I think Miss California is winning GOP’s heart as it is. Palin needs a come back other than letting that other immoral daughter of hers to preach about safe sex.

Rush and chaney seem to be the leaders and the mouth of the GOP.

With all indicators saying the economy will start to bounce back within a year, and the gradual withdrawal from Iraq, the Dems. will be in pretty good shape in 2012. Like it or not, the Dems, will take credit for a better economy, and the pullout of Iraq. All the Dems will need to do is shore up the appearance of the deficit, and they will have a trifecta. This being said, what strategy will the GOP use to compete with this?

Let me ask you, before 2008 did anyone outside of Chicago know who Barack Obama was?

Right now the GOP is focused on election of this year, 2012 is still far ahead in the road so we could come up with serious candidate,

So don’t celebrate libbies, Obama could lose and the liberal dream of having a one party rule just like Soviet Russia and have the DEMONcrat party govern the U.S could be shattered.

When asked what the supporters think about Obama’s false promises of tax credits, rebates, etc.. why do they instantly refer to the Bush administration’s faults? Why can’t they defend their own soon to be president without drawing on a past GOP example? Is it because Obama will circumvent any negative criticism by saying the magic word "change"?

I hear Republican political rallies are a foot-stomping good time! The theme song of the GOP is "It’s Raining Men!"

Seriously, though, it is old news that those who hate gays are all gay themselves. Didn’t anyone tell President Bush’s followers that?
Ron Paul IS an old school Republican. He could go a long way towards ridding the GOP of the stink of Bush.
Pono7, I think the issue of gay-bashing has retreated somewhat in the last year or so. It rallies the base of the Republican Party but doesn’t reach across political lines and someone like Romney who will have to reach across divides–he’s a Yankee, a Mormon and from a state the hard right loves to bash, so if hiring gays opens him up a little bit to more potential voters he’ll do it.

I know the story behind the Democratic Party’s symbol being the Donkey, that Andrew Jackson started it and a cartoonist got it going. I know that reasoning, I just wanted to know why the Republican Party’s symbol is an elephant? I know that the Republicans are the GOP, Grand Old Party, and I just wanted to know why that was there symbol. Did it have anything to do with Lincoln being the first true Republican? What is the story behind it? Links would be great. Thank you.

-A few weeks ago, McCain and Newt Gingrich had condemned the attack ads from their party that tried to link Obama with Blagojevich scandal…
-Now the current Chairman (M. Duncan) blames the wannabe/incoming Chairman (C. Saltsman) for his controversial CD "We hate America" including songs as "The Star Spanglish Banner" and "Barack the Magic N-e-gro"…

Are they losing control? How long it will take the GOP party to regain force?

President Obama on January 25th, his fifth day in office, received strong signals from leading Republican politicians and intellectuals that they would oppose his stimulus package as it is currently written.

House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senator John McCain voiced their opposition to the current stimulus plan on the Sunday morning talk shows.

Think Progress compiled a video of prominent conservative intellectuals Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer slamming the bailout as well. Watch the video below.

The other big news that emerged from Obama’s fifth day in office was his intention to reverse a Bush environmental policy that barred California from setting its own fuel-efficiency standards:

The attention to energy comes as Obama heads into his first full week as president, with an agenda dominated by economic woes and a push to get a huge stimulus plan through Congress.

In one key move, Obama is aiming to let California and other states set their own tailpipe emission standards _ without having to get a waiver from the Environmental Protection Administration, as has been the case. The policy change would furnish another alternative for reducing greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, which contribute to global warming. It also would reverse a Bush era policy that put up legal obstacles to California’s go-it-alone stance.

And in another policy change, Obama is likely to order the Transportation Department to enact short-term rules on how automakers can improve the fuel efficiency of their new models.