82Marine89
05-17-2008, 09:06 PM
There isn't a dimes worth of difference between the Republican and Democrat Parties. Actually there is. The dems let you know up front you're gonna get screwed. The pubbies, even when in control, played the slave in a BDSM relationship. They deserve what they get.
The Grand Old Party looks, and acts, like the Going Out Party.
After losing three congressional special elections in as many months, in what were assumed to be “Republican” districts, some Republicans are finally waking up to the fact that they have squandered the Reagan legacy and consequently, are about to be relegated to the minority status wasteland they occupied for five decades after WWII.
Republicans lost House Speaker Denny Hastert’s Illinois seat, Rep. Richard Baker’s Louisiana seat, and this week Roger Wicker’s seat in a very conservative Mississippi district. Notably, President George W. Bush carried all three of these districts in 2004.
Sounding the alert, the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Tom Cole declared, “There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates.”
This would be the same Tom Cole who professed in January, “My biggest problem is not money or candidates. It’s Republican morale. There’s no reason to be this down. The worst is behind us.” Knock, knock... is anyone home?
The NRCC spent $3 million (42 percent of available cash reserves) to defend these three House seats, for naught. This fall, the GOP will have between 40 and 70 seats in play, and may well lose 30 of them.
Rep. Tom Davis, who previously chaired the NRCC, wrote in a memo to his Caucus: “The political atmosphere facing House Republicans this November is the worst since Watergate and is far more toxic than the fall of 2006, when we lost 30 seats (and our majority) and came within a couple of percentage points of losing another 15 seats.”
In 2006, Republicans were left with a 30-seat deficit in the House, which now stands at 37 seats. By January 2009, the Democrats’ 236 seats may swell to more than 260 of the 111th Congress’s 435 seats.
Things don’t look much better in the Senate. Currently there are 49 Republicans and 49 Democrats, with two Independents who caucus with the Demos. Analysts expect that the Left may add as many as five more seats to their caucus in November.
Gallup’s reliable 2007 survey of political affiliations indicated that while Republican ranks were declining, more voters were identifying themselves as Democrats and Independents.
And of note, while all eyes were on Hillary Clinton’s primary win in West Virginia this week (the last Democrat to win the presidency without carrying WVA was Woodrow Wilson in 1916), need we remind you that in the Mountain State’s earlier and larger split primary vote, John McCain received only one (that’s 1) percent of the Republican vote. Huckabee collected 52 percent and Romney 46 percent.
Further, in last week’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Sen. McCain, the only Republican still in the race, did not sweep the Republican ballot. He lost 18 and 20 percent, of the Republican vote respectively, on those ballots.
Finally smelling the coffee, RNC Chairman Robert Duncan proclaimed, “This was a real wakeup call for us. We can’t let the Democrats take our issues. We can’t let them pretend to be conservatives.” First, what issues? And second, half the Republicans in Washington pretend to be conservatives, why shouldn’t Demos give that ruse a spin?
Given the overall prospects for Republicans this fall, it is no wonder that the House has adopted as its new national slogan, “The Change You Deserve.” No wonder, because that is a registered national advertising slogan for an antidepressant. That drug’s description notes it is FDA approved for the treatment of “depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults.” Perhaps a more apropos Republican slogan would be, “The Change We Deserve.”
Of course, Republicans are not the only members of Congress experiencing public contempt. The approval ratings of the Democrat-led House and Senate under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have fallen precipitously and are competing for all-time lows. Of course, George Bush’s approval ratings are also in the basement, but he will not be on the ballot this fall, at least, not in name.
So, is it too late for Republicans to re-brand themselves? Maybe not, but the more important question would be, will anyone buy it if they do?
One of House Minority Leader John Boehner’s talking points for a Republican leadership meeting this week begs the question, “Are the results in [Mississippi] another indication that 2008 is setting up to be a disastrous year for House Republicans?”
That memo continues, “Our leadership team and our members just had one of the most candid and open meetings we’ve ever had. And we made this commitment: We’re getting up off the mat to fight, and we’re going to prove to the American people that we are the agents of change they expect their Washington leaders to be. Democrats are not winning, we are losing. Failure to fundamentally change the GOP brand can lock us into a very long period of minority status.”
Keen sense of the obvious, and not a minute too soon...
Conservative Rep. John Shadegg agrees: “Since the 2006 elections, Republicans have done absolutely nothing to redefine themselves. We can’t even get behind an earmark moratorium bill.”
What is the solution? Well, the same solution advocated by The Patriot Post since our inception.
Republicans must adopt, and actually adhere to, the timeless conservative principles advocated by Ronald Reagan. These principles are still in the Republican Platform, but most Republicans pay them little heed. Republicans need a unified message advocating individual liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values.
Click for full text... (http://archive.patriotpost.us/pub/08-20_Digest/index.php#continued)
The Grand Old Party looks, and acts, like the Going Out Party.
After losing three congressional special elections in as many months, in what were assumed to be “Republican” districts, some Republicans are finally waking up to the fact that they have squandered the Reagan legacy and consequently, are about to be relegated to the minority status wasteland they occupied for five decades after WWII.
Republicans lost House Speaker Denny Hastert’s Illinois seat, Rep. Richard Baker’s Louisiana seat, and this week Roger Wicker’s seat in a very conservative Mississippi district. Notably, President George W. Bush carried all three of these districts in 2004.
Sounding the alert, the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Tom Cole declared, “There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates.”
This would be the same Tom Cole who professed in January, “My biggest problem is not money or candidates. It’s Republican morale. There’s no reason to be this down. The worst is behind us.” Knock, knock... is anyone home?
The NRCC spent $3 million (42 percent of available cash reserves) to defend these three House seats, for naught. This fall, the GOP will have between 40 and 70 seats in play, and may well lose 30 of them.
Rep. Tom Davis, who previously chaired the NRCC, wrote in a memo to his Caucus: “The political atmosphere facing House Republicans this November is the worst since Watergate and is far more toxic than the fall of 2006, when we lost 30 seats (and our majority) and came within a couple of percentage points of losing another 15 seats.”
In 2006, Republicans were left with a 30-seat deficit in the House, which now stands at 37 seats. By January 2009, the Democrats’ 236 seats may swell to more than 260 of the 111th Congress’s 435 seats.
Things don’t look much better in the Senate. Currently there are 49 Republicans and 49 Democrats, with two Independents who caucus with the Demos. Analysts expect that the Left may add as many as five more seats to their caucus in November.
Gallup’s reliable 2007 survey of political affiliations indicated that while Republican ranks were declining, more voters were identifying themselves as Democrats and Independents.
And of note, while all eyes were on Hillary Clinton’s primary win in West Virginia this week (the last Democrat to win the presidency without carrying WVA was Woodrow Wilson in 1916), need we remind you that in the Mountain State’s earlier and larger split primary vote, John McCain received only one (that’s 1) percent of the Republican vote. Huckabee collected 52 percent and Romney 46 percent.
Further, in last week’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Sen. McCain, the only Republican still in the race, did not sweep the Republican ballot. He lost 18 and 20 percent, of the Republican vote respectively, on those ballots.
Finally smelling the coffee, RNC Chairman Robert Duncan proclaimed, “This was a real wakeup call for us. We can’t let the Democrats take our issues. We can’t let them pretend to be conservatives.” First, what issues? And second, half the Republicans in Washington pretend to be conservatives, why shouldn’t Demos give that ruse a spin?
Given the overall prospects for Republicans this fall, it is no wonder that the House has adopted as its new national slogan, “The Change You Deserve.” No wonder, because that is a registered national advertising slogan for an antidepressant. That drug’s description notes it is FDA approved for the treatment of “depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults.” Perhaps a more apropos Republican slogan would be, “The Change We Deserve.”
Of course, Republicans are not the only members of Congress experiencing public contempt. The approval ratings of the Democrat-led House and Senate under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have fallen precipitously and are competing for all-time lows. Of course, George Bush’s approval ratings are also in the basement, but he will not be on the ballot this fall, at least, not in name.
So, is it too late for Republicans to re-brand themselves? Maybe not, but the more important question would be, will anyone buy it if they do?
One of House Minority Leader John Boehner’s talking points for a Republican leadership meeting this week begs the question, “Are the results in [Mississippi] another indication that 2008 is setting up to be a disastrous year for House Republicans?”
That memo continues, “Our leadership team and our members just had one of the most candid and open meetings we’ve ever had. And we made this commitment: We’re getting up off the mat to fight, and we’re going to prove to the American people that we are the agents of change they expect their Washington leaders to be. Democrats are not winning, we are losing. Failure to fundamentally change the GOP brand can lock us into a very long period of minority status.”
Keen sense of the obvious, and not a minute too soon...
Conservative Rep. John Shadegg agrees: “Since the 2006 elections, Republicans have done absolutely nothing to redefine themselves. We can’t even get behind an earmark moratorium bill.”
What is the solution? Well, the same solution advocated by The Patriot Post since our inception.
Republicans must adopt, and actually adhere to, the timeless conservative principles advocated by Ronald Reagan. These principles are still in the Republican Platform, but most Republicans pay them little heed. Republicans need a unified message advocating individual liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values.
Click for full text... (http://archive.patriotpost.us/pub/08-20_Digest/index.php#continued)