Repeal Wars Fracturing GOP

[SHRED]

To run on repealing HCR or not?
The Repubs in a world of hurt for November.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch...eh?
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Health Care Repeal Wars Fracturing GOP Primary Candidates
Christina Bellantoni | March 26, 2010, 9:28AM


For Republican candidates across the country, the movement du'jour seems to be a pledge to repeal health care reform if elected. Republicans are rushing to co-sponsor and promote efforts to repeal the bill on Capitol Hill. But not everyone is biting, exposing another fissure between the GOP's right and far-right.

The latest GOPers caught in the mix are in Delaware -- with candidate Christine O'Donnell (R-DE) challenging Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) to sign on to repeal plans. Castle, like every single Congressional Republican, opposed the legislation. But he said that repealing "is not realistic."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/repeal-wars-splitting-gop.php?ref=fpb

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[SpiralHawk]

1. Repeal the G.O.P.?

Now that's something the vast majority of Americans can get behind...

[SolidGold]

2. So essentially they want to break the system we just fixed

They need the sensible people to vote for them and no sensible person wants to repeal these laws.

[Viva_Daddy]

3. Republicans rebranding themselves and shooting themselves in the foot

If the Republicans want to rebrand themselves as the "Repo-party", I say let them. This is not really new as they've been trying to repeal Social Security and Medicare ever since they couldn't prevent them from becoming law either.

[customerserviceguy]

4. This is a fight happening on their side

and who's likely to win? The pro-repeal forces, or the more moderate, "well, we lost, let's just suck it up" side?

With Rethuglican victory projected in the off-year election this fall, I think we're all interested in seeing which faction comes out on top.

[Lyric]

5. From a purely objective standpoint, running on repeal is stupid because they can't do it.

Even if they take all of the seriously contested seats (unlikely) they still won't have the supermajority needed to override Obama's inevitable veto. They're setting themselves up to fail and fail BADLY by promising to do something that they simply CANNOT do, and it will only hurt them in the 2012 elections.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Oh well. Their idiocy is our gain.