For GOP, a case of misshapen identity

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For GOP, a case of misshapen identity

'Soul-searching', rebuilding on the agenda as RNC gathers in D.C.
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Jan 29, 2009

WASHINGTON - Who am I? Why am I? Where am I going?

So very, very much for the Republican to ponder in this Winter of the Democrats' Contentment. So many questions. Even the reliable color scheme has gone blurry. Isn't that big-shot GOP strategist Alex Castellanos swirling Republican red with Democrat blue, and coming up with a Washington consulting shop called — heavens! — "Purple?" Why, yes.

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"We're in this rebuilding time," Monica Notzon, a Washington-based Republican fundraiser, helpfully explained this month. "Trying to figure out who we are."

It is into this new world order, this Washington version of an existential whorl, that a steadfastly loyal group of Republicans descend this week, skidding into an iced-over landscape and holing up at the Capital Hilton beginning yesterday for a four-day winter meeting of the Republican National Committee. (Not to be missed on the restorative agenda: a "Reboot the RNC" open house.) They've themed the whole get-together "Republican for a Reason," and left it at that.

"Republican for a reason?" says Stephen Scheffler, a committeeman from Iowa, pausing before a banner carrying the slogan. "I don't know what that means."


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given how ALL the house 'rushicans' voted against the stimulus - I'd say their new identiy is SOS (same old shit)

[underpants]

1. "Reboot the RNC" LOL

My take on it is similar
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8150289&mesg_id=8150289