The battle to be the "de facto leader" of this party is akin to the question of who wants to steer the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. Who represents the party or its values is not relevant when only 26 percent of voters have a positive impression of the party ...
Republicans are not relevant. We just lost two back-to-back elections (2006 and 2008), and obviously, what we are selling, the voters aren't buying. In the midst of the most severe economic crisis in my lifetime, we have a president who is taking the country on a dramatic sea change. This is what he said he would do and he is doing it. And where are Republicans? ...
For the foreseeable future, the Republican Party is in the position of being the minority party. Until it nominates a candidate who can attract new voters and expand the base vote of the party, it will stay there.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Ed Rollins on his irrelevant party
From this recent CNN.com commentary by Republican strategist Ed Rollins, who was President Reagan's political director:
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Given all the indications that instead of moving to a centrist position (or at least, like a dubiously named Center for American Progress, pretending to be) they are loudly and stupidly pushing toward the extreme right cliff, dusting off Newt Gingrich to run in 2012, embracing the ever obnoxious and irrelevant religious right, and basically leaving such a trail of slime behind them that one can hardly countenance considering any of their positions. They act as if everything that's crippled us began on Obama's brief watch rather than via 8 years of rapacious mismanagement, cronyism, deregulation and vicious partisanism on their part. And now, the big bad schoolyard bullies are whining and crying that nobody likes them, everybody hates them, sitting in the garden eating worms. To which I say, damn straight. Stay there.
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