Kuhl & Walsh - Too Late to Undo the Superglue?
Reader zinnfan sent us this little nugget of joy from the Washington Post, about the current situation GOPers face:
Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan analyst of congressional politics, said: “The math is against them. The environment is against them. The money is against them. This is one of those cycles that if you’re a Republican strategist, you just want to go into the bomb shelter.”
The loss of Hastert’s seat in a special election in the far suburbs of Chicago was particularly painful, Republicans conceded. GOP campaign aides contended that the victory of Democratic physicist Bill Foster, a political neophyte, was more a reflection of the unpopularity of his Republican opponent, Jim Oberweis, than a tectonic political shift in a district that once exemplified the GOP’s stranglehold on the nation’s outer-ring suburbs.
But that’s not how Foster sees it. Voters “had a pretty clean choice between a candidate who had aligned himself with George Bush’s policies and one who felt we needed a change of course,” he said.
Two other congresscritters in these parts have, similarly, aligned themselves with Bush– Randy Kuhl (NY-29) and Tom Reynolds (NY-26). They’ve continued to enable Bush and his disastrous policies. I pity the fool who’s made that naughty choice.
Now it’s not just bad for America, it’s looking bad for them as well. They’ve superglued themselves to an anchor.
This is one of those cycles that if you’re a Republican strategist, you just want to go into the bomb shelter.â€ÂÂ
Or just lock yourself in the barn, depending on the candidate.
I liked the “He (Bush) just killed the Republican brand.”