Why are the Republicans running away from their Party brand?

All the Republican House incumbents are receiving memos about how to run for re-election in their districts. Basically, don't run as a "Republican". I wonder if any of them have asked themselves why?

Much like the snake-handler preacher who got bit on the hand by a copperhead during one of his snake-handling services, the Republicans are denying the cause of their pain. It has nothing to do with their religion. The preacher got gangrene in his hand and had to have it amputated. When the doctor asked him what happened, he said, "I got gangrene in my hand" and never mentioned why?

The Republicans look at their recent losses in LA, MS, and IL and do not want the same thing to happen to them in their runs for re-election. So they are advised to show "empathy"? I'm certain that will come across as very sincere?

Why is the Republican brand so unpopular? Basically, because they are hypocrites. They preached about fiscal responsibility and smaller government. They preached about how they were the best guardians of our national security. They preached about lower taxes. But they did the exact opposite. They broke our treasury. They spent more money than any government in history. They broke our military. They broke our dollar. And they broke the spirit of the American people.

Given enough rope to hang themselves, they did exactly that. Now their feet are dangling in the air as they gasp for breath and they are promising to do better if people only recognize that they have changed. They are not the same people they have been for the last 8 years? Anyway, do you want those big-spending liberal Democrats in charge?

When even their own internals are showing what a train wreck November is going to be for them, you'd think some of this discussion would seep into the national media. You would, of course, be wrong. Oh, that Tim Russert was still alive to focus on this!

That last sentence is sarcasm, in case you didn't figure it out.

And the victim is the Republican party. *smirk*

Cartoon on Bush recalls Yale frat hazing

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau '70 said he thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush '68's past -- that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger -- deserves more national attention.

On Sunday, Trudeau's cartoon "Doonesbury" featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President's position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that exposed DKE's rush activities, which at the time included brandings and alleged beatings. Soon after these stories were published, the University's Inter-Fraternity Council fined the fraternity for performing "physically and mentally degrading acts," and the Times published an article in which Bush defended the brandings, comparing them to cigarette burns.

The News article, published Nov. 3, 1967, featured a photograph of a half-inch high "D" burned into a pledge's naked backside. Trudeau drew his first cartoon for the News for the story -- a picture of smiling pledges, naked and bent over at the waist, with a figure holding a DKE branding iron standing over them.

In a News story the next day, Bush is quoted calling the branding "insignificant." He said he did not understand how the News "can assume Yale has to be so haughty not to allow this type of pledging to go on."

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/15856

Half the electorate (Democrats) don't like the 'R' to begin with and the other half of the electorate (Republicans) think they have been betrayed (out of control illegal immigration, nothing done about abortion or to fight gay rights, out of control spending, huge governmnet expansion, bad stock market, bad economy, nonsensical war, etc etc).