Senior McCain aide: The GOP is a 'shrinking entity' [praises Zero, says Palin token conservative]

CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-04-23

[skeeter]

The Republicans were happy to alienate their voting base to please Hispanics.

70% of whom were only too happy to vote for the dims.

[DTogo]

Juan McQueeg would never have received my vote without Sarah.

[Wuli]

“Ego sinus super , proinde ego perdo.”

Translated to:

“I curve over, upon , consequently I to lose”

????

at:

http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Latin

[grey_whiskers]

Something *always* gets lost in translation.

I used an English to Latin translator for "I bend over therefore I lose."

Cheers!

[TigersEye]

Michael Steele will repudiate this and reassert the conservatism of the GOP tomorrow. /s

[TBP]

The reason the GOP is shriveling away is bozos like McCain and his daughter (and his clown staff.)

[RRismyhero]

Hooray - I shall donate!

[okie01]

Tell us that one, Schmidt.

They really don't know who their voters are, do they?

[SuziQ]

Daughter seems to be learning well from Daddy.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

All I know is that the GOP is growing increasingly hostile toward conservatives and can’t realistically think they’ll win in future elections.

One bit of inside information revealed here that contradicts some of your point is that the McCain organization didn't dare to nominate a pro-choice VP in front of a convention of McCain delegates. That is, even after the strongest conservatives were screened out, because they were not strong McCain supporters, which is where the delegates came from, the convention would not have tolerated nominating a Veep to McCain's left, willing to have an open convention rebellion to prevent it. That says good things about Republican grassroots.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

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[markomalley]

The GOP is a shrinking entity?

No wonder: why bother doing Dem-lite when you can go for the gusto and have the real thing: Barry S.

/s

[Elsie]

All this talk about shrinking entities has left me feeling inadequate!

[bilhosty]

1. The GOP does not think beyond the next election.
2. While it is good at working with the terrain it has been given it does not shape the political terrain(only the Dem's do that).
3. it does not do anything to improve its access to media. (it should be lining up its contributors and its bankers to make purchases of media and try to shape a new media its way. (only the Dem's do that)

4.The GOP is only responsive to the people who pay the bill and is unresponsive to the average person who votes for them. Because it is unresponsive it has Conservatives blaming the moderates and calling them Rino’s and the moderates blaming Conservatives and leaving to vote Dem. They both need to blame the country clubbers who obviously believe in nothing except their own tax cuts.

5.They need to show imagination and creativity.

6. they need to reinvent themselves.

[Zechariah_8_13]

I’m thinking there has been some serious Soros infiltration of the GOP and it started with McQueeg and his main street republicans.

It's not infiltrated, it's completely infested. Just look at Steele.

[repentant_pundit]

fixed my tagline

[Antoninus]

It's comments like this that put Steve Schmidt on my FaceBook "Five people I'd like to punch in the face."

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

Memo to Republican candidates--can you at least *try* to hire conservative campaign managers? Or, if not conservatives, at least not flaming liberal losers like Schmidt?