Sharron Angle to challenge Sen. Raggio in primary

rgj.com     May 17, 2008            

By ANJEANETTE DAMON • adamon@rgj.com • May 17, 2008 Nevada’s candidate filing period ended Friday with at least one major surprise: Former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle decided to challenge Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio in the Republican primary. Angle, who served four terms in the state... [read full story]                

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Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears - New York Times

minstrelboy.blogspot.com     May 15, 2008          

Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears - New York Times: ..."Representative"Tom Davis, Republican of Virginia and former leader of his party’s Congressional campaign committee, issued a dire warning that the Republican Party had been severely damaged, in no small part because of its...                

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Greed Gets Congressional Republicans

realclearpolitics.com     May 16, 2008          

A message from Mississippi has interrupted the leisurely cruise Republicans in Congress have been taking up that famous river in Egypt, de Nile. Democrat Travis Childers soundly defeated Republican Greg Davis in a special election in a House district that President Bush carried by 25 percentage...                

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Fear Is All Republicans Have

democrats.com     May 16, 2008          

Politico's top Republicans, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, tried to come up with a plan to save the Republican Party - and basically came up empty. 1. Get a clue: Republicans need to focus on cutting taxes, slashing spending and rediscovering their edge on national security matters. More important,...                

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Today's Commentary: Republicans Who Voted For The "Big Government" Farm Bill Want The GOP To Stay...

flashreport.org     May 16, 2008          

the results?_ Republicans 39.3% and Democrats 27.9% - shocking, and sad._ (Read more about the CfG survey here). Yesterday, the lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal was all about how the Republicans, now in the minority in Congress, still don_t get it (in terms of the need for fiscal...                

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Pity Party [Peggy Noonan on the Republican Party]

freerepublic.com     May 16, 2008          

Pity Party Big picture, May 2008: The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring...                

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NOONAN: The Pity Party...

drudgereport.com     May 16, 2008          

Big picture, May 2008: The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. It was about the eight-point drubbing the Democrat gave the Republican in the special House election. Many are ambivalent, deep inside, about the decisions made the past seven years in the White House. The...                

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Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears

truthout.org     May 16, 2008          

Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse, of The New York Times: "The Republican defeat in a special Congressional contest in Mississippi sent waves of apprehension across an already troubled party Wednesday, with some senior Republicans urging Congressional candidates to distance themselves from President...                

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Pity Party (Republicans?)

freerepublic.com     May 16, 2008          

The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the...                

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Republicans Upset With Their Own Selves

logoonline.com     May 16, 2008          

Republicans are in a cranky mood and it has nothing to do with “liberal media bias.” The recent Republican loss in a Mississippi special Congressional election has GOP bigwigs worried about fall elections. “This was a real wake-up call for us,” Robert M. Duncan, the chairman of the Republican...                

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The Coming Republican Collapse

belowthebeltway.com     May 16, 2008          

Peggy Noonan waxes pessimistic about the future of the Republican Party: What happens to the Republicans in 2008 will likely be dictated by what didn’t happen in 2005, and ‘06, and ‘07. The moment when the party could have broken, on principle, with the administration – over the thinking behind...                

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