Huckabee: The GOP Is In Trouble
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Bush, McCain, Republicans, VideoBig trouble, and he’s not afraid to offer some straight talk on how McCain needs to separate himself from the GOP’s badly damaged brand.
The good news out of all of this? The Republicans are moving back to the center. There’s no other way for them to win.
But how quickly will they move and can the capitalize on any moves in the fall?
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May 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Yeah, the GOP is in a bit of a bind. They screwed the Religious Right over after using them for votes in 2000 and 2004, possibly leading some factions in that voter block to stay home in November. Like you say, they need to move to the center ASAP, or else they will endure a beating the likes of which they haven’t seen since Watergate.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Of course the GOP needs to move to the center, and if they had realized that before they forced McCain to move to the right, they might have had a shot.
The problem is we saw McCain moving right to gain the nomination, and in so doing, he allied himself with the least popular president of the last 100 years, he tarnished his straight-talk/independent persona, and he left himself open for the same flip flop argument that scuttled Kerry.
It would require an almost unprecedented flop on the part of Obama to lose….
May 19th, 2008 at 9:15 am
No worries, all they have to do is joke about shooting the first black nominee of a major party. That’ll bring the racist moron sheep back to the fold.