Ben writes:
“Both the GOP base and moderates are extremely disillusioned with Republicans who are soft on illegal immigration and big on pork-barrel spending, and the President sucks on both issues. True conservatives (such as Sen. Coburn) are doing just fine. As soon as the GOP leadership gets its head out of the sand, the party will be fine, too.”
That’s my point. In order to win, you will need to not only bring back enthusiasm within your own party but also bring in independents. Independents have abandoned Republicans in very, very large numbers.
First of all, we’ve had a democratic congressional majority for less than a year and it’s a thin majority at that. There is polling that indicates that congress is unpopular for sure but why are they unpopular? Mainly because they haven’t ended the war.
Besides, polling generically for congress, as the Republicans and their corporate media enablers used to tell us all the time, does not translate into individual races. Republicans will be defending a lot more contested races this election than Democrats will. Why do you think that’s so? Also, if every Republican was cut from the same cloth as Sen. Coburn your party wouldn’t be in the shape it is now. Unfortunately for you and the country, they’re not. From the blind loyalty, no questions asked policies of the last congress to Dennis Hastert’s cover up of the Mark Foley scandal, the average Republican Senator or Congressman is going to have a lot of explaining to do. Most will hold on. Some definitely won’t. The bed has been made and you guys are going to have to lay in it for a while.
