"WASHINGTON — “Some days you’re rolling the barrel, and some days you’re rolling in the barrel. The fact is that right now, Republicans are rolling in the barrel.”

Richard N. Bond, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, offered that observation in the wake of another rough patch for the party. The latest round of intramural debate came on Sunday when Dick Cheney, the former vice president, assailed not only President Obama, but also Colin Powell, the former secretary of state, a Republican who endorsed Mr. Obama.

Mr. Cheney said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program that he would prefer Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio commentator, to Mr. Powell, a member of the shrinking class of moderate Republicans, as spokesman for his party. Within hours, the Democratic National Committee had used video from that interview — along with other Sunday morning appearances by Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, last year’s Republican presidential nominee — to produce a mocking Web advertisement that sought to portray Republicans as negative, out-of-touch and mired in the past.

The Republican party’s difficulty in finding something forward-looking to say— as well as the right people to say it — has been on display for much of the six months since Mr. Obama defeated Mr. McCain."

More at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/us/politics/12web-nagourney.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

No. The GOP, parts of it anyway, are saying the right things and to the right people. There's just not enough of them saying it.

Try as you might, we lost with out leftward drift, not because we were too conservative. That's a simple fact.

Had John McCain been just even a little bit conservative and at the last moment and said 'hell no' to socializing the economy, he'd be president today. As it is, liberalizing the GOP hasn't worked for us. At all.

Thanks for all your concern, though!

Mr. Cheney said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program that he would prefer Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio commentator, to Mr. Powell, a member of the shrinking class of LIBERAL Republicans, as spokesman for his party. Within hours, the Democratic National Committee had used video from that interview — along with other Sunday morning appearances by Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, last year’s Republican presidential nominee — to produce a mocking Web advertisement that sought to portray Republicans as negative, out-of-touch and mired in the past.

The Republican party’s difficulty in finding something forward-looking to say— as well as the right people to say it — has been on display for much of the six months since Mr. Obama defeated Mr. McCain."


is the problem and a liberal euphmism for more government, more interference, more central control and LESS individual freedom.

The answers are in our history, well defined in the Constitution. The liberals want to move away from the values that made this the greatest place on the planet to live and think that's progress.

I was going to read the article but then I saw NY Times, that trash paper is only good for my dog to take a dump on!!! :dye: