'Rock-bottom' Republicans begin inquestEwen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Friday November 7 2008 00.01 GMT
The Guardian, Friday November 7 2008
Senior Republicans were gathered in a secluded
location in the Virginia countryside yesterday for
an inquest into Tuesday night's devastating elections
losses and discussion of how to rebrand the party.
The meeting in Shenandoah Valley is the first of
scores of inquests into the election defeats to be
held over the coming months, some in public and
others in the privacy of homes or committee rooms
in Congress.
-snip-Republicans at the Shenandoah meeting, representing
organisations primarily on the party's conservative
wing, have a lengthy agenda stretching from new
leaders through to the ideological battle over which
direction the party should go in.
In a sign of how far the party has fallen, the
Republicans set up a hotline and website yesterday
appealing for suggestions from the public on how to
rebuild.
It is a long way from the ambition of Karl Rove, ...
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