While it is very, very easy to harp on what ails the Republican party, and there is a lot, there are more signs of hope every day that it is possible the GOP will be on the comeback trail now that they are out of power in Washington, D. C.
This post over at Patterico shows that the United States is at a 16-year cycle that may, just may favor a return of the Republicans at the national level. If nothing else, many voters will look to the Republican party as a back-stop against the excesses of the Democrat control of government in the nations capital. And the majority of the governorships in the United States.
Once again, Jim Geraghty over at The Campaign Spot shows that Republicans are poised to retake the governorships in New jersey and Virginia this year. And, there is some great news in New Hampshire that may want to make current Republican Sen. Judd Gregg reconsider his retirement. Which, BTW, dovetails onto a strategy I outlined in an earlier post on the potential Republican comeback.
If that is not some good news for national Republicans, the fate of the current Democrat governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, is in the tank. So bad, that there is talk President Obama will rescue Mr. Patrick by naming him the United States attorney for Massachusetts. Worse, and this is really cool, is that a majority of those polled think that former governor Mitt Romney did a better job than the current governor.
Outstanding!
And, it appears that Americans are not buying all the hype about Globaloney Warming. Only one to two percent of Americans consider this all that major an issue. Even better. Forty-one percent think that Globaloney Warming is a lot of hot air.
Add this to the government trying to take over Chrysler and force it into a "partnership" with Italian car maker Fiat, and while President Obama is personally popular, his policies are getting increasingly unpopular.
If the Republicans are smart and do not overreach, this can all be to their advantage.
Some other blogger hits it right on the head about all this Hope and Change.
"IT WON'T WORK!"
5 comments:
Ah, yes - the ongoing disaster is great news for repubs.
Keep spinning, dude. You're starting to generate electricity.
I read the following in an account of how the RNC has slapped Mr. Steele's wrists, forcing him to re-hire people he fired when he "took over," which originally appeared in the Mooney Times.
"...a regional political force that cannot hold historically Republican districts (NY-20) in New York, cannot keep a five-term senator from Pennsylvania in the caucus, and cannot appear to stem the popularity of a Democratic president who has made inroads in the West, throughout the Midwest, and even in pockets of the South."
It's a long road ahead for the GOP. They are in shambles now and are trying to find their identity. I can only hope they get their heads on straight and start being the party they were at one time, a great, conservative party.
The GOP, like the American economy needs to wipe the slate clean. Reemergence as a conservative stalwart, Reagan-like party of individual freedoms and ideals. This is what must take place and will be worth the near term pain....
I am not as sanguine as you are about GOP prospects, although if the Dems continue on their current track the train wreck will be something to see.
The collateral damage to the country from the current administration's economic and social policies will be painful and long lasting and America will have a very deep hole to dig out from, if it even can.
Everyone in this country can expect their net worth to decrease (probably by about half) and when inflation inevitably kicks in due to the government printing money, even the smug won't be immune.
The collateral damage to the country from the current administration's economic and social policies will be painful and long lasting and America will have a very deep hole to dig out from, if it even can.But the years 2001-2009 were super awesome. It's only in the last few months that thing's gone sour, eh?
What an idiot.
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