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On Friday, I told you about the mess at the NRCC. It’s all parts of the party that are in peril. The base is demoralized. Republicans don’t want to give. And Republicans don’t want to run.
通过 美国新闻, the Senate Republicans are giving up on regaining the majority:
The battle cry of the Republican Party is “Two seats to capture the Senate.” But Nevada Sen. John Ensign, who is leading the charge for the GOP, now concedes the party may not win the fight, particularly after two prospective candidates he had hoped to recruit—one in New Jersey, one in South Dakota— refused to sign up for the struggle. “Realistically, we have a very, very slim chance of getting back into the majority,” says Ensign, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “That’s not even our goal anymore. Our [numeric] goal is to hold as close to where we are as possible.” Democrats control the chamber by a narrow majority, 51 to 49.
Leading up to the November elections, analysts say the Senate contest in Louisiana—”It’s going to be a bloodbath,” Ensign promises—poses a good-news, bad-news scenario for Republicans. The good news: The incumbent Democrat, Mary Landrieu, twice has won her Senate seat by narrow margins, meaning she’s a target. Plus, her base has shrunk demonstrably since Hurricane Katrina hit. And what’s emerged of late is a state trending red. The bad news: Landrieu is not only the GOP’s best hope to oust an incumbent but, at the moment, the only one.
Analysts studying the 35 U.S. Senate races on the ballot say Democrats began the campaign with two key advantages. Not only did they have far fewer lawmakers up for re-election, they didn’t confront a retirement boom. Twenty-three seats now held by Republicans are up for election—compared with only a dozen in the hands of Democrats. Five of the Republican seats are open because of retirements, while not a single Democrat is eyeballing the exits. In three of the five states where Republicans are retiring—Colorado, New Mexico, and, especially, Virginia—observers see opportunities for Democrats to enlarge their majority.
So while it’s early—”Politically, it’s an eternity between now and November,” as Ensign puts it—now forecasters envision an overall Democratic gain of three to six seats.
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Rhode Island GOP is cash-strapped.
Indiana GOP 是一个烂摊子。
In Alaska, a truly maverick Republican mounts a challenge to corruptocrat GOP Rep. Don Young. RedState 报道：
Don Young (R- Don Youngland) is embittered, corrupt, out of touch, and part of the problem in Washington. His fifteen minutes are up and the time has come to send him back to Alaska, though we know he’ll be heading to K Street instead.
In the past few years, Don Young voted to force workers into an open, public ballot on the issue of unionization, he voted against reauthorization of the Patriot Act, he voted to expand government funded stem cell research, and he railed against conservatives who wanted to cut earmarks by calling the taxpayer dollars his money. Don Young is also under FBI investigation for taking bribes, illegal gratuities and other unreported gifts from an Alaskan corporation, and he has dubiously forced on the people of Florida a road they don’t want all because one of his donors wanted the road.
We fully support and encourage you to support Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell in his bid to unseat Don Young in the Republican Primary.
We commend Governor Sarah Palin for supporting her Lieutenant Governor and recognizing that the Republican Party must clean up its own house. Putting Don Young on the trash heap of history is a perfect place to start.
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They don’t get it. John McCain doesn’t get it. He recycled the WSJ’s bullcrap blaming GOP Rep. Jim Oberweis’s loss on his tough immigration enforcement stance.
