Republican Party has a shrinkage problem
By John Amato Monday Apr 27, 2009 4:00pmYes, it's true: the Republican Party is leaderless except for Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney which hasn't worked out very well as new polling shows that Americans are turning away from the GOP in droves.
The new Washington Post/ABC news poll has all sorts of intriguing numbers in it but when you are looking for clues as to where the two parties stand politically there is only one number to remember: 21.
That's the percent of people in the Post/ABC survey who identified themselves as Republicans, down from 25 percent in a late March poll and at the lowest ebb in this poll since the fall of 1983(!).
In that same poll, 35 percent self-identified as Democrats and 38 percent called them Independents.
These numbers come on the heels of Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager for Arizona Sen. John McCain's presidential bid, declaring the Republican party a "shrinking entity" last week -- citing the decline of GOP numbers in the west, northeast and mountain west as evidence.
I spit up my coffee when I heard one of those Republican strategists tell a host on MSNBC that the GOP was getting ready to embrace civil unions for gays. Yeah, right. The religious right would immediately leave the GOP if that happens. And they are the largest bloc of voters they have at this point.
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Of course they do. That's why those dudes are always angry and hate colored boys so much.
Pink's a color.
I almost spit my supper out when I heard talk of embracing any union.
Next they'll be singing Look For the Union Leader...
(Jimmy Hoffa?)
Geraldo couldn't solve that one anymore than Al Capone or Jon Benet Ramsey.
I expect future GOP breeding farms, to increase their decreasing membership. They could put 'em out in the country, right beside the mega hog farms
Take the case of that family in Arkansas with seventeen kids. They are the Republican ideal. Hitler would have been proud.
Starting with this Nation article.
I wonder if THAT is where the teabagger protest was born, lol!
[T]he GOP was getting ready to embrace civil unions for gays
As they say, a day late and a dollar short.
I want the New Confederacy of Rick Perry to secede from the Union, oh sorry, that was last week. Now he wants money, again.
Too funny and so true! As one person said yesterday on Think Progress about this...."Request denied. Next!". LOL
LOL great comment
at This point.
Sure ya didn't mean the only block?
The GOP for 30 years has been the party that cynically used division to get elected. pitting black against white, straight against gay, immigrant against non-immigrant, christian against non-christian....
as George Constanza might say....IT'S KARMA BABY! Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.
and the video is great.
It sure is fun watching the repubs self-destruct. Their desperation is clearly showing.
Losers.
Jon king, David Gregory, Ed Henry and Fox have been sniping at the prez and liberals have been running around on the tube with their tales between their legs feigning ambiguity on everything and never standing firm on anything... Thankfully the masses are starting to see behind the charade.
Gotta love that "separate, but equal" crowd.
He said Obama travels to Mexico and people get pig flu. Talk about a glass house coming from this fat swine. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/limb...
Can't imagine why Americans are turning away from the GOP. What could it be?
That is just nauseating. Flush really is the leader of the swineherd!
it had to go with this post. lol
Perfect.
Thanks for giving me a good laugh!
Nothing seinfeld ever did was a classic.
Says you. You must be lots of fun at parties. Five classics off the top of my head:
1) The Contest
2) The Chinese restaurant
3) Making out during 'Schindler's List'
4) Man hands
5) Kenny Roger's Roasters
Damn...and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
You gotta be jokin YSB!
The Magic Loogie was definitely a classic!
I continue to believe the only choice for the repukes is to go left of the Dems. That's the only way for them out of the political wilderness at this point. Unlikely to happen, though.
If the economy continues as it is, who do you think will get the next elections? Think people will re-elect the Dems, if the economy doesn't turn around? I doubt it. What other choice do they have? Just one other party.
I can't tell if they're shrinking or melting. See what happens when a little water of truth gets on them.
Is Obama campaign cash quashing eligibility suits?
FEC shows more than $1 million paid to top law firm since election
President Obama may be using campaign funds to stomp out eligibility lawsuits brought by Americans, as his campaign has paid more than $1 million to his top lawyer since the election.
[edited for brevity. Site Monitor]
The FEC report also reveals Obama For America has spent nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year – of which $6,365 in legal fees paid by Obama For America also went to Oldaker, Biden & Belair, a firm founded by Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
It must really sting you to go through the effort to sign up just to post WorldNetDaily garbage. Go back in your hole and watch your FalseNews HD.
Get used to that losing feeling. You're going to have too.
Your party did enough damage to this country. You should be proud.
Have you picked up of your brown shirts at the dry cleaner yet?
Or do you have your husband wash and iron them for you?
Get lost loser.
"Or do you have your husband wash and iron them for you?"
Ah...is this ANOTHER snarky homo comment on an allegedly progressive site? If you seriously think the troll is a woman, my apologies. If not, forgive me if I don't think the troll is the only loser here.
You're assuming quite a bit there. How do you know that Proud RWE is a man?
I let it slide as I'm used to mudshark's comments, so I know he's not an idiot. RWE on the other hand...
...and he doesn't make "snarky homo comment[s]".
I find it sorta funny that most folks in the comments anywhere in the blog-o-sphere tend to think that those with gender-neutral handles are men. muddy assumes one time that the commenter is a woman and *BOOM*!
the advice some sites on the internet give to us womenfolk to use gender-neutral handles in order to avoid harrassment (yes there's actually been advice like that on the intertubes).
I don't think mudshark's the type to make a homophobic remark either.
Also we have had female wingnut trolls in the past too...
that you have to do that......but the internet can be a very scary place.
I'm just careful about most other things tho and allow myself to use girlie handles to my heart's content...
At the AV Club (The Onion's pop-culture-centric offshoot) there are a few women who post as themselves, and they catch some ....odd...replies. But that site is full of kids, too. Ironically, there were a lot of women with gender-neutral handles outing themselves on a thread over the weekend.
Generally speaking, the guys here- the prog-o-sphere, in general- seem to be a bit more respectful. And it seems to me that the women here give as good as they get, which I always enjoy witnessing. :D
"Generally speaking, the guys here- the prog-o-sphere, in general- seem to be a bit more respectful. And it seems to me that the women here give as good as they get, which I always enjoy witnessing. :D"
That is definitely the case, imo! :) I wouldn't wanna post in the conserv-o-sphere as I think it would mostly the opposite of what it's like here and at other prog blogs. I sometimes read conservative religious blogs to get a feel for what people are thinking in that realm and it's not always pretty.
That is a true rarity, if it actually happens. All they ever post is what Rush Windbag said that day or the day before. Hate Islam, Mexicans, Homos, Government and Taxes.
There isn't any thinking in the comments on their pages.
I try to get an idea of someone's comment for a while before I pass judgment....but lately my ignore list has grown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFE0C_5gtzE
I pictured that person up there as a 6' 200lb woman with buns (hair) on both sides of her head. Complete with brown shirt. a very tough woman . See circa 1940 Germany.
As for the person making a remark about my comment.
I can see why they would think that.
my bad. I should have been more articulate.
tanks guys
adios.
;)
What political party of the past:
Blamed a minority for it's country's economic woes
Blamed a minority for an attack on one of its buildings
Went to war to more or less extend its empire
Hated gays, jews, anymore non-conforming
Went so far right that it finally made enemies all aroung the world
And finally got regulated to a fringe party?
The Heathers?
You forgot Mudder, Gott and Kinder,
A hatred for "deviate art, intellectuals, Unions and gays.
just BITCHY aren't they?
Mudder, Hello Fadder....
Yeah the spelling's off, but it makes the joke work
I sing my own version of it:
Hello mudder
Hello fader
Greetings from Camp Higherwater.
Send a lifeboat
I am drowing
Love Sonny from Lake Open Sewer.
(At least I think it's mine.)
Obama Mamma
On a recent episode of The Simpsons, Bart and Lisa we're getting cardboard boxes from someone like Federal Express against the rules. When the company sends van loads of their employees to get it back, Bart and Lisa are standing in the turret of the cardboard box castle, and Bart said, "Who'd a thought a bunch of guys in brown shirts would be a problem?"
I haven't heard that song in years.
One of my faves, cuz I used to listen to Dr. Demento as a kid.
I prefered the King Bisquit Flour Hour.
;)
King Biscuit Flower Hour---awesome!
Add about 100 lbs to George and make him twice as bitter and it's Party Leader Limbaugh!
Apparently not around the waistline.
Problem is, where are the former followers going
To something worse?
The followers will stay with the GOP. Most people who call themselves "Independents" really side with one party or the other when they vote. They just don't like to identify. The Republican brand sucks right now, but people will still vote for them.
humiliation will do that.
from two berries and a twig -->to a notch
And his bathtub? I know he was talking mainly about government but l would love for him to do tryouts with the ever decreasing GOP first.
I was thinking the same thing.
You're either with the republicans or you are the enemy. I think what that describes is a black hole. The republican black hole looks like it may evaporate, and not gobble the world up like it threatened to. The little particles flying off the black hole are moderate conservatives and liberals. Once the republican black hole gets smaller it will evaporate at a much faster rate, until it disintegrates. When it finally dissapears there will be a virtual explosion of negative particles, so caution is advised during the final moments.
Come on trolls. The republican party has blood on it's name. Get off the train.
…it’s Clintons fault. Nothing is ever their fault because they’re, well, special.
Short.
The more they shoot their mouths off. The better it is for the country.
So I say. Do It.
Just don't go near them when they're in the pool. Ya never know.
Well they do gott all the guns.
"...the GOP was getting ready to embrace civil unions for gays. Yeah, right. The religious right would immediately leave the GOP if that happens. ..."
the ironic part of this scenario is that the ejection of the religios right from the gop, while doing enormous damage to the party in the short term (5 years or so) is probably the only means to save the party from total armageddon in the long term.
the gop is just like a little kid who knows the medicine will help him but won't swallow the cod liver oil no how no way.
Good evening. The Republican party is toast. Even the Republicans are saying it. At least the few that i know. Of course the 27%ers are still there but what is 27% going to get you? Nada!! Look at Gingrich. Everything he says blows up in his face. If he wants to run for President he should just shut his mouth because he is taking himself out of the mix before the midterm campaigns have even started. I could go on and on and maybe i will. lol
Everything that Obama does the Republican leadership or the Republican mouth pieces react negatively. EVERY FUCKING THING!! Even the kind of normal conservative (is there such a thing?) is saying "Wait, Obama is not wrong on EVERYTHING." Then of course Eric Cantor comes on and says that Obama brushed his teeth wrong.
Republican whining and snivelling knows no bounds. They are truly pathetic, and their base is starting to realize it.
Anyone that's ever dated one could've told you that.
*
never reached that stage. :S
No more thugs for me, one was enough, having a big "one" can never make up for his awful attitude...
'
You got his number?
Kidding..;)
You are funny, Liberalicious!
;)
Where'd you ever get the idea that Republicans have "big ones"? Most of them were "in the pool". Liberals are the ones that have to yell "Open the drawbridge" even when they are doing the backstroke down the Yukon river. Unless, of course, they are lesbians. Then it doesn't matter. Opening the drawbridge, I mean.
Campaign for Liberty continues to grow. I hope the GOP continues to fall apart because the replacements are folks that actually care about the Constitution, spending, our rights.. and (gasp) bringing our troops home.. IMMEDIATELY.
Anybody want to make a bet that our troops will be in Iraq the duration of Barry's presidency?
They'd still have the secessionist Neo-Nazis! Although I suppose if the Republicans accepted gay marriage, they'd be down to gay secessionist Neo-Nazis.
I spit up my coffee when I heard one of those Republican strategists tell a host on MSNBC that the GOP was getting ready to embrace civil unions for gays. Yeah, right. The religious right would immediately leave the GOP if that happens. And they are the largest bloc of voters they have at this point.
Don't be so sure, John. They are not winning any national elections with only the religious right, and can only win in the extremist districts that they presently hold.
If the survival of the GOP on the national level requires throwing the religious right over the side, they'll do it in a heartbeat. Doing that will bring the GOP back to where it was from say circa 1950 to 1980.
Never met a Reslug with a hair on his ass either, without even mentioning the obviously bad shrinkage elsewhere.
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