but there are problems. RINO's are a huge problem...but since we're in a war, I don't want to hear crap about the budget...wars cost money, you can't fight them on the cheap. I'm not saying that there isn't rediculous spending elsewhere...there certainly is (look at Alaska's bridge to nowhere)...but some of this is petty whining because things aren't going just right for some activists.

[JennysCool]

The Republican Party's biggest problem is that the mass media that enters 90 percent of American homes spins everything it does as somehow sinister and evil.

The inter-party problems can and will be sorted out. It is defeating this constant barrage of propaganda that is the hard part.

[AlexandriaDuke]

The writer is as naive as most FReepers. The GOP has NEVER been a conservative party. There have been conservative figureheads like Taft, Goldwater, Reagan, and even Newt. But, the power has always been with the Northeast Rockefeller / Bush wing. And they view conservatives the same way the Dems view blacks.

[TruthBeforeAll]

The Republican party seems to be made up of 3 groups. Christian conservatives, constitutional conservatives, and capitalists. The first 2 are pretty self explanatory and there is actually quite a bit of cross-over between them. While the capitalists just sell the illusion of conservatism to the other two groups to get votes so as to maintain their power and continue to make a buck.

The one thing that unifies these three groups is that they need individual liberty to survive. But the capitalists only care about individual liberty to the point that it allows them to make money. Socially, capitalists can be very liberal.

So what is wrong with the Republican party? It's being run by capitalists more than Christian or Constitutional conservatives.

[kempo]

As I see it there is only one thing that can turn the Republican party around and make it united again. HILLERY CLINTON!

[Torie]

So many of the whiners and whimperers have never been elected to anything. They should try it sometime.

[Dante3]

Specter and McCain and those who voted for this country to surrender to foreign invasion are the problem.