If you believe this from the Los Vegas Sun as reported by the Politico:

“The week had the feel of 1974. Republican members of Congress marched to the White House to deliver a frank message to an embattled president: You are a liability.

Three decades ago, it was Watergate. Now, it’s Iraq.

President Bush’s meeting with the 11 Republican House members grew out of a sudden decline in the party’s fortunes that has recently come into sharp relief.

The evidence of the trend is anecdotal and quantifiable: Public opinion polls show that the electorate has shifted to the left since the 2004 elections, with the war a leading drag on Republicans.

The situation for Nevada Republicans is less dire. Although they are not immune from the national trend, they are helped by a steady infusion of Californians, many of whom left that state to escape taxes.

Republican operatives and political observers say the party must act quickly, or face the prospect of a political wilderness not seen since Watergate.”

Sheesh…..

“1974″……”Watergate”……

The next thing they’ll be reporting that Bush is talking to pictures of Washington and Lincoln in the White House.

Do liberals - and yes The Politico is a liberal blog, just has better graphics than the Kos - have anything to compare Republicans with other than 30 year old history?

Everything is “Vietnam” or “Watergate” with these people.

While to an extent it’s true that the GOP is a bit of a bind, but it’s not as dire as the MSM would have you believe, and quite frankly the Democrats aren’t doing much better.

That apart from this hysteria from conservatives like David Frum:

“David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, issued a warning to readers of the conservative magazine National Review: ‚ÄúHave Republicans absorbed how much trouble their party is in? To the (limited) extent that we do, we tend to attribute everything to Iraq - as if Katrina, the Schiavo affair, corruption in Congress and the intensifying irrelevance of our domestic-policy agenda did not exist. And so we demand from our candidates ever more fervent declarations of fealty to an ideology that interests an ever dwindling proportion of the public.‚Äù

Get a grip man! How did we allow our party and its future prospects to be defined by liberals? Why do we wear the badge of shame of Katrina when by and large liberals in Louisiana screwed it up? And what was wrong with the Schiavo affair except that “The Party of Death” likes killing people for political ends, and we tried to save her?

Let’s not forget the “corruption in congress”, far more now on the democrat side than the Republicans, just under reported.

When are we going to stop letting these hacks tell us that we are in trouble when in fact the situation is far from dire.

What we need people is backbone and push back. What we have wrought is the direct result of a lack of backbone and push back. This article is chocked full of polls but polls as you know are created to create news and they’ve never been a gage for the political mood of America.

Like I’ve been saying on The MacRanger Show for weeks is that Republicans need to get out on the stump and tell the American people what the plan is to make their lives better. Americans out of the beltway could care less about Alberto Gonzales - which is all the Democrats are worried about. What the people want to know is what will we do about gas prices, education, security of the nation, etc. In otherwords what affects them on a daily basis.

Right now Republicans have a opportunity to throw the Democratic Party into the dust bin of irrelevancy by exposing the fact that they have no plan - other than to impeach Bush. The American people have no stomach for that nonsense, and yet the Democrats - just like in 2000 and 2004 can’t stand prosperity. They are already over-staying their welcome in the majority.

If we get out on the stump and tell America what we can give them, rather than like the Democrats - take away - we’ll do just fine in 2008.