Republicans have not hit the bottom yet...

[kentuck]

They believe that the last two elections were just a fluke. They cannot believe that only 20% of the people support Dick Cheney. They believe they will take back the House and make great strides in the Senate in 2010.

They do not realize that they are free-falling at the present time and Rush Limbaugh is holding on to their ankles. They haven't seen enough. They crave more proof.

The next election is most likely going to be the wake-up call that opens their eyes. Only after one more shellacking will they finally realize that they have to change their lying and deceitful ways. They are going to have to look themselves in the mirror. And face the god-awful truth.

People do not trust them anymore. They see thru their lies and propaganda. Either they will change or they will die. At the present, with their hair blowing in the breeze, they think they are only on a trampoline...

[SalviaBlue]

1. I tend to agree...

based on personal experience with the family/friends. They have no credibility anymore. Only the most indoctrinated loudmouths still think they will come back.

[Sadie5]

2. Well said

You nailed it. They don't have a prayer in 2010.

[safeinOhio]

3. Rock bottom?

pass the picks and shovels, they'll get there yet.

[burning rain]

4. They are not just beating a dead horse.

They are beating a horse that was dead by 2006, for fcuk's sake, has since been picked clean, and of which nothing remains but bones bleached by the desert sun!

I will not be suprised if in 2010 they fight their campaigns on a pro-Iraq War, let's fight Iran and North Korea, torture is kewl, War on Terror, tax cuts for millionaires, platform. I really won't.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. ....despite the number of bottom feeders that inhabit their party.

Couldn't resist.

[OHdem10]

6. On PBS tonight, they seem to be surmizing that the Va and NJ

elections MIGHT be a sign of things to come. GOP wins there
might confirm the "fluke".

The Dems on the Hill had best wake up and smell the coffee.

My own thoughts, the elites(of whom the Media are a part)
do not like paying taxes even if they are Democrats.

[MadMaddie]

7. Here is my prediction

They are on a trampoline with a big fugging hole in the middle!! Just sayin...

[C_U_L8R]

8. They actually believe they are digging themselves out of a hole

and they can keep on digging hahahahaha

[sendero]

24. Obama is digging..

... a bigger hole so fast, they won't need to do anything.

Obama's mishandling of the economic crisis is turning a Republican generated problem into a Democratic one, and the country will go just like CA and refuse to acknowledge where the blame for this mess lies.

I'm fast losing sympathy for Obama as he continues to act like he doesn't know what to do.

[jwirr]

9. The problem with hitting rock bottom is that they are running on faith.

They believe that their God is going to let them take over again as part of the rapture program. And no amount of reality can make them see it any other way. These idiots that are running around killing innocent people think they are helping this happen. The fringe rw idiots are very dangerous because they are like rats in a corner - trapped in their own interpretations of what God wants.

[frogcycle]

14. ding ding ding

when you are unfamiliar with the concept of reality, you can believe anything. ANYTHING!
The moon is green cheese, dead people rise up, people walk on water and turn water into wine, hundreds of millions of leprechauns are going to emerge and stuff the ballot boxes, the cubs are going to win the series...

no, forget that last one - too far fetched

[jwirr]

18. I wasn't actually referring to their Christian beliefs so much as their

perception of what is actually happening around them in the present time. They are working to destroy their own country and don't even see it. They think they are saving it.

[frogcycle]

19. my point was that

if you are willing to suspend logic and believe in the supernatural in one context, then your critical thinking skills have to be compromised. You are more likely then to buy in to unsubstantiated any idiotic claims, because you were raised that way.

[jwirr]

23. Definitely.

[eleny]

10. You know how in a hockey game a player gets a break away...

...and puts the puck past his own goalie? That's the Republicans lately. They keep helping us score again and again and again.

[underpants]

11. They are going to throw everything at the Va. Governor's race

I am going down to Deeds office on Monday to do what I can

No they haven't hit bottom yet.

Was there this much talk about the Democratic party after the 2002 elections on every news show every week? No, this is free advertising but it is not the kind they need (psst don't tell them that)

[eleny]

15. Living so far away, I'm donating to his campaign

We've got to do what we can. If Terry McA. won, I'd donate to him even if it made me gag. So it's time to get into campaign mode and fight for our majority.

[Peacetrain]

12. I agree

[Laelth]

13. After 2010 it will be too late for them to repair the damage.

That's my hope, in any event.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Old and In the Way]

16. They listen to too much AM talk radio.

I don't think they really know how poorly they are perceived by a majority of voters. From what I can tell, I don't think they much care to know. Their agenda is certainly not what mainstream America wants. Eric Cantor said the other day that the Republicans will win back in House majority in 2010. I hope he really believes that.

[underpants]

17. That is true. The way Rush and Glenn Beck have ignorantly tried to turn this around...

is odd to you and me but to them it is the truth.

Everyone gets the news they WANT these days. It is hard to find anything not shaped by the rightwing anyway.

[ThomWV]

20. They are still able to block progressive initiatives - and that is power.

If they are weak why don't we have single payer health care in this country? Why does the war against Iraq continue, why hasn't the Patriot Act been repealed, why do we still have a Department of Homeland Security, why aren't Bush, Cheney, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Gonzo in jail (and Ashcroft at least on parole)?

[old mark]

21. At this point, they are trying to improve their image by doing the

same things that people hate them for doing, but doing them louder.
They really are amazingly stupid, but that seldom stopped them from being elected before, and they believe they can win again by replaying the nastiness of their past.

I am sure if they could make Ronnie Reagan appear to move and speak, they would do so in a minute.


mark

[Mari333]

22. I wouldnt get too comfortable

my whole biological family voted for Bush, and then, became disenchanted with him as time went on. Now, they are supporting Ron Paul. They dont like Obama, most of them, and they told me why...'he has too many Bush appointees and continues to bail out the banks with our tax money and he is supportive of the FISA bill'. I.E. their disenchantment with Obama is because he is also sucking up too much to the corporatists who outsource jobs and bail out banks and isnt countering Bush policies aggressively. if Obama wants to 'reach out' to the disenchanted former Bush voters, he might want to rethink his strategies.
if the GOP runs any kind of alternative that appeals to disenchanted Bush voters, it can still make a comeback, imo, partly because so many progressive dems are also disenchanted with Obama right now.

[rhett o rick]

25. I think our biggest worry are the DINO's among us and not the defunct republiCon party.

See my post at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5845918&mesg_id=5845918