So when do you think the worm actually turned on the Republicans?

[YOY]

I'd post a poll but it seems like there were just too many events to count the day that everything seemed to start going sour for the Republican party. It seemed one day we were totally in the minority for daring to point out the blatantly obvious and the next everyone with a brain was sheepishly agreeing with us.

Personally, I think it was when Colbert did his infamous 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents%27_Association_Dinner

Hardly destroyed his career now did it?

DUers, your take?

[NEDem]

1. The Terry Schiavo debacle.

[progressiveforever]

4. What year was that? I remember it well, but can't place the year

[NEDem]

14. February/March 2005

[specialed]

9. Yep. They acted in clear violation of the constituion.

[YOY]

12. I didn't really feel it though.

Maybe it's just me.

[ClassWarrior]

2. The day helderheid came up with that Ooga-Booga thing.

NGU.

[Lasher]

3. Terri Schiavo

It's been downhill for them ever since.

[Clio the Leo]

5. It was the Wednesday before the first debate.....

.... if we win, it will stand out as perhaps the best day of the whole campaign.

Obama did everything right, McCain did everything wrong. That was the morning Obama called him to issue a joint statement about the economy and instead McCain called Obama out and pledged to "suspend" his campaign. The day started with this AWESOME foreign policy speech by Biden but the events of the day will cause it to be lost to history.

http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/755583

Then Obama took time out from "debate camp" and gave another AWESOME speech in Dunedin, FL

http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/755800

He told us (for I believe the first time) that our destiny is not written FOR us but BY us (how appropriate given what was about to happen.) They played Fogerty's "Centerfield" (Put Me in Coach) when he finished and the metaphor will forever be etched into my brain.

Then of course Obama gave his press conference about the state of the economy and McCain's challenge to him to suspend his campaign (again, two days before the first debate) and meet him on the playground .... I mean in Washington.

http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/756416

The day culminated in Bush addressing the nation and telling us to "Run!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! We're ALL DOOMED!!!"

And that was the beginning of three days of drama that would involve McCain and Obama meeting at opposite ends of of the White House cabinet room table and would end with the SPANKING Obama gave McCain at the debate he almost didn't show up for.

Throughout the entire time, Obama demonstrated his ability to remain calm in the face of crisis and I'll remember that first day until I die.

Nah ..... I take that back, it was the day he went to that diner with Gov. Strickland to get some pie. :)

[Jennicut]

6. Hurricane Katrina. The world witnessed the unthinkable. 3rd world conditions in the wealthiest

on earth. Although the Rethugs tried to blame Nagan and Blanco ultimately it was his responsibility, he is the president of the United States. The reporters covering it (including Shep Smith of Faux news and Anderson Cooper) were horrified. It really set people against Bush and made people realize his utter incompetance. I knew then that the Dems had a shot to take over in 2006. That and the utter incompetence of the Iraq War which kept getting more and more violent.

[Joiwind]

7. The Invasion of Iraq

That's when I first started thinking.

"This idiot has a personal agenda, and to hell with the rest of the country."

[lunatica]

8. It was when Air America had it's debut

And for the first time we heard liberals on talk radio. The inertia of the slide into fascism was first slowed, then stopped and finally reversed in the elections in 2006 (even though not enough for us). It's just beginning to gather steam now. I'm really excited to see the Republicans lose their cushy jobs in the Congress by landslides. The old guard will crumble and a truly new Congress will emerge.

[yellowcanine]

10. No one thing. It has been death by a thousand cuts. Iraq, Katrina, McGrumpy, Palin, economy.

[youthere]

11. When the Supreme court decided to put * in the White house.

[Forkboy]

13. Definitely Katrina.

Up until then the only people criticizing Bush were people like us. Katrina opened the floodgates, so to speak.

[lonestarnot]

15. Spying before 9/11 and then there was 9/11