The Dems are slaughtering us on fundraising.
Hillary is a celebrity.
Americans want to change.
The Dems are going to have their candidate in place very early. The Republicans simply don't have the star quality the dems have, and we won't be united and enthused the way they are because they are so filled with hate over 2000 and 2004, and 2006 showed them they could win.
Americans don't believe the Republican talk about "fiscal responsibility" when they see them spending like any dem.
The media.
The desire to put a woman in the WH so we can seem non-sexist to the rest of the world.
Most important, people are sick of Bush, and want change. Electing someone from the same party isn't going to be that change.
People here often forget that the nuances don't much matter in the final election--it's about gut feeling.
Remember how we snickered when HRC did her hokey "listening tour"? Who'd fall for THAT? With all her negatives?
When we lost in '06, I was one arguing against those saying we needed to lose to recoup and come back.
I think that was wishful thinking on our part--that by '08 the RNC would see the light, start fighting against the libs, show Americans the Republicans are tax-cutters, budget-cutters, the Iraq situation will improve, etc.
So many haven't taken into account that the majority of Americans just want to put all of the 9/11 and Iraq stuff behind us--logic has little to do with it.
We have to fight back with all we've got, but I see nothing--nothing--that tells me she's going to lose.
The fight continues until the last man.....was that you running from the foxhole on the first volley.....?
Oh, please. There isn't a voter with two brain cells that actually believe that RATS are more "fiscally responsible" than Republicans. The idea is ridiculous.