Tammy Bruce: GOP "Stunned" By Loss in Mississippi

GOP "Stunned" By Loss in Mississippi

Maybe Al Gore and the folks at La Raza will help them win back the South.

In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by a 54%-46% margin, a spread that several Republican strategists on Capitol Hill characterized as a startling wake-up call for a party in dire straits.

Last night, Childers, a conservative Democrat, again outperformed Davis in many rural counties. Childers did better than in April in eighteen out of twenty four counties, while he underperformed in just two counties...

The loss has already shaken establishment Republicans in Washington. After losing special elections in Illinois and Louisiana, the House GOP conference already expects a bad year for their party. But those two districts voted for President Bush by eleven and nineteen points, respectively, not by a whopping twenety five points. "People are going to want change," said a top aide to a leading House Republican..."The political environment is such that voters remain pessimistic about the direction of the country and the Republican Party in general," [NRCC Chair] Cole continued. "I encourage all Republican candidates, whether incumbents or challengers, to take stock of their campaigns and position themselves for challenging campaigns this fall by building the financial resources and grassroots networks that offer them the opportunity and ability to communicate, energize and turn out voters this election."

Still, losing heavily Republican seats in the Deep South is a big blow to the Washington GOP. "To lose two Southern seats in two weeks, I mean, oh my God," the leadership aide said. The aide told Real Clear Politics that something new is going to happen at the NRCC. "People look at Cole, and they say, 'What are you going to do to change?' And if he doesn't want to change, change is going to be forced on him."

What is the NRCC Chair going to do to change? The question is: What is the NRCC going to do to get the top of their party, John McCain, to stop pandering to Democrats and Illegal Aliens and embrace the Independent Conservative? If McCain and the Repubs think Dems and "Hispanics" are going to carry them through November, these loses are wake-up calls reminding them that simply isn't going to happen.

Posted by Tammy · May 14, 2008 08:34 AM · Permalink
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Oh Lord. The GOP is so far up sh+t creek, the methane has destroyed any semblance of brain activity

And the guy with the paddle is McCain, the maverick who's only interested in smacking conservatives around the head with it.

He's a man with no roots. Mavericks don't have roots. They only have "attitudes."

He's a man with no guiding political principles except what pops into his head based on "his" notions of "honor."

Posted by: Jack Bauer at May 14, 2008 09:40 AM

S0UND THE ALARM! This calls for some serious gerrymandering. That's about the only problem solving that these idiots can come up.

Posted by: jdb at May 14, 2008 11:08 AM

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