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Bush's comments in Israel fuel anger in Mideast and back homePoor George. Open mouth, insert foot. And McCain isn't much better. He's open mouth, insert foot, forget what was said in the first place.
Bush's failed policies (the aforementioned middle east policy being a prime example), the debacle in Iraq, his ineptitude at home (can you say recession, record deficit, "Katrina" and "mortgage mess"?), combined with the "swift boating" campaigning style the Republicans use almost exclusively, are the main cause that the Republican Party is going to go down in flames in November. In fact, it's already started. Emphasis added.
...But Democrat Travis Childers's victory Tuesday in a Mississippi district that had given 62 percent of its vote to President Bush in 2004 caused something of a nervous breakdown in GOP ranks, breeding a crisis of confidence among Republicans about the party's consulting establishment and national leadership.
It was the third Republican special-election loss in a row, all in House districts that the party had counted as its own. It was the second time in less than two weeks that a big-money advertising campaign aimed at linking a conservative Democrat to Obama had failed.
In a remarkably open rebellion, Republican members of Congress and party strategists decried Bush's role in bringing down the Republican "brand," the party's failure to offer new policies, and the futility of campaigns rooted in the 1980s and '90s.
Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, who is retiring, confessed to me that if his party "were dog food, they'd take us off the shelf and put us in a landfill."
Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, said party leaders have "got their heads in the sand. They've kept on this track, they keep expecting miracles, and there are no miracles..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503543.html
