May

16

McKinley Required Reading Of The Day: The Republican Panic

Filed Under 2008 Election, Republicans 

The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece outlining a potential strategy to help recover the Republican party and win some elections this year.

House Republicans pooh-poohed their own earmarking scandals, spending excesses and overall wallowing in the Beltway status quo. Rather than rethink their habits, they re-elected the same party leaders and even kept Jerry Lewis as their chief Appropriator. Congressman John Shadegg of Arizona is right when he says that “Since the 2006 elections, Republicans have done absolutely nothing to redefine themselves. We can’t even get behind an earmark moratorium bill.”

They’ve also been content to replay their same losing political attack strategy. In 2006, they thought they could save their majority by donning a Nancy Pelosi fright wig and shouting “liberal, liberal, liberal.” This year they’re wearing a Barack Obama mask, and that isn’t working either.

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