Holy crap. Look at the comments on this board. Listen to the radio talkers. Read the internet.
Come on.
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OK you understand comments here, the internet, and talk radio do not represent the GOP, right?
Doesn't matter. Politics is about image. The Right absolutely, somehow, amazingly doesn't get this.
Okay let's parse the words I used - No, the national party (RNC, Priebus, McConnell, Boehner, etc.) has not been spiking the ball, but that was not my point. Conservatives are. Conservative media is. So I'm happy to change the word I used from "GOP" to "conservatives". THAT is the PERCEPTION based on their BEHAVIOR.
Zero difference. None.
If you can't admit that, I don't know what else to say. It LOOKS like the party is, because politics is about IMAGE.
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You dont see any difference between "GOP" typically represented by Boehner, or other elected representatives and media types like Rush Limbaugh? Seriously?
Yes, the buzz in conservative type media circles is this election will be a blow out for the GOP. I've said so myself. And if it's merely a trouncing, is that bad? How about an ass pounding? What if they merely win a majority? If we got it wrong and it isnt such a blow out then what? Do we lose our dessert privileges for a week?
I dunno. We'll see how it plays out for 2016, once Obama's lame duck status is over.
Until then, not much will be done. Both Obama and the GOP will be saying "no" a lot.
Part of the 2016 calculus will be what the GOP does and does not do with its new-found power.
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They'll be in a great spot.
Back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. Most reputable non partisan economists said we wouldn't see job growth, and an end to the recession till at least 2016.
So!...whomever takes the white house in 2016 will get to take credit for that, if it happens they can tell everyone how great they are.
We'll see who gets that opportinuty to BS the gullible.
The Republicans need to keep from repeating what they did after the 2010 house victory, which was bring out the nine inch nails, and rail against contraception, abortion, and gay marriage. All the while declaring liberalsim dead. They need to keep frosty and competitive. When they take the senate this time, send bills to the white house that make economic sense.