What is going on with the Republican party?

[EriktheRed]

you don't go to liberal sites? why honey bunny,, KOS is where every single solitary democrat launched his or her campaign from,,

If you think Ben Nelson of Nebraska likes DailyKos...

 

[Toro]

I have been to Huffington's site once, and that's because Google took me to a link there. I was at Democratic Underground once maybe five years ago. But I don't go to liberal sites.

perhaps you should,, give you a good idea where the talking points you parrot are coming from,, hell,, I go I know the talking points as good as you guys do.. oh and another good source MSNBC Olberman, Maddow,, Tingles, and Mr. Ed.. perhaps that's where they were embedded in yer brain.

Olberman is the only one I'll watch occasionally, but that's because he makes fun the Dumb Wing of the Republican Party. Otherwise, partisan hacks are boring.

 

[WillowTree]

Are you referring to DailyKos?

I have never been there. Not once. I don't go to liberal sites.

I suppose if you are on the extreme right of American society, RINOs, torture, domestic spying, birthers and Creationism are all pretty run of the mill.

you don't go to liberal sites? why honey bunny,, KOS is where every single solitary democrat launched his or her campaign from,,

Willow, You are one of todays Republicans that I was talking about and everyone else is talking about. You represent about 20% of the electorate.

Like most of today's Republicans you just don't get it and probably never will.

get what? your hate? your shame? don't want it , you keep it.

 

[WillowTree]

you don't go to liberal sites? why honey bunny,, KOS is where every single solitary democrat launched his or her campaign from,,

If you think Ben Nelson of Nebraska likes DailyKos...

for president stupid,, for president

 

[editec]

What is going on?

former Republicans, understanding that the tide has turned, that the party is over, are now going into private life to finally get paids back for all the pork they sent to their masters.

Watch and see how much money these guys make now that they've sold us down the river.

Just watch and you'll see how very right I am.

Incidently, the Dems do exactly the same thing so this is NOT a partisan slam.

This is my charge against the INSIDERS PARTY.

 

[xsited1]

What is going on with the Republican party?

I hear you. They used to be our last-line of defense against these marxist wackos that are currently running our country - Obama, Pelosi and Reid. They let the LBJ-style Neocons take over. America doesn't need a second liberal democratic party. They either need to go back to their conservative roots or move out of the way of a more viable 3rd party.

 

[editec]

What is going on with the Republican party?

I hear you. They used to be our last-line of defense against these marxist wackos that are currently running our country - Obama, Pelosi and Reid. They let the LBJ-style Neocons take over. America doesn't need a second liberal democratic party. They either need to go back to their conservative roots or move out of the way of a more viable 3rd party.

Were I of a Republican conservative mindset I'd be migrating to one of the LIBERTARIAN parties.

Those boys seem to best represent the values that most of you conservatives seem to hold dear.

Sadly, many so called conservatives are really SOCIAL conservatives, meaning you're typically bible thumpers, meaning that there is a natural friction between you guys and the atheistic leanings of the current Libertarian factions.

 

[rightwinger]

The best thing the republicans have going for them right now is their stubborness. After being soundly defeated in 2006 and 2008, rather than look inward and ask "What do we need to do to regain favor with the american people?" they chose to run to the right and declare that they are not wrong....its the american people who are wrong.

 

[garyd]

Right winger thanks for demonstrating your level of retardation. No one is claiming Obama Care will lead to death squads. For one thing you don't have to send out death squads to kill people with easily curable diseases that will die if they aren't treated. The point here is that once the government takes over health care they will whether anyone likes it or not become the agency that choses who will live and who will die.

Further, the Republican Party lost favor with the voters not becuase they became too conservative on social issues or anything else but because under Rove and Bush they became the party of me too on almost all domestic social spending.

 

[xsited1]

What is going on with the Republican party?

I hear you. They used to be our last-line of defense against these marxist wackos that are currently running our country - Obama, Pelosi and Reid. They let the LBJ-style Neocons take over. America doesn't need a second liberal democratic party. They either need to go back to their conservative roots or move out of the way of a more viable 3rd party.

Were I of a Republican conservative mindset I'd be migrating to one of the LIBERTARIAN parties.

Those boys seem to best represent the values that most of you conservatives seem to hold dear.

Sadly, many so called conservatives are really SOCIAL conservatives, meaning you're typically bible thumpers, meaning that there is a natural friction between you guys and the atheistic leanings of the current Libertarian factions.

I see too many differences between most Republican conservatives and Libertarians. A 'true' conservative party would be a better fit for them. (BTW, did you notice the Libertarian Party ran a "former" Republican in 2008? Sad.)

 

[garyd]

Some one please get back to me on how the Republican party can come screaming back to power by jettisoning forty percent or more of its base - Social conservatives - and adding in the 5% of the country that is the historical percentage that the Libertarians get year in and year out.

 

[rightwinger]

Right winger thanks for demonstrating your level of retardation. No one is claiming Obama Care will lead to death squads. For one thing you don't have to send out death squads to kill people with easily curable diseases that will die if they aren't treated. The point here is that once the government takes over health care they will whether anyone likes it or not become the agency that choses who will live and who will die.

Further, the Republican Party lost favor with the voters not becuase they became too conservative on social issues or anything else but because under Rove and Bush they became the party of me too on almost all domestic social spending.

Now who is acting retarded?
Have you been completely isolated for the last few weeks while the republicans have moved from "healthcare is socialism" to "the government will decide which elderly people will live and die" Pure fearmongering to a vulnerable group. Over and over again it has been stressed that people can keep their existing insurer but the pubs are rallying against the "big bad gubbmint"
The republicans lost favor with the people because they started two wars, lied to start a war, engaged in torture and destroyed the economy. Their domestic "social" spending was on tax cuts for the super wealthy

 

[Intense]

The best thing the republicans have going for them right now is their stubborness. After being soundly defeated in 2006 and 2008, rather than look inward and ask "What do we need to do to regain favor with the american people?" they chose to run to the right and declare that they are not wrong....its the american people who are wrong.

Yeah, Like living within our means, and being satisfied with eating our own bread.

 

[Intense]

Right winger thanks for demonstrating your level of retardation. No one is claiming Obama Care will lead to death squads. For one thing you don't have to send out death squads to kill people with easily curable diseases that will die if they aren't treated. The point here is that once the government takes over health care they will whether anyone likes it or not become the agency that choses who will live and who will die.

Further, the Republican Party lost favor with the voters not becuase they became too conservative on social issues or anything else but because under Rove and Bush they became the party of me too on almost all domestic social spending.

Obama won't need Death Squads, He will guilt trip them into cutting it short.

 

[garyd]

No he'll do the same thing they currently do in France and Germany. Deny care to the elderly so they can save money.

The debate isn't if it's going to happen but when. No country in the world has truly universal health care simply because no country in the world can afford it. It is just simply to damn expensive to try to provide the best possible health care for everyone.

 

[Oddball]

Some one please get back to me on how the Republican party can come screaming back to power by jettisoning forty percent or more of its base - Social conservatives - and adding in the 5% of the country that is the historical percentage that the Libertarians get year in and year out.

Since when, in the last 15 years, has the Geriatric Old Party make any effort to attract libertarian types?

 

[garyd]

What did Gingrich do? Everything he could to shrink government that Bill Clinton would allow. Check out the man's website and see what he actually has to say as opposed to the fearmongering crap you hear from the leftist.

 

[Oddball]

What did Gingrich do?....He folded up like a pup tent, right on cue.

All yap, no spine.

 

[rightwinger]

The momentum of the Republican Revolution stalled in late 1995 and early 1996 during a budget standoff between Congressional Republicans and Democratic President Bill Clinton. Speaker Gingrich and the new Republican majority wanted to slow the rate of government spending. Gingrich allowed previously approved appropriations to expire on schedule, thus allowing parts of the Federal government to shut down for lack of funds. However, Gingrich inflicted a blow to his public image by seeming to suggest that the Republican hard-line stance over the budget was in part due to his feeling "snubbed" by the President during a flight to and from Yitzhak Rabin's funeral in Israel. The subsequent event caused Gingrich to get lampooned by some in the media, with one editorial cartoon depicted him as having thrown a temper tantrum.[11] Democratic leaders took the opportunity to attack Gingrich's motives for the budget standoff, which may have contributed to Clinton's re-election in November 1996.[12][13]

Tom DeLay recounts the event in his book, No Retreat, No Surrender, that Gingrich "made the mistake of his life" and says the following of Gingrich's mis-step of the shutdown:[14]

"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One...Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and now the whole moral tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child..The revolution, I can tell you, was never the same."

That led to Gingrich's downfall..
We don't need to bring up his personal issues do we???

 

[JimH52]

Until the republican party takes the reigns away from people like Rush Limbaugh, they will be leaderless.

Notsomuch.

Okay, who leads the GOP? Who speaks for the GOP?

I am waiting...