Amazing...simply amazing.

If a strong shot of McCain doesn't kill the party, I don't know what would.

Too bad it has signed on to this euthenasia.

But Captain, I can't hold her together much longer... Scotty.

I just don’t understand how this can happen since the leading GOP candidate supports open borders, Cap and Trade economics, restrictions on free speech among other enlightened ideas.

At least it’s not 1936 all over again...

And ... Along with all 3 branches of Govt, The Dems will probably have a filibuster proof Senate, 3 more Liberal Supreme Court Justices. Its going to be a long generation for some ... !

Anybody got a fork? I think we’re gonna need it.

Good! They deserve all the grief that get. I am tired of supporting a party does not have my values anymore.

More money to the national republican party.

I WILL NOT VOTE FOR JUAN.

“Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense is gone.”

It’s about f____ing time!

As a newspaper reporter who talks daily with mid level reporters, I can say first hand that the bulk of the 'reporting' media (as opposed to the column writers and pundits) have been scouring the nation the past three years in search of any story ... ANY thing... that makes the Bush GOP crowd look guilty of disaster.

I hear it every day from people who ask breathlessly, "why doesn't some good conservative Republican make a speech and set things right."

Well the truth is, many Republicans do offer solutions and make comments.

But the 'reporting' media, the AP, ABC news, Reuters, Breitbart, Yahoo News, Google News, UPI ---- will not report any good thing a conservative says.

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, did it really happen.

In the world of Republican vs Democrat politics.... the answer is a resounding NO.

Uh yeah, but the GOP has not been able to admit where the onset of the cancer lies.

They will soon, but they are too brain screwed to admit it.

Hint....dump McCain and the stupid Rockefeller nitwits. You will win.

Hint....wheres the money?

And ... Along with all 3 branches of Govt, The Dems will probably have a filibuster proof Senate, 3 more Liberal Supreme Court Justices. Its going to be a long generation for some ... !

Not only that, but if the party listens to Tom Cole and friends, the candidates we will run will be in the "McCain mold." So that means Democrat supermajorities competing will solidly left-wing RINO minorities.

Newt gave them power on a platter - and they threw it away. Hope all the liberals they cozied up to will be there for them...

It’s going to take a rhino-ectomy to get rid of the cancer.

Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.

What the hell are you gonna do about it?! Fix it.

I believe the dems have their own version of Operation Chaos. And it’s working. With RINO’s like McCain as our choice, no wonder the news is rife with these reports.

But you know... If America survived the Carter years and the Clinton years, then the Obama presidency won’t destroy us.

I hope.

It's going to be a democrat landslide IMO. Plus, in addition to McCain's moderate beliefs, he has no energy...

Yep, it was done in 2006, they just ain’t figured it out yet.

...for as long as the eye can see.

The Davis loss has a bit less to do with the national problems, of which there are many, than it does with his having to run against a RINO who unloaded the kitchen sink and fed ammo to the DNCC. The taint did not wash off and Childress was able to take advantage of it.

Well the truth is, many Republicans do offer solutions and make comments. But the 'reporting' media, the AP, ABC news, Reuters, Breitbart, Yahoo News, Google News, UPI ---- will not report any good thing a conservative says.

You're 100% right about this...

I somehow cannot buy that. There is enough influence out there that could make it happen on SOME show. FNC is open to GOP. Why not there?

Come to Jesus.

McCain will win the Presidency though. That much I do believe. Obama just can’t capture the white working-class vote. It’s true.

For all you youngsters out there....it looked a hell of a lot worse in 1976.

Four years later we got Ronald Reagan.

Buck up!

I am sure there is more than one reason but in my opinion much of the fault can be laid at the chubby little feet of ...Karl Rove...the man who made sure the GOP stood for pretty much nothing at all.

Nice goin Karl.

How to lower the price of oil?

Drill, Drill, Drill.

Ignore that and be a loser.

Agreed. He’ll probably win.

And then what? What happens after that?

“More money to the national republican party”
When the amnesty b.s. was being pushed I wrote a letter to Mel Martinez (my Florida Senator) protesting his stance for this travesty. He simply sent me a request for a donation to the R.N.C.
The R.N.C. and John. McCain can kiss my hairy white rear end.
As for Martinez, when he comes up for re-election I’ll work against him with all my efforts.
Republican party? You mean Democrat lite?

In 1976, Democrats gained one seat in the U.S. House and one seat in the U.S. Senate.

SECRET NOFORN (This means dhimmicrats who are most assuredly foreign.)

MESSAGE TO REPUBLICAN PARTY: IF YOU DITCH MCCAIN, WE WON’T RIOT. WE WON’T PROTEST. WE MAY EVEN VOTE REPUBLICAN.

END SECRET NOFORN

Obama supporters listen to his speech in San Antonio, Texas. REUTERS/Jim Young

Not much, unfortunately, that was kinda my point.

With the losses in Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as the large number of retiring Republicans, it seems to me it could be much worse than that.

The GOP has no one to blame but themselves, as well as a pathetic lack of leadership in a party that holds the White House and, less than two years ago, held both houses of Congress as well. By indulging in an orgy of government largess, the Republican Party compromised its long-term message in exchange for short term political gains. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, an embarrassing number of Republicans in Congress have decided to retire rather than face the voters.

The Republicans will be fortunate to keep the losses under 20 seats. Regardless, if the party doesn’t get new leadership and a new message before 2010, then it won’t look like the GOP of the 60s and 70s, but rather then 30s and 40s. The leadership isn’t going to come from the White House, either, regardless of who wins in November, so someone else is going to have to step up.

Unfortunately, no one springs to mind.

If America survived the Carter years and the Clinton years, then the Obama presidency won’t destroy us.

I really think we were close to losing America in the 70’s with Carter...clearly the worst President in History. The 90’s were bad for morals but everything else was not nearly as bad as the 70’s. Remember the 70’s having to sit in the car all day waiting for gas??? I do and I was a pissed off 7 year old.

I got a call yesterday from a good friend who recently moved from CA to MO. He had developed a close friendship with one of his neighbors in his up-scale Ozark neighborhood and they got into a discussion about the horrible gasoline prices.

He related to me how this dear new friend just turned on him in an instant in white-hot rage because he wouldn't agree with her that it was all Bush's fault. Furthermore, she was so filled with venom at anything Republican that she couldn't slow down or stop her unmerciful tongue lashing of my conservative former CA friend!!!

He was devastated and wanted me to reassure him that this attitude hasn't become widespread. I could not. Furthermore, I had to try to prepare him psychologically for the depressing news that's going to decimate conservatism as well as Republicanism for at least the next two and a half years!

The pendelum that swung so high and hard in 1980 for Reagan Republicanism/conservatism and against creepy Carterism/Demonicrats and that swung our way again in 1994, is headed back the other way right now and is going to knock a whole lot of good that's been done into the deep pit!!!

So as it says in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit And The Pendelum," "Quoth the raven, nevermore." Conservatism will be driven from the Republican Party for a time before making a smashing recovery in the future, after the Dems screw everything up beyond all known recognition!!!

The new leaders are going to have to come out of nowhere. The GOP as we know it, is a spent force.

It's like this wherever Obama goes. You won't see enthusiasm like this for McCain...

Point well taken

Dream on about getting another Reagan in four years if Hilabama is elected.

The GOP should be happy. It brings them closer to their socialist brethren.

I remember driving from Colorado Springs to Indianapolis in a VW bug, with a 3 month old baby. Ran out of gas in Kansas and could not find a gas station open anywhere

Americans want that misery and they are going to get it.

Try it, you will not like it.

Its over. We got a liberal running and the Republican party has no values and won’t stand for anything conservative. This country is going to be a wasteland very soon. Ok for me, I’m retired and my daughter might make it ok but my little grandson is going to have a really tough time. You got people in this place that want power more than a future for the country and even there own kids much less anyone else’s kids.

He had developed a close friendship with one of his neighbors in his up-scale Ozark neighborhood and they got into a discussion about the horrible gasoline prices. He related to me how this dear new friend just turned on him in an instant in white-hot rage because he wouldn't agree with her that it was all Bush's fault. Furthermore, she was so filled with venom at anything Republican that she couldn't slow down or stop her unmerciful tongue lashing of my conservative former CA friend!!!

You are so right. The public are incensed about gas prices, and they want Republicans out of office...

and to top it all off our government really cut our throats today.

I remember driving from Colorado Springs to Indianapolis in a VW bug, with a 3 month old baby. Ran out of gas in Kansas and could not find a gas station open anywhere

Now that is bad. Yep the Democrats are going to make it exactly like that and the Republicans (not us conservatives) are going to look at each other wondering what went wrong.

I was a member of the GOP when it had meaning. Strong military, low taxes, limited government, and personal responsibility. That GOP is gone.

At least most of the Republicans who lose their seats will have a terrific pension plan and other benefits unknown to us among the lowly masses.

“Anybody got a fork?”
I have a runcible spoon, a spork. Is that okay?

"Supporters reach out to touch the hand of democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) after he spoke at a rally in Dallas, Texas February 20, 2008."

If McCain shows up in a rally where I live, I seriously doubt if I'll have this kind of energy to go out and try to shake his hand...