Stunned Republicans try to regroup after election

[babylonsister]

Stunned Republicans try to regroup after election
By James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Another brutal election night convinced Republicans that their party needs to change, and change fast.

Now, Republican leaders and activists across the country must agree on change they can believe in.

That won't be easy.

Within hours of election returns that expanded Democratic congressional majorities and delivered a historic presidential victory to Barack Obama, Republicans began searching for a new way forward.

Just as quickly, a split emerged between Republican loyalists advocating a purer form of conservative ideology and those urging a less-dogmatic flexibility.

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, the head of the most conservative faction of Senate Republicans, said the Democratic election gains vindicated his hard-edged call for a return to the Reaganite roots of limited government and low taxes.

"We have got to clean up, reform and rebuild before we can ask the American people to trust us again," DeMint said. "This election reflects a failure of Republicans to keep their conservative promises."

DeMint derided the financial bailout package pushed by President Bush and passed by Congress last month as "a trillion-dollar bust." He urged Republicans to abandon "the Democrat-lite strategy of higher spending and bigger government."

Other Republicans, however, said the party must stop looking backward to Ronald Reagan, start closing the technology gap the Obama campaign exposed and broaden its appeal to younger and more diverse voters.

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[Jacobin]

1. Here's your answer, republicans:

Go ahead. You know you want her to run in 2012!!

Do it. Go for it.

[central scrutinizer]

2. "change they can believe in."?

even in defeat they are plagiarists. "That's not change we can believe in, my friends" Insert creepy smile in front of bizarre green backdrop

[opihimoimoi]

8. Everytime I see this clip...I wonder what happened to them Pubs and their Logic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aMDJP4VxY4&feature=related

Kenner La when Obama clinched the numbers needed...for the Nom...

[RobertDevereaux]

3. Regroup?

Scatter to the four winds, you motherfuckers!

[blue sky at night]

4. I trust my gut most of the time....

and it tells me there will not be another Repuke President in my lifetime, that is how far out of the mainstream these turds are. You have to be freaking STUPID to vote for them, and frankly the electorate is coming along now...thanks to the internet.

[lpbk2713]

5. Regroup? Is that something like a clusterfuck?

Because that's what condition they are in now.

:rofl: :rofl:

[charlie]

6. "Limited government"

That codswallop again. They've been in the driver's seat for 14 YEARS and the government is bigger, more intrusive, and more expensive than ever.

Republican conservatism is the worst case of vaporware this country has ever seen. And still, the idiots fall for it.

[Webster Green]

7. They should consider a mass suicide..

It would end the torment they are going through now. They will find peace. }(

[Luna_C_06]

9. HA! Good luck.

When are they going to realize it's not how they represented themselves that's the problem, but the fact that their policies suck?