Mehlman Warns GOP On Way Out: 2006 Losses Were Not A Fluke...

Departing Chief Warns G.O.P. on Outlook for 2008 Races

By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: January 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 — Ken Mehlman, the departing chairman of the Republican National Committee, warned on Thursday that his party would suffer even more devastating losses in 2008 than it did in 2006 if it did not reach out to minorities and address voter concerns about ethics.

In his farewell speech after two years as chairman, Mr. Mehlman said that the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress, was not a fluke that could be attributed to the calendar, a few scandal-tainted candidates and the tough going in Iraq.

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He said that if Republican officials shrugged off the repudiation of the party in the 2006 elections they would lose the White House in 2008 and remain in the minority in Congress indefinitely. He said the party had to recommit itself to political reform, fiscal restraint and personal ethics.

Mr. Mehlman addressed the roughly 170 members of the Republican National Committee at their annual winter meeting, a rather glum affair at a downtown hotel here. Party members are still nursing the wounds of the mid-term elections and are riven by divisions over Iraq, immigration and other issues. Members are also beginning to take sides in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/washington/19repubs.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin


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Gazing in a magic mirror, KennyBoy?

that he played a part in it. Good riddance.

They are still beleiving they are the chosen party. America's party and that the voters were just a little upset. What is 2 years. They ignore the signs. The empire of Fox is loosing viewer, people are not excited by thier candidates and people are thrilled with the job Nancy Pelosi is doing.
Indies and swings are gone. moderates are leaving.
Until the core of the party faces the realities of change and that it isn't going to take some swiftboating of dems to bring them back. Thier style of politics are over.
People are worried about Iraq, global warming, the economy, our loss of standing in the world, ect.
They want change. They want to make the country great and see the republicans as taking us to where we are now.

Mr. Mehlman, if your party wants a chance, bite the bullet and join the Dems in investigating the shit out of your own corrupt vile thieving treasonous practices.

It isn't enough to "address" ethics. You have to send your own to jail.

Seems like he does not feel like the rethugs' idiotic Iraq War didn't have that much to do with their November disaster. He can't be that stupid.

they are not listening to him. :sarcasm:

melman is gay - bill maher said so

Naw the people is stupid.... We tell them God will be unhappy if they vote Democrat and we haves them.....Our Brrave intelligent leader Masser Bush* will lead the way to our great and glorius victory....

Or is that "freak"...

is when they lose.