McConnell: GOP Becoming 'Regional Party'

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Ferdous Al-Faruque Report:

The country's top-ranking Republican told party leaders on Thursday that the GOP is at risk of becoming a regional party.

The Republican Party seems to be slipping into a position of being more of a regional party than a national one," said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. “In politics, there’s a name for a regional party: it’s called a minority party. And I didn’t sign up to be a member of a regional party."

McConnell delivered his warning in Washington, D.C., to members of the Republican National Committee one day before party officials are slated to select a chairman to lead the GOP over the next two years.

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"You can walk from Canada to Mexico and from Maine to Arizona without ever leaving a state with a Democratic governor," said McConnell. "Not a single Republican senator represents the tens of millions of Americans on the West Coast. And on the East Coast, you can drive from North Carolina to New Hampshire without touching a single state in between that has a Republican in the U.S. Senate."



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[bluestateguy]

1. Not to worry Mitch

We're making inroads in the South too. It's just a little tougher slog.

[Lautremont]

2. He's saying all the right things, but somehow I still don't like this guy.

[Quiz Master]

12. Indeed.

It's just that the Repubs have a bad habit of lying about everything . Here's some videographic evidence.

[cosmicone]

17. welcome to DU n/t

[damntexdem]

41. Why like him? He's looking out for the welfare of the GOP.

That he's figured out what other GOP idiots haven't is no reason to like him.

[Critters2]

3. Why, Mitch, you say that like it's a bad thing. :) nt

[rockymountaindem]

4. To his credit, he's not in denial about that

But if he's anything like so many other Republicans we hear out there, he is in denial about his party's problems stemming from their inability to be conservative enough.

[Triana]

5. Yea. I don't see the problem? n/t

[K8-EEE]

23. sounds like an excellent plan

Especially if the region gets very, very small and very very far away from me.

[That Is Quite Enough]

6. Yeah, sorry about that Mitch. Now GTFO.

[NOW tense]

7. Mitch, Is that big W around your neck heavy?

And the Albatross begins to be avenged.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot : O Christ !
That ever this should be !
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night ;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.



The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

[Wapsie B]

8. That's what you get for putting all your hopes behind *.

And now some would want Palin to be the standard bearer for their party. Sure guys, go for it.

[bdamomma]

38. Limbaugh/Palin???

[gratuitous]

9. Solution: Tax Cuts!

Good thinking, Republicans. Something doesn't work for 30 solid years, that doesn't mean it's not going to work for 31 years. Keep sticking that fork in the outlet. In the universe of possible outcomes, it's not completely impossible to think that you'll poop out a pill that cures cancer.

My money's on you shooting across the room, landing in a smoking heap.

[No Elephants]

28. Tax cuts appeal to people. though, especially low info voters.

[Orrex]

10. He shouldn't be surprised

After all, you can only run on the "slave in every cube" platform before it starts to catch up with you.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

11. I wonder if this makes John Boehner cry...but then again, what doesn't

[Anarcho-Socialist]

13. Fail

So how does McConnell propose changing the GOP's fortunes?

He thinks the answer lies in doing a better job of communicating the party's principles, not changing them.

They have big business in their pocket and most of the media on their side, and he thinks their problem is not doing a good enough "job of communicating" the GOP's loathsome agenda. As long as they think along these lines they won't change and will stay a minority party. Without change, the GOP's future is Sarah Palin and a further retreat from federal and state offices.

[K8-EEE]

22. LOL exactly!!! STOP COMMUNICATING YOUR PRINCIPALS, THEY SUCK

Holy cow they JUST DON'T GET IT! YES WE HEAR THE MESSAGES LOUD AND CLEAR, WE REJECT THEM!

[No Elephants]

29. Actually, controlling their lying message is the ONLY thing at which Pubs excel. JMO.

[bulloney]

32. Repubs have had the media stooges giving their principles and spinning in their favor for years.

I think the country has clearly seen that the Repubs work for the benefit of the rich and fiscal responsibility be damned. People also see them as the war mongers they really are, too. We're just fed up with your crap, McConnell. Maybe you should marginalize your role to being county dogcatcher or something.

[rpannier]

14. Solution: Don't run on a platform aimed at one region or one regional mindset

and you'll do better

[Wwagsthedog]

15. Unfortunately, I'm a prisoner in one of those regional states.

[MadMaddie]

16. You should know Mitch you helped your regional party

get to the place it is today! Pat yourself on the back!

[Historic NY]

18. Wait until the all out assault begins Mitch ..

in the region where your constituents screwed by Repukeican Congress who voted against the stimulus. Imagine if the majority said no funds for the Repuke districts. The Republican Party is becoming more and more irrelevant.

[Suji to Seoul]

19. Your licking the ass of Bush enabled this, douchebag!

What a tool. You helped make this happen.

Be prepared to lose the following Senate seats in 2010, asshole:

New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Ohio
North Carolina
Florida
Louisiana
Kentucky
Missouri
Kansas
South Dakota

69 - 31 Majority

Then, Joe "The Mole" is meaningless.

[countmyvote4real]

20. It's a call-to-action for GOP operatives to get even dirtier in their desperation.

As if that were possible, but just you wait.

[No Elephants]

27. Bingo! That's their alternative. That and lying some more.

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. Oh, climb down off that cross, Mitch.

We could use the lumber.

[Posteritatis]

24. I think their region lately is Mars (nt)

[SKKY]

25. And whose fault is that Mitch? Hmmm?

[No Elephants]

26. Uh-Oh. They've caught on. Maybe they'll try to do something about it. Make sure we stay at

least a few steps ahead of them at all times.

[olegramps]

30. With all the depressing news this is one of the few really bright spots in my day.

[ejbr]

31. HOWEVER,

you can cross the entire area of hell and meet at leat one repig every 5 feet.

[AwakeAtLast]

39. HAHAHA! So true!

[Doctor_J]

33. Now get back to work obstructing the people's will!

[RaRa]

34. Thank you Dr. Dean! n/t

[tanyev]

35. And that's a short hop, skip and a jump away from "irrelevant".

Keep it up, GOP!

[LynnTheDem]

36. "without ever leaving a state with a Democratic governor" ...ever bothered to think about WHY

that is the case, McConnell?

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. I'm all up in that.

[AwakeAtLast]

40. A picture from the interview......

[Oak2004]

42. Two words Mitch:

Federalists.

Whigs.

[KamaAina]

43. Indeed.

They mainly represent the State of Denial.