Nearly half of America has a negative view of Republicans...only 26% positive

[GordonGecko]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/S...oday_Stories_Teases/13018_JANUARY_NBC-WSJ.pdf


I would advise our rightwing friends to blame it on "Obama's lies", "the Lib'rul Media", and "sell-out RINO Establishment Republicans who need to be purged from the Party".

 

[Cerulean Mutt]

You gotta have faith.

They're the last bastion of Freedom protecting us from the evil Kenyan Muslim socialist. The rest of America will come around later, and Republicans will be hailed as heros. In their fantasy world, at least.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

what is FoxNews doing wrong?

 

[Bo-4]

Looks like a 10-15 point loss since 2010 Gordon. Shhhhh!!!

 

[GordonGecko]

what is FoxNews doing wrong?

Nothing...it reachs its target audience. The 26% who still think the GOP is swell...and never leave the FNC/AM radio/Drudge Echo Chamber which keeps telling them that.

 

[GordonGecko]

Looks like a 10-15 point loss since 2010 Gordon. Shhhhh!!!

A direct parallel of Tea Party becoming the "face" of the GOP....is the collapse of the GOP's image and the collapse of the Tea Party's image with the public (see poll from week before last....TP support down to 30%)

 

[RickWA]

I'm a conservative, and I view them as negative. Sadly, this does not translate to an abiding of Democrats.

 

[GordonGecko]

I'm a conservative, and I view them as negative. Sadly, this does not translate to an abiding of Democrats.

Check the poll, Rick....Dems positive/negative is to their good. Repubs...not so much.


BTW, as a conservative, do you have an explanation for why the GOP is viewed so poorly???

 

[RickWA]

Sure - the GOP is viewed poorly 'cuz it sucks. I mean that sincerely. It is reduced to being an amalgam of bumbling, inarticulate dolts - incapable of even articulating it's own sadly diluted, compromised, and principle-challenged platform.

 

[Bo-4]

A direct parallel of Tea Party becoming the "face" of the GOP....is the collapse of the GOP's image and the collapse of the Tea Party's image with the public (see poll from week before last....TP support down to 30%)

Only 8% admit that they're members.. and this was RASMUSSEN

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...013/just_8_now_say_they_are_tea_party_members

 

[NightSwimmer]

I'm a conservative, and I view them as negative. Sadly, this does not translate to an abiding of Democrats.

What's so sad about that?

It's not as if the Democrats want you, you know.

 

[Bo-4]

Sure - the GOP is viewed poorly 'cuz it sucks. I mean that sincerely. It is reduced to being an amalgam of bumbling, inarticulate dolts - incapable of even articulating it's own sadly diluted, compromised, and principle-challenged platform.

Kudos Rick, would you concur that Tea Party intransigence has not been an asset?

 

[GordonGecko]

Sure - the GOP is viewed poorly 'cuz it sucks. I mean that sincerely. It is reduced to being an amalgam of bumbling, inarticulate dolts - incapable of even articulating it's own sadly diluted, compromised, and principle-challenged platform.

So weeding through that....two questions-

1. Are you saying the GOP should be MORE conservative than it is?

2. Why do Republican primary voters pick "bumbling inarticulate dolts"?....OR why don't clever, articulate conservatives run in the GOP primaries?

 

[RickWA]

I don't blame the TP, because that would dilute my critique of the GOP proper. Current Republican political leaders suck. Boehner can barely speak. McConnell as leadership material?? Really? That guys would get shoved around in the children's section of a public library.

Until you get some strong, competent, viable, and articulate leaders - even the content of your policy or platform can't save you (presuming it was good to begin with...).

 

[RickWA]

1) "More" conservative doesn't quite capture it. They just need to be conservative, period. Not "ideoligically rightwing", but conservative. There is often a difference.

2) That's who runs. It's not as if there's typically a stellar candidate and they forever opt for the lame guy. For the most part, competent, capable conservatives tend to shun certain career paths - politics being one of them. Frankly, the conservative's primary value system tends to devalue "public service"...not private community philanthropic ethic, but "public service". This trend was rather inevitable, I think.

 

[RickWA]

I am unmoved by the wants of either political party. They work for me - and not vice versa. If only more citizens would be more critical of them.

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

John Boehner said that Obama's goal is to "annihilate the Republican Party".

Poor John. He doesn't realize that the Republicans are annihilating themselves.

 

[MaryAnne]

You gotta have faith.

They're the last bastion of Freedom protecting us from the evil Kenyan Muslim socialist. The rest of America will come around later, and Republicans will be hailed as heros. In their fantasy world, at least.

Yeah,with old Ted starting a revolution against the Gubberment,we gonna see some real fightin' soon! Ted gonna blast that tank to hell and back! In his mind,as least.

 

[MaryAnne]

I don't blame the TP, because that would dilute my critique of the GOP proper. Current Republican political leaders suck. Boehner can barely speak. McConnell as leadership material?? Really? That guys would get shoved around in the children's section of a public library.

Until you get some strong, competent, viable, and articulate leaders - even the content of your policy or platform can't save you (presuming it was good to begin with...).

Good post,Rick,but never fear! I think Ashley Judd is coming in to save the party!)

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

Yeah,with old Ted starting a revolution against the Gubberment,we gonna see some real fightin' soon! Ted gonna blast that tank to hell and back! In his mind,as least.

Ted Nugent doesn't exactly have the intellect of any of our Founding Fathers.

Does he?