Comments on: Is The Party Over For Republicans?

The Nation: In The Past Two Years, The GOP's Dream Of A Permanent Majority Has Become A Nightmare

[irliberal]

Posted by Glock4me at 07:09 PM :

It is posts like these that make me think that the entire republican party is arrested at the 6th grade maturity level.

[glock4me]

Keep it up libs and us conservatives will give you all BRAIN CANCER!!! Bwu-ha-ha!!

[babooph]

The religous groups were easy targets for slick low grade politicos-they already believe an invisible man in the sky controls them-Reps of high integrity should have stopped this abuse long ago & all would be well today for them !!

[bluestardad]

STICK A FORK IN THE REPIGS THEY ARE DONE!

START IRAQ WAR CRIMES TRIALS NOW!

LOOK AT THE REAL REASON AMERICA KEEPS FUNDING AND FIGHTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!

[Razzl]

The fundamental impulse of conservatism is authoritarian, or paternalistic, if you like; Government is the natural tool for expressing those impulses, so it''s interesting that the conservatives'' bitter and long-lasting defeat by Roosevelt and the New Deal led them to conclude that, since they couldn''t convince the public to hand them control of government, government must be a creature of liberalism and therefore the enemy. They could not have been more wrong, as Bushes'' success in harnessing government to authoritarianism shows, but he simply didn''t know what to do with it once he had it. This fundamental error about government is what cost the conservatives their era, and we should all be thankful for it...

[godseyesore-2009]

Let''s all hope it''s over. Those idiotic, evil, immoral, sanctimonious, nazi, doltheads have done more harm to US than any terrorism. They deserve to rot in history''s extreme condemnation. If you voted for them, you have to bear some of the embarrassing responsibility henceforth.

[joyous88]

the republicons are the new fascists, the new nazis,

hitler was a good christian just like bush and mcsame,

all the republicons care abouit is making money they

are anti-american, they should be illegal, not that

they care about the law or the constitution.

[wooleywews]

The Repugs are gone because they work for SPECIAL INTERESTS instead of the AMERICAN PEOPLE!

I am PROUDLY voting for Obama!

How about the principals of smaller government? Less intrusion. Big Government Pries into individuals lives of others. You say The Repug worked for special Interest. Are you sure that Obama does not work for different Special interest- those that would benefit from larger government. Example, currently for every one dollar that is collected for welfare programs only 28 cents is received by the individual. How does Obama expect to hold or reduce cost on national health care if this is the best return the government can provide? This is why Obama is starting to develop a disconnect from some voters because he speaks about hope and change but there are not specific details on how this Change will be bought about. This is a serious question and it is not about attacking Obama.

[dmgenet]

RE: the comments "Posted by aldon61 at 04:52 PM : May 22, 2008"

A big fat DITTO.... Thanks

[dmgenet]

The "party" was over as soon Repubs started getting indicted and Bush''s so-called foreign policy continued to fall apart. It''s not supposed to be a party but obviously a lot of corporations and some foreign countries thinks so. Too bad.

[aldon61]

Like a previous poster, I was a long time republican , having cast my first presidential vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964. For the first time ever, I voted for a democrat, Al Gore in 2000, due in part to the way George W. managed the state of Texas. Like he did when he became president, he inherited a large surplus when he became our Governor. Guess what? It was gone in 1 year flat! I believe it took him a little longer to squander the national surplus. The man is run by cronies, and only is interested in one thing....the accumulation of wealth for he and his insiders. Now the brush has expanded our government, driven our national debt to epic levels, invaded a nation, allowed torturing of prisoners, lied to the american people over 900 times, and has tried to rape our environment in pursuit of oil (more money). Our infrastructure has been ignored, our relationships with our allies is at an all time low, and to top it all off, the republicans in congress have been enablers to this mad man! Are the republicans in trouble come November? Yeah, I think so!

[wogerwabbit]

Posted by jsl45 at 04:20 PM

amen

[terrapin78]

The Repugs are gone because they work for SPECIAL INTERESTS instead of the AMERICAN PEOPLE!

I am PROUDLY voting for Obama!

[jsl45]

I have always considered myself a conservative until Shrub the Dumbnificent and Darth Cheney came along....this time around the republicans could run Jesus Christ for President and I wouldn''t vote for him......republicans no longer have conservatives principals; they spend money like drunk sailors, have been responsible for increasing the size of the government, have a disasterous nation building foreign policy, have ignored the constitution, ignored the Geneva Convention, and been responsible for the torture, holding enemy combtants without good reason or evidence...the list is just too long...I don''t know when I''ll be able to ever vote for a repulblican again.....what a MESS they have created.

[wooleywews]

The reason is the Republican Party left the true principals of the United States. 1) Balance budgets 2) Financial responsibility 3) Less government 4) personal responsibility by the people instead relying on the government%u2014Nanny state.
The principals are correct---- The current Republican Leadership is weak.---- Why do you think a Moderate John McCain was picked by the Republican voters? Because the Conservatives failed us. The principals are correct%u2014the people are wrong!

[noloyalisti]

Yes the GOP and their conservative backers raping the middle class and American consumers. Lying their way into invasions and occupations for oil, depraved activities while campaigning against them. Spying and torturing and locking up dissenters without charges. Gutting the constitution so they can be lawless and greedy and We the People have no recourse for retribution. Yes,it''s been quite a party for them.

[trillion1]

The republicans are in trouble because they put big business above the needs of Americans.

[quatermass2]

What this article doesn''t state clearly and up front is that the Republicans, and Bush Jr. in particular, were in increasing troubles right through August 2001, and were it not for 9/11, it is entirely probable that they would have lost the House (they''d already lost the Senate in a special appointment) in 2002, and lost the Presidency in 2004. Bush''s disapproval rating had climbed steadily until it reached a high of 40% in August 2001, while his approval rating had dropped consistently and steadily to 50% that month. (His unprecedented month-long vacation in the middle of Nowheresville, Texas, had a lot to do with that.) After 9/11, and the imposition of martial law on Republicans in Congress, they had a free ride on anything they wanted. Did they end up working for national unity? Hell, no - anything BUT. They used 9/11 as a wedge issue to get even MORE power, but for no discernable GOOD, at least, not any good for anyone not in the top 1% of income. Instead, it was war and profiteering by the connected. The whole tawdry excusion through the disgusting "patriot games" of the last 7 years has been an aberration, and never could have resulted in a "permanent Republican majority", at least, not without additional levels of propaganda and intimidation.

[chazzone]

America has become a nation of ill informed children who have no idea what it takes to make life work. In fact they are so spoiled that they think that what we have is somehow bad.
Freedom isn''t free, yet they feel that they can just give away what our fathers and grandfathers died for.
The Republicans are int rouble because they have no backbone, and instead of standing up for what is right and disputing the lies of the Leftist media, have allowed these lies to poison the minds of the dumb masses.
In short order we will all be "Red" states, and I don''t mean Republican.

our freedom will be gone, our economy in shambles (not the little blip we see today), and America will finally be gone...Vote Obama for change, indeed.

[johnpatrick9]

Excellent article..many of us always knew they were nuts.