With the defeat of Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut, the Republicans no longer hold a single New England seat in the House. Sen. Susan Collins is the only Republican that won a New England election for federal office last Tuesday. Susan Collins is a moderate and that is the sole reason that she avoided defeat. So, the Republicans’ response seems just a tad off-point.
After a stinging rebuke of their party on Election Day, a group of soul-searching conservatives who met to map out the future of their movement on Thursday suggested that their best course was to turn their back on more moderate elements of the Republican Party.
And they said that if future candidates for public office want to tap into the vast fund-raising and grassroots resources of the conservative movement, they would have to fit a “job description” holding them to a set of core principles, like fiscal restraint, opposition to abortion, tough border security and a strong national defense.
“The moderate wing of the Republican Party is dead,” L. Brent Bozell, the founder of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, told reporters on a conference call after the meeting.
Keep it up, geniuses, and you won’t hold a single seat in the Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, or West Coast.
Bushian “compassionate conservatism” is dead, is what Brent Bozo really means.
What’s left is hard-core anti-intellectual bigotry, hatred, and hypocrisy.
Call the field Applied Moronics.
I call it “20 more House seats and 7 more Senate seats in 2010.”
So, McSame needed to be more extreme to win?
No, they needed Sarah at the top of the ticket, with Hagee in second seat.
I’m sure they must have cut off the remainder of the quote, which had to be something along the lines of “We’ve spent the last two decades strangling it really hard, so we know that it’s good and dead now.”
What a bunch of geniuses – “let’s cede the largest bloc of voters in the nation to the Democrats. That’s a sure-fire way to make sure we can put together a governing coalition in the near future.” Idjits.
Nevada, Colorado,New Mexico and Florida will be lost by the Republicans for a long time. It was their “secure borders”, “mass raids by ICE”, and their blaming “Immigrants”/Mexicans for every problem in the United States. And this lead Latino voters to vote Obama in droves.
If Conservative Republicans are to stupid to figure this out… then fine. I look forward to 24 years of electing Democrats to the White House.
I’ve seen it pointed out that the anti-immigrant hysteria isn’t even playing well in Texas, and that if the GOP keeps it up, they could well put freaking TEXAS into play in the future.
Imagine a world where Texas was competitive for Dems – hard to believe after the last 30 years but it could well be possible. All because they’re letting the loons run the asylum. Crazy stuff.
I totally believe that McCain’s Senate seat will go blue in 2010. Hell, McCain only won AZ 54% to 45% when Obama won IL 62% to 37%.
They are going to soon be a party of the deep south and some mountain states…and after awhile, just mountain states.
I hope somewhere LBJ is smiling! Yep, he lost the South for a generation, but we’re back, stronger than ever.
To those last remaining New England Senators.
Wow, that’s really stunning. Don’t they see they’re on a suicide mission????
yes, by all means move farther to the right. That is the best thing you can do, GOP!
The Republicans will actually be happier out of office. This election will feed their victim complex, and they can act out their fears and express their anger from the minority position that is their natural home.
One of strange things about the GOP is that it basically campaigns on it opposition to government. The main theme of conservatism is that government is the problem. So they look a bit silly at election time when they ask us to entrust the government to them. Most voters actually prefer the nation to be run by competent people who are sincerely interested in good governance.
Somebody needs to incorporate this into the core Democratic message. “Entrusting government to a Republican is like hiring a carpenter who thinks hammers are evil.”
The Republican party is imploding. The leaders of the misfit base, such as Bozell, are in denial. The Rovian tactics that encouraged the culture war were overwhelmed by economic realities. The moderates were voted out because they were tarred with the Republican name. I think the party will remain weak and angry until it decides to look in the mirror and honestly seek a new and meaningful direction. SplendidMarbles
Party has been dead since Nelson Rockefeller left this world in flagrante delicto.
I suppose the good news is that the young Republiks are even worse than the old ones (if such a thing is possible). They come out of the College Republiks, who are the closest thing to Hitler Youth this nation has ever engendered. It is going to be some time before they adjust. Snakes, all of them. Let them copulate with each other and share their venom.
Keep it up, Brent. We’ll always have a few seats for you in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
The GOP; forging ahead boldly into total failure. What idiots!
calvin laments the absence of native ME commenters pointing out that Sen. Collins is NOT a moderate. calvin knows several ME natives who believe Ms. Collins to be VERY conservative based on her voting record and support of Dumbo II. She is moderate only in her press releases when running for re-election.
Students voted 68 to 30 for Obama and the Democrats. If Obama can help them with tuition or fees or something, we can get this generation for the future. If you vote 3 times for a given party, you have identified with that party for the future.
Obama should appoint a Coordinator for Student Outreach, and task that person with the mission of finding issues that he can get through Congress which will impact students in a big way. Something that will cut the crushing debt that students are being saddled with, and something that we can put the Democratic stamp onto.