Budowsky: The GOP Benghazi disease
By Brent Budowsky - 01/22/14 05:30 PM EST
The Republican Party is widely viewed by voters as offering little except a fanatic personal and partisan antipathy toward President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as obsessive compulsions about Benghazi and ObamaCare, without any credible message about how life for Americans might improve if more Republicans are elected.
Republicans in Congress suffer from all-time low approval ratings, ranging between 7 percent and 13 percent. The Tea Party suffers from all-time low approval ratings that range between the teens and low 20s. The GOP brand suffers from a decade of brand destruction that has led to Democratic victories in national elections in 2006, 2008 and 2012. And now Republicans have begun an intense intraparty civil war that pits unpopular Washington Republican insiders against the unpopular Tea Party, which implodes the coalition of the only recent national election won by Republicans, in 2010.
According to polls, the only national Republican who does not lose by landslide margins to Hillary Clinton in 2016 match-ups, until recently, is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is now embroiled in multiple scandals. Christie appears poised to join the list of GOP 2016 landslide losers, while a growing list of congressional retirements puts more House and Senate seats in play for both parties in 2014.
Last week I warned Democrats about the dangers they face in 2014. What political analysts and media underestimate today, as the Christie scandals unfold, are the equally grave dangers facing the GOP.
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