GOP cautiously confident of big gains this fall

[Peacetrain]

I will be hanged if I sit on my backside and let this happen without getting out there and knocking doors again. If that is what the GOP is thinking, then they are thinking wrong. The GOP has for 2 solid years used the filibuster to block everything we have tried to put through. The fact we got as much through as we did, is pure will of force on some very dedicated Democrats.

Think again GOP..



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100806/ap_on_el_ge/us_republicans_elections


The question is whether Republicans have it together enough to gain 40 in the House and 10 in the Senate to take control of Capitol Hill — with less money than the Democrats, without the White House bully pulpit and as tea party activists expose a fissure between conservatives and moderates in the GOP.

Former Nevada Gov. Bob List, a committeeman, said the GOP needs to do more than simply oppose the policies of Obama and Democrats. Said List: "I don't think we can just win it by default, by being negative."

"We can say 'no' to the deficits and 'no' to the spending, but I think we also need to couple that with 'yes' to where we're going to cut and 'yes' to how we're going to make government run better," he said.

Brady advocated "rebranding" the GOP as "the party of competence, the party of fiscal responsibly, the party of job creation."

[Lost4words]

1. they must mean they feel they have the e-voting machines lined up!

gosh maybe we should have fixed that little voting thingie!

[denimgirly]

2. Democrats vs Repiblicans Difference is very Gray...

The democrats we currently have are most definitely not progressives (sans Alan Grayson, Athony Weiner, and maybe a few more). Relative to the mid-80s democrats w ehave a clearly corporate-democrats and thus, center-right in policies. And so this is why i find it difficult to motivate the base (which is VERY progressive) into coming out to vote for people who have no intentions of doing what they camapaigned on. I will not vote GOP but i certainly have no motivation to go vote for my party that i feel is just like the GOP. Unless i see Grayson or Weiner on the ballot i think i will stay home.

[Arkana]

4. If you honestly believe this you're a fool.

This attitude gave us eight years of Der Chimpenfuhrer, as well as Justices Roberts and Alito.

[Ikonoklast]

7. And that attitiude is *exactly* the one Republicans want you to have.

And if you actually believe that the base of the party is the progressives, the numbers don't support that.

[Spazito]

8. Gosh, yet another "unless (fill in the blank) happens, I will stay home" post...

must be something in the air today or maybe just an amazing coincidence!

Staying home and sitting on your hands IS a proxy vote for the repubs, just FYI.

[flpoljunkie]

3. 'Party of fiscal responsibility,' my ass! More like 'tax cut and spend!'

[RBInMaine]

5. Attack them as Tea Party Whackos and In Love With Wall Street and we'll be ok.

[KingFlorez]

6. What happened to the 100 seat gain?

Not so confident now the election is closer.

[secondwind]

9. I think corporations will be contributing BIG ...Dept. of Commerce has 75 million to spend.

We NEED to pass the DISCLOSE ACT!!!!

[LatteLibertine]

10. I

dearly hope we don't go back to Republican rule. I will certainly get out and vote and be working against that.