“These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White House; more recently, they lost a slam-dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter. Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities. And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian — in short, less demographically Republican. GOP officials who completely controlled Washington three years ago are vowing to “regain our status as a national party” and creating woe-is-us groups to resuscitate their brand, while Democrats are publishing books like The Strange Death of Republican America and 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. John McCain’s campaign manager recently described his party as basically extinct on the West Coast, nearly extinct in the Northeast and endangered in the Mountain West and Southwest.”
Yada, yada…
Gumwald joins the long list of dolts who have the attention span of a knat. Holding the presidency for 5 of the last 8 presidential elections and congress 14 out of the last 18 years is hardly “dead”.
Instead of wondering about if the GOP is dead, why not begin the obituary for the Democratic party. Such as Obama’s economic plans have been a dismal failure – GDP has dove 7.3 percent since he took office. People are still out of work, Henrietta Hughes is still out a home, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better.
The democratically controlled congress has an abysmal rating, as Obama’s slips every day (growing number who strongly disapprove.
So, Grumwald and you other Obama surrogates, I would think you have more things to worry about than the GOP, which by the way if recent history holds true will be back in power in a few years.
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retire05
May 7th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
1You almost have to laugh at the rhetoric coming from the left.
The GOP is dead.
The GOP has no leader.
The GOP should move farther to the center (meaning more to the left).
Well, we were told in January 1993, when the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the Oval Office, that the GOP was dead. 1994 elections proved the GOP was alive and well, and raising hell.
And after the elections of 2000, who was the de facto leader of the Democrats? Can anyone think of their name? How about after the 2004 elections? And the person that was leading the Democrats was? Bueller? Bueller?
As to the pundits who profess their conservatism (like Rick Moran) but claim we need to become a “big tent” party and move closer to the center and become more moderate, I have this to say (which got me barred from a number of pseudo-conservative blogs), “We tried it your way. We ran the most liberal center-right Republican we could find in 2008. He lost. Obviously, your way doesn’t work.”
We lost because the Repubicans became nothing more than Democratic Lite. And Americans want the real thing. Offer the voter real, true conservative candidates, and they will win. Go back to our conservative values, and we will win. We will never win by trying to be more like the Democrats.
So voters, when you are reading all these self proclaimed “conservatives” that say we should become more like Democrats remember, most of them were Democrats to begin with and we here in Texas have a saying “you can’t make a race horse out of a pack mule”.
And Jeb Bush needs to shut the hell up.
MacRanger
May 7th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
2Well said!!
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