Tom Davis on the Republican Brand

By: James Martin
Published On: 3/13/2008 1:10:18 PM

From the Washington Post:

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf," said retiring Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), who chaired the NRCC for four years earlier this decade.


Comments



That's beautiful... (Greg - 3/13/2008 1:19:13 PM)
I need a bumper sticker with that quote!


spoken like a true dogfood gourmand (pvogel - 3/13/2008 1:33:46 PM)
That smell from Blue plains wastewater treatment that sometimes wafts over to old town Alexandria?

Thats the  scent of republicans being flushed out



To all the graphic artists out there ... (TheGreenMiles - 3/13/2008 1:45:33 PM)
The first person to change the label from "ALPO" to "GOP" and put Frank Wolf's picture on it gets a free "Dominion: Global Warming Starts Here" bumper sticker from The Green Miles.


I think it's personal for Davis (Ambivalent Mumblings - 3/13/2008 3:01:28 PM)
It seems like Davis has some rather personal ill feelings towards the leadership in the Republican Party right now. When The Washington Post was talking about Gilmore being challenged from the right, Davis seemed to inject some bitterness of his own into the article.

http://bryanscrafford.wordpres...



Disappoint both personal and political (Teddy - 3/13/2008 3:36:57 PM)
I agree, I suspect Tom Davis has not only been disappointed personally by not coasting to the Republican nomination to replace John Warner in the US Senate, but also by the results of over 8 years of Republicab dominance nationally in the White House and on the Hill. For example: The unfolding scandals, the deplorable results of monolithically imposing the sacred doctrines of Republicanism to everything from economics to war to public health and science to natural disasters, plus the increasingly virulent politicization of every little thing, the endless rationalizations of torture and of implementing the unitary executive theories against the written words of the Constitution... on and on.  

And to think he actually, out of party loyalty, aided, abetted, and enabled all this, only to be slapped in the face when he showed up for his expected reward (US Senator from Virginia), well no wonder he's dispirited. What goes around comes around.



That does it -- (Kindler - 3/13/2008 9:17:22 PM)
I'll never eat dog food again!


Same TD that was in charge of the NRCC (totallynext - 3/14/2008 5:11:46 PM)
while Abromoff came to power?  That one?