GOP Turns Anger on Campaign Committee

[DoYouEverWonder]

December 23, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Narrowly defeated in his bid for a fourth term, Montana Sen. Conrad Burns turned his anger on the National Republican Senatorial Committee and commercials it had run months before the election.

"The ads hurt me more than they helped. I wouldn't have spent the money," he said, his comments characteristic of the season of second-guessing now unfolding among Republicans.

President Bush's low approval ratings, the unpopular war on Iraq, voter concern about corruption and Democratic fundraising all figured in the GOP loss of Senate control in last month's elections. But among Republicans, long-hidden tensions are spilling into view, with numerous critics venting their anger at the GOP Senate campaign committee headed by North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole.

In recent interviews, officials said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., as well as Ken Mehlman, the party chairman, set up outside checks on the committee at critical points in the campaign.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-gop-second-guessing,0,4292514.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

I love to watch Repugs eating their own. It's much more fun to watch then when we do it to ourselves.

[rodeodance]

1. yummy -------

[Seabiscuit]

14. Pass me a thigh. Yum.

[monmouth]

2. That is interesting news, especially about that cow Libby Dole.

[POAS]

36. Dole is living proof that

using too much makeup (and badly at that) rots the brain.

[Faygo Kid]

3. News flash, Burns: You're a corrupt idiot. That didn't help.

"The party of personal responsibility" starts pointing fingers at each other. Looks like the Cult of Bush isn't enough to keep the orcs from fighting one another.

[badgerpup]

8. I remember one particular Burns radio ad right before the election...

Gist of it was "Don't vote for Tester because he doesn't have a hunting license but he had his picture taken holding a gun...and Kerry doesn't hunt either but he wore a new hunter's jacket."
:wtf:
:rofl:

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

19. Or, translated:

"Hey Montana, I think you're such a bunch of ignorant pig farmers, that I'm going to hedge my re-elction on hoping you're dumb enough to vote against my opponent based on inuendo about the status of his hunting license! YEEEEEHAAAAW!"

Taking out Allen and Santorum was good, but nothing, nothing was better than seeing Burns eat it.

[pokercat999]

33. Shhhhhhh let these morons blame the election committee.

No need to clue them in on the real problem.

[Faygo Kid]

38. "Clue them in" is not possible - unless you wave money under their noses

Then they will pay attention to you. Otherwise, they are clueless. Your point, however, is well taken.

[wakeme2008]

4. What can I say But

:popcorn: :beer:

[Warpy]

5. At last the circular firing squad is on their side

and since their only strength is their lockstep mentality, that's the kind of thing that will destroy them eventually.

We're used to tearing each other apart. We just come together on election day.

They won't.

[VegasWolf]

6. Maybe the war in Iraq played some part, but then they would have to accept personal

responsibility!

[sallyseven]

7. Maybe they lost because their message

was very bad. Too many really bad candidates and too nasty campaigns. You all lost because you had no vision and your message was on of hate.

[aquart]

12. They lost because they didn't deliver.

Every other damn thing would have been overlooked.

[alfredo]

9. Burn's mouth did him in.

[Skip Intro]

10. Hey repukes, we won, get over it.

I've been waiting a while to say that...

:evilgrin:

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. And we didn't have to cheat

either.

[mitchum]

11. Why doesn't he just call Libby Dole a stupid c--- and get it...

over with?
Now, that is something that soon-to-be-former Senator Burns and I can agree on.

[Xipe Totec]

15. My favorite quote from Titus Andronicus:

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust
And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,
And of the paste a coffin I will rear
And make two pasties of your shameful heads,
And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam,
Like to the earth swallow her own increase.

Open wide, GOP, here come your children...

[stubtoe]

16. Yoikes!

No one can curse quite like Shakespeare!
:scared:

[badgerpup]

26. Ooooh, NICE!

:applause:

That boy Bill Shakespeare, he seems to have something applicable to say for every situation. Makes him worth reading if only for that...

[anotherdrew]

17. I think they should not be called 'the GOP' they should be called always REPUBLICANS

it's subtle, but it seems odd that some stories refer to them as the GOP and others as the Republican party. Why is there no TLA (three letter abbreviation) for the Democratic Party?

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

18. The real truth

Burns decision to trash fire fighters trying to help save the life of his constituents was actually a planned piece of political machination from Liddy Dole, not a direct result of Conrad's total fucking dimentia.

"Go negative on fire fighters," she said, pulling herself up from the hash and despair, "people fucking hate fire fighters".

Other advice included conflicting racial strategy memos to Allen (Indians are barely people, anyway) and Corker (race baiting in the south never works). Thankfuly, Frist sorted Corker's campaign just in time.

The simple truth of the whole thing: the 2006 Senate Disaster had nothing to do with awful, out of touch candidates so crooked they have to screw their pants on in the morning. It was Liddy Dole. All of it.

[yardwork]

20. Welcome to DU!

[calimary]

22. Indeed, Welcome to DU!

I remember during the republi-CON convention in San Diego in 1996 - the one in which Bob Dole became the anointed one. What a bunch of hooey. That was the Gidget-Goes-to-the-GOP-Convention year (susan molinari delivering a HUGELY embarrassing keynote speech). Li'l liddy was featured as a speaker. Much was made of her stepping out from behind the podium with a hand-held microphone, and strolling around while she delivered her speech - her "Oprah" moment, I suppose. The press was all over it as though she was some Second Coming or something. She was briefly gushed over as a potential presidential candidate. YAWN...what a joke.

But on the other hand, if this is how she runs things, then she's done us all a favor. Nice to see that her big chance at managing a large and very public campaign bit the dust.

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

24. Jeez, Susan Molinari

Every convention they seem to trot out a new token gender/race/sexual orienation person who's going to finally make it acceptable for self-haters of every persuasion to come vote for a party that wants to put them into camps.

Still, she had nothing on Ehrlich in 2004. Nothing.

But yes, thank you for the welcome.

[calimary]

28. Yes. susan molinari. A presumably anointed one because her father

was a bigshot. Another legacy. :eyes:

That, and the liddy dole display had everybody flapping about how women were so highly-regarded by the GOP, and how great they had it with republi-CON policies, and how the GOP was proving it was the best party for women.

What a bunch of hooey.

Glad you're here. You're among many friends and like-minded thinkers. This place has helped me survive over the last several MISERABLE years.

[vixengrl]

23. Welcome to DU!

:rofl: "so crooked they have to screw their pants on in the morning"--so damn apt!

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

25. Credit (where due)

Stolen directly from Doc Thompson, who stole it directly from Mencken, who probably thought it up on his own because he was pretty neat.

But thank you for the welcome.

[Higans]

31. Welcome to DU and I loved that line. Made me LOL.

[calimary]

21. No kidding. And we won it FAIR AND SQUARE. NO STEALING.

Unlike them, WE don't have to cheat to win. We just overwhelmed 'em. Which ought to give us a clue about '08. We have to make sure we overpower them AGAIN. AND AGAIN.

Now is NOT the time to get complacent.

What I also love is how so many of these losers are whining about their lost "entitlement." That's the World's Biggest Entitlement Program right there. The entitlement republi-CONS feel they have to power, to Congress, to all the statehouses, and to the White House. They've forgotten that you have to EARN these things. It's not some birthright. I guess they must all presume they're bushes or something. They can all just go cry me a river.

:nopity:

[Rex]

27. This post is for the lurking GOPers.

The guy you all gloated over in 2000? The one you all told us to 'get over it'? Remember him? George Bush?

Well guess what?

He has systematically destroyed the Grand Old Party. Did far more damage then any of us Dems could ever dream about doing. Don't take it personal, he is destroying everything in America.

How's that taste in your mouth now? A little more bitter?

[gratuitous]

30. Au contraire

In fact, Republican diehards, by all means do take it personally. Because you see, while you gibroneys were out there mindlessly waving your flags, prattling on about supporting the troops, and generally shitting on every principle our nation stands for, your political string-pullers were making millions--no make that billions--off of looting the Treasury. Have you seen the quarterly profit statements for the oil companies recently? And you were Grade-A stupid enough to put not one, but two, Texas oilmen in charge of the country.

Yes indeed, take it personally, because while the folks you're so disenchanted with now were looting the country, they had you absolutely convinced that secret wiretaps, closed court sessions, people held without charge or counsel, and despising three-quarters of your fellow citizens was the way to preserve the country. And they got wealthier, in fact wealthy beyond the dreams of you and your basement-dwelling cohort. What did you get?

Oh yeah, used up and thrown away like a used tissue. Dumbasses.

[Rex]

32. So well said.

Putting evil Texas oilmen in charge! What the fuck is up with that? Why not just hand over the country to Scrooge fucking Mc Duck?


"Ha, Merry Christmas serfs now go fuck yourselves!"

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

29. If it says "Libby, Libby, Libby" on the label, label label....

:rofl:

[lanlady]

34. as for Liddy Dole's management skills

She was also director of the Red Cross in the early 90s, and left that organization (to campaign for her husband in 96) in a financial and administrative mess. Hmmm, see a pattern here?

[CRK7376]

35. Nothing like a little

cannibalism amongst the GOP. Let them eat their dead and living.....

[DBoon]

37. more proof that affirmative action for rich cronies

is a complete failure, in electoral campaigns as well as actual governance.

Too bad republicans are incapable of awarding competence over wealth and party loyalty.