Some Republicans See it Coming in November

[babylonsister]

http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5233

Some Republicans See it Coming in November
by: Justice
Sun Mar 02, 2008 at 11:40 AM CST

(Great time to be a Democrat in Texas - promoted by Matt Glazer)

Here's an interesting statment from the Quorum Report by Royal Masset, long-time Republican analyst here in Austin. He looked at the voter turnout statewide inspired, in part, by Barack Obama, with all-time disparity between Republican and Democratic turnout.

He warns that even Repubs (like in Williamson County) who won their past elections by 60% could still be in big trouble this November. He thinks that the mean rightwing dogma of his Party is driving potential allies (he focused on the Hispanic community, as an example)compared to the coalition that Ronald Reagan achieved for the Repubs. He says the Repubs' immigration stand for example is anti-liberty and anti-family values, particularly offending Hispanic families in Texas.

Masset says:

"I'm not feeling optimistic," he said. "This just shows we are a bankrupt party. Who would have ever imagined that the next Ronald Reagan would be a black Democrat?"

Some of the Republicans are looking down the road to November and see that they are like a bug flying right at a big flat windshield of the Democrats' 18-wheeler barreling down the highway.

Don't ya love it?

[CTyankee]

1. Be still my beating heart! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. Who would have imagined that the current crop of republicon cronies...

would be so throughly evil, corrupt, deviant, incompetent, and anti-American?

[cliffordu]

3. Excellent piece!!

I just love it when folks come to their senses....Moderate Repubs MIGHT be as happy as Dems to get rid of the Fundie Neocon cancer.


Shit. Maybe we could even get our country back....

:patriot:

[C_U_L8R]

4. "who would have ever imagined..."

these republicans certainly do lack imagination... no wonder they are so hopeless

[Vincardog]

5. Glad to hear it. Drive a stake into the cancer that is Consercativism and then TAKE OUR PARTY BACK.

WE need to kick the Corporatists out of our party too.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Obama is the next Ronald Reagan?

What an ignorant comment.

[Liberal Gramma]

9. I think he's referring to his ability to reach out and communicate

not his policies. Reagan (and I hated his politics) was able to bond with a crowd. So can Obama, but with policies I like.

[babylonsister]

10. Not really-read this:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c96fe917-0090-4dbe-8c1e-5ec93fa35c28

[Selatius]

14. Probably in terms of winning voters, really. No other Repub won as many Democrats as far as I know.

Hence the invention of the name "Reagan Democrat." Of course, it might also be a generational thing. Their parents voted for FDR and Truman, who were way further left.

[Ferretherder]

7. Great stuff! However, I would like to say to Mr. Masset, who said,...

..."Who would have ever imagined that the next Ronald Reagan would be a black Democrat?"...

...if he were the next Ronald Ray-gun, this country wouldn't be bothered to PISS on him if he were on FIRE!

[European Socialist]

8. Yup, the Dems won't have to hide under their beds anymore...

That is if The Decider leaves DC--there may be signing statement saying he doesn't have to.

[Hidden Stillness]

11. Yes, They Call It a "Total Sea-Change"

Although this is a wonderful and very fun article, there are a couple of things I would take issue with. First, of course, that asinine and phony remark, so beloved of the corporate media of all kinds, of some kind of a "coalition that Ronald Reagan achieved." Reagan was elected because Pres. Carter had deregulated us right into a recession, and the Reagan campaign lied about what Reagan would do; I still remember those disgusting and outrageous "Reagan For Jobs" bumperstickers that actually fooled many people that election. The second is that the all-time disparity between Democratic and etc. voting numbers, donations, volunteers, etc., is credited to only Obama by name. Hillary Clinton has also gotten more votes and more donations than all Republicans combined, just as Obama has--it is a larger, general, almost panicked feeling of wanting to get Bush, Cheney, Rove, and all the rest of them out of there! This was the case even four years ago: I remember a big rally held somewhere in Ohio during the campaign, where Bruce Springsteen was campaigning for Kerry at an open, Town Square type area, carried by C-SPAN. The crowd was so huge, so enormous, that it might be bigger than any single thing I have seen yet during the 2008 campaign. There was just as much anger, as much desire to get corrupt Republicans out, as now. Of course, Howard Dean had not yet rebuilt the rank-and-file structure of the entire National Party, and you had that asshole John Kerry running a "D"LC campaign...

[tblue37]

12. And, of course, the outright theft of the election.

But not enough has been done to prevent such theft from happening again. And if it happens, the media will just change the exit polls, as they did after Kerry won in Ohio but they needed to say Bush did.

[MiniMe]

13. Personally, I don't think the repukes want to win this election

The next President has a lot of s**t to clean up, and in some ways it will be hard to do. At least they will be able to get some things through congress, depending on the makeup of the Senate. I think there is a good possibility that the next Pres will be a one term President (unfortunately. I think that is one reason the RNC pressured Romney to withdraw from the race when he did.

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. Ouch. Shit, that left a mark. n/t

[ThomWV]

16. To paraphrase: They are dead meat in November and they dam well know it.

[Ishoutandscream2]

17. There are still many Republicans in my neck of the woods

claiming boldly that they're Republicans, and how conservative they are. I can't help but laugh at them. They are totally clueless.

[saltpoint]

18. Terrific post. Thanks for doing the rounding-up on good pieces in the

media, babylonsister.

You do it all the time and you do it great.

[Perry Logan]

19. Like a bug flying into a windshield. Very accurate.