The Voice of the GOP

These old white guys say some pretty irksome things, and I'll admit they get under my skin occasionally. Can't imagine why though. What a sorry bunch. Are there really that many people who are proud they aren't citizens of the world?

KT - re make him an unlikely standard bearer for the party's future: Isn't it time for us to start guessing who will be the Republican candidate in 2012?

They don't have a message that anyone wants to hear right now so it isn't that surprising that they don't have a messenger.
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I was really sick of seeing the Cheney's and Newt on TV all the time and hearing about Rush at least once a day, but now I think it's a good thing. As long as these are the main voices of the party the party will be lost.

So if Page is accurate, and she is hardly the only one to report this, the sum and total of the republican "strategy" for coming back is Democratic failure.
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Talk about America Haters.

I just had a perfectly wonderful post get eaten.
The bottom line though is that we would benefit from having a credible opposition to Obama's economic agenda but that the Republican's religious fervor over failed strategies makes that impossible.

So the dominant faces of the Republican Party are all men, all white, all conservative and all old enough to join AARP, ranging in age from 58 (Limbaugh) to 72 (McCain).

Well, that actually IS the Republican Party, and has been my entire life. The party of mean-spirited, angry, racist old white men who revel in their willful ignorance, and a few estrogen-soaked gold-digging bimbos at their elbow.
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Yet they dominate the political discourse and are granted national media platforms completely out of proportion to their numbers, or the strength of their (cough) ideas.
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There may be some decent cloth-coat Republicans left somewhere in the US of A, but they haven't been seen around Washington for almost two decades.

Where is the world is Sarah in all this. Oh. No where, yet she seems to draw large crowds and none of the others really do. So who are the people coming to see her or is it all a myth that she has a lot of support?
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She was on the top ticket less then a year ago and she is still giving english speaking challenged interviews to anyone who is willing to ignore that every word is a struggle when she attempts to string it together with other words.

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Well, that actually IS the Republican Party, and has been my entire life. The party of mean-spirited, angry, racist old white men who revel in their willful ignorance, and a few estrogen-soaked gold-digging bimbos at their elbow.
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You just wait. Their "get offa my lawn" youth outreach program is going to start reaping dividends any day now.
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The good ole days.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aMDJP4VxY4&hl=en&fs=1&]
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Proof the GOP is not a party of old white guys.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWQyud1pQk&hl=en&fs=1&]

Republicans maintained support among seniors, conservatives and frequent churchgoers
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See, it's not all bad news.

You just wait. Their "get offa my lawn" youth outreach program is going to start reaping dividends any day now.

Like this?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkeZ2P4SiY8&hl=en&fs=1&]

[...] Time’s “Swampland Blog,” Karen Tumulty tells us who the “voice of the GOP” happens to be.  Clue:  It’s [...]

Haha James, I saw that a few days ago.

Awesome, in all the wrong ways.
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Charles Krauthammer:

What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.
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A few years ago, I was on a radio show with a well-known political reporter who lamented the loss of a pristine past in which the whole country could agree on what the facts were, even if they disagreed on how to interpret and act upon them. All that was gone now. The country had become so fractured we couldn't even agree on what reality was. What she meant was that the day in which the front page of The New York Times was given scriptural authority everywhere was gone, shattered by the rise of Fox News.

There are no shared facts. And he is proud. The Enlightenment was overrated.

When will Time magazine be posting the video of David Letterman hoping that Alex Rodriguez rapes 14-year-old Willow Palin, the daughter of Sarah Palin? When Karen Tumulty and Jay Newton-Small stop laughing at Letterman's "joke"? http:www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/06/023767.php

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Also, when will Time magazine post Playboy magazine's list of the 10 Women it wants to "Hate F@c*" (i.e., rape)? When Karen Tumulty and Jay Newton-Small stop laughing? BTW, the 10 women Playboy wants most to rape are Michelle Malkin, Megyn Kelly, Mary Katharine Ham, Amanda Carpenter, Elisabeth Hasselback, Dana Perino, Laura Ingraham, Pamela Geller, Michelle Bachman and Peggy Noonan. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/01/moron-of-the-day/

Sorry, I messed up the link of David Letterman hoping that Alex Rodriguez rapes 14-year-old Willow Palin, the daughter of Sarah Palin. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/06/023767.php

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BTW, when can we expect Letterman to hope on his show that Obama's two daughters are raped by Alex Rodriguez? When Time magazine posts the video of Letterman hoping that 14-year-old Willow Palin gets raped by Alex Rodriguez, to wit: never?

JJ, the real problem is that both the NYT and Fox have let the public down. Fox is proudly biased but has a logo stating that the network is "Fair and Balanced". NYT the "Paper of Record" published Judith Miller, a stenographer, who cheerlead the Iraq War. The Times recently reported that 1 in 7 released Gitmo detainees "returned to terrorist activities. The story had to be changed to reflect the probability that a 6 year stay in Gitmo may have actually created terrorists. In both cases the Times got spun.
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Which is worst, being biased towards Conservative views (Fox) or getting repeatedly spun by Conservatives (NYT)? We cannot trust the initial stories that the MSM produces, even when it comes from "Liberal" sources like the NYT..

KT, don't chase the "shiny object". It obviously has nothing to do with a story about how lost the GOP is. He had nothing to post on the subject so he's distracting from it.
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GOP 101, if you don't have anything to say, say anything.

KT-- You are either with them or you're with the libruls. You gotta choose a side. Letterman has chosen his. You biased, unamerican, Nixon-oppressing, elite, New Class radical, you.

I'm not sure how significant the "who speaks for the GOP" part of this survey is. Had someone asked this question about Democrats in June 2005 (or June 2003) the inability to identify a specific voice for the Democrats would have been as bad, if not worse.
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far more problemattic for the GOP is "what people though of" when they heard 'Republican'.

1. Unfavorable 25%

2. Conservative 16%

3. Favorable 7%

4. No direction 6%

5. Cater to the rich 6%

6. George W. Bush 4%

7. Close-minded/Not open to new ideas 3%

8. Cater to big business 3%

9. Poor economic conditions 3%

10. Pro-military/Pro-war 2%

Oh my, isn't it a surprise to see Karen Tumulty promulgating more lies about Republicans and creating stereotypes of the entire party as one of "old white guys". Is that your feigned attempt to give credit to the new Democrat spokesperson, Sotomayor? Our latina woman who is so dead certain that her latina-ness makes her a better judge of all things created by God? But you fail to recognize the racists remarks that she makes and those of your Democrat Party. The Party of radical neo-racists of 2009. If you are not one of them, then you are simply anti-progressivism. If you are anti New Deal II Obama-politics, a blended world of socialist community activism you are lumped into a group of people they like to THINK are stupid and mis-aligned.
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Give me a break Karen. Spread you neo-liberal garbage on the dung-heap of far left liberal extremists sites like Daily Kos and Huffington Post. They scream for new voices such as yours, in the eclectic gay new world where everything goes. When will Time recognize your liberal bias and give you the boot?
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As Time continues to sag deeper and deeper into the pit of long dead and past great magazines and newspapers, one day we shall reflect on its demise. It is because of reporters, well opinionators, such as Karen Tumulty that we no longer have a Time magazine at all.

KT: The "Voice of the GOP" is actually VERY diverse. This old white guy. That old white guy. The other old white guy. Michael Steele (snark). Ann Coulter (possibly a younger white guy).

What lies is Karen promulgating? Specifically. Site your sources instead of name calling.