KR: Republican fatigue could hurt the party's chances in November

[Pirate Smile]

Republican fatigue could hurt the party's chances in November

By Steven Thomma and James Kuhnhenn
Knight Ridder Newspapers

GOLDEN, Colo. - Brian Wareing has been a Republican all his life. But ask him how his party has done running the federal government and his complaints pile up: Immigration. Spending. Trade. He's had enough.

He won't vote for a Democrat in November's congressional elections. But he might vote for a third-party candidate - or he might not vote at all. "At this point, I couldn't vote for the Republican," the house painter from this Denver suburb said, with regret.

Across the country this spring, many Republicans alternate between anger and ambivalence five years after their party seized power over the federal government and seven months before a pivotal election for control of Congress.

If enough disgruntled Republicans sit out the midterm elections - when voter turnout typically is low and victory goes to the party whose base is most passionate - Republican incumbents could lose in close contests such as the one in Golden.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14171272.htm

[niyad]

1. ah, gee, won't that just break our hearts?

[Greeby]

3. I'm distraught, I tell ya

:nopity:

[onehandle]

2. He'd better vote for a Democrat. Voting third-party is voting GOP. nt

[beyurslf]

8. I Republican voting third party is not a vote for the GOP. It is a

negative vote for the GOP. Any member of a party who votes 3rd party or doesn't vote is one lost vote for that party. Any member of a party who crosses lines and votes for the other party counts as 2 lost votes.

[rodeodance]

21. umm.. yes.

[lovuian]

4. Yes a third party is definitely a possibility

and would make things Interesting!!!

[Cobalt Violet]

5. What the hell did a house painter really think he would get from * anyway?

Ya he's a have or a have more.

[mitchum]

10. Maybe loyalty to a fellow drunkard...

House painters do have that reputaton, y'know...

[Cobalt Violet]

12. I sure do know having been one...

Having worked with many and lived with a few. Your right, a high percentage did like their beers.

[mitchum]

13. I always say that it was a good thing that Jesus was carpenter...

rather than a painter. Otherwise, he would have just done that water into wine trick over and over and over...

[Cobalt Violet]

14. Lol... He would've been a very popular crew cheif doing that.

:beer:

[IndianaGreen]

15. Jesus wasn't a carpenter, and neither was his dad!

They didn't build houses out of lumber in those days. He was probably in the furniture business.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Ever hear of the cedars of Lebanon?

They were widely used for building in ancient times

http://www.american.edu/TED/cedars.htm

[IndianaGreen]

29. "The walls of these houses were made from stone and/or sun-dried brick."

At the time of Jesus, "the walls of these houses were made from stone and/or sun-dried brick."

http://home.messiah.edu/~kj1173/

The "cedars of Lebanon" reference predates Jesus's time by several centuries, and it is applied to the construction of the temple and the palaces.

[Old and In the Way]

11. He got a bragging rights to say....

I'm a bigger moron for voting for the Republican Syndicate and the Moron-in-Chief.

It blows my mind that someone painting houses could think the Republican Party is looking out for his best interests. Goes to show you how good the Republicans are at branding.

[rusty charly]

6. i get a reagan-democrat

dumping the repukes. or an independent, but all i keep reading about is "life-long" repukes turning from their party.

hmmmmm....

[IndianaGreen]

7. Yes, my Republican friends, vote for a third party or stay at home

on election day. Bush's deficits have bankrupted future generations, and his wars will rage past 2008.

Stay at home on election day and watch the latest news from Aruba.

[JudyM]

9. Great, pointed, terse post. n/t

[acmavm]

17. I hope he sits it out. I don't care, an idiot like him is just too stupid

(to the point of being dangerous) to really have the privilege to vote. Look what his voting up to now has done to the country.

I keep reading about how we're supposed to wrap our arms around all these schmucks who have seen the light. Screw that. Their blatant stupidity put us in the position we're in today. Them and Diebold. Buyer's remorse notwithstanding, I hope they wallow in the fact that they (as well as the gutless dem reps in the House and Senate) that they allowed the plunder of our Treasury (that had a friggin' surplus), they allowed a lying coward to start an immoral war, they allowed the biggest bunch of idiot thieves to run rampant throughout our government, they allowed them to do so much damage to the environment we may never recover, they destroyed the American military, and on and on and on.

They voted for a guy that they thought the could 'sit down and have a beer with'. What a frigging STUPID reason to vote for someone. And it's not like the facts of what a lying crooked asshole blivet is weren't out there for everyone to see. I saw. Most of the people who are here (and who have gone on to other places) could see it. And they allowed their boy and his criminal cabal to blatantly walk in and commandeer the Oval Office in 2000. Well, they can drop back five and punt now.

[janx]

18. You have me laughing,

because I feel the same way! No, we don't have to wrap our arms around the schmucks who have seen the light.

[llmart]

19. And these stupid voters.......

actually believed that this idiot would have anything to do with them such as sitting down with them and having a beer? He probably washes his hands after touching them because he would never think they were on his level.

He is and always has been a spoiled little rich brat and his whole family looks down their noses at the average citizen - especially his ole' bag of a mother, Babs.

[rodeodance]

20. I opt for him staying home (like my opinion counts te he)

He won't vote for a Democrat in November's congressional elections. But he might vote for a third-party candidate - or he might not vote at all. "At this point, I couldn't vote for the Republican," the house painter from this Denver suburb said, with regret.

[gasperc]

22. NOT GOOD ENOUGH, LET'S RE-DOUBLE OUR EFFORTS

and after we double them, we need to re-double them again.

Jerome at MYDD wrote he was worried about the 2006 elections after seeing the results of the IL-06 primary, John Avoris from Americablog wrote that it was quite a feat for the 3 candidates in the IL-06 to garner 4000 LESS votes than the 2004 primary.

WORRIED, DISAPPOINTED??? NO, I'm fucking ANGRY, the DLC hack consultants that were in charge of this race should be fired, we need to take lessons from this ridiculous showing, stop whining and hand wringing that their is a general malaise within the party's base.

Fuckin' aye, let's get angry, start firing these buffoons delivering these shit results, not just inspire the base but fucking electrocute it!!!!!

LET'S START KICKING SOME ELEPHANT ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bake]

23. I too have "Republican Fatigue"

I'm sick and fucking tired of their sorry asses!!

Bake

[Sapere aude]

24. Progressive Dems will sit out the election of right wing Dem candidates

What if they gave an election and no one came?

[shanti]

25. fatigue?

wow, silly me. i always figured that it was their INCOMPETENCE!! :grr:

[yellowcanine]

26. Recipe for a Democratic wave - anti-Bush/Delay/scandal motivated Dems,

independents, Republican women plus stay at home Republicans. That should do it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. Gotta stay away from sharp instruments - I'm so depressed at this.

[maxrandb]

28. At least with Clinton

it was only "Clinton Fatigue", and he was only one man.

With the Repukes, the entire "effing" country is "sick and tired" of their whole scandal festering, putrid, fish-wrap smelling, knock a fly off a shit-wagon, perianal impacted rectal gland stinking party.