Republican lose support in almost all demographics

[blackascoal]

What's interesting was that from 1999 to 2003 it had been the Democrats who had been losing support. You can pretty much trace the change in trend back to 2003 when the US invaded Iraq. Major factors have been Iraq, Katrina, nominating Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, Advocating the use of Torture, The housing bubble and the Financial crises on Wall Street. Boy when it rains it pours.

The question is that conservative Republicans have a tendency to self destruct by over reaching a conservative agenda as they have historically done 3 times before. Democrats on the other hand just can't seem to stand prosperity and have a tendency to shot them selves in the foot.

No truer words have ever been spoken.

... and true to form, the dmocrats will shoot themselves in the foot again.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Major factors have been Iraq, Katrina, nominating Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, Advocating the use of Torture, The housing bubble and the Financial crises on Wall Street.

scuse me, but how in the hell is Katrina a major factor in the republican popularity downslide?

 

[Damocles]

scuse me, but how in the hell is Katrina a major factor in the republican popularity downslide?

You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie!

Yup, we didn't have a leader making Rs look uncaring and unprepared during that... nope, not at all. He was fully capable of speaking clearly and articulating a message of caring instead of allowing the press to relate his position "for" him... Yup, nobody could possibly think that there was anything wrong with the response to Katrina by the Federal Government with that awesome articulator who was always in front of a camera getting out the message and informing people of his plans.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

scuse me, but how in the hell is Katrina a major factor in the republican popularity downslide?

Oh, I dunno, maybe it was that they were asleep at the wheel again while a city drowned.

Oh and that reminds me of another point that is making conservative republicans unpopular. Their inability to admit to mistakes or hold them selves accountable for them.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie!

Yup, we didn't have a leader making Rs look uncaring and unprepared during that... nope, not at all. He was fully capable of speaking clearly and articulating a message of caring instead of allowing the press to relate his position "for" him... Yup, nobody could possibly think that there was anything wrong with the response to Katrina by the Federal Government with that awesome articulator who was always in front of a camera getting out the message and informing people of his plans.

[/sarcasm] LOL LOL LOL

 

[Damocles]

Oh, I dunno, maybe it was that they were asleep at the wheel again while a city drowned.

Oh and that reminds me of another point that is making conservative republicans unpopular. Their inability to admit to mistakes or hold them selves accountable for them.

I think Meyers was a stroke of genius, it got Roberts onto the court with very little opposition and no filibuster.

 

[Bonestorm]

I think Meyers was a stroke of genius, it got Roberts onto the court with very little opposition and no filibuster.

Alito.

Bush would've gotten whomever he wanted since the Democrats are candy-asses with or without Miers.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie!

Yup, we didn't have a leader making Rs look uncaring and unprepared during that... nope, not at all. He was fully capable of speaking clearly and articulating a message of caring instead of allowing the press to relate his position "for" him... Yup, nobody could possibly think that there was anything wrong with the response to Katrina by the Federal Government with that awesome articulator who was always in front of a camera getting out the message and informing people of his plans.

yeah, i'll agree that ONCE the feds finally got asked to come in, they screwed it up, but why did the DEM governor of Louisiana wait so damned long to say yes, instead of declining fed intervention?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I think Meyers was a stroke of genius, it got Roberts onto the court with very little opposition and no filibuster.

LOL Could be....but I seriously doubt that he was that clever. I think he had every intention of making her an associate Supreme Court Justice. I think he was clueless to the howls of outrage that would occur at naming someone as unqualified as her.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

yeah, i'll agree that ONCE the feds finally got asked to come in, they screwed it up, but why did the DEM governor of Louisiana wait so damned long to say yes, instead of declining fed intervention?

Thanks for making my point about conservative Republicans not being able to accept accountability for their mistakes.

Unlike Truman the Bush administrations motto was "The Buck Passes Here".

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Alito.

Bush would've gotten whomever he wanted since the Democrats are candy-asses with or without Miers.

I think you are pretty much right. The problem with Miers was that she was so unqualified that not even Bush's fellow Republicans wanted her on the bench. Alito and Roberts might be conservative ideologues but at least their professional jurist who are eminantly qualified.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Thanks for making my point about conservative Republicans not being able to accept accountability for their mistakes.

Unlike Truman the Bush administrations motto was "The Buck Passes Here".

hmmm, that sounds awful familiar.....sorta like a deja vu thing where I hear 'Obama has to do the same thing that Bush wanted to do, because Bush screwed it up so bad in the first place'.