"We screwed the pooch, so re-elect us so we can keep doing it."

[Armstead]

That seems to me to be the underlying message of the GOP these days.

They made a huge mistake by invading Iraq and opening Pandora's Box.

Now they want us to keep them in power so they can "fix" the problem they created by doing more of the same.

Am I missing something here?

[whistle]

1. A sick mind can not heal a sick mind. I hope the voters understand that

...come November.

[Armstead]

2. What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over

Isn;t it something like doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Or something like that.

[ComerPerro]

3. Living in an area with lots of Republican incumbents

here is how they frame it:

We are doing the best we can, but there are lots of problems we need to fix. And the only way to do that is to forever silence Democrats and activist judges, and they need a really big Republican majority to do that.

Also, if you elect Dems and they get a majority, they will let homosexual terrorist-supporting pedophiles rape your children, turn them gay, and make them become suicide bombers.

Or something like that.

[Armstead]

4. Makes perfect sense to me

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[ComerPerro]

5. Basically, they are either not identifying themselves as Repubs

or are blaming all the failures of the Republican majority on Obstructionist Democrats

[Armstead]

9. Yes, the "responsibility party" refusing to take responsibility

It's always amazing how they claim to be the responsible "grown ups" but act like little kids who try to blame their brother when they drop the cookie jar.

[EstimatedProphet]

And amazingly, that will work for some people

I remember the interviews of voters after the '04 elections, and someone said they voted for Bush so that he would be forced to fix the problem he made.

[misternormal]

6. Propaganda...

They don't want to fix shit... and couldn't at this point even if they wanted to...

The agenda as they see it, is going according to plan... Now all they have to do is convince the sheeple that they are really the "caring and gentle" party, and the Democratic Party is the party of loony-tunes and huge buffoons...

The truth of their agenda is in everything they say... Just have to open up our ears to hear it.

[Montagnard]

7. That’s the argument

Sort of like you taking your car in to have the tires rotated and while the shop foreman (read Congress) wasn’t watching a group of automotive zealots strip your car down to the frame. When you come back to find your car scattered across the shop floor, the foreman, makes the argument that you just must leave your car there and let them continue, because if you don’t, you will never get it back together again and it will cost you a lot of money.

[Armstead]

8. Good analogy

[Montagnard]

11. Thank you, I forgot to add this nuance.

That as you are standing there listening to the shop foreman; the zealots are busy mixing the parts of your car up with the parts of another car they are furiously disassembling.

[gratuitous]

10. That's kind of it . . .

My take has been "The system is horribly screwed up; vote Republican so we can fix it." Left unsaid, of course, is how throwing more Republicans at the Republican-created problems is going to "fix" anything.

Here in Oregon, Republican Mike Erickson is looking to unseat Democrat Darlene Hooley in the 5th District (just south of where I live). Erickson is real careful not to mention his party in any of the ads I've seen so far, though he's not shy about calling Hooley a "liberal" in that hissing kind of way Republicans seem to have mastered. But the thrust of his message is that Hooley and her "liberal" chums are messing up, oh, just everything in Washington, and Erickson's the can-do guy who will set everything to right.

My idea for a Hooley ad would be to recount all of the ills emanating from Washington (the war, the economy, the war, terrorist attacks, the war, education, the war), making sure to hold the tie them securely to the Republican leadership, perhaps mention what Hooley has done to try to blunt these ills. Finish off by saying, "Now, how in the world is sending another Republican to Washington going to solve any of these problems?"

[kiki]

12. When yer in a hole, keep diggin'...

"No, no - dig up, stupid."