I can't argue with that! No one can because it is the TRUTH!
"Fearing Election Day losses, some in GOP look to rebuild" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | October 25, 2008
WASHINGTON - Even as Republican nominee John McCain seeks to separate himself from an unpopular President Bush, some Republicans are rejecting McCain as well as Bush. And many party leaders are preparing to remake the damaged party after what they unhappily anticipate will be a bad day for the GOP on Nov. 4.
Several high-profile Republicans have endorsed Barack Obama in recent days, saying the Illinois senator represents the best chance for change in Washington and implicitly damning Bush and McCain for the recent and looming electoral failures of the party. Former Massachusetts governor William Weld became the latest Republican figure to endorse Obama yesterday.
Some Republican voters have defected from McCain: Recent polling shows that Obama is gaining ground among voter constituencies that favored Bush in 2004. Conservative Republicans, for their part, say the party has lost sight of its mission under Bush and needs to get back to its ideological roots of small government and fiscal discipline.
While congressional Republicans will not publicly concede that the presidential race is lost for the GOP, they speak frankly about the real possibility of an Obama presidency. They are discussing ways to reenergize the Republican party at a time when Democrats will probably be in charge of the White House and hold larger majorities in the House and Senate.
Have the Republicans thrown in the towel, knowing that stealing this election would STINK to HIGH HEAVEN -- and that the American people are in no mood, NO MOOD, to be LIED TO AGAIN?
"It's time for a fresh start. We need new faces and new people to communicate what our party stands for," said Representative Zach Wamp, Republican of Tennessee. After the elections, Republicans need to develop a simple, five-point plan that gets back to the principles espoused by GOP icon Ronald Reagan, he said - smaller government, no deficit spending, and a strong national defense that does not entail making the United States the "world's policeman."
Well, you guys HAD THAT with RON PAUL!!!! I guess you will wait for the "next election," hanh? So WHY YOU SWITCH YOUR VOTE, Wamp?!!
Capitol Hill Republicans say they lost their way and are now being punished for it. "I don't think it's any surprise that we're being turned out. I don't think it was a surprise in 2006. We haven't done anything in the last year to show that we've learned anything," said Representative Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican.
Bush "destroyed us," said Ed Rollins, who served as an aide to Reagan. "He was supposed to be a conservative, and he wasn't. We're spending money we don't have." Wamp and other House Republicans said they expected a change in GOP congressional leadership after the elections, especially if Republicans lose many seats.
McCain, meanwhile, has not won much favor in his party, either with his policy agenda or his political tactics. Congressional conservatives are unhappy with McCain's support for immigration reform - although McCain backed off the issue after he began his run for president - and are still angry with McCain for his authorship of a campaign finance reform package that limited big-money donations.
How does a guy like that win the party's nomination anyway?
McCain has never been popular among his Capitol Hill colleagues - a fact he repeats as a testament to his "maverick" nature - and many Washington Republicans, while still working to help McCain score an upset, are already operating under the assumption that Obama will be the next president. Several have begun publicly chastising McCain for the tenor and tactics of his flailing campaign.
You are kidding, right? That's not the way the MSM has made it sound!
McCain was hit with several Republican defections this week, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan; former Reagan administration solicitor general Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School and prominent conservative thinker; and former Minnesota governor Arne Carlson.
Notice how they never ask McClellan about the book?
Many Republican legislators blame the Bush administration and previous congressional leaders for leaning on them to cast votes that run counter to GOP principles. Under Bush, the GOP-led Congress created an entirely new federal agency - the Department of Homeland Security - and approved a historic expansion of Medicare, adding prescription drug coverage to the signature program of the 1960s Great Society.
They complain that under Bush's lead, the then-Republican-majority Congress also ushered in unprecedented federal involvement in elementary and secondary education with the No Child Left Behind law, and OK'd budgets and appropriations bills that left the country with expanding deficits and a record national debt. Even under Democratic control of Congress, Republicans provided critical votes last month to approve a $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street, a plan strongly urged by Bush.
The president's plea prompted conservative GOP Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas to grouse that there should have been a Republican response to Bush's call for a bailout of an ailing private-sector industry.
There CERTAINLY WAS a PUBLIC RESPONSE, and you see what happened, 'eh?
Why should voters send more Republicans to Washington, the conservatives in the party say, if they are only going to behave like wannabe Democrats? --more--"
You know the old saying, right?
When given the choice between a Republican and Republican, choose the real Republican every time. Now flip that around, and there you are! When given the choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, vote for the real Democrat -- UNLESS they are an INCUMBENT or there is a THIRD PARTY AVAILABLE!!!!
