How My Party Lost Its Way (from * speechwriter)

[NoBorders]

Hopefully repugs will remain despondent regardless of who the candidate is.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96377/page/1

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The Republican Party, at that moment , was on a roll. Between 2000 and 2004, the president increased his total vote by 23 percent. Republicans in the House held their highest majority since 1946. It was the first time Republicans had controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress in back-to-back elections since the 1920s. One respected conservative commentator said that Republican hegemony in America was "expected to last for years, maybe decades."

Well, "decades" was a bit optimistic. In early 2008, by nearly every measure, the Republican Party is in trouble...

...It has been a quick, downward path from Kerry's concession call to the present discontents of the Republican Party. But two caveats need to be kept in mind. First, political recoveries can be as sudden as political declines. And second, there is, perhaps, one large American political figure who could cause depressed, fractious Republicans to bind their wounds, downplay their divisions, renew their purpose, and join hands in blissful unity at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Republican convention.

And that figure is Hillary Clinton.
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[Mythsaje]

1. This guy is seriously deranged.

The new Medicare plans are "wildly popular" among seniors?

What planet is he looking at?

The only plan that offers the medication my wife is on costs $4000.00 a year...and the cost for the drugs is $3000.00. That's $7000.00 a year out of pocket.

If that's "wildly popular," I'm Daffy Duck.

[NoBorders]

3. What, are you part of the reality-based community or something?

C'mon, man, reality is what the repugs say it is.

[Benhurst]

2. Maybe stealing two presidential elections put the Republicans

on the wrong track.

[DJ13]

4. Yep, Hillary will be the Uniter that Bush could never be

For the Republican Party.

......tearing apart the Democratic Party to get there first.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. Nothing will ever get the Fundies, Red State voters,and Corporate interests to join hands in

"blissful unity" again, that I can see, probably not even an HRC candidacy. Maybe if Pres. Clinton's term didn't look much better by comparison or if Sen Clinton wasn't a smart, determined, hard working candidate, but, I don't see it. :shrug:

Not to mention those R's who are truly "moderate" in that they very much don't want to see their country screwed over anymore and can tolerate complaining about a Dem in the WH for the next (hopefully) eight years if it will bring back some actual common sense governing.

Oh Gergen, your glory days are behind you...so sad, NOT. MKJ