Comments on: Are Republicans Gloomy For Good Reason?

Weekly Standard: Prospects For Republicans In The 2008 Election Look Grim

[joyous88]

The repulicons have spent the last 12 years using

their greed driven policies to ruin our country,

and particulary the last eight, they stole this

election for bush, and they have backed every criminal

thing that bush has done, now they are backing McBush

they are un american , the republicon party has ruined our country and they should be destroyed

[stn_sage]

razzl has a good point when he says Reps who have become recent Dems are probably going to vote Dem and that will hurt McCain. But, if Obama is nominated, Clinton''s minions may vote for McCain. And, what votes are drawn away by Barr, Paul, Nader, or others?

The point is---it''s TOO SOON to assert any level of reasonable certitude on the outcome! Only a fool---or a political pundit---is doing so at this time!

[Razzl]

Barnes makes no attempt to unravel the mystery of why Republicans in Congress have spent the last 2 years protecting Bush rather than running against him--do they really like his policies? Is there anything there to protect that Republicans consider core values? Are they blind to the trend that their 2006 defeat revealed? Even Strong Republicans like Nixon and Reagan were content to watch their party members in Congress run against them when it was clearly expedient; that was how the game was played.

I have trouble believing people who went to the trouble of changing their voter registration so recently for the primaries would not consider themselves vested in the Democratic Party for this November, so I think McCain''s wrapping up his nomination early may have sealed his fate. All those new Democrats are not going to be voting for him and they''re not staying home...

[stn_sage]

Honey bunches, you need to change your meds because the fantasy you''''re living in can''''t be very healthy! LOL
Posted by IRLiberal at 03:42 PM : May 12, 2008
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My response: The smug ''we got it wrapped up'' attitude you demonstrate is EXACTLY what has Dem party officials worried.

Reagan wasn''t expected to beat Carter---and did it via ''guns for hostages''. And Bush, Jr. didn''t win on the total amount of votes cast for him! He won by a Rep Sec of State who froze out the votes and a Supreme Court who ruled in his favor! It''s likely he won the 2nd time by voter machine fraud!

I''m not a RepubliCON, but unlike you, I respect their willingness to do WHATEVER it takes to hold onto power! I hope the history lesson jarred your memory!
You may be a liberal, but you''re also a bit of a fool! Wise up!

[jrysk]

Evelyn Pringle has just published her long-awaited bombshell article on Obama''s criminal complicity in the Rezko/Auchi/General Mediterranean criminal enterprise.

Obama is going to jail for a VERY long time. It''s all here: names, dates, places, amounts, schemes.

Obama supporters: read it and weep. Your guy is just a little punk hood.

Curtain Time For Barack Obama - Part I

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_080512_curtain_time_for_bar.htm

[ianlou]

Pisss off a majority of the voting public and you will lose the election; This has always been true.
The only strategy the Republicans have successfully used so far to overshadow the systematic screwwing of the middle class is to blur it with fear mongering and moral sanctification. Not this time.

[irliberal]

Right now, Hillary Clinton is making it easier for the Reps to hang onto the White House! Posted by stn_sage at 03:39 PM

No, she''s not. Win or lose, she''s doing just fine.

And poor leadership in Congress by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, may limit seat pickups! Posted by stn_sage at 03:39 PM

No, they''re not. They''re doing just fine.

NO, this game is still in the ''''first inning''''! There''''s a LONG way to go! It would be a big mistake for the Dems to be ''''counting their eggs'''' before they''''re hatched! Posted by stn_sage at 03:39 PM

Honey bunches, you need to change your meds because the fantasy you''re living in can''t be very healthy! LOL

[stn_sage]

There''s a lot of time between now and November! ANYTHING is possible!

Right now, Hillary Clinton is making it easier for the Reps to hang onto the White House!

And poor leadership in Congress by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, may limit seat pickups!

NO, this game is still in the ''first inning''! There''s a LONG way to go! It would be a big mistake for the Dems to be ''counting their eggs'' before they''re hatched!

[irliberal]

If Rush "Oxycontin" Limbaugh was on MY side I would be VERY depressed.

[lawyertom1]

Republicans have every reason to be worried. Even their much vaunted guano machine will not fool enough of the people this time around. Senate easily could have 60+ Democrats, and the House will have a strong Democratic majority. If McCain falls on his face, as he should, it will be an interesting next four years.