Pawlenty tells Governors how it is...basically, "nobody like us."

[Atman]

The sad thing is, being Republicans, they won't actually change anything about themselves other than the costume and makeup. They're basically looking for a way to lie to the American people to make them believe they're not really the lying shit-heels all the world has witnessed over the last twenty years...

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“We cannot be a majority governing party when we essentially cannot compete in the Northeast, we are losing our ability to compete in Great Lakes states, we cannot compete on the West Coast, we are increasingly in danger of competing in the mid-Atlantic states, and the Democrats are now winning some of the western states,” he said. “That is not a formula for being a majority governing party in this nation.”

“And similarly,” he went on, “we cannot compete, and prevail, as a majority governing party if we have a significant deficit, as we do, with women, where we have a large deficit with Hispanics, where we have a large deficit with African-American voters, where we have a large deficit with people of modest incomes and modest financial circumstances. Those are not factors that make up a formula for success going forward.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/us/politics/13govs.html?ref=politics

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Do you realize the significance of what he's saying? He is admitting that, hey..."virtually no one in America likes us except us. So we have to figure out how to make them think we're not who we really are."

It's pathetic. It's pathological. The GOP is discovering that they simply don't represent much of anyone in the United States anymore.

Shit, Pawlenty, I could have told you that!

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[Ian David]

1. Maybe Republicans can be talked into colonizing Mars. n/t

[rucky]

4. Why do you think the Martians are hiding?

[gratuitous]

2. Changing your losing platform is out of the question, I suppose

That's okay; the Democrats outlasted the Whigs. We'll outlast the Republicans, too. Helluva run, though, you fascistic motherfuckers.

[Metta]

3. Wahhh, wahhh, wahhh. They brought it on themselves.

Happy karma, govs.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Was just thinking about this - they are already planning for 2012. what does that tell you?

They have absolutely in interest in solving problems, in governing - they seem to have a collective narcissistic streak in that it is all and only about them, and about them having power.

Collectively, they have some big time issues. Of course no one that is reasonable and balanced likes them! They are hateful!

[KansDem]

9. "They have absolutely in interest in solving problems, in governing"

Molly Ivins said it best about the Repubs--

It's a joke that the right wing claims it is against "judicial activists." What they want are judicial activists who agree with them. These people don't want to govern, they want to rule.

Free Press

[indepat]

10. Having power, concentrating wealth among a precious few, and, don't forget oil, empire, hegemony

in the Middle East. :P

[amdezurik]

6. and don't forget that other repuke defict...

about 11 trillion dollars now...funny that did not get mentioned ain't it

[aquart]

7. They didn't before, either.

But people were still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, assume they weren't lying thru their teeth. But they were.

I remember the day the Supreme Court appointed George in 2000. Someone said to me, "How much harm can he do?"

[Wapsie B]

8. Many gop candidates did not put Republican or GOP on their literature or signs.

They do not want the public to make the connection between them and the gop. Fundamentalist churches like the Assembly of God do that too, leaving off the name of the denomination on signs and marketing materials.

If the repugs change anything right now it will be to move the party even further to the right.

[tanyev]

11. Whew. Good thing McCain didn't pick him as VP.

He's much more smarter than Sarah.