Comments on: Signs Point To Rough '08 For GOP

Facts On The Ground Show Little Cause For Republican Optimism

[l8c6]

eskieville1,

Points well taken. Some would say the boomers taught their unsupervised brats well.

[briannorwood]

Like a majority of Americans, I have seen the enemy...and it's GOP!

[eskieville1]

l8c6, when Reagan was elected most Boomers were still quite young! The political cycle was changing to conservative--see my original post. The current republicans are farther to the right of even Reagan!! The Christian right and Nixon's original election stratege of 1968 of Bringing the conservative South to the Republican party is also a factor in this political shift. It is not a total Boomer screw-up! If you think the Boomers were the me generation I have found that the following generations of young people were no different-trust me I teach high school AP History classes! Got to go --Regards, eskieville1

[l8c6]

sanevoice

What's ms. Mona to do? How much can anyone of these distort. They gotta think about their futures too.

Mona doesn't get a promo from me. I can read her values.

[bwessels]

When the National Review calls it "failed leadership," wow, you know they're in trouble.

How alarming is it that this mouthpiece phrases it, "Democrats are now (ALAS) the party of the rich?" Republican Fascists scare me. But Ms. Charen inadvertently provides hope.

People say the media never report good news. This is evidence that's not true.

[l8c6]

marcodele,

The dems went moderate which was really republican and the extreme fascist neo con right trampled them. I thought Clinton was so Republican I couldn't figure out what they hated about him. Multinational corporate empires are forming and this pro-business, business can do no wrong, free market is from God deceipt is going to destroy democracies on a global scale.

[ioweign]

l8c6, I am a Boomer! I am as worried about the future as anybody younger than I am!! I hate to tell you this but most Boomers were not hippie pot smokers. Most Boomers supported the Civil Rights movement. Boomers lived through the Vietnam era--not fun. We endured the most tumultuous decade of the 20th century. Are we the most self -endulgent generation? Probably, but I can sure find fault with the generations behind me if I choose to do so. So --please lighten up on the Boomers.
Posted by eskieville1 at 02:57 PM : Jul 13, 2007

So true, eskieville1, Ben-Gay and Preparation-H, it did'nt get any better! Just don't get them mixed up!

[l8c6]

Vote DNC and see how hillary..bow down to the wishes of allah
Posted by xzavierbrown

The american people will defend a country governed in a manner that represents them. The divisiveness and fear mongering of your right wing fascism will not win wars against true enemies.

Where did all the millions and billions of our dollars go on the fumbled privatized reconstruction projects of Iraq? How is it the infrastructure of this country has been allowed to deteriorate over the past 25 years? Who got richer? Where did the money go? Follow the money, it tells the story.

We must choose our battles wisely and borrow our funds wisely as well. The right wing neo con deceit has done neither.

Hitler bankrupted Germany and so did King Ludwig before him.

[marcodele]

I would welcome centrist republicans and centrist democrats. Unfortunately this country has become so polarized under "the great uniter" that the two extremes grow further apart. I suppose you can blame the 'liberal media' which is apparently anyone except Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Anne Coulter, or you can blame those radical right wing neocon nutjobs themselves for the current screaming match in network news.

Either way, this country needs to move toward the middle and it doesn't appear to be doing so.

[getcentered]

Please, someone tell where the CENTRIST Republicans are?

Many Americans today have been enlightened by the two wars we find ourselves involved. One war, the "war on terrorism", finds its main battleground in Afghanistan, and it is a war that costs lives and money but the majority of Americans support. Liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, most don't have a problem with us kicking down the doors of members of the Taliban.

When talking about the war in Iraq the parties have much difference. Democrats say that the public and congress was mislead to justify the war in Iraq and that the Bush Administration no longer deserves autonomy in situations where US service men and women's lives are on the line. Based on the results of the last Congressional elections, most Americans see a problem with GOP/Republicans; at least in the way they make decisions about the use of our military.

So why is it that in the GOP/Republican party there are no dissenters, no independent thinkers, no moderates? Where are the real conservatives who would laugh at how conservatively the current Republican party has been spending taxes, and creating big government? Has the Republican Party lost its identity? Can the ideology of the GOP be so easily summed up in Karl Rove talking points like %u201Csupport this and support that%u201D, and angry rhetoric like %u201Cliberals are traitors%u201D?

Hello centrist Republicans! Anybody out there?

[xzavierbrown]

I think in the long run..the DNC winning would be ag great eye opener for this country.

It would give the liberals the opportunity to really taste the meaning of the word "intolerance in the hands of radical islam". It would give these liberals a front row seat lesson on living in true fear of being blown because some cleric in middle east declare that liberalism is a perversion NOT ALLOWED by allah.

Vote DNC and see how hillary..bow down to the wishes of allah

[l8c6]

eskieville1, I don't doubt from an individual basis what you say is true. I do have to ask how the right wing neo con fascist movement starting with the deceitful rhetoric of Ronald Reagan that smelled and tasted so good at the time to some was so gobbled up without considering the inorganic underlying message.

Reagan made so many statements that blatantly displayed disregard for future peoples. His selfish narcissistic arrogance that was so admired. "You've seen one tree you've seen them all" mentality. Disregard for the posterity of this nation falls on the boomers who are in public office feeding like hoes at the troughs of the boomer pimp lobbyists who work for the multinational illusive boomer corporate autocrats.

So many boomers lost their way by only thinking of their short term selfish desires. Some have lost the game and others have grown terribly fat climbing to the top of the roof on a infrastructure they now wish to deny to those who follow because they wanted to keep it all to themselves. Talk of posterity never has been in the heart of most boomers. It was a "me" generation 30 plus years ago and it remained as such.

[l8c6]

HOPE for America!
ronpaul2008.com
Posted by GunOwnerDa

Ron Paul, I went to his website and it's alot of the same Reagan message that caused this mess in the first place. His message is the seductive seeds that led to the big fruit we're harvesting now and will be for decades to come.

Little government means less representation for the individual and no oversight for organized corporate crime and special interest privately funded groups headed by mini-dictators like the preacher man based christian fundamentalist lobby among others.

He's against net neutrality which would limit big corporations from privatizing and controlling access to the internet for individuals legally stealing it from the commons, you and me, the individual tax payer who funded its development yet calls it government intrusion if limits are set on capitalistic pornographers who would with their wealth completely dominate the web if they could get by with it. Of course they'd be duking it out with the other special interest Ron Paul would give the web to.

Ron Paul would love to see private corporations control the net because they'd pay him well for being their little b*itch. Don't be deceived. I smell a rat in Ron Paul and see a weasel as well.

Those against net neutrality want to take a powerful communication tool of the masses out of the hands of the masses who worked and payed taxes to fund in its development.

The internet can be the worst enemy of those wishing to rule autocratically.

[eskieville1]

l8c6, I am a Boomer! I am as worried about the future as anybody younger than I am!! I hate to tell you this but most Boomers were not hippie pot smokers. Most Boomers supported the Civil Rights movement. Boomers lived through the Vietnam era--not fun. We endured the most tumultuous decade of the 20th century. Are we the most self -endulgent generation? Probably, but I can sure find fault with the generations behind me if I choose to do so. So --please lighten up on the Boomers.

[glb1969]

If we are lucky, this will be the last incarnation of the republican party. No more can they rape and plunder our country. Finally, we will be in a liberal and progresive country and can start to undo the damage of the past 6 years. I won't miss the republofascists one bit.

[getcentered]

l8c6:

Nice post!

I was wondering where this writer was coming from. Now I get it.

She represents the fearful and fatalistic side of America.

[getcentered]

GunOwnerDan:

I really like what Ron Paul has to say.
He seems to be the only Republibican out there that remembers what a Republican is supposed to be.

Which is also why he won't get the GOP nomination.

[l8c6]

Mona Charen....is this the Mona one can read more perspectives of on the www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen.html ?

[gunownerdan]

HOPE for America!
ronpaul2008.com

[brianbwb-2009]

"The deficit is way down."

More bull, maybe you should start a ranch, or live in Pamploma.

Maybe in your country, but the US has the biggest deficit in history, from near zero during Clinton's run. Granted, Clinton fudged the numbers by including social security funds that were supposed to be untouchable, but even factoring in the difference, Bush is bankrupting the country, giving billions to his friends while cutting taxes for the rich, and social assistance programs for the poor.