No Republican has the backbone to challenge Bush ?

[kentuck]

What does that tell you about that Party? A disaster in their own kitchen and no one picks up a broom to sweep it out. They stand back and hold hands and tell each other that the Democrats kitchen is much worse. They whisper in each others ears about the poll numbers. Well, he looks pretty good in the polls, they say.

What does it say about a Party that would stand by and watch a mediogre run our nation into debt, fall asleep at the wheel and let terrorists attack our nation, then attack the wrong nation in retribution, get 100's of our troops killed in the process, and then simply stand back and wring their hands - hoping they don't get discovered before the next election. What type of Party would be so spineless as to permit such atrocities?

[Vickers]

1. "mediogre" lol

:toast:

Good one!

I guess them other Republicans don't want to get suicided or airline disastered or something.

[Thoth]

2. Ron Paul of Texas, Libertarian, ....

has challenged Bush on a number of things, including the Patriot Act (which he voted against, I believe) and the Iraq War. Unfortunately, he's about as rare as a Lawrence's Warbler (I'm a birdwatcher), which is quite rare indeed.

[leftofthedial]

3. they don't care about any of that

they are happily looting the treasury for their rich owners.

the bushgang "administration" is a huge success, not a failure.

[senseandsensibility]

4. What kind of party?

The Republican party, as it has evolved since their Contract on America.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Isn't it rare for a sitting pres to get seriously challenged?

Clinton did not in 1996, Reagan did not in 1984. Was Bush I seriously challened in 92? Was Nixon challenged seriously in '72?

Carter got challenged in '80 by Kennedy.

LBJ was seriously challenged in '68 and withdrew because of it, but he had the albatross of 4 years of Vietnam and a more hostile media. Bush has had only 13 month of Iraq and a much more docile media.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. There's no way they'd do it

For one, they really STILL believe this is going to be a landslide, and I should know because I live with the asshole responsible for doing their polling and the jackass brags about it all the time (don't worry folks, the company he works for is just as reputable as Fox News. he's totally full of shit.) For another, half of them benefitted from Bush campaigning for them in 2002. They haven't got much choice because their OWN jobs are going to be lost if Bush loses.

[dr.strangelove]

7. You don't run against a sitting POTUS unless he can't win

Politic is politics. Hate them or love them, the RNC knows how to push its ideals forward (sometimes I think better than the DNC). There is no way the RNC would allow a challenge to a sitting POTUS unless the polls were so clearly dictating a loss that something drastic had to be done. It takes money to run for President, and without the blessing of influential members of the RNC and GOP in general, no one could raise a dime. Regardless of whether bush is doing a good job in Iraq, he is cuttign taxes, pushing right wing pro lifers on the bench and banning gay marriage. The RNC has wet dreams about four more years of those policies. Why should they let someone from within rick the boat.

We aren't going to get help from a republican. The most help that will come from the other side of the aisle is McCain's defense of JFK's military record. Other then that, we are on our own.

Which is just the way I like it. Lets stop looking for hardcore tax cuttign advocates to help us, lets convince the 75 million undecided voters that JFK is the way.

[Poiuyt]

8. Politics have become too partisan

Nobody cares about our country anymore. They ony care about their side winning. The Clinton impeachment is the perfect example of that.