Posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Travis Childers, elected U.S. House, District 1, Mississippi. [Note: This is an AP bulletin - nothing follows]
I fear the American people will be telling Repubs just that in November...
OUCH...Things were so bad they brought in Cheney and even that didnt work
Well, we did hold on to the seat in Virginia after the Congresswoman passed away.
As one Freeper said in another thread, it’s panic time. Our electoral prospects are not good.
LESSON: Don’t pick incumbent congressmen from swing districts for senate appointment.
One more thing: thank you Trent Lott. Enjoy your stupid lobbying.
The recent congressional losses for Republicans in the special elections are VERY bad news, especially this one. If I understand right, this is equivalent to a republican winning a historically democrat seat in San Fransisco.
The Republicans have lost their way, and are reaping the absence of conservative leadership from Bush. Sadly, I have a feeling this is going to get MUCH worse before it will get any better, if it does get any better. With McCain running, the Republican party may be finished for good.
We have no candidate and no philosophy in the GOP. And we haven’t seen the bottom yet.
Well, who are the Republican leaders? Who is showing leadership?
This wasn’t a swing-district — it’s R+10, and the Dems who are there are awfully conservative.
It’s not a R+10, a Republican, or even a swing district now. It’s a Democrat district. UGH.
Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis on Tuesday in a special election runoff. He will fill the last several months of a two-year term the GOP's Roger Wicker started in January 2007.
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour appointed Wicker to the U.S. Senate in December after Trent Lott retired.
Childers' victory marks the second time this month for a conservative Democrat to win a Deep South congressional seat that had been held by a Republican.
“the Dems who are there are awfully conservative.”
Maybe but anyone who caucuses with Pelosi isn’t awfully conservative. They’re hiding something.
It is top down--and from here on out.
McCain is the Party Leader now.
Expect this all over the place.
He will have NEGATIVE COATTAILS because we are clearly abandoning "Conservative" in favor of "Me Too!", and "Big Government" and "Change" -- all recipes for disaster. The wise Republican will actually run AGAINST McCain.
I think the GOP can be rebuilt in 2009 back into a conservative party, or perhaps we will just have to make a new one.
What’s shameful is that even when the Republicans had their revolution in 1994 they didn’t create as larege a majority as the Dems will have in 2009.
I’m no fan of McCain, but he may useful as a transitional figure. We need him to keep the Federal Judiciary safe, especially with three more Supreme Court justices likely to retire. The future of the party has to be its grass roots, not the DC Establishment. That’s how we will find our way. But McCain can hold the line in the meantime.
By picking a state house delegate, and then we promptly lost the house delegate seat to the democrats.
We’ll probably lose a republican seat in Virginia in november as well.
Nobody wants to be a republican anymore.
I’ve never seen a party self-destruct so quickly.
It’s Bush.
Can anything be done to keep Bush from speaking at the Republican National Convention this year?
Somebody better tell the Pubbies to start acting like CONSERVATIVES again.
His approval rating sinks into the teens (likely).
It is definately Bush. Has anyone seen his recent press conferences? Painful. Thank you for Roberts and Alito but man what a price we have payed for his presidency. He doesnt even fight back and defend himself.
There is no leadership anywhere in the DC based GOP establishment. Do you even seen the minority leader or whip on TV?? I dont.
The southern Dems are winning as blue collar conservatives who yearn to keep jobs home, and spendings home. The GOP talks about free trade (blue collar job loss to foreign factories), and spending more money overseas in more wars. The new winning Dem coalition will be eggheads, minorities and blue collar Dems. In the past the GOP won narrowly with the help of blue collar Dems. Twelve years of turbulent economical times, ending with wars and rumor of wars has worn the blue collar Dems out and they are willing for change. The blue collar Dems are going to learn that more turbulent change is ahead of them when Obama takes office. It will be interesting how the blue collar Dems feel in 2012.
Childers, like the guy in LA, is called a “conservative.” I guess that means he will be leading some kind of revolt against Speaker Pelosi in favor of someone more centrist? Ha ha. So right leaning voters might have gone for Childers thinking he was OK when in reality he will help build the Demo majority that is moving the nation farther to the left, and closer to ruin. Pretty sad.
I was reading one blog that said the Republican Davis actually had voted several times in favor of tax increases as a state senator. I wonder if that dimmed some GOP enthusiasm for him.
What the HECK happened to the old Bush we all loved?? I man this man just does not shape perception/events anymore. He hasn’t held a 50% approval rating since just after his re-election. His entire second term has been under the water (no pun intended).
I fear I will never see a Conservative controlled Congress in my remaining lifetime. It’s a sad state of affairs when the only difference between democrats and Republicans is that they all have never been aborted.
No. But the threat of it is almost as effective.
The Dems already have a larger majority.
In 1994, the GOP won 230 House seats.
As of tonight, the Dems have 236 House seats. The Senate is another story, at least for now.
He never existed.
But for now, as most countries around the world can see, America is definitely Democrat Territory this year, I believe thanks to Bush, McCain AND various multiple factors you have cited.
Drat! We really needed a Ronald Reagan to get us out of this mess.
Not a Nelson Rockefeller.
Yep once again:
1. The failure of conservative commentators
2. Conservative bloggers
to defend a conservative president, come back to haunt them. Of course they choose to blame the President who is not running for reelection. But then again this is the GOP history. They threw Nixon to the wolves and were blown out in 1974. The Dims on the other hand defended the indefensible with Clinton and minimized their losses. But go ahead, blame the most conservative president since prior to WWII.
Republicans and conservatives have just lost their nerve. We’ve just had power “too” long. (Ha.)
Old history. But Nixon threw himself to the wolves.
“This is the GOP’s third straight special election loss, after Illinois and Louisiana. Somebody better tell the Republicans to start acting like Republicans again.”
These elections reflect mostly local issues. If you are a Republican and have a Republicam running in your area, make sure he/she knows the issues and is on the right side of them. Then, get your friends and neighbors behind the candidate. The Dems are beating us in the neighborhoods.
I’m not sure it’s because they aren’t conservative enough. It’s the 20% in the middle that can go either way. Right now they’re convinced that we’re in another great depression and nobody has a job despite the low 5% unemployment rate. They were also the ones who’d tell pollsters that the economy was terrible in 2005. Oh, and they actually think that the Dems can do something about it by taking it to the eeeevil corporations and the rich.
Rocky was considerably to the left of McCain. Even Giuliani. Even Nixon. Even Ford.
Well thank Rush and his stupid Operation Chaos for this loss. So many Republicans crossed over to vote for “big hips” that there weren’t enough left to vote in the MI primary.
I knew this (playing silly games with our votes) was a stupid idea from the start and now it is hurting us.
There is no way to put a positive spin on this.
Nixon resigned when his support in the Senate faded away.
One article referred to the GOP’s 12 year “stranglehold” on the House. Bad reporting, as usual. Their hold on power was always rather tenuous. They could never hope to get the 2-1 majorities like the Dems had for so much of the 20th century. Pretty sad really. Not only did the leadership fail but I think we can blame the media for a lot of the negative feelings about Republicans. This has always cost them a lot of popular support.
His support in the Senate faded away because he became indefensible.
The American people need to bend over and kiss their butts goodbye along with their freedom, their futures, and their incomes. It’s toilet bowl time and it ain’t gonna be pretty. Our enemies are waiting and laughing.
“But go ahead, blame the most conservative president...”
Open borders, massive increases in deficit spending, new entitlement programs, free trade, and mishandling the early stages of the Iraq War. That’s conservative? Bush is not blameless.
Not a surprise at all, and it shows how Haley Barbour misjudged the MS political climate so soon after his own victory.
I blame this on Blunt and Boehner. The US House hasn't had any real leaders since Dick Armey retired.
“Our enemies are waiting and laughing.”
And the Democrats don’t care as long as they seize power. And the Middle doesn’t care as long as they make the self-important decision to shift power.
I really wish I drank alcohol, because I could really use some right now.
Bush has been far worse for the Republicans than Clinton was for the dems. Roberts, Alito, and tax cuts are about the only thing Bush has done right. The jury is still out on the war front.
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