GOP forms circular firing squad

[microbial]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14891.html

Looks like the meltdown is in full swing.

It may be that Obama will have some pretty big coattails at this rate.

With despair rising even among many of John McCain?s own advisors, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering?-much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.

 

[Engineer]

Pretty bad. McCain might just skip his own election night party, lol! :laugh:

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Pretty bad. McCain might just skip his own election night party, lol! :laugh:

Wow. Just wow.

 

[bctbct]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Pretty bad. McCain might just skip his own election night party, lol! :laugh:

They already retracted saying it was a mistake.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: bctbct

Originally posted by: Engineer
Pretty bad. McCain might just skip his own election night party, lol! :laugh:

They already retracted saying it was a mistake.

I bet that he wishes he could do the same with Palin too! :laugh:

 

[Ferocious]

McCain told the Times that the administration ?let things get completely out of hand? through eight years of bad decisions about Iraq, global warming, and big spending.

I heard somewhere that McSame voted with Bush 90% of the time.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Ferocious

McCain told the Times that the administration ?let things get completely out of hand? through eight years of bad decisions about Iraq, global warming, and big spending.

I heard somewhere that McSame voted with Bush 90% of the time.

He told it on himself.

I voted with President Bush 90% of the time! :barf;

 

[nageov3t]

is Bush at the center of said circle?

 

[retrospooty]

LOL... I Love it! Kharma is a beautiful thing.

 

[microbial]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Pretty bad. McCain might just skip his own election night party, lol! :laugh:

New polls look even worse than expected (10/23)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...8/10/23/MNTH13N9MD.DTL

The numbers are startling. Obama leads by 12 points in Ohio, 11 in Pennsylvania and 13 in Wisconsin. In Michigan, where McCain's campaign has pulled out, the lead is 22 points. In Indiana, a strong red state, the Obama lead is 10 points, larger than in other recent polls.

Today, Quinnipiac University also released polls of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida that show Obama leading in all three. In these surveys, Obama's lead in Pennsylvania is 13 points. In Ohio, which is a must-win for McCain, the lead is a whopping 14 points.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: microbial
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14891.html

Looks like the meltdown is in full swing.

It may be that Obama will have some pretty big coattails at this rate.

With despair rising even among many of John McCain?s own advisors, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering?-much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.

Interesting that of all the mistakes the Republicans in the article claim McCain made no one criticizes the incredible smear campaign.

 

[smashp]

Last one out of the circle gets to eat the cracker

 

[OrByte]

?The staff has been remarkably undisciplined, too eager to point fingers, unable to craft any coherent long term strategy. The handling of Palin (not her performances, but her rollout and availability) has been nothing short of political malpractice. I understand the candidate might have other opinions and might be dictating some aspects of the campaign to staff ? but the lack of discipline and ability to draft and stick to a coherent message is unreal. You have half of the campaign saying Ayers is a major issue, and then the candidate out there saying he doesn?t care about a washed up terrorist. You have McCain one day echoing Milton Friedman and the next day echoing FDR.?

Im loving this, especially the bolded

 

[Moonbeam]

They are like a bunch of gasses termites in a house, looking for somebody to blame when they are all soon to be dead. The Republicans failed and are failing because they are wrong about everything. They are a disaster that is destroying the nation. They must be defeated and everybody but the comatose know it. The whole world is waiting for the US to be born again as a liberal and modern democracy. We have allowed our ass to govern and now it's time to change.

 

[UberNeuman]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
They are like a bunch of gasses termites in a house, looking for somebody to blame when they are all soon to be dead. The Republicans failed and are failing because they are wrong about everything. They are a disaster that is destroying the nation. They must be defeated and everybody but the comatose know it. The whole world is waiting for the US to be born again as a liberal and modern democracy. We have allowed our ass to govern and now it's time to change.

It's time for America to grow up....

 

[Lemon law]

As it increasing looks the the GOP is going to get badly whipped by Barack Obama , most of the people that were at the root core of excessive GWB&co support, and consequent lack of support for McCain, are rushing to the sidelines. As they set up shop blaming McCain when they should be pointing fingers of blame at themselves. Thus far, Obama has proved to be a Teflon candidate, at least from where McCain is standing. And when the Mccain punches fail to land or are dodged, casting about for something, anything effective is to be expected.

At least from the Ben Franklin point if view, the GOP can hang separately, or they can hang together.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Mccain/Palen has bumbled and fumbled at every opportunity during the campaign. I'm sure some people might wonder if this style would also would carry over into actual governing.

 

[seemingly random]

Hopefully, loyal republicans will stay home on election day in protest. I imagine that to continue to vote for these farces would make it hard to look at oneself in a mirror.

 

[seemingly random]

Top Republican officials have let it be known they are distressed about McCain?s organization. Coordination between the McCain campaign and Republican National Committee, always uneven, is now nearly dysfunctional, with little high-level contact and intelligence-sharing between the two.

:laugh:

Hard to share what you don't have.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

I blame the moderate Republicans just as much for the mess we are in than anyone else. They KNEW better than to vote for Bush's reelection in '04 but could not bring themselves to pull the Democratic lever or not vote because of their partisanship. Their refusal to be more critical of this administration and stand up for what they truly believed in has now caused the destruction of their party. They let it become hijacked by social conservatives and neo-con warhawks in order to sustain power. They are now feeling what can only be described as a cosmic bitchslap into political oblivion.

 

[Craig234]

One of the problems that could come from this election is if Republicans think the lesson was that a relative moderate like McCain was the problem and they need a radial rightist.

 

[trenchfoot]

Originally posted by: Craig234
One of the problems that could come from this election is if Republicans think the lesson was that a relative moderate like McCain was the problem and they need a radial rightist.

I think other lessons they've learned so far is that they need to be even more deceptive, much more secretive, a whole lot more fascist-oriented and many times more clever in the ways they manage their ministries of propaganda, politics and vote coercion.

 

[seemingly random]

I've always thought it was counter-productive to give the enemy advice. What if they took it and beat you?

The repugs need to go much further right. Skip this pussy shit in the middle. I'm sure there are some untapped voters on the far right.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
I've always thought it was counter-productive to give the enemy advice. What if they took it and beat you?

The repugs need to go much further right. Skip this pussy shit in the middle. I'm sure there are some untapped voters on the far right.

If you go too far right, you come out on the left.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
I've always thought it was counter-productive to give the enemy advice. What if they took it and beat you?

The repugs need to go much further right. Skip this pussy shit in the middle. I'm sure there are some untapped voters on the far right.

They should not be the enemy. They should be a legitimate political party. If they can be better, perhaps next time they win they won't suck.