Posted on 05/15/2008 2:55:58 PM PDT by jern
For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.
Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense is gone.
The Republican defeat in Tuesday’s special election in Mississippi, in a deeply conservative district where, in an average year, Democrats cannot even compete, was a clear sign that the GOP has the political equivalent of cancer that has spread throughout the body. Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.
Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House — a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans’ long wilderness years in the 1960s and ’70s.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I remember driving from Colorado Springs to Indianapolis in a VW bug, with a 3 month old baby. Ran out of gas in Kansas and could not find a gas station open anywhere
Americans want that misery and they are going to get it.
Try it, you will not like it.
Its over. We got a liberal running and the Republican party has no values and won’t stand for anything conservative. This country is going to be a wasteland very soon. Ok for me, I’m retired and my daughter might make it ok but my little grandson is going to have a really tough time. You got people in this place that want power more than a future for the country and even there own kids much less anyone else’s kids.
You are so right. The public are incensed about gas prices, and they want Republicans out of office...
and to top it all off our government really cut our throats today.
I remember driving from Colorado Springs to Indianapolis in a VW bug, with a 3 month old baby. Ran out of gas in Kansas and could not find a gas station open anywhere
Now that is bad. Yep the Democrats are going to make it exactly like that and the Republicans (not us conservatives) are going to look at each other wondering what went wrong.
I was a member of the GOP when it had meaning. Strong military, low taxes, limited government, and personal responsibility. That GOP is gone.
“Anybody got a fork?”
I have a runcible spoon, a spork. Is that okay?
"Supporters reach out to touch the hand of democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) after he spoke at a rally in Dallas, Texas February 20, 2008."
If McCain shows up in a rally where I live, I seriously doubt if I'll have this kind of energy to go out and try to shake his hand...
Yes, but every time the Dems are in power again in the House and Senate, they add more and more and more bureacracies and bureacrats all of whom are left-wing.
They create more and more useless government programs nobody can get rid of.
I take umbrage at your tag line. McCain has already proven to be nowhere near as good as Bush. He’ll likely lose to an utterly incompetent Dem, but if McCain somehow wins, in less than a year, Americans will look fondly back at the Bush years as a “golden age.”
The GOP won both the House and the Senate by NATIONALIZING the election and every since they have worked overtime to forget it and to run away from conservative issues.
But getting back in shape will be a . . . . itch.
The problem goes beyond someone making a speech. The problem is that the GOP has abandoned any pretense of having a coherent set of values and it shows. Until the Republican Party takes up the mantle of reason, individualism, and capitalism, it's going to continue to fail.
Things are different today, most notably demographics.
Blacks & Hispanics are going to vote rat no matter what, Look how crappy things are in the inner city, yet no matter how bad things are they still put one rat in after another.
Well, we are going to have even more Hispanics in the coming years, so another Republican Revolution like 1980 & 1994 will be impossible
Maybe if your message was something other than, "We aren't as liberals as the Democrats", you might get a few dollars.
I know! And it matters not that GovernMental EnvironMentalists with their overtaxation and over-regulation are the direct cause even more than the futures speculators who follow the news, or certainly the oil companies who follow their geologist's noses!!!
The thing is, the Dems were THERE just four years ago. We had them on the ropes. If the GOP congress had come out and tightened up all spending, secured the border, crushed the Dems in some key votes, gotten that nimrod DeWine to vote for ANWAR, and so on, the Dems would have been in deep, deep trouble.
Instead, from 2002 on, they held together and refused to throw ANYONE overboard, no matter how corrupt. They voted as an impregnable bloc, and obstructed, obstructed, obstructed.
Or, in historical terms, they were perfect examples of Roman general Fabius. Buy time. Regroup. Reorganize. Don't let the enemy have the knockout blow.
The GOP will have at least one from my state.
What is the least the GOP has had we may set a new record.
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