I cannot help but laugh at the hand wringing going on amongst the Republicans in the aftermath of a third consecutive Congressional special election loss in what was considered a "safe" district. What is amazing is that these folks refuse to see that they have created their own problem and have driven moderates and anyone believing in the separation of church and state out of the Party. It's not a need to "re-brand" the Party that will change things, but rather a need to remake the party from the top to bottom, starting with the expulsion of the Christianists. Anyone who isn't blind or drinking doctored Kool-Aid ought to be able to figure this out. In fact, Northern Virginia Congressman Tom Davis has figured it out, but he seems to be a lone voice crying in the wilderness but is retiring because he sense the coming disaster.
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Contributing to the GOP's current near radioactive status with voters are (1) blind allegiance - it's a wonder they haven't suffocated with their noses so far up the Chimperator's ass - to a president who (a) took the party to war based on known, deliberate lies, (b) has an approval rating worse than Richard Nixon just before his resignation, and (c) has been rated by historians as the worse president in the nation's history, (2) surrender of control of the Party to those who are basically mentally unstable religious fanatics, (3) the utter abondonment of any kind of responsible fiscal policy, and (4) the incredible erosion of civil liberties under the fascist regime of Bush/Cheney. But this lunatics cannot see these obvious factors. Here are highlights from the Washington Post:
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House Republicans turned on themselves yesterday after a third straight loss of a GOP-held House seat in special elections this year left both parties contemplating widespread Democratic gains in November. In huddles, closed-door meetings and hastily arranged conference calls, some Republicans demanded the head of their political chief, while others decried their leadership as out of touch with the political catastrophe they face.
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Tuesday's loss in northern Mississippi was devastating. The district had given President Bush 62 percent of its vote in 2004. To reverse its losing streak, the NRCC pumped $1.3 million from its depleted coffers into the race. Freedom's Watch, a conservative independent group, pitched in. Vice President Cheney appeared at a last-minute rally. Bush and Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, lent their voices to automated phone calls imploring Republicans to vote for Southaven Mayor Charles G. "Greg" Davis. Davis lost the contest by eight percentage points, a wider margin than in either of the two previous special-election defeats.
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Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, has been badly damaged by scandals besetting his family and his party in Alaska, creating an unexpected opportunity for Democrats. Sen. John E. Sununu (N.H.) is defending a seat in a state where Democratic fortunes are on the rise, and other Republican senators -- including Susan Collins (Maine), Norm Coleman (Minn.) and Gordon Smith (Ore.) -- are seeking reelection in states leaning Democratic in a presidential election year. In total, 23 Republican-held Senate seats will be on the ballot this fall compared with 12 for Democrats.
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Rep. Tom Davis (Va.) fretted in a 20-page memorandum given to House Republican leaders yesterday and provided to The Washington Post. "Members and pundits, waiting for Democrats to fumble the ball so that soft Republicans and Independents will snap back to the GOP, fail to understand the deep seeded antipathy toward the President, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas, the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party."
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