If the GOP is heading over a "political cliff"....?

[kentuck]

are they taking the rest of the country with them. If Rep. Conyers is correct, and he may well be, what does that portend for the rest of us?

And should not the Democrats as a Party be out in front with this message? If it is this serious, shouldn't this be on the lips of every Democrat in America? The GOP is taking us over a cliff. Would they blame the Democrats for planting and exciting fear in the people?

Don't we have the duty to tell the truth about this? We are going over the cliff and we should be yelling it from the rooftops.

[Inland]

1. It's true: GOP political problems come with national disasters.

Remember teh good old days when a political scandal was a matter that only concerned the president and his wife?

Not with the GOP. They get a splinter because they've been beating the US over the head with a two by four. Eight years of fuckups, and an eternity of paying the price (assuming you aren't already dead) and they'll be hurt an election cycle or two. Disgusting.

[hiley]

2. yes , yes, yes,

Who cares what "they " blame the dems for "they" blame us for everything already so I have been yelling from the rooftops for quite awhile.

Of course, we have the duty

and I believe part of the duty is to make Americans WAKE UP to PNAC !







http://www.innworldreport.net/index.htm

http://www.seo-blog.org/5755_omfg_rageagainstthegop_machine

[MissMarple]

3. Ed Rollins, Republican strategist, seems to heartily agree.

Well, probably not heartily, but most certainly "strongly".

This is from today's Denver Post. Rollins also calls Kennedy, Biden, and H. Clinton "eloquent but tired voices".

I think these guys have gone too far to make their way back. They know this and George&Co will institute a scorched earth policy to get what they want.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E28203%257E2808623,00.html


"Nor, says Rollins, should anyone underestimate the strategic heights that Republicans hold. His party will run the White House until 2009 and, due to redistricting and other tactical advantages, is favored to retain control of both houses of Congress in 2006.

"We're just about at the point where we have an election-proof Congress," he says.

What troubles Rollins are things less tangible: a fear that the party has gotten off track, lost its philosophical rudder and is running short on leadership and talent. The Republican tide may be cresting.
...

"Without a change of course, "I think it is going to make people desperate for leaders," Rollins says. From politics to business to baseball, "America has lost its leaders; America has lost its heroes. There is a great yearning for somebody to step into that void."
....

"I see a road map where Democrats can come back into the game," says Rollins, "stopping Bush and a conservative agenda the public does not agree with."

[LiberalFighter]

5. How could the Republican Party run short on leadership and talent?

It is the problem... they have the leadership and talent... although bad leadership and bad talent.

The other problem is that the people don't recognize the difference between good and bad.

[kentuck]

4. This is from a sigline of another DUer....very appropriate...

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell