Comments on: Republicans Ask: Just How Bad Is It?

Politico: Young GOP Leaders See Permanent Defeat If Republican Party Does Not Change

[formrusmcsgt]

He doesn%u2019t advocate for a major ideological shift-few prominent voices in the party are....
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Then they''d better get used to their minority status.

[rayuk-2009]

The Republican Party is the party of Herbert Hoover and now the whole world knows it. About time, don''t you think?

[ramos937]

We cannot be a majority governing party when we essentially cannot compete in the northeast; we are losing our ability to compete in the Great Lakes states, we cannot compete on the west coast,%u201D Pawlenty argued, also citing similar problems in the mid-Atlantic and interior west. %u201CSimilarly, we cannot compete and prevail as a majority governing party when we have a significant deficit as we do with woman, where we have a large deficit with Hispanics, where we have a large deficit with African-American voters, where we have a large deficit with people of modest incomes.
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Pawlenty is correct. Examples? Unless he does something incredibly stupid, Obama has the black vote in his corner. Hispanics? The GOP has never gotten the message that Hispanics are very sensitive over the illegal worker issue. GOP congressmen and GOP state legislatures have passed very punitive anti worker legislation. The GOP has never reached out to LULAC, GI Forum, etc. The GOP has labeled itself as anti-Hispanic. The GOP will never again be a national party until it attracts members other than anglo males.

[formrusmcsgt]

He doesn%u2019t advocate for a major ideological shift-few prominent voices in the party are....
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Then they''d better get used to their minority status.

[jimsusancan]

Drop the wacko''s like Sarah Palin and stop sticking up for incompetent people. The GOP will be back alive and well as soon as they get over this stupid idea of "I hear no evil- see no evil" support of candidates like her. As John McCain likes to say stand up and fight but stop protecting incompetence. The public is away to smart to fall for this nonsense. Why can you not come out and face the facts that very weak people are speaking for the party. Dump on this crowd of "Fakes", be honest and the GOP will rise back quickly

[imnho]

I hope they stick with there current policies and values. That will assure the Democrat''s are in power for a very long time.

I hope Palin runs for priesdent in 2012. It will assure that Obama has a second term.

[skiluuver]

The simple key to the Republicans'' future success is to give up on the whacko Religious nuts, lose the Evangelicals and the weird "Family Values" obsession. That will take you down for a while, but ultimately make you seem more sane. Have you got the kahoonas to dump the Christian weirdos and the unnatutal obsession with right to life and ***? If not, you will continue to fail............

[whitemale08]

What happened was that the Republican party allowed junkyard dogs Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh take over and tell Americans who were losing their homes and their jobs that "The economy is FANTASTIC".

We all knew that the Bush economy was phony and fake but yet they still touted it as SUCCESS just like the failed war policies of Iraq.

You can preach to yourselves that everything is great but soon reality will leave you alone and preaching only to yourself.

[omded]

One reassuring thing about this election is that it looks like the moderates have reappeared on the political scene. First, they put McCain on the Republican ticket, instead of the two wackos who wanted the nomination. Then, when McCain picked a wacko as his running mate, the moderates put McCain on ice as well.

You see, it''s all about appealing to the wackos. The GOP was a party of moderates back in the 70''s, when Nixon was in office. Back then, the Democrats were reaching out to wackos. But, when Ronald Reagan rose to the top of the GOP machine back in the early 80''s, the republicans pushed the moderates out, and invited the wackos in. Then the Democrats moved more to the center. It finally paid off with 8 years of Clinton. Then the GOP turned to the wackos again, and actually put one, G.W. in office. But now, it appears the moderates are starting to take back the GOP. If they succeed, I think a lot of ex-Republicans, such as myself, will return to the party. But there is much work to do. I won''t align myself with wackos.

[omded]

The GOP will rise again. This is just part of an ongoing cycle. The two parties merely trade places every few years. If Obama can''t fix this mess pretty quickly, and, if he can''t remind people where it all began, he''ll be run out of office after 4 years and Americans will look back to the GOP for "the answer". The trouble is, nobody seems to realize the problem isn''t one party or the other. It''s that we only have two options to choose from, and neither is all that good. In fact, for the last several election cycles, Americans seem to vote for the "lesser of the evils". I assure you this: after a long day of throwing insults and attacks at each other, politicians from both parties get together behind closed doors and congratulate each other for another job well done. They fooled us again, and they''re still in full control of our country. You see, the Republicans and the Democrats only pretend to have their differences. It''s an act. But, in reality, the GOP and the Democratic Party are just one big political machine that rules our country. One animal with two heads.

One more thing to think about: The next time you go off on a binge about how much you hate "liberals" or "arch conservatives", remember this - you''re doing exactly what the two headed monster wants you to do.

[bjcone8559]

America is waking up. In singlewides all across the land republicans are beginning to realize that we are not going to take their shotguns, make their teenager daughters have abortions, burn their churches or make them kiss a gay man. Turn out the lights, the party (GOP) is over.

[karenbe111]

The Republicans should know how bad it is -- they are responsible for it! Now we should listen to them? I don''t think so!!!

[walt1944-2009]

In Miami, the neocon Fascist Nazi Republican Party tried to figure out what was wrong with it and what to do about it.

As usual, the Republicans could not agree on anything!

The "Old Guard" insisted that it was all McBush''s fault for losing the election, that there was nothing wrong with the party or its Fascist philosphy, and that things would be all right in 2010 with the Great Emperor Bush II gone (BUT DEFINITELY NOT FORGOTTEN!) and Obama unable to get any legislation thru Congress because the Fascist Nazis would fight him every step of the way!!!

The younger set in the GOP, however, claims that the party isn''t open to listening to what the people want, only what the party wants; in other words, the party was SELFISH!

Apparently, the "Old Guard" of the necon Fascist Nazi Republican Party has forgotten that Obama was supported and elected by an army of YOUNG people who wanted CHANGE, and older voters fed-up with not being listened to by the DEAF Republicans!!!

As the young Abrahams told the old "Establishment" in "Chariots of Fire" when he introduced new techniques to improve his running; "The Future Rides WITH ME!"!!!

SIG HEIL, I''M MAKING IT SO THERE ISN''T A FUTURE FOR ANYONE!!!, BUSH!!!

[citizenusa-2009]

One Rep. Senator said today the the GOP always comes back, and promises they WILL be back in a few years...kinda like "cancer" don''t ya think?

[quatermass2]

The GOP got hooked on the fundy-evangelical block and needs to kick the habit. Jettison the creationists, the homophobes, and the assorted end-timers, rapture nuts, and jerks praying for Armegeddon, and get back to small government, fiscal prudence, and smart defense (and that means drop the anti-missle booshwah and the F-22).

[denn034]

Things will reverse after Bush leaves office without having to resort to forsaking GOP values. What good are values that you discard whenever they''re not convenient? Stay true to values is this GOPs view.