Some in G.O.P. Express Worry Over '08 Hopes( fear Obama)

Republican leaders across the country say they are growing increasingly anxious about their party's chances of holding the White House, citing public dissatisfaction with President Bush, the political fallout from the war in Iraq and the problems their leading presidential candidates are having generating enthusiasm among conservative voters.

In interviews on Tuesday, the Republicans said they were concerned about signs of despondency among party members and fund-raisers, reflected in polls and the Democratic fund-raising advantage in the first quarter of the year. Many party leaders expressed worry that the party's presidential candidates faced a tough course without some fundamental shift in the political dynamic.

''My level of concern and dismay is very, very high,'' said Mickey Edwards, a Republican former congressman from Oklahoma who is now a lecturer in public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. ''It's not that I have any particular problem with the people who are running for the Republican nomination. I just don't know how they can run hard enough or fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of the Bush administration.''
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It's pretty damn easy to see how Senator Obama...



(as well as Edwards, Richardson, and others)... are extremely concerning for the losers on the right.

I also believe Bill Maher when he said that if they think that dragging droopy jowls, boring as hell, zero personality Fred Thompson into the race is going to make a difference in the end, they're sorely mistaken.

The anti-American, racist Freepers will be giddy about it for the first few weeks.

But just like the phony 911 mayor, the flip-flopping "don't know shit Mitt", and the old as dirt "can't even get the Veteran's to support me McCain", Mr. Thompson won't be able to save their asses.

They are goners.