The Grand Republican Failure

Frank Lutz sums it up about as well can be. He even offers a solution, though I doubt the pols in power could listen even if they wanted to. It a nutshell, in some ways it amounts to a return to Reagan conservatism, or something approaching it. The DC Republicans have blown it. And while I don't believe the Dems can gain and hold power for an extended period of time due to the far Left ... the Republicans may have to go back to the drawing board and start looking for some new faces. A trust betrayed is very difficult to win back. How long that might take? Or if it is even possible with money playing such a role? Who knows. But people are going to continue to clamor for change from either party so long as they continue to abide by the status quo. The Dems have done nothing to elevate themselves in this whole thing. It's becoming a matter of which party disgusts you least intensely at the moment you vote.

Had enough? America has. Anyone who reads the polls accurately and honestly will acknowledge that the Republican Party is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives, the so-called "People's House." The Democrats maintained control for 40 years. The Republicans, just 12.

What went wrong? Why do Democrats finally appear to be heading toward electoral success and Republicans back into the political wilderness? In a word, fatigue. Americans are tired of the war, tired of watching illegal aliens race across our unguarded borders, tired of high energy costs, tired of wasteful Washington spending, and tired of story after story of political corruption and misbehavior.

Comments

[American Daughter]

I don't think it is so much a question of Democrats versus Republicans as it is a general moral decline in the whole country reflected by the quality of individuals that we sent to Washington DC.

With the current party machines controlling the process, a person has to be fairly corrupt in order to play the game and get elected. It starts with patronage at the local level, and requires more compromise and more sell-out of character the higher up the politician goes.

To run for most offices, a candidate requires designating petitions with signatures from a specific percentage of the electorate in order to run. It requires a party machine to get those signatures. And so the candidate has to promise that, if elected, he or she will repay the party machine with largesse from the public trough.

Because the party machines will run candidates that, if elected, will provide assets that strengthen the party machine. Promises of jobs, favors, trips, etc.

[Phoenix]

Ironic, then, that the highest-up, Bush, has never sold out.