'Rock-bottom' Republicans begin inquest (Guardian)

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

'Rock-bottom' Republicans begin inquest

Ewen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Friday November 7 2008 00.01 GMT
The Guardian, Friday November 7 2008

Senior Republicans were gathered in a secluded
location in the Virginia countryside yesterday for
an inquest into Tuesday night's devastating elections
losses and discussion of how to rebrand the party.

The meeting in Shenandoah Valley is the first of
scores of inquests into the election defeats to be
held over the coming months, some in public and
others in the privacy of homes or committee rooms
in Congress.

-snip-

Republicans at the Shenandoah meeting, representing
organisations primarily on the party's conservative
wing, have a lengthy agenda stretching from new
leaders through to the ideological battle over which
direction the party should go in.

In a sign of how far the party has fallen, the
Republicans set up a hotline and website yesterday
appealing for suggestions from the public on how to
rebuild.

It is a long way from the ambition of Karl Rove, ...

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/07/us-elections-2008-republicans

[opihimoimoi]

1. They gonna change the Lipstick color and/or Brand Name? New Name...same Pig..

[TWiley]

2. They will eat their young .... then throttle up the attack machine.

Expect the militia, survivalists, racist, and radical successionist groups to flourish as a direct result of their efforts. They did this to Clinton, and the result was Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City.

Time to renew the Southern Poverty Law Center membership

[B Calm]

3. The republican party has fallen! Who leads the GOP? Nobody knows. . .

[Demeter]

4. How About Hemlock All Around?

Why not go all the way? THey are politically dead, already.

[malaise]

5. Since leopards don't change their spots

it is clear that the GOP will soon fit into Grover's bath tub.