FReakout.

[onehandle]

I think there have been three GOP losses in special elections just recently to democrats....... This one in MS, the one in LA around Baton Rouge which Woody Jenkins lost and one other I can’t remember. Not good news for the GOP even at the local levels it seems.

The other loss was for Speaker Dennis Hastert’s seat which had been Republican for about 100 years. This is serious.

The Obama-Clinton race has energized RATS. The GOP primary was dull.

Just an indication of what is to come and a big reason that if McLame is elected that he will be stymied by Congress and Senate which are controlled by the Dims.

November will be an absolute bloodbath..........

These were THREE solidly Republican districts (one was Speaker Hastert’s). This bodes a coming disaster, with a veto proof House, the Republicans are likely to have about 140 seats, the same they had after 1964. GW Bush will have leveled the House (and Coalition) that Reagan Built.

The Bush legacy, the end of the GOP as a national party. 2008 will be a massacre. Hopefully McCain will beat Obama, but down ballot will be very very bad and the electorate rejects Bush bots and thier neo-con policies.

Last one out of the Republican Party please turn out the lights.

Captain Queeg’s coattails! We are going to get decimated in November. Thanks GOP elite. Yes. we need a Revolution. Throw them all out and start again.

With gasoline at $4.00+/gallon and Exxon announcing billions in profits, the Rockefeller wing of the party positioned the GOP for a Waterloo come November.

We are soooo screwed. Forget the popcorn, stock up on KY gel.

The national Republican party does not really stand for anything right now. They are not putting forth any compelling reason to vote for them, which is why there is such low motivation for people to actually go out and do it.

The worst part is the GOP is counting on talk radio to do the politicking and mud slinging for the GOP in November, simply because the GOP doesn’t want to bloody their prissy lil hands.

Just wait until October when there are no ground troops for door-to-door type activity for McCain or few others down the ticket.

I guess lots of erstwhile Republicans are feeling betrayed by the current face of the party. I cannot say I would be surprised or even unhappy to see McCain loose every state in the union. It is time to form a new party, at least.

Guess what we may not live to see a conservative America again, You better be willing to die for your convictions.

Add to that our turning our back on God. One big issue that NEVER gets talked about on talk radio is homosexuality invading our schools. Our problems appear to run deeper than an election cycle.

It looks like November is going to be a bloodbath and the way both parties act I am starting to care even less.

Why the spineless Repubs are limply allowing the blame for high gas prices, recession, etc., to be placed at their feet ... just because there happens to be a GOP president ... is beyond me.

And so the bleeding continues. I'm sorry, but the thought of McCain winning in Nov. doesn't comfort me one bit.

"GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi" - Wait 'til they see what happens to 'em in November.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015758/posts

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. One of the big problems that we're facing is homosexuality

invading our schools. I lose a lot of sleep over that.

[Lex]

This what they think! No wonder they are going, going, GONE.

They think homosexuality in schools is our BIGGEST problem.

What a bunch of morAns.

[blondeatlast]

19. I haven't slept since I heard my Great-great-great-great-

great-great-great, etc. granpa might have had fur--and I shave my legs twice a day ever since, too.

[zbdent]

2. just wait a couple of days ...

the media will be sure to make Obama stubbing his toe into the international crime and impeachable offense that the FReaks demand ...

[Virginia Dare]

5. My sincere hope is that the media marginalizes itself this go around..

things are shaping up that way, I only hope it continues.

[stubtoe]

20. Me too!

That would be the icing on the cake.

[Taverner]

3. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It's good to be a "rat" :-D

[Virginia Dare]

4. Exactly. Gas prices and the recession have nothing to do with the fact..

that we just "so happen" to have a GOP "president"....:rofl:

I cannot say I would be unhappy to see McCain "loose" every state in the union either, so I guess I have something in common with this freeper toad...:evilgrin:

[zbdent]

10. a GOP pResident who got every damn thing he wanted, with smiling faces

and flip-flops from the "maverick", (save Harriet Miers) and all the spending was set from Repuke control ...

and the same people who said that Clinton's 1993 budget would cause "deficits as far as the eye can see" (blind, weren't they?) are now trying to blame the recession on the people who can't overturn Bush's multitude of vetoes ...

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. We're so focused on the BHO/HRC split in our party, we've missed how divided they are

Big changes may come to both parties in 2009.

[nels25]

15. You can almost take big

changes happening to the GOP to the bank and draw interest, there is going to be a titanic battle for the soul of the GOP and I am darned if I can predict the outcome.

I can with a fair sense of certainty predict that if we rule with arrogance and condescension, that our time in power will be relatively short.

The GOP can and will reconstruct it's self, we should not help it along by irritating those who this year are going to be willing to give us a chance with all the levers of power, but who are as a whole not as completely progressive as we may like to believe.

Consider the new Move-On ad, do you really think that this ex GOP voter and vet is super progressive, not a chance, he is how ever fed up with the situation the country is in now and there fore willing to trust the Democratic party with complete power.

Our job in the final analysis is to not screw up his (and others like him/her) trust, if we accomplish this than we can continue to govern.

Fail to do that and we lose our legislative majority first and then the executive office, it has happened before.

[nels25]

7. Yes we are riding high right now no doubt about it

however I am reminded of the end of the movie "Patton" where the voice over referred to a roman legion general of great repute returning home and beside was an aide continually reminding of the cost of hubris. Might be a lesson to keep in mind.

Or if I may be so crass as to quote from the bible "Pride goeth before the fall"

If you stop and think about it, that sums up a large part of the GOP problem at the present time.

Do we as a party want to replicate it, or govern? Again something to keep in mind.

Lincoln wanted to deal with the defeated confederacy with some common sense and kindness where warranted (imagine if the winning allies of WW1 had behaved in such a manner, the likely hood of WW2 would have been greatly reduced).

To me this all argues in favor of a more reflective and generous approach to governance, then the continual gotcha of the last 40 years.

Just my 2 cents.

[patrice]

17. Agreed! Those you disagree with aren't going to just evaporate for the convenience of the rest of

us.

We need to understand what "The Third Way" REALLY is.

:hi:

[patrice]

8. All in the name of PHONY Right to Life Values that were a front for a Pro-DEATH admini$$$$..tration.

The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq lifted at least a couple of veils from the face of American Reality.

[Gato Moteado]

9. "You better be willing to die for your convictions."

hmmm....not a bad idea for freepers. if they all just died for their convictions the rest of the world would be so happy.

[Virginia Dare]

16. Maybe they'll all drive their gas-guzzling SUV's over a cliff?...n/t

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. This may have been my favorite

<<I’ve seen a lot of similar posts here, i.e. “Good! Let the GOP go down in flames so that real conservatives can rebuild it!” But do people who share this view understand that a Liberal take-over of the government will doom the country to 20-30 years of rule that will end private ownership of firearms, double everyone’s taxes, destroy the military, allow Islamopsychos to take-over large parts of the country, and perhaps even end the country as we know it? Just how are conservatives to recover from that, or even survive at all?>>

So let me get this straight -- we're going to let "Islamopsychos" take over large parts of the country? I don't recall that part of anyone's campaign Democratic platform.

[newmajority]

12. I never wanted to agree with a Freeper about anything

But I hope that guy turns out to be right about everything he says.... at least up until the point where he says "You better be willing to DIE for your convictions" and turns completely psychotic.

[magellan]

13. Still clueless after all these years

They STILL think the reason the GOP is getting clobbered and will be clobbered again in November is because the party didn't go far enough. Bush** wasn't conservative enough. (And yet many of them voted for him twice, the dumbasses.)

What these morans have given this country so far has never existed here before. What they want to see in this country is something we have seen before -- in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. Their failure to understand that is what keeps tripping them up. The majority of Americans WILL NOT ACCEPT their vision because they DO understand what it is and how counter to American values it is.

[patrice]

14. Holy Crap!! "You better be willing to die for your convictions." These people ARE dangerous. nt

[Sydnie]

18. Then I must be dangerous too for I have said that I am willing to do that myself

If it had come to a bloody crescendo, I would have been willing (and still am) to lay down my life for the future of the country, for the future of my children and their children, and for justice for all of us that have been victims of this cabal.

If you're not willing to do that, then you are willing to settle for what ever they deem appropriate and I, for one, am not that weak yet.

Just mho, ymmv.

[LTR]

21. "We are screwn" (nt)

[Perry Logan]

22. They know they're screwed. But they will never understand WHY they're so screwed.

That would involve comprehending their own supergalactic failure. We all know a winger would rather eat his child than admit to failure.

[rurallib]

23. the Rockefeller wing of the party positioned the GOP for a Waterloo come November.

:wtf:
There ain't been no Rockefeller repugs since 1980. They either converted or were expelled.
These guys never fuck up in their own minds it is always somebody else who fucked up.

[ProgressiveFool]

24. Not fair running that through the spell-checker for them!

The mis-spellings are half the fun of a FR thread.

[gatorboy]

25. This moron is so dense he doesn't realize he answered his own question.

Your party did take part in building this recession and the high gas prices but your small brain was so preoccupied with friggin' homosexuals invading schools, you never paid attention.

You'll never get it.

Tell the Dodo bird we said hi! :hi:

[onehandle]

26. kick. nt

[varelse]

27. Get this one a clue-by-four

I don’t understand why people are mad at the economy. Unemployment isn’t high, taxes are down, and the stock market is holding it’s own - the only big problem I see is the price of gas and who do we have to blame for that? The Democrats.



15 posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:28:32 AM by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)

:wtf:

Ooooh I guess someone already took this one on:

To: Aria
the only big problem I see is the price of gas

That could be the problem with your perception of the problem.

You apparently don't do your own shopping.

Not only are gas prices 50%-60% higher than they were just a year ago, but grocery and other commodity (goods) prices are now rising at substantial rates. On many products, increases of 20%-30% in the last 6 months are not uncommon.

As the cost of fuel rises, correspondingly, the prices of groceries and other goods rise. As those increase, they will cause the costs of services, including utilities (gas, heating oil, electricity) to rise.

Wages are not keeping pace. And those on fixed incomes are facing significant re-evaluating of their financial conditions. Many who depend on interest-bearing supplemental income are seeing those vehicles with very low interest-bearing returns.

If the GOP/NRC think the economy is NOT a problem, they will find their answer in November, as they lose more House and Senate seats, state offices, and possibly the White House.

It IS the economy. And voters vote based on their pocketbooks. If they perceive their personal finances in difficulty, they will vote for change. If they perceive their personal finances stable, they will vote for the status quo.

With gas 60% higher, groceries and goods 20-30% higher, utilities rising, etc., and their incomes not rising comparably, what do you think their perception will be?

52 posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:47:12 AM by TomGuy