GOP's best hope: Obama overreaches or underachieves

[babylonsister]

GOP's best hope: Obama overreaches or underachieves

Barack Obama speaks at the National Archives

Charles Dharapak / AP

By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — If history's any guide, the Republican Party's best hope for winning back power is a public backlash against Barack Obama.

That's how Republicans came back from the edge of a political abyss in 1966, as voters started to turn against Lyndon Johnson two years after his landslide election.

That's what helped unify them in the late 1970s, when a wholesale rejection of Jimmy Carter set the stage for Ronald Reagan's sweeping victory of 1980.

It worked again in 1994, when the public turned thumbs down on the first two years of Bill Clinton's presidency and turned the Congress over to Republicans for the first time in four decades.

Whether the American people will turn against Obama is an open question. Even if they do, it could take years, well beyond the 2010 midterm elections or Obama's likely run for re-election in 2012.

However, at a dark hour for the Republican Party — when polls show voters abandoning the brand and prominent members such as Dick Cheney and Colin Powell are feuding over who's a better Republican — influential party leaders outside Washington are growing more confident that Obama has planted the seeds of his own demise — and of their resurgence.

"We are getting ready for a comeback," said Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Grand Old Party in Michigan. "The Obama administration and the Democrats will overstep their bounds in terms of their election mandate."

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[MrModerate]

1. Of course they know better: a timid, 'Lican-lite approach to . . .

The greatest concatenation of crises in the last 50 years is the only way for Obama to guarantee success.

Yeah.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Amazingly unAmerican, they are. ANY progress to them is overreaching. GOP, go rot in hell.

[bluestateguy]

3. Oh God, more MSM Georgetown Cocktail Party garbage

nt

[Cha]

4. They're all sick..like death waiting

in the wings because there's no life.

Let them rely on their historical comebacks.

[ShadowLiberal]

5. They have the nerve to claim credit for giving women the vote now!?!

After the GOP so strongly voted against pay equality for women they now have the nerve to run ads in some states saying the GOP gave women the right to vote!?! :puke:

Like anyone seriously thinks that today's GOP would have voted to give women the right to vote, just look at all of their policies that hurt women today. There's a reason why more women vote for democrats then republicans, and that's a big part of it.

[Arkana]

7. I remember the debate episode of "The West Wing".

It was Season 7, between Arnie Vinick and Matt Santos, the candidates for President, and Vinick called Santos an unthinking liberal.

And Santos took him the fuck out.

Liberals ended slavery in this country.
Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote.
Liberals passed the Antiquities Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and established workplace safety laws (Teddy Roosevelt was a liberal, and fuck all of you who say otherwise.) Wanna know why we have national parks? Wanna know why you don't die when you drink a glass of water from the tap or from a hamburger cooked on the grill? This is why.
Liberals got women the right to vote.
Liberals established the FDIC. Next time you're able to get back all your money after your bank collapses, thank one of those pantywaist liberals.
Liberals created Social Security.
A liberal President guided this nation through the worst economic crisis it's ever seen AND a world war on top of that.
That same liberal President passed the GI Bill, so all those returning troops would be able to get jobs and go to college.
A liberal President desegregated the Armed Forces.
Liberals created Medicare and ended segregation once and for all with the Civil Rights Act.

Conservatives opposed ALL of these reforms.

So the next time you goddamn wingnuts piss all over those EEEEEVIL LIBRULS that Rush tells you about, remember all this shit--and know that you wouldn't have it if it weren't for us loony lefties, you fucking redneck gun-toting homophobic misogynist white-bread Leave-it-to-Beaver trips back to the fucking 1950s.

[Arkana]

6. They think if they act confident people will flock to them.

Those fuckers thought they had a permanent majority in 2004, but we learned from our mistakes.

We stopped concentrating on just the existing blue states and started running in places like Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina, Iowa, Indiana and Virginia. The 50-State Strategy was a resounding success and led to two straight electoral thumpings for the Republicans because we learned how to run Democrats that would win in states that don't lean far left. Fuck, we got a Democrat elected in IDAHO.

Those fuckers don't learn. Learning would mean progress. No, instead of realizing that pandering to their drooling idiot base was a huge mistake and maybe they should cool it with the hot-button social issues for a while, their solution is to make that bigoted fatass Rush Limbaugh and the least popular Vice President since probably Aaron Burr the face of their party.

Mark my words--this will be different. Unless they realize that what they are doing is hurting them, they'll be in the wilderness for a lot longer than we were.

[HopeOverFear]

8. I can't help but think this will be different

I don't believe it's going to be as easy for repubs to take back power as it has in the past.