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Way to go elite class, way to go.

I’m not sure it’s fair to blame the RNC, NRSCC and NRCC for every bit of this.

I agree with some of your points, smagar. This isn’t the most appealing time for someone to run for a Senate seat as a Republican. However, it seems like a failure of leadership and imagination to have arrived at the point where Sen. Ensign is already having to concede defeat in a number of races 8 months before any ballots are cast. There is no reason that the NRSC should find itself up against state filing deadlines without a fully committed candidate or without a “Plan B Candidate” if the preferred candidate drops out at the last minute. It is, frankly, embarrassing that the GOP won’t even have a candidate on the ballot in a eminently winnable race like that in Arkansas.

Sen. Schumer was able to find Democratic challengers even for safe Republican seats in 2006. For example, there was no reason to believe that Senator George Allen was in any danger in 2006 but the Democrats still persuaded Jim Webb to run. Then there was the “Macaca” incident and now I’m represented by Senator Webb.

Senator Pryor in Arkansas could come out tomorrow and tell the world that he is Client 10 of the Emperor VIP Club and he’d still win the race in November because he isn’t running against anyone.

Also, it’s absurd that the Sen. Ensign finds himself in a position where he’s saying that he won’t put money into races for OPEN SEATS that already “appear to be lost”. Why should we be in that position for any OPEN SEAT?

Why in the world, for example, didn’t Ensign find a better recruit for the Senator John Warner’s open seat in Virginia than Jim Gilmore? It was obvious from the beginning that Gilmore was going to lose to Mark Warner, but it’s never been obvious that ANY Republican would lose. Virginia is still a Red State (albeit with an extremely shallow Republican bench which is the reason we keep getting more Democrats in office, in my opinion) and Mark Warner’s record as governor is full of holes. There is simply no reason this should already be a lost seat.

When the NRSC is being shown up by a dim bulb like Chuck Schumer, we need some new leadership. Let’s get one of the stars of the Senate like DeMint, Cornyn, Kyle, or Coburn in there, not the guy who lost to Harry Reid by 498 votes the first time he ran for the Senate.

For me, I have now registered as a Conservative. I will now vote for the individual rather than the party. I’m hoping to see a movement with Conservatives around the country; a fight for our own candidates; a fight for our values and principles to be upheld with NO excuses. The GOP has become the party of Globalism… The GOP lost it’s way, stood by and watched as Big Government dominated while the GOP was at the helm.

When the media displays the kind of behavior we have all witnessed during a time of war, and the GOP stands by and allows this behavior to go unattended, what kind of message does that send… When the people of America force both parties to allocate funds for a fence along the southern border to be constructed, and both parties quietly (secretly) kill the bill behind closed doors while stripping the funds, what are we to think… I say, enough with scumbag lawyers running our country; time for a new breed of politician, with a degree in something other than political science. While we are at it, can we take “lobbyist” and lock every one of them up for multiple violations of our law…

I’m surprised anyone really thought that Republicans were going to take back the House or Senate in 2008. The many retirements in the House and Senate is not surprising(many miss the perks of being in the majority, and that’s why they stayed). And from a numbers game, Republicans are still defending many, many seats in the Senate.

Unless there’s a radical shift in our country (i.e., a terrorist attack), the Republican’s best shot is going to be in 2012, when all the freshman Democratic Senators are up for re-election.

Hope it was worth killing the party – we were doomed either way: death by anger or death by aliens.

If you think about it, not everyone is willing (or able) to drop their careers, uproot their families and move to the other side of the country for six years. Most Congresspeople fly back to their districts constantly, because their constituents demand it. I.e., they end up living out of their suitcases for much of their time in office.

Would you want to do that? I wouldn’t.

Plus, let’s look at the electoral math in the Senate. Chances are that, any newly elected R is going to be in the minority for much, if not all, of their term. With a mean, partisan Dem party calling the shots. Sound like fun to you?

And, in the House, with 28 open R seats, we face the probability of a Dem-held House for a very long time.

The last time I can remember an R president with both houses of Congress belonging to the Ds—Gerald Ford, the last two years of Reagan and Bush 41. Not banner years for Republicans legislatively, eh?

And, finally, the GOP money advantage is gone. The Dems are flush in cash. We, on the other hand, are so busy tearing at our own party apparatus that it can’t effectively respond. I guess we expect our GOP Senate and House candidates to get the money to run and win from…what, manna?

So, if you were a successful businessman/woman, with a family and kids in school, would you want to drop the life you’d work so hard to build and joust at electoral windmills this November.

No…I didn’t think so.

Seriously, Republicans need to grow the *^%$ up and get a spine.

The polls have been notoriously accurate this year. We all know the media controls the polls and use them to influence us rather than to report the actual results. Screw the polls, and quite whining Ensign. I’d demote you if you weren’t already at the lowest rank.

Each time I get a fund raising letter from either the House or the Senate election committees, I use a bold Sharpie pen and write across the page and tell them until they SEAL THE BORDER and solve the illegal immigration problem WITHOUT amnesty or anything that smells like amnesty, I am not sending them a DIME. I still get mailings, they haven’t figured it out and are wasting what money they have sending me soliicitations for funds.

I maxed out trying to get Fred on the ticket this year, but do not plan to give McCain a dime, either. They are lucky I plan to VOTE this fall. I am in a blue state they are dreaming about turning purple, but I think they are delusional (Michigan).

I maxed out trying to get Fred on the ticket this year, but do not plan to give McCain a dime, either. They are lucky I plan to VOTE this fall.

I’m Hoping, Praying (And Paying) that Steve Pearce gets it; he is a darn good conservative Congressman… One of the few real conservatives left in office and a great guy in general.

He is ‘neck and neck’ with Heather Wilson, a once fairly conservative, now pseudo-republican Congresswoman. But the Lefty-Dem Tom Udall is highly favored to win by the oddsmakers.

Got a link?

chewydog on March 13, 2008 at 11:56 PM

Several of the items had individual links, but it would not post with them, so I took them all off. There must be a limit (one? two?) on the number of links.

What 12 seats are in danger?

SouthernGent on March 13, 2008 at 11:10 PM

While as AP mentioned we have Warner in VA.

Personally speaking I am not really sure that is a big loss.

John Warner is my senator and based on his replies, when I cared enough to contact him, his replies were always canned and very transparent.

Do get me started on his voting record…

I hopeful for his change.

Vote ‘Bama!

Yeah, I just got a hands-out from the RNC this week. I checked “other” and ripped them a new one on the reverse side of the form. I’m sending it back on their $.41 because I’m just feeling mean and fed up. I’ve not seen such a pathetic, incompetent bunch ever.

hoosiermama on March 14, 2008 at 12:12 AM

If you haven’t already sent it back, we’d like to hear what you said.

I feel your pain. I vowed I would never pull the lever for McCain, but, the alternative we will never survive. chewydog on March 13, 2008 at 11:54 PM

McCain’s Navy may be a motley crew but the alternative is unthinkable.

The RNC leadership should be shot. Ok, well, I’m not a hyperbolic leftist, so let’s just ship them to Siberia.

Say what you want about Putin…he’s no fool. There’s no way he would let the RNC near Siberia. They would find a way to make it worse.

Our best hope is holding the White House colonizing Mars. We have little-to-know hope of maintaining in Congress America – at least as of right now this century.

amerpundit on March 13, 2008 at 10:36 PM

Whose Face do you think that is staring at us from the surface of Mars?

Obama!

Aliens were building monuments to his glory before we invented the wheel.

MB4 on March 13, 2008 at 11:13 PM

Got a link?