On 4/29/2013 1:06 AM, GOP_Decline_and_Fall wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:58:09 +0000 (UTC), Gray Guest
>>
news:ar4rn89eghetn1698...@4ax.com:
>>
>>> The GOP's relentless attacks on the middle class ,economic growth and
>>> their frenzied efforts to destroy the recovery might well be a bigger
>>> issue as their poisonous efforts begin to bear fruit but the flagrant
>>> disregard of the wishes of 90% of the population are unlikely to be
>>> forgotten.
>>>
>>
>> You are certainly free to delude yourself in whatever manner comfor5s you,
>> but the questions remains, wanna bet?
>>
>> Dems will not take the House
>
> FWIMBW the polls say otherwise
>
>
http://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-republicans-house-poll-2014-2013-4
>
> When asked which party they would support if an election for the U.S.
> House of Representatives were held today, 43 percent of those polled
> said they would support the Democrat to 35 percent supporting the
> Republican.
>
> One final key finding of the poll is the widespread dissatisfaction of
> self-identified Republicans with their own party. Only 63 percent of
> Republicans have a positive opinion of their own party.
>
>> and might lose the Senate. They will certainly lose seats.
>
> To who?
>
> First the GOP civil war has to be fought to a conclusion, the Tea
> Party exterminated,then six electable candidates who aren't nut cases
> have to be found.
>
> Not an easy task in today's shambling suicidal GOP.
>
> The Koch brothers can be expected to foul the waters again which,
> ironically, can only help the democrats.
>
> EXCLUSIVE: Read the Koch Brothers' Plans for Their Upcoming GOP Donor
> Retreat
>
>
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/koch-brothers-donor-retreat-agenda-hispanic-candidate-recruiting
>
> According to a previously unpublished preview of the April 28-29
> gathering, the Kochs will unveil a new plan to recruit and train
> political candidates who will advance their free-market worldview.
> Another priority is improving the conservative movement's outreach to
> "growing demographics" such as Latinos, young people, and women. The
> preview, obtained by Mother Jones, was emailed to attendees in March
> by Kevin Gentry, a top Koch aide. (A Koch spokeswoman did not respond
> to requests for comment about Gentry's email.)
>
> Another big item on the Kochs' agenda is a long-awaited post-mortem on
> last year's elections. Charles Koch announced in December that he was
> pushing back the winter retreat from January to late April so that an
> internal review of his circle's election strategies could be
> completed.
>
> Despite raising hundreds of millions of dollars, the Kochs, their
> allies, and groups they bankrolled failed to defeat President Obama,
> retake control of the Senate, or increase the Republican majority in
> the House. In his email, Gentry promises a "rigorous post-election
> assessment" that "must be geared toward productive next steps."
>
> Then we have Karl Rove's efforts
>
> GOP's Senate problem: A lack of viable candidates for 2014
>
>
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14496357-gops-senate-problem-a-lack-of-viable-candidates-in-2014
>
> As the 2012 campaign season kicked off in 2011, Republicans were a
> confident bunch. With President Barack Obama�s approval rating dipping
> into the low 40s, they believed they had a good chance at winning the
> White House. Not only that, they believed they had an excellent chance
> at winning back control of the US Senate, too.
>
> That�s when tea party irony entered the picture.
>
> The tea party, a political movement defined primarily by anti-Obama
> sentiments, played a major role in giving Republicans control of the
> House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms. But what worked for
> Republicans in 2010 worked against them in 2012.
>
> And it could work against them in 2014, too.
>
> Democrats will be defending 21 Senate seats next year, while
> Republicans will only have to defend 14. The current Senate is made up
> of 53 Democrats, 45 Republicans and two independents who caucus with
> the Democrats. That means the GOP would need to pick up six seats to
> regain control of the Senate and effectively shut down any legislative
> agenda Obama might put forward in his final two years as president.
>
> But first they have to find viable candidates, a task that is proving
> to be an uphill battle.
>
> An April 27 report by The Associated Press noted that �so far there�s
> been a combination of no-thank-you�s from prospective Republican
> candidates in Iowa, slow movement among others in Michigan and lack of
> consensus elsewhere over a single contender.�
>
> The tea party ghosts of 2012 are still be haunting the GOP as 2014
> approaches.
>
> Missouri serves as a good example of what went wrong for the GOP
> nationally in 2012. Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was about as
> popular as Obamacare in the Show-Me State, which is to say she was on
> the fast track to being tossed out of office. But Republicans found a
> way to turn a likely win into an embarrassing defeat by nominating tea
> party favorite Todd Akin, a US representative from the state�s 2nd
> Congressional District, as their Senate candidate. It didn�t take long
> for Akin to put his proverbial foot in his ill-informed mouth, saying
> that women who get raped rarely get pregnant in an August 2012
> television interview on The Jaco Report, aired by a St. Louis area Fox
> News affiliate.
>
> Oops.
>
> Not only did Akin�s poorly chosen words cost the GOP in Missouri, his
> pronouncement served to reinforce the Democrats� contention that
> Republicans were waging a �war on women� at a nationally level.
> Instead of Republicans winning the Senate, Democrats picked up a net
> gain of two seats.
>
> As 2014 gets closer, Republicans find themselves in a serious
> quandary. The party�s most activist voters � those who turned out to
> give primary wins to Akin and others like him, including eventual
> general election loser Richard Mourdock in Indiana � show no signs of
> abandoning their hardline views. Yet the kinds of candidates they are
> apt to back have an awful track record when running against Democrats
> in statewide races.
>
> Longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove, credited with successfully
> engineering the 2000 and 2004 campaigns of former Preisdent George W.
> Bush, understands that Republicans can�t come across as misogynistic
> misanthropes and still expect to win state and national races.
>
> Rove formed the Conservative Victory Project after Obama�s re-election
> to �to pump big money into local congressional primaries and prevent
> Tea Party-endorsed candidates from scoring Senate nominations,�
> according to a
policymic.com report from earlier this year.
>
> According to AP, in the sixth year of a presidency, �the party out of
> power in the White House usually wins congressional seats.� But with
> the tea party�s problematic presence and Obama�s approval ratings back
> at in the 50 percent range, simply being against the president may not
> be enough to seal the deal with voters.
>
Mother Jones? Really? And, the rest of your sources are too far left
to have any credibility with anyone but the fringe left.