Cook Political Report: GOP Tantrum Going Nowhere With Voters

[Swampmonster]

Originally Posted by wanneroo

Couldn't care about polls. Polls are interesting to look at, but listening to polls done to a 1000 people in liberal Wash D.C. is stupid. Following polls is not leadership.

You have to stand on principle. A part of leadership is to do just that and do the right thing and to set a course and direction for people to follow.

Republicans are in the crap because they did the opposite the last 8 years. No leadership, no standing on principle. They bent over backwards and lost their backbone and they ended up more hated than ever, including from the conservative base.

[Frankie117]

Originally Posted by MovingForward

Yep. They never learn. McCain and Palin ran the most hateful campaign in this century. Did they win? No. Did the Republicans learn anything from that? No. Instead, being the total idiots that they are, they think all they have to do is put a person of color in charge of the RNC and shove Jindal into the limelight, and that will do the job. Totally clueless. It's amazing to watch, actually.

And what did you find particuarly hateful from the campaign? Is this your first year being interested in politics? But then again this century is only 9 years old, so it does not really matter what you say..

I suspect that as usual, the Democrats will try to overextend themselves soon enough, and eventually lose like they always do.

It looks like another $500 billion is about to be pushed through Congress and approved by Obama:

Democrats boosting domestic spending atop stimulus (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090225/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending - broken link)

I suspect spike in the inflation rate that is about to decent upon us will not go over well for the Democrats. You cannot throw money at the problem of inflation, it would be interesting to see what plan is conjured up to deal with it...

[GregW]

I think the collapse will still be deep enough that a drop in both commercial and domestic real estate as well as stock prices and foreign investment will cancel out any inflationary pressure created by this spending. Without the spending the deflationary forces created by the speculative bubble bursting would have dropped prices to less than 20% of pre crash levels with the incredible loss of equity. This spending will keep some money flowing through the economy until the real, not speculative, values are worked out.

[wanneroo]

Originally Posted by golfgod

wannerroo wrote;

Trust me on this, Charlie Cook does not charge the big bucks AND COLLECT IT FROM Ds AND Rs because he's "polling 1000 people in DC". The guy is one of the most respected political consultants operating today. The reason he doesn't sign on to run, or run parts of campaigns is simple, HE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE A PAY CUT.

Everyone polls. Including your beloved empty headed "leaders" in the R house and Senate. The difference is they're only listening to the polls that FNC is doing on their mouth breathing "base".

golfgod

Could care less what the methodology is, how much of a saint the pollster is, how perfect the pollees are, whatever. You missed my point. Polls are a snapshot of a tiny group of people. Interesting to hear peoples point of view, but you don't lead from polls. Leadership is about taking a vision and a plan and getting people to follow you. Leadership isn't about chasing the sheep around.