The Collapse of the Congressional GOP?

Townhall ^ | 1/23/07 | Hugh Hewitt

[OPS4]

The rebuilding of the GOP is what the article should read.

But of course the negative approach is wht the writer wants.

[dforest]

The Republicans still seated in Congress have cut and run from the voters. I wish even more loss to their numbers. They are a total embarassment.

[Valin]

Hugh Hewitt negative? Not hardly.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I haven't renewed my RNC membership for 2007 yet. If the GOP cannot support W in this moment of crisis, I may send in my card.

[RobRoy]

Man. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Anybody remember the "death of the democratic party" stuff a few years ago? ;)

[OPS4]

Thats the ay of doing what the oppostion wants. Maybe we should all reflect, on rebuilding for the future, before we are all lost in a socialist nightmare.

The time has come to renew your republican membership and help weed out the moles.

[OPS4]

Negative, this article is by it headline. Rebuilding is the focus, we all need now. Weed out the jerks, but hold the republican line.

[pabianice]

The GOP had collapsed before the elections. That's why they lost.

[Antoninus]

When Osama bin Laden said this: "Dealing with the pampered and effeminate Americans will be easy" it was our Congressional leaders that he was referring to.

They're proving him right.

[LS]

But, Rob, historically speaking, things can turn on a dime, and on a single election. Take sports: Chicago was dead and buried vs. AZ earlier this year on MNF, then suddenly, after a turnover, they come back to win the game. Many NFL people said that game re-invigorated their season.

I do believe that the Dems were on death's door just a few years ago, esp. just after the 2004 election. Had the Republicans begun serious cost-cutting, serious budget-balancing, serious BORDER CONTROL, and had the President completely taken the gloves off---not only in Iraq but vs. the Dems---we don't lose the 2006 elections and the Dems are on the ash heap of history. But while it was only a two-year period, it was one filled with goofs, missteps, stupid votes and policies, and above all too much "new tone."

The good news? Just as things turn ONE WAY on a dime, they can be reversed just as quickly with a spine and a leader.

[Valin]

Weed out the jerks, but hold the republican line.

Agree. What's going on with some of the GOP today makes a good argument for Term Limits.

[MSF BU]

I've never contributed to the RNC; Jesse Helms, Paul Laxalt, Orrin Hatch, Citizens for the Republic, etc. were all much more effective at identifying and electing promising candidates. This years money will probably go to Duncan Hunter and anybody that Tom Coburn recommends.

[RobRoy]

>>The good news? Just as things turn ONE WAY on a dime, they can be reversed just as quickly with a spine and a leader.<<

...or an event...

[norton]

"The president, the polls say, is supported by less than 40% of the people. That's probably 85% of the GOP, however, and both numbers will grow as the focus on the Democrats' fecklessness increases..."

Whistling past the graveyard:
The dems only need a few months, a slice of time, to do all the damage they'll need for the next decade or so.
It appears they have got a good start on doing just that and, as expected, congressional pubbies are hiding out or pleading for scraps.

[Texas Federalist]

But of course the negative approach is what the writer wants.

Hugh Hewitt is one of the biggest knee-jerk Republican party apologists there is. Fidel Castro could defect and run for president and Hewitt would probably support him if he had an "R" by his name. The fact that he writes this article should be a wake up call to the GOP.

[sauropod]

good article.

[neverdem]

The good news? Just as things turn ONE WAY on a dime, they can be reversed just as quickly with a spine and a leader.

Say a prayer, please. We need Divine Intervention. Some of these pubbies make me sick.

[LS]

Well, yes, unfortunately.

[Huck]

your post sounds right to me.