GOP Definition of Success: Only Losing 3-4 Senate Seats
Headline in the Los Angeles Times: “For Republicans, the Senate outlook is bad.”
The outlook for the GOP is so grim that party leaders have readily conceded there is no chance they can regain control of the Senate in 2008, even though Democrats’ current majority is slim, 51-49.
“If you have an R in front of your name, you better run scared,” said Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who says the party will do well if it holds its losses to three or four seats. [emphasis added]
Recently, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who himself is up for re-election this year, conceded that the “numbers make it impossible” for Republicans to take back the Senate. As a result, the NRSC was quick to charge that Senator McConnell was “not admitting defeat.” I wrote at the time:
Mitch McConnell explained that Republicans cannot win — but it is not admitting defeat! According to the NRSC, the 2008 elections are in a netherworld between a word and it’s antonym.
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kyledeb
Not looking good for the repubs. What happened to the pro-wrestling post you put up? Keep up the good work, Matt.
July 6, 2008
Matt Ortega
Hey thanks Kyle.
I had set up the post about six months ago and the video embedded in it has since been taken down so it made the post moot without it.
July 7, 2008
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