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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #150 on: December 18, 2014, 02:48:01 PM »
McSally Win Gives GOP Largest House Majority in 83 Years
Wednesday, 17 Dec 2014

Republicans will have their largest U.S. House majority in 83 years when the new Congress convenes next month after a recount in Arizona gave the final unresolved midterm race to a Republican challenger.

Retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally won a House seat over Democratic incumbent Ron Barber by 167 votes out of nearly 220,000 cast, according to results released Wednesday.

Barber was district director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords when he and the congresswoman were wounded in a mass shooting at a political event in Tucson in January 2011. Barber then won a special election to fill out the remainder of Giffords' term after she stepped down in early 2012. He went on to defeat McSally in that year's general election to win a full term in Congress, in a race separated by fewer than 2,500 votes.

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Barber said he wouldn't contest the results and that he called McSally to congratulate her. "I want her to be successful because the people of southern Arizona deserve that," he said.

McSally said it was time to unite after a long campaign battle and that she plans to focus on economic development and border security. "These things are not politically charged, and really it's where the majority of people that I talk to, where they want my focus to be," she said. "So my intent is to represent them on the things that unite us and not the things that divide us."

Giffords and her husband, retired Navy captain and NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, congratulated McSally and reminded her that they support more gun control, an issue that came up in the campaign when their political action committee attacked McSally for not backing a law banning misdemeanor-convicted stalkers from buying guns. The ad was pulled after McSally said she had been a victim of stalking and supported keeping guns out of stalkers' hands.

"While it's no secret that we supported our friend Congressman Ron Barber in this hard-fought race, we are pleased that this campaign included an important and substantive debate on how to reduce gun violence in our communities," their statement read.

McSally, 48, was the first woman to fly in combat for the Air Force. Her victory came in a year that saw the GOP make big gains across the country. The results of the mandatory recount mean Republicans will hold their largest House majority since the administration of President Herbert Hoover, controlling 247 seats to 188 for Democrats.

The 2nd District was the last outstanding congressional race from the Nov. 4 general election.

The Tucson-area district is one of the most competitive in the nation. Giffords narrowly won her 2010 race over a Republican challenger in the months before she was wounded in the shooting that killed six and wounded her, Barber, and 11 others.

Barber was next to her when a gunman opened fire, striking her in the head and him in the face and leg.

Barber said he won't consider whether to run again until after the holidays. "The bottom line about this experience, it's been the most incredible honor of my life," he said.

Barber said extremely low Democratic turnout was a big factor in his loss, but McSally said her campaign was much more organized and experienced this year.

"Last time I only had 205 total days as a candidate from when I decided to step up and run for office with no political experience," McSally said. "I don't think we were really taken seriously as a candidate last time, so we kind of snuck up on them and almost pulled it off in 2012."

The 2nd District this election was considered a battleground, and millions of dollars in outside advertising poured into the race, on both sides. "They knew we were a serious threat this time," she said.

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McSally led Barber by 161 votes after all ballots were counted last month. But the margin was so small it triggered an automatic recount that added six votes to her margin.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper announced the results in court Wednesday.

Barber, 69, had fought in several venues to get additional votes counted but was turned away at every effort. Separately, a group of voters tried to get the state Supreme Court to halt the recount because of the computer program used. That too was rejected.

McSally's win gives the GOP a 5-4 advantage in the Arizona congressional delegation.

http://www.Newsmax.com/Politics/GOP-Arizona-election-Congress/2014/12/17/id/613681/#ixzz3MIBv8PxI

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #151 on: April 22, 2015, 10:55:40 AM »
No no no, Chris Mathews, it's the GOP that's coming apart.  Don't you read getbig.com?

Chris Matthews: Democratic Party 'Coming Apart,' 'Devolving' Into 'Every Man for Himself'
By Kyle Drennen | April 22, 2015

Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Wednesday, Hardball host Chris Matthews sounded the alarm over the left-wing being in disarray: "The Democratic Party is not unified right now. It's coming apart, you can see it, it's devolving. And so everybody – it's every man for himself, every politician for themselves right now."

Matthews made the comments in response to a question by fill-in host Peter Alexander asking about Hillary Clinton's position on the Obama administration's proposed trade deal. Matthews argued: "Intellectually I think she probably is for the trade deal. But the pressure on her from all the Democratic interest groups right now.... does she want to make enemies with organized labor? Probably no."

Continuing to warn of doom for Democrats, Matthews proclaimed:

The Democratic Party, if you care about the party, does well when it's more than the sum of its parts. Under the Clintons, under the Kennedy administration, it was always for something bigger than just a bunch of interest groups. And the minute it becomes just interest groups it gets about 44% and loses the next general election.

It has to be for something commanding, something national, something unifying, something, okay, inspiring. It can't just be protect your rear end. And unfortunately, that's what it's beginning to look like lately as the President fades, you know, the President's fading into his later part of his second term. And they're just doing everything for themselves. It makes sense politically. It's not nice to look at, though.

Here is a transcript of the April 22 exchange:

12:09 PM ET

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PETER ALEXANDER: Hillary Clinton, does she have to pick a side on this [trade deal], be more a little more clear about her position?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: You know, this morning, Al Hunt made the point from Bloomberg that she ought to do a Sister Souljah moment and just say she's for trade. Intellectually I think she probably is for the trade deal. But the pressure on her from all the Democratic interest groups right now – and this goes to the issue of Iran, everything you think about right now, all the usual interest groups, the pro-Israeli hardliners, people like that, are all saying, "What side are you on?"

And the Democratic Party is not unified right now. It's coming apart, you can see it, it's devolving. And so everybody – it's every man for himself, every politician for themselves right now. And that's what's going on. Every issue that comes up now, they're not looking to the leadership at the White House. They're thinking, how do they save their butts politically? And Hillary's, you know, thinking about, does she want to make enemies with organized labor? Probably no.

ALEXANDER: Every man – these days, every man and every woman for themselves.

MATTHEWS: And I wish-

ALEXANDER: So we'll wait and see. We're listening to her right now, she's-

MATTHEWS: A little comment, Thomas [sic]. The Democratic Party, if you care about the party, does well when it's more than the sum of its parts. Under the Clintons, under the Kennedy administration, it was always for something bigger than just a bunch of interest groups. And the minute it becomes just interest groups it gets about 44% and loses the next general election.

It has to be for something commanding, something national, something unifying, something, okay, inspiring. It can't just be protect your rear end. And unfortunately, that's what it's beginning to look like lately as the President fades, you know, the President's fading into his later part of his second term. And they're just doing everything for themselves. It makes sense politically. It's not nice to look at, though.

(...)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2015/04/22/chris-matthews-democratic-party-coming-apart-devolving-every-man#sthash.2KtPMl2U.dpuf

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #152 on: April 22, 2015, 07:59:48 PM »
Hannity DEMOLISHED Rinos during the first half hour of his radio show today.  He said they're worse than Liberals, because at least we know what to expect from liberals.  When Repub establishment, led by Mccain, shit all over Cruz on issue of immigration, they're essentially handing election to democrats by muddying the waters for repub voters.

I've never heard him shit on RINOs like this.  He used the word over and over.

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #153 on: April 23, 2015, 06:00:00 AM »
Hannity DEMOLISHED Rinos during the first half hour of his radio show today.  He said they're worse than Liberals, because at least we know what to expect from liberals.  When Repub establishment, led by Mccain, shit all over Cruz on issue of immigration, they're essentially handing election to democrats by muddying the waters for repub voters.

I've never heard him shit on RINOs like this.  He used the word over and over.

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #154 on: April 23, 2015, 07:56:35 AM »
Link?
i was listening live.  i'm sure the transcript is on line.  he started his show demolishing RINOs, absolutely wrecking mccain and his bullshit stance on amnesty.

Hannity took his marching orders in Nov 2012 and suddenly got behind amnesty when reince priebus ordered it... but after eric cantor lost his job over it, repubs woke up and decided the pro-amnesty position means they lose their seats in congress - the base is VERY passionate about it, no matter how much the RINOs and clinton-voter "repubs" on getbig try to say amnesty is A-okay.  It's fucking not, and Ted Cruz agrees.

Hannity is a troll that will carry the water, but on April 22, 2015, he was 100% correct abouot the bullshit RINOs on amnesty.  They're worse than dems, because at least you know what dems are going in.

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #155 on: April 23, 2015, 07:58:02 AM »
Tribal politics ::)


lol..the weak minded followers wait on orders on high for their stances on an issue...

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #156 on: April 23, 2015, 10:32:18 AM »
i was listening live.  i'm sure the transcript is on line.  he started his show demolishing RINOs, absolutely wrecking mccain and his bullshit stance on amnesty.

Hannity took his marching orders in Nov 2012 and suddenly got behind amnesty when reince priebus ordered it... but after eric cantor lost his job over it, repubs woke up and decided the pro-amnesty position means they lose their seats in congress - the base is VERY passionate about it, no matter how much the RINOs and clinton-voter "repubs" on getbig try to say amnesty is A-okay.  It's fucking not, and Ted Cruz agrees.

Hannity is a troll that will carry the water, but on April 22, 2015, he was 100% correct abouot the bullshit RINOs on amnesty.  They're worse than dems, because at least you know what dems are going in.

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #157 on: May 22, 2015, 09:54:10 AM »
No no no.  It's the Republican Party that has the vanishing future. . . . .  Somebody let the author know . . . .

Democrats' Vanishing Future
Hillary Clinton is not the only Democratic comeback candidate on the 2016 ticket. Senate Democrats are betting on the past to rebuild their party for the future.
BY JOSH KRAUSHAAR

May 21, 2015 One of the most underappreciated stories in recent years is the deterioration of the Democratic bench under President Obama's tenure in office. The party has become much more ideologically homogenous, losing most of its moderate wing as a result of the last two disastrous midterm elections. By one new catch-all measure, a party-strength index introduced by RealClearPolitics analysts Sean Trende and David Byler, Democrats are in their worst position since 1928. That dynamic has manifested itself in the Democratic presidential contest, where the bench is so barren that a flawed Hillary Clinton is barreling to an uncontested nomination.

But less attention has been paid to how the shrinking number of Democratic officeholders in the House and in statewide offices is affecting the party's Senate races. It's awfully unusual to see how dependent Democrats are in relying on former losing candidates as their standard-bearers in 2016. Wisconsin's Russ Feingold, Pennsylvania's Joe Sestak, Indiana's Baron Hill, and Ohio's Ted Strickland all ran underwhelming campaigns in losing office in 2010—and are looking to return to politics six years later. Party officials are courting former Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina to make a comeback bid, despite mediocre favorability ratings and the fact that she lost a race just months ago that most had expected her to win. All told, more than half of the Democrats' Senate challengers in 2016 are comeback candidates.

On one hand, most of these candidates are the best choices Democrats have. Feingold and Strickland are running ahead of GOP Sens. Ron Johnson and Rob Portman in recent polls. Hill and Hagan boast proven crossover appeal in GOP-leaning states that would be challenging pickups. Their presence in the race gives the party a fighting chance to retake the Senate.

But look more closely, and the reliance on former failures is a direct result of the party having no one else to turn to. If the brand-name challengers didn't run, the roster of up-and-coming prospects in the respective states is short. They're also facing an ominous historical reality that only two defeated senators have successfully returned to the upper chamber in the last six decades. As political analyst Stu Rothenberg put it, they're asking "voters to rehire them for a job from which they were fired." Senate Democrats are relying on these repeat candidates for the exact same reason that Democrats are comfortable with anointing Hillary Clinton for their presidential nomination: There aren't any better alternatives.

For a portrait of the Democrats' slim pickings, just look at the political breakdown in three of the most consequential battleground states. Republicans hold 12 of Ohio's 16 House seats, and all six of their statewide offices. In Wisconsin, Republicans hold a majority of the state's eight House seats and four of five statewide partisan offices. In Pennsylvania, 13 of the 18 representatives are Republicans, though Democrats hold all the statewide offices. (One major caveat: Kathleen Kane, the Democrats' once-hyped attorney general in the state, is under criminal investigation and has become a political punchline.) These are all Democratic-friendly states that Obama carried twice.

If Strickland didn't run, the party's hopes against Portman would lie in the hands of 30-year-old Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, who would make unexpected history as one of the nation's youngest senators with a victory. (Sittenfeld is still mounting a long-shot primary campaign against Strickland.) Without Feingold in Wisconsin, the party's only logical option would be Rep. Ron Kind, who has regularly passed up opportunities for a promotion. Former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett already lost to Gov. Scott Walker twice, and businesswoman Mary Burke disappointed as a first-time gubernatorial candidate last year. And despite the Democratic establishment's publicized carping over Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania, the list of alternatives is equally underwhelming: His only current intra-party opposition is from the mayor of Allentown.


In the more conservative states, the drop-off between favored recruits and alternatives is even more stark. Hagan would be a flawed nominee in North Carolina, but there's no one else waiting in the wings. The strongest Democratic politician, Attorney General Roy Cooper, is running for governor instead. And in Indiana, the bench is so thin that even the GOP's embattled governor, Mike Pence, isn't facing formidable opposition. Hill, who lost congressional reelection campaigns in both 2004 and 2010, is not expected to face serious primary competition in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Dan Coats.

Even in the two swing states where the party landed young, up-and-coming recruits to run, their options were awfully limited. In Florida, 32-year-old Rep. Patrick Murphy is one of only five House Democrats to represent a district that Mitt Romney carried in 2012—and his centrism has made him one of the most compelling candidates for higher office. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee quickly rallied behind his campaign (in part to squelch potential opposition from firebrand congressman Alan Grayson). But if Murphy didn't run, the alternatives would have been limited: freshman Rep. Gwen Graham and polarizing Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz being the most logical alternatives.

In Nevada, Democrats boast one of their strongest challengers in former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, vying to become the first Latina ever elected to the Senate. But her ascension is due, in part, to the fact that other talented officeholders lost in the 2014 statewide wipeout. Democratic lieutenant-governor nominee Lucy Flores, hyped by MSNBC as a "potential superstar," lost by 26 points to her GOP opponent. Former Secretary of State Ross Miller, another fast-rising pol, badly lost his bid for attorney general against a nondescript Republican. By simply taking a break from politics, Cortez Masto avoided the wave and kept her prospects alive for 2016.

This isn't an assessment of Democratic chances for a Senate majority in 2017; it's a glaring warning for the party's longer-term health. If Clinton can't extend the Democrats' presidential winning streak—a fundamental challenge, regardless of the political environment—the party's barren bench will cause even more alarm for the next presidential campaign. And if the Democrats' core constituencies don't show up for midterm elections—an outlook that's rapidly becoming conventional wisdom—Democrats have serious challenges in 2018 as well. It's why The New Yorker's liberal writer John Cassidy warned that a Clinton loss next year could "assign [Republicans] a position of dominance."

By focusing on how the electorate's rapid change would hand Democrats a clear advantage in presidential races, Obama's advisers overlooked how the base-stroking moves would play in the states. Their optimistic view of the future has been adopted by Clinton, who has been running to the left even without serious primary competition.

But without a future generation of leaders able to compellingly carry the liberal message, there's little guarantee that changing demographics will secure the party's destiny. The irony of the 2016 Senate races is that Democrats are betting on the past, running veteran politicians to win them back the majority—with Clinton at the top of the ticket. If that formula doesn't work, the rebuilding process will be long and arduous.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/democrats-vanishing-future-20150521

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #158 on: May 22, 2015, 11:41:45 AM »
Team Repub vs Team Demo...
so fucking stupid.. Childish. But easy to follow i guess

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #159 on: May 22, 2015, 11:44:08 AM »
Team Repub vs Team Demo...
so fucking stupid.. Childish. But easy to follow i guess

Good thing you don't play that game. . . .

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #160 on: May 22, 2015, 11:52:35 AM »
Good thing you don't play that game. . . .

what happened to you, Bum???...you used to be reasonable and you and I would agree all the time...what radicalized you :D?

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #161 on: May 22, 2015, 11:55:13 AM »
what happened to you, Bum???...you used to be reasonable and you and I would agree all the time...what radicalized you :D?

Dude you must be hitting the pipe.  We rarely agree.  lol  I haven't changed one bit.  Still the same.  Call things exactly as I see them.  Unapologetically. 

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #162 on: May 22, 2015, 11:56:31 AM »
Dude you must be hitting the pipe.  We rarely agree.  lol  I haven't changed one bit.  Still the same.  I wrongly Call things exactly as I see them.  Unapologetically. 

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #163 on: May 22, 2015, 11:59:26 AM »
FIXED

Sometimes right.  Sometimes wrong. 

But at least I'm not like you and other Obamabots:  never in doubt, seldom right.   :)

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #164 on: May 22, 2015, 11:59:54 AM »
Good thing you don't play that game. . . .

shit naw... thats for children, low level thinkers, lazy shits and people that feel a need to belong to something for identity. As well as people that arent fact based... At one point in time Herman Cain and Sarah Palin were actual viable candidates... disgusting

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #165 on: May 22, 2015, 12:01:52 PM »
shit naw... thats for children, low level thinkers, lazy shits and people that feel a need to belong to something for identity. As well as people that arent fact based... At one point in time Herman Cain and Sarah Palin were actual viable candidates... disgusting

lol.  Dude.  Stop.  You are a partisan.  You know it.  I know it.  Just own it already.  Nothing to be ashamed of. 

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #166 on: May 22, 2015, 12:13:39 PM »
shit naw... thats for children, low level thinkers, lazy shits and people that feel a need to belong to something for identity. As well as people that arent fact based... At one point in time Herman Cain and Sarah Palin were actual viable candidates... disgusting

Palin panzer division lol.   "I believe Herman Cain!"

My favorite way saying palins 5 community college journalism degree pwned obamas yale then Harvard law. 

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #167 on: October 16, 2015, 11:13:27 AM »
Another person who didn't get the memo that the GOP is already dead.


RNC's Priebus: Republican Party 'Cooked' If We Lose 2016

Image: RNC's Priebus: Republican Party 'Cooked' If We Lose 2016  (Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images) 
By Bill Hoffmann     
Friday, 16 Oct 2015

The Republican Party is "cooked" if it fails to take back the White House in 2016, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says.

In a Washington Post piece published Thursday and titled "The GOP was Right to Fear Clinton," columnist Eugene Robinson said Republicans lack a "compelling" message on many issues:

"How can government help the middle class? With a higher minimum wage? With a mandate for businesses to offer paid family leave? With assistance in paying for higher education, perhaps even free tuition at public universities? With trade and tax policies that encourage keeping jobs in the United States?" Robinson writes.

 "The Democratic candidates understand that these are the issues people care most about. [Donald] Trump gets it, too, in his own bombastic way. A party that goes into the election without a compelling message on jobs and incomes — I'm talking to you, GOP establishment — is begging to lose."

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/reince-priebus-republican-party-cooked/2015/10/16/id/696580/#ixzz3okurQvao

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #168 on: October 16, 2015, 07:13:54 PM »
Another person who didn't get the memo that the GOP is already dead.
RNC's Priebus: Republican Party 'Cooked' If We Lose 2016

the GOP is town.  Half tea party, half RINO/moderates.

until they get their shit together, the 40% of nation that are dems will keep getting 53% for POTUS on election day.   

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #169 on: October 27, 2015, 03:32:19 PM »
Good thing the RNC is broke too.  No wait . . . .

The DNC Has More Debt Than Cash On Hand
 Republicans label DNC 'dead broke'
BY:  Brent Scher   
October 22, 2015


The Democratic National Committee’s current debts outweigh the amount of cash it has on hand by more than $1.2 million, according to the group’s Wednesday filing with the Federal Election Committee.

The filing revealed that the DNC currently owes $6.7 million in debts and obligations that it cannot cover with the $5.5 million worth of cash it has on hand.

The debts include a $2 million loan that it still has not paid back to Amalgamated Bank, which is a labor union-owned bank that serves as the primary bank of the DNC and often gives it large loans.

The loan that is still owed was taken in the weeks before the 2014 midterm elections, in which the Democrats failed to maintain control in the Senate and Republicans gained a bigger majority in the House.

Making problems worse for the DNC is that its Republican counterpart is not experiencing the same fundraising problems. The RNC’s filing reveals that it has $19.4 million in cash on hand and only $1.8 million in debt.

The lopsided fundraising advantage has the RNC using the words of likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to mock its rival, writing in a memo that the DNC is “dead broke.”

“One cannot overstate the gravity of the problem this creates for embattled front runner Hillary Clinton, who will finally know what it means to be ‘dead broke’ when she completes her takeover of the DNC,” wrote RNC chief of staff Katie Walsh.

The DNC’s $1.2 million shortfall is the latest problem for chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.).

It was revealed last year that Schultz is seen as incompetent by many in the party and that she was almost replaced after the 2012 election. She became the target of the President Barack Obama’s White House, which labeled her to the press as a “liability” that cares more about her “own political ambitions than helping Democrats win.”

The RNC memo makes clear that they think they will have the advantage over the DNC going into 2016.

“It would be foolhardy to assume the DNC’s dire financial state is permanent, but there is no denying Democrats will enter 2016 with a distinct organizational and financial disadvantage,” said Walsh. “While the DNC worries about making payroll and keeping the lights on, we’ll continue moving forward with the most ambitious get-out-the-vote operation the Republican Party has ever built.”



UPDATE 4:05 p.m: This article previously stated that the $2 million loan from Amalgamated Bank was in addition to the DNC’s $6.7 million in debts.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-dnc-has-more-debt-than-cash-on-hand/

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #170 on: November 03, 2015, 06:35:28 PM »
Definitely a death spiral. 

Republican Bevin wins Kentucky governor race
Published November 03, 2015
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Republican Matt Bevin, a businessman and Tea Party favorite, beat Democrat Jack Conway on Tuesday to win the race for Kentucky governor -- becoming only the second GOP governor in the state in four decades.

The off-year election, one of many state and local contests held Tuesday ‎across the country, was seen by some as a test for outsider candidates at a time when several such candidates are seeking the GOP presidential nomination. Bevin, who has run as an outsider ever since he unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Mitch McConnell last year, was declared the winner over state Attorney General Conway in the gubernatorial race shortly after polls closed Tuesday evening.

Independent Drew Curtis was a distant third in Tuesday's election.

‎The office is currently held by a Democrat. Bevin's election gives Republicans control of the state's executive branch along with a commanding majority in the state Senate. Democrats still have an eight-seat majority in the state House of Representatives.

Throughout his campaign, Bevin cast himself as an outsider, in both government and politics. The 48-year-old investment manager has never held public office and was shunned by the state's Republican political establishment when he challenged McConnell in the 2014 Senate primary. He never took any meaningful steps to repair those relationships after the race, often deflecting assistance from party officials and likely affecting his fundraising ability.

He relied more on the details of his personal story — his Christian faith and his four adopted children from Ethiopia — than his political policies.

Bevin's campaign was mostly self-funded, and he preferred to speak to small gatherings of voters instead of courting influential donors. His running mate, Jenean Hampton, is a retired Air Force officer who moved to Kentucky from Detroit and whose only political experience is a lopsided loss to the former speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2014. Now, Hampton will become the first black person to ever hold statewide office in Kentucky.

Conway conceded the race shortly before 9 p.m. at the Frankfort Convention Center, telling the quiet crowd it was not the result he had hoped for, "but it is the result we respect." He said he called Bevin and wished him well.

"It was a cordial phone call. I told him I remain positive about moving this state forward, and if he ever needed any assistance, this Democrat was at his disposal," Conway said.

Bevin ran an aggressive campaign, often arguing with reporters and even dropping by the state Democratic Party headquarters, twice, to argue with them about their signs criticizing him as dishonest. But it appeared Bevin was able to tap into voters' growing frustration with their government to overcome any concerns they may have had about his temperament. He has promised some sweeping changes, most notably repealing the state's expanded Medicaid program and kynect, the state-run health insurance exchange. Those decisions will affect the health insurance of about a half-million people.

Focus will almost immediately shift to the state House elections in 2016, where McConnell has vowed to flex his powerful fundraising muscle to help Republicans to take over the only Southern state legislative body controlled by Democrats.

The results Tuesday were also a potentially troubling sign for Democrats ahead of next year's presidential election.

Bevin waged a campaign to scale back the state's Medicaid expansion that was made possible by President Obama's health care overhaul. He also played up his support of Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/03/republican-matt-bevin-elected-governor-kentucky-2nd-republican-governor-in-4/

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« Reply #171 on: November 04, 2015, 09:51:08 AM »
Republicans Score Big Victories From Coast to Coast
By Cathy Burke
Wednesday, 04 Nov 2015

Republicans and conservatives notched stunning wins in elections across the country in victories amid voter sentiment fueled by a "year of the outsider."

Voters in Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi, and in cities like Houston and San Francisco soundly rejected Democratic candidates or Democrat-backed measures.

Here's a sampling of the conservative wave:

Matt Bevin's upset victory in the Kentucky's governor's race makes him just the second Republican to govern the state in four decades, The Washington Post notes.

And in bemoaning the defeat of Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway, Democratic Governors Association head Elisabeth Person called the win a consequence of "Trumpmania" in a "year of the outsider," the Post reports.

But the victory also illustrated how a conservative voters' base came out in droves, likely in response to social issues including the effort to defund Planned Parenthood and the anti-same sex marriage fight of court clerk Kim Davis, the Post reports.

Republicans held their seats in Virginia's state Senate — a rebuke to Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and blow to his party hoping to bolster the tie-breaking authority of Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, the Post notes.

Voters in Houston crushed an ordinance that was designed to protect the rights of LGBT citizens, while Ohio voters soundly rejected marijuana legislation.
In San Francisco — where the gunshot death of Kate Steinle allegedly by illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez enflamed voters — the sheriff who defended the city's "sanctuary" policy went down in flames, the Post reports.

Mississippi GOP Gov. Phil Bryant re-election only illustrated the "south is becoming even redder," according to the Post's blog writer James Hohmann. In that state's elections, The Clarion Ledger reports, the GOP increased its majority in its House and toppled the House minority leader.
Hohmann writes the Bevin win in Kentucky also puts "another big nail in the coffin for big labor unions in the South," considering the governor-elect's aim to make Kentucky a "right to work" state.

"Bevin is certainly an ideologue, but I've seen him show signs of a profound pragmatic streak," writes Hohmann.

"He told me last week that he'll lead in the tradition of a former KFC CEO, a moderate Democrat, who was not beholden to anyone and cleaned up state government in the '70s. His efforts to make nice with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who attacked him fiercely last year, show that he's capable of becoming a serious politician."

Hohmann warns that despite the wave of conservative and GOP victories, turnout was "very low" across the country, warning: "Republicans could over interpret the results at their own peril."

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/conservatives-score-victories/2015/11/04/id/700500/#ixzz3qXvq6TIs

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« Reply #172 on: November 24, 2015, 07:56:00 AM »
Why do people keep donating money to a party that's dead? 

RNC Breaks Record, Raising $8.7M in October

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Monday, 23 Nov 2015

The Republican National Committee says it raised a presidential off-year fundraising record of $8.7 million last month — and has collected $89.3 million so far in the 2016 the election cycle.

"With just under a year until Election Day 2016 we're seeing great enthusiasm for the GOP," the RNC's chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.

The breakdown of the October fundraising shows 99 percent of the donations have been $200 or less, with the average $69, the RNC says.

The RNC also announced it had $20.4 million in cash on hand.

"Our team is hard at work training, recruiting, and registering volunteers and voters in every community and every battleground state," Priebus added.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/RNC-breaks-record-fundraising/2015/11/23/id/703256/#ixzz3sQPAXnHj

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #173 on: November 24, 2015, 08:04:29 AM »
Why do people keep donating money to a party that's dead? 

there are people that still believe Herman Cain never told a lie.

there are people that still believe Palin is brilliant and mature.

there are people that still believe the earth is flat or only 6000 years old.

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Re: The Republican Party is Dead
« Reply #174 on: November 24, 2015, 08:09:17 AM »
there are people that still believe Herman Cain never told a lie.

there are people that still believe Palin is brilliant and mature.

there are people that still believe the earth is flat or only 6000 years old.

There are people who believe we faked the moon landing.  (You)
There are people who believe the government conspired with foreign terrorists to attack us on 911.  (You)
There are people who believe we shot a missile into the Pentagon on 9/11. (You)
There are people who believe we secretly made two airliners disappear on 9/11, kidnapped the passengers, and secretly released them overseas. (You)

Should I go on?   :)