GOP Strategist: "We're in a white cul-de-sac"

[BurtWorm]

No shit. That's where you've been heading since 1969.

Is anyone really surprised they finally got there?

http://www.slate.com/id/2140538/?nav=tap3

Diehard conservatives are upset over record spending levels and timidity by their leaders, who they think should have responded to high gas prices with renewed calls for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and streamlined regulation. More moderate and realist-minded Republicans have been turned off by Bush's aggressive, interventionist foreign policy. Military families may still support the war but are fed up enough with lengthy deployments—particularly of the National Guard and reserves—that it's possible they won't turn out. Party inroads with Hispanic voters may have been squandered by vocal members of the GOP who want to seal the border and lock up illegal immigrants. All this has some arguing that the Republicans can't whittle their coalition down much more. "We're in a white cul-de-sac," says John Weaver, strategist for John McCain.

[AX10]

1. Democrats need to turn this into an advantage for themselves.

A victory in November in paramount.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Correction: you're in a white, fundie cul-de-sac.

[TexasLawyer]

3. A "dead end" by any other name

smells as sweet.

[orwell]

4. Who Cares?

...They control the voting machines. All they need to do is keep it within 5 to 10 points and let Diebold do the rest.

[glitch]

6. All they need to do is keep the perception there is a 5-10 pt difference

they don't need it to be actual.

[Lexingtonian]

5. I'm shocked and surprised.

Yeah, right. What the f-ck did they imagine was going to happen if they embraced white bigotry as their central Party pillar/platform?

You geniuses were going to run of sufficiently uneducated and delusional white people at some point.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Why do they think ANWAR is the solution to their problems?

Do any of them really understand what the reserves in ANWAR equare to in US consumption? When all of the political spin and smoke clears, do they understands that it equals less than 2 years of supply at current US rates? I really wonder if, even we gave Big Oil the keys to ANWAR, would they make the investment necessary given the reserve size? If course, if oil goes to $250/barrel, that might change the equation. But it still won't address our long-term energy security.