Tammy Bruce: GOP Rep: Bush Killed the Republican Brand

GOP Rep: Bush Killed the Republican Brand

Notice in his complaint the issues that have so disaffected conservatives who are Reoublican--not among them is immigration or Bush's obscene spending. This sort of blindness among the Republican elite is also a great deal of the problem and one of the main reason why they cannot stem the 'disaffection.' If they got out of their Groupthink and admitted they are wrong on those issues, perhaps conservative would return to the fold. But considering whgo the new party leader is--Juan McAmnesty--I'd say they won;t be doing that anytime soon.

Republicans See Storm Clouds Gathering

If Republicans needed any more evidence of how difficult this fall may be, the past week had it all, analysts said. The Illinois race demonstrated new levels of disaffection, the party's efforts to go on offense elsewhere were thwarted by recruiting failures, and the NRCC scandal will divert campaign resources and could frighten off badly needed contributors, they said.

"It's no mystery," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.). "You have a very unhappy electorate, which is no surprise, with oil at $108 a barrel, stocks down a few thousand points, a war in Iraq with no end in sight and a president who is still very, very unpopular. He's just killed the Republican brand."

Yes, and you Sir have your head in the sand as to why.

Posted by Tammy · March 17, 2008 09:31 AM · Permalink
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I had envisioned another place his head was placed.

Posted by: JP at March 17, 2008 11:01 AM

...or he may have created a new, improved brand. If so, we will see the result in a few years.

Posted by: BA in LA at March 17, 2008 11:21 AM

We are about to reap the whirlwind. When Reagan spent big bucks on rebuilding the military, he did so when the U.S. was still the world's manufacturing powerhouse. The money went into U.S. manufacturing, and created demand for engineers, chemists, and highly skilled U.S. citizens. When bush made the comment in 2001 or 2002 "deficits don't matter" he made it in the context that Reagan ballooned the deficit and the economy grew its way past it.

Bush has blown a lot of the money on nonproductive things, like:

TSA (should have been private)
Medicare prescription drug benefit
Iraq war
expanding other entitlements

This type of spending does not produce anything in the economy, it saps the economy, reducing its ability to absorb the spending rather than enhancing it.

Now Bush and congress have so weakened the Dollar that they are seriously jeopardizing its position as the world's reserve currency. That means that as forein debt holdings expire, they will be renewed in other currencies or exchanged for commodity futures. This will generate a tremendous glut of dollars into the markets and cause a Dollar collapse. That will create a hyperinflationary runup in prices of all goods and services. Bear-Stearns went under (technically) Citigroup is in trouble, bailouts are the talk of the financial markets. The bailouts will be funded by taxpayers and the money will be borrowed from forein sources, that is if any foreign nation is still willing to lend. Get it? Financial institutions made extremely risky loans to people who had none of their own money at risk, and we will be bailing the bankers out, while they still drive their Jags, and live in their gated communities. Great Depression II is headed our way way and the politians are going to screw it all up again with New Deal II.

Posted by: mrfixit at March 17, 2008 11:43 AM

Tammy:
The problem is that Bush (who has been hated by the Democrats) tried to run his Presidency in a non partisan way (like Eisenhower). He failed to realize how hated he was by the other side. This is similar to how he failed to either realize or act when it became manifest to all that the C.I.A. was trying to bring him down. A non partisan President who constantly tries to "reach across the aisle" in these hyper-partisan times will get his head handed to him particularly if the MSM is against him (which it was). Bush also never raised his voice against his opponents smears and left it to people like me to defend him and I got tired of doing that. Maybe once if he showed some passion (instead of denouncing his voters who objected to Dubai Ports, Harriet Miers and Amnesty) he would be more respected by the base.

Posted by: Ripper at March 17, 2008 12:37 PM

It's worth noting that McCain has all along been an outspoken critic of the Bush/Congress spending spree. In this respect, he'd likely do better.

Posted by: Talkin Horse at March 17, 2008 01:16 PM

Right on, MRFIXIT!

Posted by: St. Thor at March 17, 2008 01:29 PM

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