Once the dust settles, who will the Republicans blame for their downfall?

[kentuck]

No one in the Party will be happy. They will attempt to coalesce behind the immigration issue. However, they will look at the huge debt. They will look at the massive Medicare program. They will look at the issues of abortion and school prayer and see no progress. They will see an utter failure in Baghdad. They will see themselves in the minority. Who will they blame?

In my opinion, they will take it all out on George W Bush. He will be charged with the disintegration of the Republican majority as we knew it. They could be a splintered group after this election. It is in their nature to always blame someone else. It's just the way they are. George Bush and Rove are politically savvy enough to save their hides but I doubt they will be able to save their reputations or to escape blame for the demise of the "conservative revolution"...

[Richard D]

1. They'll blame Clinton.

[izzie]

2. That is what came to mind first but I think it will be our morals

That has been around for so long and it is such a nice little thing to go back to. It also means no set thing so you can pile it up with anything you want. Abstract thoughts are great to go after. It is sort of like herding cats.

[polmaven]

11. As far as they are concerned those two things are one.

The Clenis is to blame.

And as long as Hillary is considered viable for president in 2008, they will continue to morph the words Clinton and morality.

[izzie]

19. So it is a good thing for them to use.

No facts to go for just a wide general thought. It has worked and I sure it will still work with many.

[madokie]

6. he gets all the blame so far, so why won't they

Its definitely the Big Dog they'll be after. so easy to whip the base into a frenzy over BC

[jimshoes]

3. Everybody

It's the only thing they're good at.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I think you are right. There is no way they will collectively take blame.

No way they will say "Wow, maybe we were all partly to fault, partly to blame."

They will indeed pick one sacrificial victim. And the only one they can pick - because they choose him from the beginning to be the big patsy - is Shrubbie.

They won't even blame any policies or ideas - they'll just blame him.

[lapfog_1]

10. No freakin way are these mouth breathing koolaid drinkers

ever, ever, going to blame their anointed boy-king. He is very close (if not the actual) second coming
for some of them. They are going to want to rewrite history (already in place) so he looks like some
sort of patriotic defender of democracy and they will want to put his image on whatever currency which
has an image of a Democratic president right now.

They will blame the liberal media and a vast left wing conspiracy (George Soros)... they will blame
the Hollywood types, and the homosexuals and the leftist universities that still teach the evil
evolution. They will blame God himself (he has lifted his protective hand from our nation!).

But they won't blame Bush or themselves. Ever.

[Warpy]

5. Everybody but THEMSELVES

They have zero insight. There is no way they can realize that a cascade of blunders ended with their defeat.

Everything they do is right. Everything everyone else does is wrong.

[Buzz Clik]

16. Ding ding ding ding! The Party of Values is the Party of the Immature.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Yes-The "Base" Will Blame The Smirk & Congress

If history is any guide, they'll blame The Smirk and the current Republicans in Congress - not the policies. Oddly enough, they'll decide that the problem is that The Smirk and Congress weren't far enough to the Right!!!

So in two years we'll see a brand new crop of even-crazier Republicans running for office. And these Rethugs will win in a landslide - just like Rethugs have been doing since 1994 - because they'll have actual (if evil) ideas, whereas the Dems (other than a very few) have only had triangulation since 1994.

So sad.

[kentuck]

9. I'm not sure the people will forget so soon...

what has happened with this Administration. We will still be attempting to clean up the mess two years from now.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. They Will Blame Foley's Foibles

eom

[originalpckelly]

12. The right people to blame are the homophobic Evangelicals...

but in reality it will probably only serve to increase their hatred of gay people, and gay Republicans will be blamed for their downfall.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. The "librul" media.

:shrug: For not reporting all of the good stuff that the repugs tried too do for us. :sarcasm: And for being mean to pResident bu$h. :rofl: At any rate, it's the rank and file repugs who are too blame for believing that their leaders would take action on the issues they care about. They never get the disconnect between what their leaders promise them to get elected and what they ultimately don't do, once they are elected. It happens to them every time and they never get it. :spank:

[Jackpine Radical]

14. I hope you're not getting too far out in front of the game, Kentuck.

I read stuff like this & I get chills. Diebold. Felons lists. Voter ID. False registrations. Sometimes I get this horrible vision of a future in which the Puggies stay in power, looting the country until the whole system breaks down due to a multiplicity of forces ranging from global warming to disease epidemics. Neither the water nor the air will be fit to support life, and most people will end up gasping in the gutters for their last breaths while those with just a little money left will end up spending it on bottled water & new filters for their breathing masks.

[No Exit]

15. Communist secularist atheist homosexual bearded slovenly

lesbian liberal intellectual abortionist Marxist socialist feminist retro-sexual nudists.

The whole script is found in Sol Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals", a book which the wingnuts just KNOW is frequently consulted by Hillary Clinton. It's all a vast anti-God anti-decency anti-white-race plot, see. Its object is to wipe the white race off the face of the earth forever and replace it with inferior... inferior someone-or-other. (Sorry, I need to pop back over the freeptard-republic for a minute and refresh my memory. BRB.)

[City Lights]

17. They'll probably stick with their old standbys:

The "liberal" media, and the Democrats.

I'd love to see the repubics turn on the chimp, but I just can't envision that at this point.

[babylonsister]

18. ANYONE but themselves. nt

[CJCRANE]

20. The Fenis

[Solly Mack]

21. Us

Us being defined as anyone that thinks the GOP have done nothing but bring America down with their greed motivated, narrow-minded appeals to the worst in people.

Oh, they'll turn people within their own party into scapegoats...they may even call Shrub a "liberal" (anything but a true conservative) like they did his father...but ultimately? They'll blame people like you and me.

When it comes to a choice between conservative policy is a failure and Bush is a failure...they'll choose Bush is a failure without blinking their lying eyes - they've been promoting that thinking for a while now. But at the end of the day, it will be us they blame.