Repukes see the water swirling: "[I]f you're a Republican strategist, you just want to go into the bomb shelter."
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 Davis (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."
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Minor rant: I'm tired of the cliché word "brand" being substituted by the inside strategy people/campaign managers, who use it to describe what is more aptly called 'party'. They're trying to 'sex it up', to morph it over from the old cattle brands and the commercial brand-name -- but it's just a trendy word that ads nothing to the definition/description, other than telling me that the user is trying too hard to be au courant!
Popcorn time!
KidRanger
Kind of like they killed off New Coke. If only.
well, WHATEVER it's called, it's been absolutely killed off! If only "IT" would stop doing the zombie thing and rising again!
siri
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