Top Republican Begged GOPers To Run For Senate -- For America's Sake

Here's yet another sign of just how reluctant people are to run for Congress under the tattered GOP brand: Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican in charge of the Senate GOP's recruitment efforts, has now admitted that he resorted to begging people to run for office for the sake of America.
"This is America, and it's worth fighting for," Ensign said he told potential recruits, in an interview with the Detroit Free Press. "I appealed to their patriotism."
The problem is that Ensign admits he failed in many cases to recruit strong candidates, leaving us all with a cycle in which the Democrats have only one vulnerable seat. In short, this cycle is so daunting for the GOP that not even the most vigorous flag-waving can convince a solid Republican to run.















Now that he is finally being vetted people are beginning to see Oilbama as a self-absorbed celebrity who ducks meetings with wounded American troops and wants to raise taxes. They realize Oilbama voted for Dick Cheney's Energy Bill and is firmly in the pocket of Big Oil.
Oilbama's coattails are going to shrink up like his little chickenshit, afraid to debate, balls.
Oilbama is going to singlehandedly bring back the Republican brand all by himself. His Oilbamabots at the DNC have already driven Millions out of the Democratic Party, nobody but the brainwashed want anything to do with the Oilbamabot cult.
August 11, 2008 2:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey DemBill,
About 4 years ago I was ay berakfast with a friend, a Republican; I told him I thought Bush/Cheney and their gang in Congress are destroying the Republican party for a least a generation. I think I'm right on track. Dems take over Congress, many Republicans retiring because they see minority status for "a generation". Now Ensign goes begging for candidates.
The story isn't that Obama isn't leading by a higher percentage, the story is here's young black guy with a Muslim name, unknown until about a year or so ago, not that much experience...AND...he's leading the war hero, experienced Republican, John McCain, in most polls.
Wait till the Obama camp starts firing their opposition research on FlipFlopper, Corporate and Bush friendly, lobbyist loving McCain.
August 11, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Dem BillC
Your fantasy world must be fueled by some excellent recreational drugs -- while you sputter incoherently about millions being driven from the Democratic party, you must have missed news that Democratic voter registration in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio -- to name only a few -- are at record levels and growing as millions of new Democrats are registering, while Republican registration numbers are plummeting across the country.
Out here in reality land we look at evidence - instead of the rantings of someone so blinded by hatred that he mindlessly repeats lies and innuendo drawn from the latest O'Reilly/ Hannity/Fox/ Rove/ RNC/Charlie Black/Anne Coulter talking points -- somehow believing that cutting and pasting them on a progressive website will cause the scales from our eyes, our ideas to be washed away and we'll be in love with the idea of President McCain implementing policies we have fought against for ages.
If I was as deluded as you appear to be, I would spend my time deluging right wing sites with news of how McCain's marital infidelities with his first wife make him unfit for office, how his willingness to call his wealthy second wife a "cunt" shows what he really thinks of women, that his luxurious lifestyle financed by his ultra-rich second wife keeps him far removed from the reality of life for most Americans, that he plans to maintain and expand the discredited Bush/Cheney foreign policies that have destroyed our worldwide reputation AND our military preparedness, how his countless verbal slips on the campaign trail are a sure sign of cognitive impairment associated with early onset of Alzheimer's, how his campaign is run by and for the lobbyist for American's wealthiest companies, how he uses American troops and veterans as photo props while he attacks Obama but refuses to vote for legislation that would protect troops and veterans, etc...
Yes, I suppose if I went and wasted my time posting those facts on right wing blogs (and they all are true - unlike the lies in your rantings) that I would have a significantly better chance in convincing the average right winger reading those blogs that Obama should be president than your stale attacks on Obama will convince anyone here to vote for McCain.
But if nothing else, it is good that you post your delusions and warmed over crap from the wingnut side of the political spectrum -- if at least you were able to keep current with the attacks you would spare us having to read about them directly, but the best you seem to be able to do is re-serve two week old Rovian talking point -- hardly seems worth the effort, does it?
August 11, 2008 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nope. The problem is that the Repuglicans had total power in Washington for six years, and they screwed the pooch. America is sick of it.
Dottering old McSame is toast for the same reason.
And I wonder what John Ensign means by a strong candidate? Less corrupt? A better bamboozler? Enough personal wealth to finance his own campaign?
Sen. Gordon Smith in OR is a strong candidate because he's been embracing Obama and throwing his own party under the bus. Is that what Ensign is looking for? Somehow I don't think so.
August 11, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
This was a really interesting article. Funny to look back on the catastrophe of the early 90s and the Contract on America and think that we are seeing the rollback taking place...
(The comment above mine is like an opposite sketch from You Can't Do That On Television. Oh, the comedies of my childhood...)
August 11, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I loved that show. I remember having a massive crush on Christine (aka "Moose"). Ah, those were the days, back when I could afford to not give a shit about politics . . .
August 11, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Congrats, your well written comments have won over the hearts and minds of us all.
August 11, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
A republican't actually begging, now that is funny.
August 11, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bizarrely, I'm somehow not offended by a party leader (even a Republican) begging candidates to run for the good of the country.
As much as I disagree with them, I believe that most Republicans running for office are doing it for "the good of the country." I damn well hope that any candidate is running because they believe that their vision is what's best for the country -- even if that vision is diametrically opposed to mine.
Without turning into some fuzzy "can't we all just get along" naif, I actually think that the country and the political system would be served well by candidates from all parties running on their ideas, on their vision, on opposing views of what is good for the country. Certainly not the way campaigns happen in the Rovian political world we live in -- but it would be nice to see that change in some future cycle.
Besides, with this gang of Republicans, a more honest candidate recruitment pitch might have been "please run for the good of Exxon-Mobil, Haliburton, billionaires, chickenhawk warriors, corporate polluters, job exporters, and a hodge-podge of far right bigots..." -- compared to that, it would in fact be a nice surprise to imagine that the Republicans were running for "the good of America."
August 11, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
is this guy dembillc for real ???
Obama is gonna revive the repuglitard party ???
didn't you READ the fucking article ???
the repuglitards are BEGGING for candidates
there are 23 repuglitard senate seats on the menu, and 20 of those seats are in play
the repuglitards admit the best they can do is lose three seats
the repuglitards got less than 200 seats in the house, and they plan on losing more seats this year
statewide polls show Obama with a 309-229 electoral lead
and Obama is going to reverse that ???
I guess you get your mcsame points, no matter how laughable your post might be
thanks for the laugh
August 11, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
free partiot asks:
He thinks he's posting on FreeRepublic.com where that crapola goes over big.
August 12, 2008 8:23 AM | Reply | Permalink