With no viable candidates for 08 and the White House under Bush in chaos, is the fabric of the Republican Party starting to unravel?
2007-02-13 13:25:00 · 27 answers · asked by itsdabigbadwolf 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think it is... you have the Bush supporters and then the non-Bush supporters which is growing and has been growing...
hatch, hagel, even warner... more and more are not happy...
what's funny is... no one actually addresses the problems you mention... which shows me that they are scared...
if it were just a simple problem... they would address it and discuss it... but instead they deflect and change the subject...
they are more worried than we know...
the funny thing is... the two leading Republicans in the early primary polls... Rudy and McCain... hard core Republicans don't seem to like them... so where does that leave them...
2007-02-13 13:37:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The Republican party is trying to start over fresh and forget the last flop of an administration. The Republican canidate whoenter in the next Presidential election is probally a stand in that will loose! During this time they will rebuild.
This happened in Canada with the Liberal Party after loosing the last election the leader stepped down a temporary leader was found they rebuilded found a new leader and now are tied in the lead in the polls.
2007-02-13 13:32:51 · answer #2 · answered by admirealmotti 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's amazing. I never thought I would live long enough to see what I'm seeing. The backlash of this craziness in Iraq is forcing politicians into one corner or the other, we either continue or we get out, the American people are getting restless and want this thing ended. The President is refusing to hear America. The republicans have the most to lose and don't know which side of the fence to come down on. Rampant corruption, out of control spending, religious extremists with their moral agendas and lobbyists buying legislation. President Bush and his administration have put the republicans on life support. He has almost single-handedly done for the democrats what they probably couldn't have done themselves, won congress back.
2007-02-13 14:27:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, and sorry if this disappoints either side... but, the lowpoint nationally was the midterm elections. With Romney, Giuliani and McCain already in -- and America's most prominent African-American actually travelling the globe as the face of America in Condi Rice (sorry Dems) - a women that was RAISED in the hotbed of Birmingham during the race-riots era... as a Republican... AND not much of a groundswell for any Democrat (even Hollywood doesn't know what to do!!!)... it's the Dems that are confused. In NYC now -- the GOP is already absurdly minute, and long DONE thanks to an awful Gov. in Pataki, no legacy and a Mayor that's one of NYC's best-ever... but, once again... as with most GOPers, hasn't groomed a successor.
2007-02-13 13:32:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are many viable candidates emerging on the GOP side of things.
The Dems will give us the White House as they always do. The reason Dems have won precisely three of the last ten presidential elections is that you have a tendency to nominate people slightly to the left of Lenin, and then wonder what happened when the American public, most of whom are slightly right of center, don't vote for you.
Of course, the way your party is structured makes it more diffiicult to win. A candidate has to be far enough left to satisfy the blogosphere in order to win the nomination in the first place. Once that occurs, he has to spend the next four months running back towards the center. In the end, he pleases nobody. He seems too conservative for the DailyKos and too liberal for Joe Sixpack.
2007-02-13 13:32:56 · answer #5 · answered by Rick N 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The Republican anti-abortion bigots are going on the offensive with new restrictions on a woman’s right to choose.
But the one source of opposition that the Republicans, in their snarling arrogance, will overlook lies outside Washington. The bitterness among ordinary people at a government that hands out money to the rich while slashing programs that benefit working people will only build over the next year. And the attacks on working people are coming from an administration that plans to send thousands of working-class men and women into a catastrophic war in Iraq.
People who are who are bitter today can become active in struggles against Bush’s agenda tomorrow. It may take some time for these fights to emerge and develop. But the potential is there for building an alternative--step by step--in all the struggles that take place across society.
2007-02-13 13:33:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
You wish. There is not going to be a clear candidate until after the primaries, as you will notice that there is not one in the democratic party either.
2007-02-13 13:45:45 · answer #7 · answered by asmith1022_2006 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, they seem to be self-destructing. A behavior learned by watching Libtards the past decade or so. Otherwise a Dem would be in the Oval Office right now.
And any of the Rep candidates are better choices than what the Dems will nominate. Sorry, but that is the case.
2007-02-13 13:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by Beachman 5 · 6⤊ 5⤋
Maybe they are just going let the Iraq bill come in under Democratic watch and pick up from there in 2012.
2007-02-13 13:31:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It should be but sadly the Democrats are not looking so good either.
It could be much worse and the Repulicans WILL win the next Presidential election, to my great anger, becasue there are to many racist, sexist in this country for Obama or Clinton.
2007-02-13 13:30:03 · answer #10 · answered by DC UNITED / Nationals FAN 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋