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The GOP will be "cooked" as a party if it doesn't win the White House in 2016, says Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
Were seeing more and more that if you dont hold the White House, its very difficult to govern in this country especially in Washington, D.C., Priebus said, according to The Washington Examiner.
However, I think that we have become, unfortunately, a midterm party that doesnt lose and presidential party thats had a really hard time winning."
I do think were cooked as a party for quite a while as a party if we dont win in 2016, Priebus added. "I do think its going to be hard to dig out of something like that.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/257121-rnc-chief-gop-is-cooked-without-2016-win
longship
(40,416 posts)Hugin
(33,189 posts)Is it red or white with crazy? I'm sure it comes from a box.
spanone
(135,859 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Walkers Buddy. Is America slowly awakening?
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)for the planet.
Right wingers the world over are destroying everything in their path.
randome
(34,845 posts)You never, EVER telegraph the possibility of losing like this. Never.
Just looking at Priebus makes me sleepy. Listening to him is an effort.
In some respects, Wasserman-Schultz is the Anti-Priebus. Priebus is so nonconfrontational, he can't get anything done. Wasserman-Schultz is so confrontational, she conjures melodrama out of thin air.
Both parties are in need of transformation but when the dust is settled, it truly looks as if the Democratic party will be the one left standing.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
LoveIsNow
(356 posts)Priebus is right. At this moment, they always win the midterms and we win the presidency. If they win the White House, what's left for us? Are Democrats going to start coming out in midterm elections?
We won in 2006, but that was after 6 years of horrible policy. If we lose, ours is the party I see in peril.
Atman
(31,464 posts)I don't care about the party. I care about the ideas. It is very clear where THEY want to take America. Back to sweat shops, robber barons, Charles Dickens, child labor, sick people dying in the streets. That's all perfectly cool with them, because back in the Bush era they got every penny out of the U.S. Treasury, and they'll all be just fine behind their compound walls, summering on their yachts, jetting around the world. After all, $20 billion stashed in a tax-free Cayman Islands account will go a long way. Who the hell needs health care and Social Security when you already own the hospitals and the banks?
peapodsss
(33 posts)PSPS
(13,613 posts)The media maintains the charade, of course, because, without the pretense of a horse race, they can't promote their political "cage match" fiascoes to dullards who sit and watch the high-priced ads they sell.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
NervousGuy
(26 posts)See if you can see what I did.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)they've been calling the tune since 1980
Mass
(27,315 posts)He is a total idiot who could not it hold together.
Ironically, they have fired those people who brought them the 2010 victory, because those people were not extreme enough for them. And now, they have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists hiding as populists.
brush
(53,832 posts)He barely escaped going to jail for his machinations.
His corrupt redrawing of districts to favor repugs is why they win the mid-terms with fewer total votes.
Here's hoping come the 2020 census the Dems will get to redraw the districts fairly.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)They rise again -- like horror movie villains.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)GOP victories, creating further need for an activist Democratic President, enabled by the (possibly Democratic-lead) Senate. Yep, they'll be cooked federally.
They can still continue to draw half our states toward their third-world utopian dream, though. As long as those voters continue to swallow the Kool-Aid.
Baitball Blogger
(46,755 posts)set up to protect its citizens....
That is a sentence that doesn't need completion.