Novak: GOP Losing The Faithful
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, RepublicansHow could a party with so much power and momentum go so horribly wrong?
During the summer, a female acquaintance of mine in her 70s who had been a faithful Republican was solicited by a GOP cold caller as a previous contributor to the party. Not this time. She informed the fund-raiser that President Bush’s position on immigration was the last straw. She would not give the Republicans another dime — not now, maybe never. So, she told him, “Stop calling me!”
That rebuff, commonplace in today’s Republican fund-raising, puts a human face on the Federal Election Commission’s cold statistics. They show a commanding Democratic lead over Republicans in raising money for the 2008 elections. Such an unusual disparity is at once a symptom and a contributing cause of the melancholy suffusing the Grand Old Party as Congress reconvenes after the August break.
He goes on to list the multiple hits the GOP has taken in the past week…
- Larry Craig’s bathroom follies.
- The resignation of Sen. John Warner and the inevitability of Dem Mark Warner taking his spot.
- Rep. Rick Renzi’s decision to not seek another term in a very competitive district.
- Republican governors giving health care to poor children in there state.
That last one is puzzling, but only if you believe in pure conservative philosophy. Novak is an originalist, and so its inclusion.
Nonetheless, all of these taken together paint a dreary one for the GOP. Will anybody be their savior? What candidate can unite them? Is this why there’s a hunger for a Fred Thompson candidacy?
More as it develops…
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September 4th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Tempests in tea pots. Are we so risen above serious problems that we must clog our thinking with the way people are anywhere, Demo or Rep. There are more scandles in the churches of this country daily.
Lets talk about the chopping off of heads by Muslems. Lets talk about 25,000 veterans who have war injuries, Lets talk about a recently passed bill that let illegals participate in Social Security, having not paid in a dime and every time SS gives old people a cost of living raise they take it back with a Medicare Premium increase.
Republicans and Democrats have so many issues they can agree upon why are we not doing that? Where do the unspent millions the Presidential Candidates have amassed after the election?
We have many real questions and problems. No point in digging up no consequence bla bla bla.
Don Jones
MyManFred.com
September 4th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Read my lips–no Fred Thompson. The latest David Broder interview leaves many questions about Fred’s conservative credentials from taxes to government spending. After stifling free speech, why would we vote for McCain lite?
September 4th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Uum, I think Novak is hitting on the truth – neither children, nor poor – but such is the socialist ethos: If you say the write words, the reality simply does not matter.
September 4th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
“Is this why there’s a hunger for a Fred Thompson candidacy?”
Justin, you really should give up on political blogging. You have no clue what you are talking about. There is no “hunger” for that clown.
Post about Ron Paul and you can’t keep up with all the comments.
Post about creepy-ass fred and you get the guaranteed comment from Log Cabin Republican Don Jones and one anti-fred comment.
No one is hungry for a turd sandwich.
September 5th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Q: Will anybody be their savior?
A: Ron Paul
September 5th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I am beginning to think that the Republican Party has to fracture in this cycle.
If they nominate someone pandering to the ragged right (stay the course in Iraq, creationism, anti-immigrant) they will lose the moderates and the general election. If they, by some miracle, nominate a traditional anti-war limited conservative in the Goldwater tradition (Paul, Hagel), the right will split off into a new party (but the Republicans would have a better chance of pulling moderate, libertarian, and Dem votes in the general). Of the two choices – the latter gives the Republicans a better chance of holding the White House. Either way, someone leaves the tent.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
It’s pretty obvious why the party is disintegrating and that is because they have abandoned real conservative policy positions. Non-Interventionism, Low Taxes, Low Spending, Civil Rights (including guns
and drugs), rugged individualism, leave it to the states. The current GOP represents none of this and hasn’t since Goldwater lost to LBJ. Reagan tried to bring it back but his administration clearly was
infiltrated by all the wrong people. The Neo-Cons have taken the rope that the party gave them and hung themselves and the American people with it. It’s over. Now the fallout. Unless Ron Paul is miraculously
embraced by the current party establishment and the GOP gets back to basics we’re looking at 8 years of Hillary. The Neocons have destroyed the GOP and once Goldwater 2.0 in whatever
form he materializes (Paul, Sanford, Palin) and the many minions of the Old Right, Constitution and Libertarian parties take over again the neos can flee to the Bloomberg/Shwarzenegger Party. Good Riddance.