The Republicans are collapsing worse than I've ever seen before.

[TheWraith]

Nothing, not even the run up to 2006, matches the level of disaster they're facing, and the degree of panic and resignation that the Republicans are exhibiting.

They just tried a preview of their general election strategy, the classic smear and fear, in the MS 1st Congressional District, and they got handed their heads, seeing a district that went for Bush by 25 points in 2004 go to a Democrat by 8.

Now, in apparent desperation, their congressional strategy document has come out with not a single mention of abortion, gay marriage, flag burning, or any of their other traditional base issues, in an attempt to play to moderates.

The thing they forget is that the moderates are moderate for a reason, and have already been turned off by the Bush/McCain policies. Meanwhile, they're trying to still energize the base with things like the "appeasement" comments, Hagee, et al.

So at best, they come off as disingenuous, and at worst they alienate both the base, who wants to be pandered to, and the moderates, who don't like the tone.

All this while they're facing a full scale insurrection from current and newly converted Democratic voters, a candidate with major coat-tails, unprecedented voter registration and fundraising, and a country eager for a change.

Folks, I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction. This election is not going to be close. It's not even going to be close to close. I forsee electoral disaster for Republicans of every stripe, at every level of government, all across the country. 2006 may have just been the first chapter. I believe we're going to see a popular uprising that's going to turn the old Republican party and the old politics into a shattered husk for decades to come.

[Arugula Latte]

1. Don't you mean "better" than you've ever seen before?

;)

Hope you're prediction comes true!

[texastoast]

2. Something about chickens is ringing a bell

Has to do with numbers. If I could just remember.

:P

And just to be sure, we should go on the offensive now, get our research done, and have a bagful of these little tidbits to throw to the would-be swiftboaters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080516/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_developer_dc

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Don't count your chickens before they come home to roost?

Don't count all your chickens in one basket?

P.S. Thanks for the link!

[texastoast]

15. I looked it up!

Don't count those chickens before they hatch. Hatch. Hatch. Gotta remember the hatching part.

;-)

[lpbk2713]

3. Great news. I'd like to set up a lawn chair outside OxyRush's studio ...

... just so that I could point and laugh every time I saw his worthless ass.

[DJ13]

4. In letting their corporate owners run wild without oversight they sealed their doom

Every major corporate donor to the RNC and Bush knows this year is their last hurrah for making obscene profits, and they're determined to get their money's worth.

Now the GOP will be paying for their corruption in the GE as the voters are tired of getting screwed over.

[Selatius]

5. With any luck, Democrats will hold onto Congress for the next 40 years.

I'll be dead by the time year 40 rolls around, but Democrats in the past have proven they were more than able to hold onto both houses for several decades at a time. Of course, back then, they called it the New Deal Coalition, but it splintered along pro- and anti-segregationist lines, and that marked the realignment that allowed the Republicans to take both chambers to begin with.

Now, there appears to be a new realignment with 2008. Perhaps the new alignment will last several decades on. The hint I'd drop Democrats is that if they want to build the next New Deal Coalition, they must do more for working class folks instead of giving them more free-trade and outsourcing.

[cloudbase]

11. I'd love to see it happen,

but our team will find a way to screw things up and lose their majority within twenty years.

[TexasObserver]

6. Ironically, they will fall further because they will cling to their tried and true methods.

That's why all their screaming about RACE, about being UNAMERICAN, about other such topics will fall flat. They will do the very things that so many voters despise them for doing. Because such things have sold for the Rs in the past, they will try to ride it one more time.

[ProgressiveFool]

7. it's interesting that it's happening now, specifically all the repudiation of Bush

I know that the trigger for all this talk lately of the Republicans being finished is the loss of the House seat in Mississipi, but it is interesting to note that this strong repudiation of Bush, calling him radioactive, swallowing the mike, etc., comes while he's abroad.

Much like it was often considered taboo for a president or other politician to criticize other politicians while abroad, it was also taboo for domestic politicians to criticize a president while he's abroad. That seems to be over now, and I can't wait to see how this turns out.

McCain, for the moment, seems determined to cling to Bush the same stubborn way he clung to the Surge and more war in Iraq. I think that will drag him down.

[postulater]

8. So how large does the margin have to be to make it

beyond the reach of the machine tampering and voter suppression?

[MindMatter]

10. And their candidate was a senile dipshit way back when he was in his 60s

[lunatica]

12. It is they who have shattered their party, not the Democrats

We will beat them at the polls, and in both houses and in a lot of states, but they're the ones who destroyed themselves.

[DFW]

13. An animal is at its most dangerous when it is cornered and wounded.

Not to mention well-funded (RNC vs. DNC).

Beware--we may have Congress, but the White House is something they'll fight tooth and nail for.
And I don't mean fairly, either.

[malaise]

14. I'm lovin it

but I won't be satisfied until I see them devouring each other live on TV. :rofl: