The worm turns for the Republican party

It's not been a good couple of weeks for the Republicans. As the political outlook has changed from one of "maybe we can squeak this shit out" to "electoral Armageddon" their tactics have gone from "unready liberal who wants to raise taxes and take your guns" to "SOCIALIST! TERRORIST!" to "McCain is dead, dear God at least save me". The latest to plead for Republicans to execute McCain gruesomely and turn the money spigot on to the House and Senate is former Bush speechwriter and American Enterprise Institute fellow David Frum, who outlined his plan in the Washington Post.

1. Every available dollar that can be shifted to a senatorial campaign must be shifted to a senatorial campaign.
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2. We need a message change that frankly acknowledges that the Democrats are probably going to win the White House -- and that warns of the dangers of one-party, left-wing government. There's a lot of poll evidence that voters prefer divided government. By some estimates, perhaps as many as 8 percent of voters consciously cast strategic votes in favor of division. These are the voters we need to be talking to now.

Ah yes, the old "if you vote against us because you despised our 8 year rule, that means another party will be elected, don't let that happen, keep voting for us" gambit. I think the only line left for Republicans is "Fuck it, I'll vote for everything the Democrats want, just elect me. Let me stay in Washington. PLEASE!" Look, if you can't even come up with a plausible reason for why people should elect you, a last ditch effort to at least get them to not elect the other guy isn't going to work, no matter how many ad dollars you shift from McCain-centric nonsense to Mitch McConnell-centric nonsense. "The party you don't despise....yet will be elected" isn't really a compelling argument. The country hates Republicans, not Democrats. In fact, you steamrolling them constantly during the last 8 years and the general view of them as as spineless doormats that always lost, has shielded them from the wrath of the American public. Enjoy the fruits of your 2000-2008 "victories."

But there we are, the first wave of calls to perform a triage on the McCain campaign and start saving some senators under the "electing Democrats will give Democrats power" banner, trying to get the voting public to conceive of some scenario where the next 4 years could be worse than the last 8. Actually I have that slogan "Republicans: We fucked it up so badly no one can fix things. Let's disconnect the phone, start a new country, and move everything five miles down the road so our creditors can't find us." Couldn't be a worse slogan than "Country First."