Republican: "Never in my 72 years have I ever been so embarrassed

[AndyA]

at being a Republican as I am right now. I can't begin to fathom what has happened to the Republican Party. It seems all of their standards are gone. It's just a big Roman Holiday for all of them."

This was overheard in an elevator this afternoon.

It would seem the Republican base is beginning to evaporate. :rofl:

[MissMillie]

1. Did you invite him to leave the dark side and join us?

:evilgrin:

[AndyA]

13. No, I didn't. There wasn't enough time.

I commented that "we" had to make sure this could never happen again, and that Bush acted like he was a Dictator instead of a President.

Someone commented that Bush was acting like Hitler, and another said Bush would likely get impeached! At that point I had reached my floor and had to get off.

I normally don't judge people by their appearance, but I would guess from the looks of the others on that elevator, I was the only non-Republican in attendance, as well as the only one under 50.

[thefloyd]

2. Wow

Cons never had standards. Well....take that back. Very high standards for most Marketing campaigns.

[enid602]

3. Roman Holiday

Hell, I wish we were on one long Roman holiday, and didn't have to live through this nightmare. And sadly, we might come to view this period as 'the good old days.'

[stepnw1f]

4. A Roman Holiday for Another Sucker

Psssst... your party was always selfish to the core. Why so surprised?

[bryant69]

5. That's not accurate

They have been since Nixon, more or less, but they were also the party of Lincoln.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Bridget Burke]

7. And the party of Teddy Roosevelt...

He wasn't perfect, but he was a Trust Buster & a Conservationist.

[gordianot]

12. Repukes also abandoned Teddy who started an independent party.

[hootinholler]

15. I'll have to look up when he busted the trusts...

Wasn't it after he formed the progressives? or did he loose that election?

-Hoot

[Bridget Burke]

6. Old-Time Republicans were often old farts with too much money.

But they believed in fiscal responsibility & staying out of people's private lives. Some even knew the meaning of "enlightened self interest."

They weren't Just Plain Evil like the new crowd.

[TomPainesBones]

8. Yeah yeah, it's not like they weren't warned.

They just had to win their 2004 football game against the dirty Liberals.

Now they get to jump ship and wash their hands of the whole mess.
Not in front of me you don't. You get right back up on that ship and drown.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

9. Roman Holiday, indeed. Complete with Caesar-Bush...

...and his big Roman Candle soon to be lit over Iran:

[progressoid]

10. Should be, "Never have I been so embarrassed to be an American"

Like the rest of us.

[unblock]

11. it's amazing how they still can't let go.

one can hope that an embarraassed republican might stay home instead of voting and/or might contribute less than otherwise.

but REAL progress comes when such people quit their party -- or recognize that it has quit them.

[graywarrior]

14. They couldn't figured that out before 2004?

[Olney Blue]

19. I don't understand that either- the writing was on the wall.

[femmedem]

20. They were looking at a different wall:

the one with the wide screen TV tuned to Faux News.

Seriously, I love all the recent posts about Republicans turning away from Bush. Not all of the people who voted for Bush are stupid/bigoted/selfish morans. The ones I know were just misinformed--as anyone would have been who relied on MSM for their news.

[hvn_nbr_2]

16. Republican base evaporating?

Okay, we're hearing this sort of thing more and more, but we also heard it quite a lot before election day 2004. But the simple truth is that the Republican base is no longer old-time conservatives, traditional Republican voters, the Christian (sic) right, or even neocons and assorted wingnuts, racists, and misfits.

The Republican base now is a couple programmers at Diebold, ES&S, and a few other companies, plus quite likely some Mitofsky wannabees in polling companies. Neocons say they create their own reality, and programmers and pollsters create the Republican base, which "shows up" on election day in whatever numbers are needed. In the Ohio election on some reform measures, one that polls said people favored 2-1 "lost" on election day by 2-1; Diebold turned 2-1 into 1-2, and virtually nobody cared or even noticed (except people here on DU).

Not saying that we shouldn't be happy about each Republican defection. Just saying... well, I'm not sure exactly what, except don't get too ecstatic about it before the October surprise and the election night exit poll "corrections."

[demigoddess]

17. bush does remind me of Caligula

we're only missing the horse named as a senator---- or I forgot about joe lieberman

[lpbk2713]

18. I like to tell people like that ...

that there's two and a half years left to endure this asshole. It could get a lot worse before it gets better.

[Chimichurri]

21. That's great. But why did it take so long? Was it their lack of

knowledge of the past 6 yrs or has the gas and immigration thing touched a nerve??