Republicans Fear 2008 MELTDOWN (Politico)

[yebrent]

You know Republicans are in serious trouble in 2008 when you read an article like THIS from the right leaning Politico.

Some choice bits:

"Bush's low approval ratings are an illustration. Some experienced GOP campaign strategists believe that there is virtually no chance that a Republican can succeed Bush if his approval ratings remain mired in the 30s. The Democratic strategy of investigating administration scandals and policy blunders is calculated to achieve exactly that goal -- and the burgeoning controversy over the firings of eight U.S. attorneys has given Democrats in Congress yet another inviting target."

"Already, there are some troubling trends on the money front, according to GOP fundraisers and Federal Election Commission documents. First, corporate PACs gave almost 60 percent of their money to Democrats in the first two months this year, a striking shift away from Republicans, according to the nonpartisan Political Money Line. Republicans snagged about two-thirds of corporate PAC money over the previous four years."

"To underscore how tough things are for the GOP, Bill Pascoe, a Chicago-based Republican consultant with Urquhart Media, said "there are Republican consultants scouting state legislators for 2014. That's how far the long-range planning is going. Why 2014? Because that would be the second midterm of a Democratic president."

"Republicans are also having trouble landing the strongest candidates in key House races. In Florida's 22nd Congressional District, for instance, the top three prospects have all refused overtures to challenge first-term Rep. Ron Klein, a top GOP target. In New York's 19th District, the GOP is having trouble luring a blue-chip candidate to challenge Rep. John Hall in the Republican-tilting district."

[liberalnurse]

1. I view Politico to be in

the same class as "Newsmax"......a right-wing, red herring news journal.

[SteppingRazor]

2. I don't understand why a site founded by...

a guy that wrote for the New Republic and a guy who wrote The Survivor (about as middle-of-the-road a treatment of Bill Clinton as you're likely to find) is compared to Drudge and Newsmax. :shrug:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. They didn't do such a hot job predicting Edwards'

campaign status re: Elizabeth's cancer.

[SteppingRazor]

5. errors and bias are two different things. n/t

[liberalnurse]

6. This thread from the other day helped me process

my gut feelings with Politico.....I became suspicious over the past 2-3 weeks. Thus I placed them into the do not read catagory for now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x527736

[SteppingRazor]

8. Why not just go to politico and judge for yourself?

Instead of relying on gut feelings to not read news sources? I mean, criminey, dare I say who that sounds like? :hide:

[liberalnurse]

12. Well, I just triaged the option...

I already was feeling misque's from Politico via access/links at DU and multiple media sources such as TV and radio. Then the thread I linked just reinforced what I was sensing. I see no reason to seek Politico out as a news source at this time....I'll still keep an eye on them but they are very low on my list.....maybe if I am bored, I'll go check them out directly but I'm not impressed.

[yebrent]

7. I referred to it as "right leaning" in the OP

I'm not sure why you would reply to a post just to say that you won't read it. weird.

[SteppingRazor]

9. I'd disagree that it's even right-leaning.

So far, I've been relatively impressed with the politco's lack of bias. Yeah, it's screwed up a couple of times, and it's fallen for conventional wisdom more than a few times, but I don't find it to be mostly left- or right-leaning.

[yebrent]

11. I haven't read enough from Politico

The only reason I used "right leaning" is because I read the media matters story on the Drudge connection.

The article I posted seems totally unbiased.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Time magazine says the republicans will stay in the white house

they say the country wants a republican to stay in the white house. They think republicans can handle the situation because they are mavericks. Say WHAT...

[Warpy]

10. Jeez, it's all STRATEGY to them

how to grab and keep the top of the shitpile. It's never about governing and it is never about the fact that they've been doing the WRONG THING by becoming more and more corrupt with every election cycle.

This is why they're getting more and more unpopular. People are sick to death of having those boys blow sunshine up their asses on religious issues while sucking as much money out of them as they can.

When their flunkies say things like "all justice is political," take them at their word. Everything is politics to them and they have absolutely no concept of what justice and fairness really mean.

Enough.