GOP: Democrats didn't win, 'we lost.'

[sabra]

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/01/gop_democrats_d.html#more

GOP: Democrats didn't win, 'we lost.'

“Well, we lost – there is no nice way of saying it,’’ said Rep. John Boehner (R., Ohio), minority leader of the House, facing the annual winter meeting of the Republican National Committee today.

With only one fleeting reference to the war in Iraq, a motivating factor for many voters in the turnover of Congress to the Democratic Party, Boehner made quick work of all the conventional wisdom for why the GOP lost in the midterm elections of 2006. “Whether it was Iraq… the fact that we had some corrupt members on the Hill, on both sides of the aisle,’’ he said, “the net result of all of it is, we lost.

“The Democrats… they didn’t win,’’ Boehner added. “We lost.’’

And the reason, the leader of the House Republicans said here in Washington today, points to what his party must concentrate on in the next two years if it hopes to regain control of Congress: Framing an agenda that speaks to the concerns of Americans who don’t really care who runs Congress so long as Congress addresses the deep concerns many Americans have.

“It was our lack of new ideas that didn’t give people reasons to go out and vote for us,’’ Boehner said at a luncheon for party executives from each state. “We have to reconnect… with the American people… develop new solutions to the problems they face every day… They have to see us as relevant…. And if they don’t see us as relevant, there is no way that we are going to be able to earn our way back to a majority.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Whatever.

:boring: So long as you're gone.

[Jack from Charlotte]

15. Roger that! LOL. (nfm)

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[Skidmore]

2. That's so freaking grade school...

these people are like a bunch of schoolyard bullies. It's all about grabbing all the marbles and taking other kid's lunch money away from them.

They learned all they ever needed to know at kindergarten recess.

[SharonAnn]

3. That's because Republicans are "Losers". LOSERS!!!!!

[Clark2008]

14. ROFLMAO!!

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Result is the same, so suck it up assholes! n/t

[judaspriestess]

5. oh go eff yourself dude

your party does not represent the reality of America and what she stands for. Yeah you lost alright AND the Dems won fair and square.

[youthere]

6. Democratic win or not..it still makes them losers.

[xultar]

If that helps you to sleep at night.

[LSK]

7. hes right, we LOST BIN LADEN

OH YEAH, REMEMBER THAT GUY?????????????????????

[trumad]

8. And Vince Lombardi rolls in his grave.

Guess what--- In 2008, their loss will be a massacre!

[Jo March]

9. Yeah, and just because you're right, that doesn't mean that I'm wrong

:eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Drug abuser Rush - America's Coward - Limbaugh said that last week

Either way, his party is OUT.

OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT

I love writing that.

[demo dutch]

11. So... those are the latest talking points? Short on imagination!

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. Rush - America's Coward -Limbaugh - a true loser's loser

[Brewman_Jax]

12. He can call it what he wants

it changes nothing. Boehner and the rest of the GOP are

[Horse with no Name]

13. Yes Officer...the man didn't REALLY die

He just quit breathing.:eyes:

[Rex]

16. Another key point in the death of the GOP.

Repukes can't even admit their adversaries won, now why does that sound familiar? Another key indicator of habitual failure. Looks like W really has rubbed off on his party. :rofl:

[HughBeaumont]

17. "We have to reconnect . . . with the American people . . ."

Right, Boner. I guess this time around, voters just "didn't go along" with that whole shipping their jobs to Asia, shipping their children to a God-forsaken never-ending bloodbath, spying on them, suppressing their freedom of speech, fearmongering, scandal, giving corporations everything they want 700,000-fold, governing in the interests of the rich and not for the interests of the people . . . gosh, I could just go ON AND ON AND ON, Boner!

[Imagevision]

18. Boehner needs serious reality check, the people are fed up with Bush's war and

because of intense election fraud watch, even Diebold couldn't help the GOP because the whole world was watching! The chance of a GOP president elected in 2008? well, after Bush, there is NO chance...

[rock]

19. Well who WON all those seats?

I know it wasn't the Republiks.

[Jawja]

20. And * didn't win the 2000 election.

It was stolen. :dunce:

[AndyA]

21. Excuses, excuses, excuses. More of the same. New day, tired old message.

Boehner, you are a real boner. Why don't you take a couple of your lit cigarettes and stuff them up your nose? Maybe the smoke will clear your head, as you are obviously delirious.

I don't suppose the GOP could have lost because:

- You bankrupted the country.
- Practiced rampant cronyism.
- Allowed lobbyists to write legislation for you.
- Failed to perform checks and balances as REQUIRED by law.
- Allowed Bush to have imperialistic powers.
- Dropped the ball completely with warnings prior to 9/11.
- Dropped the ball completely with Hurricane Katrina.
- Got caught with your pants down with Ney, Cunningham, Abramoff, Foley, DeLay, Libby, etc.
- Promised to restore integrity to the White House, and tarnished it worse than ever before.
- Lied repeatedly to the American people.

Could any of those things have been the reason? Nah, couldn't be. Those are the very things America stands for, right? Those are the very things that have made America the great country it once was, before the GOP screwed it up, right?

Nah, couldn't be any of those things...

Boehner, you are a real boner.

:sarcasm:

[Parche]

23. LIMP BOEHNER

He is such a nifnod loser

[Raine]

24. So much the better

LOSERS! :rofl:

[rocktivity]

25. Your problem is a lack of GOOD ideas, not NEW ones

And by good, I mean ideas that help ALL Americans--not, as your fearless leader once put it, just "The haves and the have-mores." THAT'S why you stopped being seen as "revelvant!"

:headbang:
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