People now laying into the NRCC? About damn time.

Politics: GOP lost another race last night in Missi albeit to a conservative Dem. But this morning people are finally starting to lay into the so-called Republican leadership who do not have the backbone, talent or vision to lead the GOP.

Huffy Post:

"This is 1994 all over again," Frank Luntz, a famed Republican communications consultant, told The Huffington Post. "I was there. I saw it firsthand. The Republicans of 2008 are behaving exactly like the Democrats of '94 and making exactly the same mistakes. It's pathetic." "...Ultimately voters want to know what a politician is going to do for them. What has happened with the Republican Party over the last eight years is that some of the consultants have decided it is too hard to define what we stand for so we are just going to paint Democrats as worse than us."

Captain Ed:

The lack of motivation comes from a disgust with a Republican Party that still hasn’t learned why it lost the majority in 2006. They lost those mid-term elections not because voters stopped supporting conservative principles, but because the House GOP stopped supporting conservative principles. Look at who won these special elections; they’re all Blue Dog Democrats, running in support of conservative themes such as gun rights. Now look at the Republicans who last held those seats, such as Hastert and Wicker — Republicans who spent other people’s money on waste and personal ambition. Did the House GOP caucus take a hard line on pork-barrel spending or adopt policies to cut federal spending? No. Republican voters and conservative pundits begged the House and Senate caucuses to make dramatic breaks with the previous six years and adopt real conservative policies of fiscal responsibility and federalism. What did they do? They offered to stop earmarking only if Democrats followed suit, a deal everyone knew would never take place. Instead of appointing one single anti-pork activist to the House Appropriations Committee in Jeff Flake, they appointed Joe Bonner, a good Congressman but a well-known earmarker, and mostly because Flake’s anti-pork crusade irritates his colleagues. Unfortunately, the Republicans have to take action to build credibility as reformers. Every step of the way between 2006 and now, they have chosen as a group to go in the opposite direction. The failure to appoint one single reformer to the lion’s den of wasteful spending shows that the GOP never learned its lesson from 2006, and now will suffer even greater consequences in 2008.

Cole's plan is to "rebrand" the GOP in the image of McCain which means moving to the center and beyond. This is exactly the worst thing to do because you can't out dem a democrat. This is the entire Tories vs Labour on the surface level where the Tories went to the left, reliable voters left them and they got stuck in the wilderness for ages. GOP leadership wasted their time in power and now are going to throw whatever sticks to see if it works. How about actually governing like a conservative making people realize you mean what you say and say what you mean. That worked before to get you into power.

Update: To show how out of touch and clueless.

A third-straight special election defeat in as many months left congressional Republicans reeling Wednesday, seriously concerned about what the November elections have in store for their party. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the defeat a "wakeup call."

You moron, the wakeup call was in 2006. If you think now this is it, GOP is screwed. Just get rid of these leaders now and start over.