Posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
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.
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