Digby: "Republicans have rebranded themselves from epic screw-up party to a batshit crazy party"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/pantload-unloads-by-digby-jonah.html



Pantload Unloads

by digby

Jonah Goldberg sez:

The Democrats came into power in 2008 thinking they had a huge mandate for liberalism, when they really had a huge mandate for competence (for want of a better word). Obama and his coterie misunderstood this. They used a lot of 'pragmatic' rhetoric, but they governed from the left, starting with the calamitous stimulus bill. Obama's personal popularity is still sustaining him, but it seems to me that the Democratic Party missed an enormous opportunity. I don't think they're doomed or anything like that. But, they've managed to rebrand themselves as a very liberal party again, and that's a problem when 80% of Americans don't describe themselves as liberals."

Unfortunately for Jonah, the Republicans have managed to rebrand themselves from an epic screw-up party to a batshit crazy party, and that's a problem when 99% of Americans don't describe themselves as epic screwups or batshit crazy. I'll take our chances.

digby 10/26/2009 06:30:00 PM

[Skittles]

1. Jonah

:puke:

[depakid]

2. That's mommy's boy alright....

[Swamp Rat]

3. Whatever, Jonah

:dunce:

[opihimoimoi]

4. Liberals Trumps Bat Shit Crazy 24/7,,,,,the GOP have confirmed they LIE CHEAT STEAL and is NOT TO BE

TRUSTED

[SpiralHawk]

6. ...and, the Republicons are wrapped, not in the flag, but in Wide Stance Diapers

Perverted Republicon 'Family Values' have flushed their anti-American Corporate Brand down the Crapper (where it belongs).

[opihimoimoi]

14. The poor things...made themselves a Global JOKE....Through their "Gut Feelings" and the

stupid philosophy of greed, sex, and deception...

Only after 374645998.09 Pubs got caught with pants down or with GFs in faraway lands/stalls.....did peeps catch on to their HYPOCRISY

The Dems got a few hits in this arena but just a few...like 4.3

Its a Nit Prob from what I see

not enough Wits....focusing on Nits instead,,,,making them NitPickers of the worst degree...

Witless, hapless, and clueless...they carry on ...driven by a compulsion to win at any costs...they have chosen the old and worn Fear Cards and out and out deception,,,

Despite cheer leading by Sean, Back, and Steele...they took a beating last 2 elections....

:hi:

[The Court Jester]

5. The Media lied to us about WHY

In my humble, but PERFECT opinion, the reasons the so many people voted against the repubs in the last election are these:

Oil company profiteering, aka gas prices.
The WMD lies and the resulting invasion of Iraq.

Everything else is smoke and mirror Bullshrimp.

[old mark]

7. GOP is its own worst enemy - as the truth about their real "values"

comes out, more and more people are discovering that the hated Liberals ain't so bad after all....


mark

[Javaman]

12. This s is why I think the GOP should be renamed the Donner Party.

they enjoy eating their own.

[glitch]

13. !

:spray:

[old mark]

15. LOL _ I can see Rush with a knife and fork

and a red checkered napkin in his collar.....drooling.

But he seems to be drooling much of the time anyway.

mark

[wroberts189]

8. KNR for the OP subject ..I do not need to read the rest.

But I will.

[tanyev]

9. Hey, at least he's admitting that Obama has a huge mandate from the public.

Not like the mandate the Bushies pretended they had from an election stolen by court decision.

[Toots]

10. I for one did vote for competence

Republicans demonstrated for over a Decade they had none, in any area..That is one reason over 80% of Americans don't describe themselves as Republican. Republicans were given a golden opportunity and they blew it "Big Time". Now America will get to see what Democrats can and will do..

[ellie]

11. "calamitous stimulus bill"

How so? These repukes just spew this crap without any basis in fact.