I think the name “Republican” is a now a fatally tarnished brand name.
The GOP has really lost its way. We conservatives saved it in 1980-1989 and George H.W. Bush squandered it and we got Clinton for 4 years.
We saved the Party in 1994, and then the GOP ran Dole and we got Clinton for four more years—and these were the most damaging years. The GOP House impeached Clinton in 1998 but the GOP Senate refused in 1999 to follow their Constitutional duty to put on a real trial.
Then we saved the 2000 and 2004 elections for George Bush the Younger. So the GOP rewarded us by giving us McCain as the candidate, and now we have a Marxist in the White House come 1/20/09.
My position is that we need to leave “Republican” behind-totally. They are losers and they liked their perks and corruption more than the country itself. The 2006 elections were a timely warning to the GOP and so was the vote fraud in 2000 and 2004.
History shows what they did with the warnings.
So why waste time with them any longer.
I notice you give G.W. Bush a pass you don't afford to his father or Dole. W. has been a disaster for Republicans. And not because of his policy failures, but rather his complete and utter inability to connect and communicate with the American people in any way. He destroyed our brand by seeming not to give a sh*t, even though he obviously does.