GOP has uphill climb for cash and candidates

GOP has uphill climb for cash and candidates
The party feels the drag of investigations and minority status in Congress. And then there's Bush.
By Michael Finnegan
Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop29apr29,0,4548811,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines
April 29, 2007

WASHINGTON — President Bush's unpopularity and a string of political setbacks have created a toxic climate for the Republican Party, making it harder to raise money and recruit candidates for its drive to retake control of Congress.

Some of the GOP's top choices to run for the House next year have declined, citing what Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) called a "poisonous" environment. And Republicans' fundraising edge, an important advantage over the last five years, has dwindled.

With GOP clout diminished after November's election losses, the Republicans' national committee and their House and Senate campaign committees together raised the same amount as the Democrats in the first quarter of the year — and Democrats ended the period with more cash in the bank. At this point four years ago, Republicans had more than twice the money Democrats did.

"The reality is the Republican brand right now is just not a good brand," said Tim Hibbitts, an independent Oregon pollster. "For Republicans, the only way things really get better … is if somehow, some way, Iraq turns around."

Jennifer Duffy of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report said the party was "desperately in need of some Prozac."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop29apr29,0,4548811,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

:nopity: ;( :cry:

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VERY good for us.

I guess they're finding that the "Toxic Texan" has a great deal more toxicity than they expected.

It all routes back to him. And his lame-brain "ideas." And those so-called "good people" with whom he surrounded himself (GAG! CHOKE! COUGH! WHEEZE!!!) - who can be only partially blamed for this mess they (and the rest of us) are all in - because THEY wouldn't be there without bush. Even rove, as horrid as he is, wouldn't be there without bush. For those who say "all roads lead to rove" - and I've certainly been one of those saying so - we wouldn't have the plague of rove on all our houses if it hadn't first been for bush. You think for one nanosecond Al Gore or John Kerry would have brought any of these vermin in with them????