Will the GOP be Katrina’s Biggest Casualty? (criticism from the right)

[bluestateguy]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/marktapscott/mt20050917.shtml

Yes, President Bush gave a good speech Thursday night but no amount of inspiring rhetoric can obscure the fact that Hurricane Katrina may well have drowned the Republican Party as a credible vehicle of conservative reform.

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The GOP’s prospective fall could be much more swift than the Democrats in 1994, however, because of the Internet. Then, the mainstream media’s lock on the news meant it took years for enough voters to finally get the message that it was time for a change in Washington.

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All that’s required for a GOP-majority ending electoral earthquake is five percent or so of the base staying home or voting third party on election day. It’s hard to deny such an earthquake is coming when there are so many signs “out there.” They are most obvious and intense whenever discussion turns to protecting America’s borders.
Millions of illegal aliens are streaming into America and there is no doubt terrorist operatives are among them, yet Bush and the congressional GOP seem to have no clue about the political consequences of not stopping the alien invasion.

Now it appears issues like out-of-control spending are also generating pre-shocks. A fall became certain when people became convinced in the months leading up to the 1994 election that entrenched majority Democrats had lost touch with the electorate, lacked credibility when promising reform and were too attached to the perks of power.

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[Melodybe]

1. love it, kicked and nominated!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Interesting. GOP fall might be swifter by Internet but beware rebound.

[nine23]

3. Townhall.com. A freeper favourite...

Unless, of course, you actually try POSTING something like this over there. Then, you're banned within thirty seconds. Selective, willfull ignorance is what they do best. It's all they CAN do, really...

Correction: Their "ignorance" isn't really "willful". My mistake.

[meg]

4. wtf?

Then, the mainstream media’s lock on the news meant it took years for enough voters to finally get the message that it was time for a change in Washington.

The public must be TOLD when to be happy with their government and when not to be happy? Of course, a Repub would have a view of the people as sheeple.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Victims Of Their Own Success And Excess

Now was Thursday's "speech" really that good? I heard plenty of Repugnicans call it "FDR" and "LBJ" . I'm hearing Sennsenbrenner and the other Repugnican Taliban bitching about how their manchild is busting the bank to rebuild New Orleans "when we can't afford it", but defend the raping of Iraq and the billions that have been squandred there. Absolute hypocrites.

Yep, the natives are getting restless. They all were promised something by Rove and they all want their payoffs. The religious fundies first had Schaivo and now the SCOTUS...and this regime hasn't really delivered. Then there's the fiscal "conservatives" who see the big bill coming ahead as the defecits continue to zoom. If this continues the inflation that's sure to come will drain all their profits and ruin their investments. They're not buying into any more of the voodoo economics of this regime. Then there's the immigrant crowd...largely ignored and at the peril of the Repugnican party. The racial hatred and division of the GOOP is showing its full fury. Then there's the fiasco in Iraq that even the most rabid kool-aid drinker no longer claims we're winning and now is into the "stay the course" mode.

The best hopes are that 5 or 10% of those who voted for Repugnicans in '04 stay home next year...but it's gonna take more here. The Democrats can't expect to win seats next year by default...it's time for the national party to start tapping into both the dicontentent of the independents and moderates and the full fury of the rest of us...our voices must be heard so change can happen.