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Things aren't going well in Republicanland
There's Bill Kristol, still fantasizing about Iraq, while seeing which way the wind blows:
In any case, with the battle against Hillary Clinton behind him, everything seems to be going swimmingly for Obama. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign dog-paddles along. And almost every Republican I’ve talked to is alarmed that the McCain campaign doesn’t seem up to the task of electing John McCain.
There's Robert Novak:
Shortcomings by John McCain's campaign in the art of politics are alienating two organizations of Christian conservatives. James Dobson's Focus on the Family is estranged following the failure of Dobson and McCain to talk out their differences. Evangelicals who follow the Rev. John Hagee resent his disavowal by McCain.
The evangelicals are not an isolated problem for the Republican candidate. Enthusiasm for McCain inside the Republican coalition is in short supply. During the four months since McCain clinched the nomination, he has not satisfied conservatives who oppose his positions on global warming, campaign finance reform, immigration, domestic oil drilling and how to ban same-sex marriages.
There's Bay Buchanan:
John McCain is relevant only in so far as he is not Barack Obama. The Senator from Arizona is incapable of energizing his party, brings no new people to the polls, and has a personality that is best kept under wraps. And while his strong suite is experience, especially on military matters, it was gained almost entirely in Washington, a city that 80% of Americans now believe has miserably misled and mismanaged the nation.
Since McCain has become the presumptive nominee, I have spoken at more than two dozen Republican gatherings. The sentiment everywhere can best be summarized in the words of one of the activists, "No matter who wins in November, we lose."
There's Tom DeLay:
Two years after he resigned from the House, former Republican leader Tom DeLay says conservatives haven't bottomed out from their 2006 election losses, Democrats are "cleaning their clock," and it will take years before the Republican Party can compete with the operation Democrats have built.
"The conservatives refuse to accept that the left is cleaning their clock, and until you hit some bottom, wherever that is, to where it says, 'Well, maybe we ought to do something different,' little or nothing's going to change," Mr. DeLay told editors and reporters at The Washington Times last week.
Texas State GOP sees problems:
After a decade of political dominance, the Texas GOP is opening its party convention in Houston this week with a troubling prospect: Grumpy Republicans may not turn out to vote this fall.
There's Ohio:
As the architect of Ohio's ballot measure against gay marriage, Phil Burress helped draw thousands of conservative voters to the polls in 2004, most of whom also cast ballots to reelect President Bush. So Burress was not surprised when two high-level staffers from John McCain's campaign dropped by his office, asking for his help this fall.
What surprised Burress was how badly the meeting went. He says he tried but failed to make the McCain team understand how much work remained to overcome the skepticism of social conservatives. Burress ended up cutting off the campaign officials as they spoke. "He doesn't want to associate with us," Burress now says of McCain, "and we don't want to associate with him."
There's an Allan J Lichtman commentary (Professor of History, American University):
During the Bush years, conservatives have built the biggest, most expensive, and most intrusive national government in the history of the Republic. Despite their disdain for social engineering by government, the Bush administration has undertaken in Iraq the most daunting and expensive social engineering project since the Reconstruction of the South. According to the Keys to the White House, conservative disarray is reflected in Republican midterm election losses, a lack of positive domestic accomplishments, setbacks abroad, and the failure to find an inspirational nominee.
And Tom Edsall sums up:
"I think we've got a world of problems," said one Republican strategist with extensive experience in presidential campaigns. He said this came home to him with a thud when he watched Obama and McCain give speeches last Tuesday, with the Democrat speaking before "20,000 screaming fans, while John McCain looked every bit of his 72 years" in a speech televised from New Orleans. This Republican cited the liberal blogger Atrios' description of McCain's speech with a green backdrop that made McCain "look like the cottage cheese in a lime Jell-O salad."
The overall impression is that things aren't going perfectly well in Republicanland.
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YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
GOoooooooooooooooo Obama.
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6/10/2008, 12:28 pm
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But but but but Steve!!!
There is this secret tape which may or may not exist....which portrays the entire Obama family as racist...
because of this...I'm voting for McCain.
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it is not over until we hear the skinny lady *****.
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Or there are whiney fools who wanted Clinton to win so McCain could truly win, who now threaten to vote for McCain, because they are closet conservatives 
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Is McCain the ideal candidate for the republican party? No. Does he still have my vote? Yes.
I just don't like Obama's policies and think a republican in the White House will help balance out the democratic majority in congress.
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or whiny assholes that accused clinton of all this underhanded, racist **** when there was none because they were so blinded by whatever they think they saw in obama. never before has such an empty suit caused so much blind adoration and such a willingness to stab another democrat in the back for daring run against him.
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Even via the damage Clinton incurred upon Obama, he'll still defeat McCain...
MrGreed, you just want the rich to get tax cuts. That's why you vote Republican.
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Silly me, I thought that things looked pretty bad across the board.
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6/10/2008, 12:51 pm
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silly, you...indeed. when republicans lose a special election in Mississippi, in Louisianna and Denny Hastert's old seat in Illinois, and they have a 72 year old warmonger who is about as charismatic as a glass of warm oatmeal as their nominee, YES, VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA, THERE IS TROUBLE IN REPUBLICANLAND......
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