The Republicans always need a Boogie Man. If there isn't a real one they invent one. George Soros has been their targeted BoMa for awhile... Can anyone quote anything he's said or even know what he looks like ? Who is this mystery man the strikes fear and loathing in the heart of these people ?

Can we order a few more ?

ps.
Isn't accepting public funds for campaigning an option – not mandatory ?________________

I really hope that DeMint and Palin and the religious wing-nuttery secure the GOP base with ideological purity tests and drive out all those apostate RINOs with 'Operation Leper' and similar purges. This self-isolating, echo-chamber delusion will marginalize the GOP into a regional rump–still capable of obstruction, of course, but without any hope whatsoever of competing nationally.

Right now, the GOP's internecine warfare fascinates me much more than the vacuous speculation about Obama's cabinet or first hundred days. This bloodbath is absolutely riveting.

Go for it, Jim! You too, Rush! Wade right on in, Billo!

And McCain is on that list for remaining silent as well.

Of course Bush doesn't care about the Republican party just like he doesn't care about America.

Obama changed that by inspiring millions of young people and older people who had never before voted. He added them to the active core Democrats, then pulled in a significant number of independents and disaffected moderate Republicans. The Democrats will stay in power as long as Obama makes even a little progress on the issues important to these Americans.

DeMint and others like him who believe that they lost because McCain drifted to close to the center will only continue deluding themselves into thinking that the majority of Americans want to stay in the past.

There will continue to be people who agree with DeMint and vote for him, but I believe that as long as the Republicans are dominated by extremists, their true minority status will only be perpetuated.

As for those who vote according to the Evangelical movements pathetic "How would Jesus vote?". Jesus never voted, never took part in politics. Jesus was, sorry to all of the Bible-thumpers out there, not a Republican, neither was he a Democrat.

The last I knew, he was a Jew. He was, in fact, called Rabbi (teacher). I also doubt that, being middle eastern, Jesus was blonde and blue-eyed. He probably had swarthy skin and dark eyes. In this day and age of religious intolerance and racial profiling, He probably would be detained at airports and certainly not allowed to play golf at WASP golf courses.

Vote replubican and watch your country go down the crapper. Ask Bill Clinton before he took office and see how great the country was before he took office. Shave the Bush...for good.

He never betrayed the Republican Core Values... Neither did Ted Stevens. Or Tom DeLay for that matter... or how about Mark Foley? Can't forget that strong supporter of Republican Core Values!!!!

"Americans do prefer a traditional conservative government," he said. "They just did not believe Republicans were going to give it to them."

Actually... Americans USED to prefer a traditional conservative government. Now they just want an HONEST one that isn't going to steer our nation into the ditch again like Dubya has.

It's over... Obama won... and the voting public is tired of the Republican Party's only strategy of fear and smear and VOTED THEM OUT!!

DING, DONG... THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!!!!

Republicans need to ditch Sarah Palin and think about a reasonable platform for 2012 or 2016 if they want to have a chance.

I am a Democrat, strongly supported Obama, but can't help but comment on how ridiculous their party's "leaders" sound sometimes.

Not much else, though.

Their conservative 'base' has run their party, as well as the country, into the ground.

Good
Riddance
to
your
"values".

And I may be a liberal Democrat, but I'm rooting for the Republicans to save themselves by going to the center. Let theocrats like DeMint and Palin form their own marginal party. My parents were moderate Republicans who actually believed in stuff like science and religious diversity. I'd like to see those kind of Republicans rise again.

It did help Senator McCain at all because he seemed to stray from the "new way" and revert to the "traditional conservative" way and then on top of it ran a smear campaign with that running mate of his. I did like Senator McCain as a politician until this election, I'll always respect him as a person because he was a veteran of a war and served his country well but as far as politics, big thumbs down!!

Jeremy
NSF Diego Garcia, BIOT (Until Summer '09)
Then off to McGuire Air Force Base in South Jersey

Becaue I'm a Democrat.

Down with DeMint.

and a religious agenda is NOT a core republican principle, not a real one anyway, as it has nothing to do with government!!!

"Anybody who doesn't want a South Carolina style regressive exploitative theocracy isn't a Real American".

To which actual Real Americans said: Go Cheney Yourself.

Republican Party USA: On the fast track for 1912!

Get a clue! The country doesn't want your right-wing, wacko religious "values" in our government. McCain probably would have won or come closer to it if he had stayed closer to the center.

Hey, Demint, since you think you're soooo right, nominate Palin in 2012 and see where that gets ya.

The Republican Party will continue to shrink especially if Sarah Palin is the leader.... and I don't even feel sorry for them.

...Republican principles!!!