RK ARCHIVE - How Low Can GOP Go? Who Knows?

No, it's not a happy time to be a Republican. But hey, at least they can always launch an anti-gay witchhunt! Gotta love those right wingers; when the going gets tough, they show their true colors - vicious!

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Harold Ford is great (Jeff B - 10/5/2006 9:11:47 PM)

He knows how to slam his opponent.

In TN, How does Harold Ford, Jr. beat back an NRSC ad that notes he once partied with Playboy bunnies?

Says Ford: "I'm not going to take a lecture on morality from a party that took hush money from a child predator."

Lets hope Jim can find a place for that line when Allen attacks in the next debate

ill repeat it again (pvogel - 10/5/2006 10:02:05 PM)

Power is slippery, The more you try to hold onto it, the slipperyer it gets.

The republicans have yet to "own" the problem. Its not the democrats problem to own. The republicans need to feed the problem, take care of it, or else the problem will turn from a pit bull to a great white shark, or from a tstorm to a f5 tornado. Better parties the the republicans have been swept away by lesser scandals.

The fact that they have tried to set up the districts as of the 2000 census to ensure permanent majority power has let them develope the Hubris that will destroy them.
I will now up my odds.

House, is now 100% certain to fall to the democrats. Its a lock, like tomorrows sunrise.

The senate, up to 75% chance.

Bushes ratings, dropping to 33%

Gas prices, will continue dropping, as the intent of dropping the prices{More prez popularity} has not happened yet.

thats my Oct 5 ramt!

Here's Rasmussen (PM - 10/5/2006 10:02:12 PM)

http://www.rasmussen...

October 5, 2006
Former Florida Congressman Mark Foley Sixty-one percent (61%) of American adults believe that Republican leaders have been “protecting [Mark] Foley for several years.” A Rasmussen Reports national opinion survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday nights shows that only 21% believe that the leadership “just learn[ed] about Foley’s problems last week.”
The data supports speculation that this issue could have a devastating impact on Republican prospects at the polls this fall. Even among Republicans, 31% believe the GOP leadership has been protecting Foley. Just under half (46%) of the GOP faithful believe that Congressional leaders just learned about the problem.
Not surprisingly, Democrats overwhelmingly believe that the Republican leaders have been protecting Foley for years (84% of Democrats hold that view).
Perhaps more significant politically, 69% of those not affiliated with either major party believe that leadership has been protecting Foley. Only 9% of unaffiliated the GOP leaders just learned of the problem last week. How much of an impact this will have on individual Election 2006 races will not be known until our next round of polling is complete.

In response to a generic ballot question, 47% of Americans say they will vote for a Democrat this November and 34% will vote for a Republican. That 13-point advantage is up five from an eight-point edge held by Democrats in August.

Pat Buchanan -- "It's ABC's Fault" (Glant - 10/6/2006 2:55:37 AM)

Thursday on Scarborough Country, Pat Buchanan said that ABC News is responsible for part of the Foley scandal for withholding the story until 5 weeks before the election.

When Chuck Scarborough asked him why ABC was responsible and not the Republican leadership, Buchanan said that the Republican leadership had to have time to investigate. Scarborough (a former Rep. Congressman) tried to show Buchanan how ridiculous his statements were, but Pat just shouted over him.

Oh, and somewhere in there Pat blamed the Democrats too.