Fox News Wonk Can't Get Over 'Absolute Disaster' For Republicans In Election

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Fox News Wonk Can't Get Over 'Absolute Disaster' For Republicans In Election
Conservative columnist Marc Thiessen called the midterm results a "searing indictment" of the GOP.
Ron Dicker
Nov 9, 2022, 08:45 AM EST
Updated 8 minutes ago


Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen on Tuesday gave an analysis of Republicans’ performance in the election that sounded more like a death knell. (Watch the video below.)

Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and now a Washington Post columnist, decried the absence of the predicted “red wave” and called the night an “absolute disaster” for the GOP.

Fox News political anchor Bret Baier asked Thiessen to process Democrat John Fetterman’s triumph over Republican Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race, but Thiessen went further afield. Baier wondered how inflation, crime and President Joe Biden’s low popularity could have failed to deliver GOP dominance.

Thiessen did not hold back.

“That is a searing indictment of the Republican Party,” he said. “That is a searing indictment of the message that we have been sending to the voters. They’ve looked at all of that, and looked at the Republican alternative, and said no thanks. The Republican Party needs to do a really deep introspection look in the mirror right now because this is an absolute disaster for the Republican Party and we need to turn back.”

Thiessen assailed “radical candidates” who “put the Republican Party in a terrible position.”

[durablend]

1. "Deep introspection" equals "double down"

Because they can't not do that.

[kysrsoze]

16. Yeah, the second I read that, I thought, "They'll do the exact opposite."

Not conSERvative enough!!11!1!

[tanyev]

2. LOL, Republicans don't do deep introspection. They just double down.

[Wednesdays]

3. "The Republican Party needs to do a really deep introspection..."

You kidding me? The GQP will scream "voter fraud!" from now until 2024!

[tanyev]

4. Jinx!

[SheltieLover]

11. Lie, cheat, steal, project, rinse, repeat. All they've got.

[lark]

5. They will just double down on the hatred, it's all they have.

Doing something good for the people is totally outside their scope and not even to be considered.

[FakeNoose]

6. Awww ... they're finally realizing it was all BS from the start

[Zambero]

7. The GOP is incapable of introspection

Doubling down is the order of the day, and until Trumpism is dead and buried they will continue to alienate a lot of voters who might otherwise vote Republican.

[GopherGal]

19. This is a party that didn't even assemble a party platform in 2020

"Just whatever TFG and Big Daddy Vladdy want us to do" doesn't count.

No deep thinkers here.

[Walleye]

8. Then they will ignore it like they did their post-mortem of 10 years ago

[halfulglas]

14. They didn't just ignore it, they repudiated it.

They didn't want any immigrant friendly legislation.

[Sky Jewels]

18. That's 'cuz sending a message of "We Hate Brown People" is

far simpler and more satisfying for the GQP.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. When you hotbox your own farts long enough you'll start to lose objectivity.

[Freethinker65]

10. Fringe, conspiracy nut, nominees will not win in all States. Some States still value women's rights.

The GOP let itself become the party of non-critical thinking patriarchal misogynistic conspiracy nuts because it relied on their votes to stay in power decades ago.

[GopherGal]

17. You forgot racist. (n/t)

[SheltieLover]

12. Wtf did they expect, running a guy with TBI & a crackpot "doctor?"

[yellowcanine]

13. Snort. Yesterday Thiessen was on the Repuke "red wave" bandwagon.

He had Biden dead and buried bc of the coming red wave.

[jcgoldie]

15. You have the outparty wind at your back in a midterm with 8% inflation

And you shit all over your own wave year by embracing insurrection and election denial for 2 years and then ramming through an extraordinarily unpopular abortion ruling in your pop dick hyperpartisan supreme court. I'd say they crafted their own disaster.

[Grins]

20. Those "radical candidates" WON their primaries.

Herschel got almost 68% of the GOP vote in the GOP primary. Proof it wasn’t because of “radical candidates.” The stew-pud is now mainstream GOP.