Holy shit!! They are all saying it now. How could they possibly think this is a good strategy?

[Dawgs]

Rick Santorum
TP: What do you think about what Rush said about, I mean, do you hope, should we hope that President Obama fails?
LEVIN: Yes.
TP: Yes?
SANTORUM: If…absolutely we hope that his policies fail.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/28/santorum-cpac-obama/

Malkin
MALKIN: When the President proposes things like trillion dollar budgets that have earmarks that he claims do not exist, yes, I hope that fails. When he proposes the same kind of wealth re-distributionist policies that had appalled me under the Bush administration, yes, I hope they fail.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/28/malkin-obama-fail/

Rush
From yesterday at CPAC... "I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation?"

The crowd, watching in three individual ballrooms because of overcrowding, went absolutely wild.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/28/rush-limbaugh-at-cpac-dou_n_170792.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. Its all code for I WANT THE DEMS TO FAIL so we can bring in JEB

[iamjoy]

2. I'm Cheering Too

I'm glad they're being honest.

Since they think that Obama's successes would be a disaster for our nation, I'm glad they are saying that they hope he will fail. These are people who think the New Deal made the Depression longer and more severe. Their understanding of what Obama wants is so far from reality as to be ridiculous, but given that they have this distorted vision, I'm glad they are at least being candid enough to say what is on their mind.

Aren't we all relieved that Dubya's plan to "save" Social Security failed? Of course, in that case, we knew that what he called "reform" amounted to destruction and we darn sure didn't want him to succeed at that

I am glad these Republicans are being honest so that people can see what they really are. They would rather Obama fail than to admit that they might be wrong.

[Thrill]

3. Scared the end of Reganomics is gone forever

.

[babylonsister]

4. They have nothing else; they're wooing their base, not caring

that their base is in the minority, nor caring what thinking people might think of their strategy.

[Epiphany4z]

5. they are searching franticly for

a gimmick...any gimmick that will catch on...they don't get it....folks are tired of all the gimmicks...and bumper sticker politics......we need action and real commitment to bettering our nation

[cliffordu]

24. Yep, it's all about the next gmmick or slogan.....

[etherealtruth]

6. If Obama fails our country fails

Believe me, I did NOT want the Chimp to fail so miserably.

I don't want the leader of my country to fail, regardless of political affiliation. Had the Chimp (or Reagan, or....) brought peace, prosperity, honor, an impeccable human rights record and social and ecological justice to my country I would have been completely behind him.

I can't fathom wanting our country to fail.

[mwb970]

8. I must admit I EXPECTED bush to fail, but I didn't WANT him to.

bush was such an incredible screwup that it was easy to predict the debacle that his presidency is now seen to have become. But I didn't go out in public like these yahoos and say that I wanted him to fail. Rather, it was my belief that he could not succeed due to his manifest failures as a president and as a human being.

[etherealtruth]

14. Oh, I expected him to fail

I didn't expect him to fail on every level, I didn't expect every thing he touched, great and small, to become a hellish nightmare .... but, at no point did I hope .... what kind of reprobate would want this????? ok, the Limbaugh's, Coulter's .... low life idiots one and all :(

[Bolo Boffin]

20. Exactly - that was one of the most infuriating things about the Bush years

Expecting his policies to fail and desperately wanting better for your country, while staring with horror at things like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and Katrina.

But wanting Bush to fail? No.

The battlelines have been drawn. Rush Limbaugh is leading the Republican Party into an mindless desert of rank partisanship.

[Hansel]

28. It made it more infuriating that we were being accused of

wanting Bush to fail by these same right wing blowhards. Remember what unpatriotic traitors we were because they pulled it out of their butts that we wanted the president to fail?

[Bolo Boffin]

31. Yeah, I agree.

"We are in a time of WAR!" I remember all of that trash. It's American to agree or disagree with the President as you may. It's even American to think the President will fail and to speak out vociferously against what he's doing. But to actively wish the President to fail in his policy objectives? Over the line.

[moondust]

29. That's the difference.

When Rush first issued his failure wish somebody here tried to claim that it was no different than what the Left had been doing for 8 years. I don't recollect anybody actually WISHING for Bush's failure even though most knew his wrong-headed policies were doomed to fail.

I think destructive people naturally gravitate to the Far Right.

[Dawgs]

10. I didn't want Bush to fail either. I expected the economy to fail, but I didn't wish for it.

[WeDidIt]

7. Just more proof that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are the DE FACTO

GOP Leadership.

[acmavm]

9. This is wonderful. They're ensuring that the republican party goes the

way of the doodoo bird. Let them talk. Hurting Americans are not going to put up with this shit anymore. That's why their tea parties can't get more than a couple hundred at most to attend.

Go for it Rush. Kill your career. You too Malkin. But dont' expect flowers at the funeral. We'll all be dancing on your 'professional' graves.

[Dawgs]

11. Agree. Their message isn't selling anymore, but they think it will.

They're using the same tricks and messages they used under Clinton, and expecting them to work just the same. The difference is the failed policies of Bush and the Republicans.

Most Americans and the younger generation are not going to buy it this time.

It's all good for us Democrats.

[alwysdrunk]

12. They are DELUSIONAL, that's how

These are the same people saying they lost becausde they were not conservative enough. That a candidate to the RIGHT of McCain would have won! They've been listening to themselves talk for so long they have lost all touch with reality. Even while they continue to fail they will keep this point of view. Truly delusional, that is the only explaination.

[AllentownJake]

13. Watching that asshat Santorum concede

was a very happy moment for me. I have it bookmarked on youtube when I'm feeling down just to remember there is some justice in the world.

I want that asshat to run for Govenor or Senate again just so I can relive the joy of watching him fail.

[RagAss]

27. A fond memory for me too.....n/t

[spanone]

15. 'country first' only a bumpersticker for the republics

[SheilaT]

16. What's hilarous about

their wish for Obama to fail, is that Bush actually did fail. Big time. We need to talk about that openly.

[Phx_Dem]

17. For a minute, I thought "Levin" was Carl Levin (D-MI). I almost wet my pants.

Republians are idiots, but what else is new. They've already lost the middle and "converative" members of their party; all that's left is the radical, violent-mongering right-wing nutjobs.

This is a great strategy . . . for us!

[lunatica]

18. If we had wanted Bush to fail we would have been celebrating for the last 8 years

I submit that most of us despaired as we saw him fail. We grieved the loss of our rights, and the wars for oil and the needless deaths of our soldiers and the innocent civilians in countries that did nothing to us. We watched in horror as one social program after another was gutted and the economic gap between the rich and the middle class grew. We agonized to the point of ulceration over our jobs being outsourced to other countries while people like Rush Limbaugh got rich and fat on their vile spew. We mourned the loss of our Constitutional government and finally we're grasping for anything to stay afloat as the flood of foreclosures swallows us.

So when they want President Obama to fail what they really want is a continuation of the bloodletting of our Constitution and our rights and the never ending spiralling into an economic third world reality where the rich are thousands of times better off than the poor, who would be the vast majority of us. they are craven in their desire for the continuation of the last 8 years in which the Fail was Catastrophic.

[Vinca]

19. Tom "The Rat" Delay is also on video hoping Obama fails.

What a great commercial . . .

[mix]

21. they want people to suffer

for having rejected their creed...if obama "fails", the economy collapses further and suffering intensifies, which for them is deserved punishment for betraying the right...they fantasize that obama's "failure" will scar the populace and definitively end any flirtation with the left, ushering in their thousand year reich

perverse

[City Lights]

22. Why do they hate America?

Flippin' traitors.

[DeschutesRiver]

30. Because they only cared about America when it talked like them and looked like them

And their stranglehold on politics allowed them to believe that their beliefs were absolute truths, long past the time when their views had fallen out of favor and our diversity as a nation became supreme. They are now having their turn at being on the outside, looking in. Realizing that their political power hold on the nation and the economy for these past 8 years is over, and coming to terms with the fact that they are now firmly in the minority. A vocal one, but a clear minority of thinking nonetheless.

It is frying the last few brain cells that some of them possess, and is not pretty to watch their "come to Jesus" moment on this. Their march to extinction is ramping up, and some are still in denial. This is what happens when people become smug in their beliefs, try to impose them on every other human, and think they are immune to change. It can happen to democrats as well, and should be a warning to not go down the path of total intolerance to views they find abhorent, if there is any way they can find a live and let live path for people with divergent views. You don't ever want to experience the mind fry that is happening to the repubs.

I don't feel a bit sorry for them - I just want them and their reign of terror to be relegated to the history heap of other failures asap.

[high density]

23. They're trying too hard with the Obama = Bush thing

Nobody on the planet buys that, plus I would think it would piss off all of these Bushbots (their only remaining base) to link Bush to this new "socialist" President that they hate so much.

[960]

25. Republicans hate Democratic policies.

Why is it a surprise that they want President Obama to fail? They worked long and hard to make President Clinton fail.
They failed, and this time they're going to fail harder.

[Ocracoker16]

26. Republican desperation and shock

[ACTION BASTARD]

32. Thanks for the talking points O is going to use against you in 12.

They're so pissed, this is great.