Rothenberg Warns of GOP "Bloodbath" (updated)

[cal04]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/10/rothenberg_warns_of_gop_bloodb.html

UPDATE, 4 pm: The Cook Political Report is also amping up their predictions of Democratic gains in the House and Senate next month. In the latest updates, Charlie Cook now says Democrats are positioned to win between six and eight Senate seats and 15 to 25 House seats. "At this stage, the most relevant question would seem to be: 'How big will the train wreck be for the Republican Party up and down the ballot in November,'" writes Charlie.

ORIGINAL POST

As grim as things look at the moment for John McCain's chances at the White House, the horizon is even darker for House and Senate Republicans trying desperately to avoid huge losses across the country this fall.

As we noted in a story for the Post over the weekend, Republican strategists closely following the battle for Congress are bracing for major losses -- the result of a severely damaged Republican brand combined with the late-breaking economic crisis that has redounded to their party's considerable detriment. (Make sure to read Peter Baker's excellent piece in the New York Times magazine about retiring Virginia Republican Rep. Tom Davis's frank assessment of the miserable state of the GOP.)

And now comes a column from Stu Rothenberg who, along with former Fix boss Charlie Cook stands atop the congressional handicapping game in Washington, in which Stu declares that the GOP stands on the precipice of an electoral "bloodbath."

http://www.cookpolitical.com/

[MichDem10]

1. I like the sound of that.

[ShortnFiery]

2. To keep up the warmongering mentality - "Take no prisoners!"

:evilgrin:

On edit: FIGURATIVE POLITICAL that is ... but let's hand them their political asses?!?

[ClarkUSA]

3. You reap what you sow...

I like blood gravy, myself.

[City Lights]

4. Run the GOP bums out of town. Every last one of them. nt

[Hugabear]

8. If only we could tar & feather them first

That would be a sight. A bunch of pathetic rethugs running out of DC, covered in feathers.

[Raster]

5. The question for the rethuglican high command will be how much electoral fraud will the

American public tolerate? Enough to keep the rethuglicans in Congress still grasping as some power or will they be banished to the Void? Personally, I'd like to see 95% of the rethuglicans in Congress voted out of office AND THEN PROSECUTED as collaborators and accomplices to the cheney*/bush* regime.

[CitizenPatriot]

6. Pallin is a terrorist so this is great news

or at least she sleeps with one...and a witch hunter and a secessionist.

sorry, I'm suffering from Palinesque-ism, a New Brand of Feminism, which enables me to accuse anyone of anything I'd like, so long as I do so with a smile, a wink, and high heels.

Who wants to dance with me? wink wink.

Palin is a terrorist. GOP are terrorists. smile. wink.

I'm so hot. look at my shoes.

who is the REAL sarah Palin?

wink. wink.
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pssst...duers, if any of you find the anecdote, let me know please.

[Patiod]

7. I'm a Quaker and that's the kind of bloodbath I can get behind

Just sorry that it took a financial bloodbath for people to come to their senses

[gatorboy]

9. Time to turn the lights out on the Repugs for a looooong time.