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What will it take for the rank and file Republican's to finally wake up to the inescapable fact that the Neo-Con wing of the party is leading down them down the road to obscurity and irrelevancy?
They bet the farm on being able to derail health care reform and lost decisively. Once again, the GOP comes across as the party beholden to global corporations, the supporters of big business, the party of "No!" on just about any issue which has even a chance to positively affect The People.
While their internal, party loyalty is admirable (though one must wonder what kind of pressure and threats were made to convince every, single Republican in the House to vote against last night's bill), they are increasingly marginalizing themselves and literally removing themselves from the public debate. How do the party faithful stand electing representatives to Congress who go there and do absolutely nothing?
The Neo-Con's divided the country over Iraq, had their hat's handed to them in 2008, and are now setting themselves up once again for failure in 2010. Sure, they'll likely pick up a few seats, maybe even a majority in Congress, but they won't roll over the Democrats because of health care reform. Once more, they're banking the future of their party loyalist's on being able to ride dissatisfaction over last night's vote to a complete victory and that's just not likely to happen. Poll after poll reveals that while The People are unhappy with Congress as a whole, they are more than satisfied that their own, individual Congresscritter is doing a fine job.
Maybe one day, REAL Conservatives, who used to be the backbone of the GOP, will rise up in disgust and toss the Bush/Rove/Cheney/DeLay crowd of ideologically driven miscreants back to Texas where they came from. If they don't, the GOP is in REAL trouble.
What will it take for the rank and file Republican's to finally wake up to the inescapable fact that the Neo-Con wing of the party is leading down them down the road to obscurity and irrelevancy?
Hilarious!
We won three huge elections just recently; NJ, VA and last but not least, in the bluer than blue state of MA.
We have an excellent shot of taking back the House in Nov, even better after this criminal vote in HC.
I am a Massachusetts resident and trust me when I say that filling Ted Kennedy's senate seat with a Republican, who specifically stated that he would vote against Kennedy's life cause, was a referendum against a healthcare bill. Additionally, I would certainly consider a state with 89% of all political seats held by Democrats to be a blue state.
There is going to be a revolution in this state come November, mark my words. The citizens are pissed!
I am a Massachusetts resident and trust me when I say that filling Ted Kennedy's senate seat with a Republican, who specifically stated that he would vote against Kennedy's "life cause", was a referendum against a healthcare bill. Additionally, I would certainly consider a state with 89% of all political seats held by Democrats to be a blue state.
There is going to be a revolution in this state come November, mark my words. The citizens are pissed and they are venting this morning all over the radio dial.
Our 2 party system is the only reason that mentality will live on.
I just hope one decade soon, these Americans will realize that governing as little as possible is not appropriate for the massive challenges of the future.
We won three huge elections just recently; NJ, VA and last but not least, in the bluer than blue state of MA.
We have an excellent shot of taking back the House in Nov, even better after this criminal vote in HC.
Maybe.
However, I think the "start over" idea being tossed out there by the Republicans concerning healthcare was a bad idea. Rather, they should have had a clearer counterproposal they could sell as more reasonable to the American public.
Despite what the OP states, this has nothing to do with neo-cons. Many of the folks who supported "start over" were the Tea Party folks, who clearly don't align themselves with neo-cons.
Now, they need to pick out a few of the concepts of the healthcare law they find most offensive and use them as wedge issues in November. If they use "start over" in November, I think it will backfire.
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