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GOP lets loose, laments

By: Jeff Dufour
Editor at Large/Columnist, "Yeas & Nays"
11/21/08 12:05 AM EST

'Primal scream'

It's been over two weeks since Barack Obama defeated John McCain in their race for the White House. But Republicans are still reeling from the loss, as best evidenced by the sheer doom and gloom on display at the Capitol Hill Club Thursday morning.

On hand: John Feehery (former communications director for Speaker Dennis Hastert), Mark Corallo (former spokesman for Attorney General John Ashcroft), Craig Albright (former special assistant to President Bush) and conservative online strategist David All. (Also joining in the fun were moderator Christine Matthews, of Bellwether Research and Consulting, and Politico editor Charles Mahtesian.)

As always, sometimes the best therapy is just to let loose and get it all out of you. In fact, Feehery went so far as to call the panel discussion -- entitled "a discussion on the state of the GOP" -- "a primal scream therapy session."

 Here's how you might have heard the Republican Party described.

-"really bad"
-"struggling"
-"incompetent" (we lost count at after it was said 15 times)
-"no ideas"
-"not vital"
-"huge scope of defeat"
-"regional party"
-"took a trashing"
-"all wrong"
-"very disturbing"
-"let it slip"
-"ruined"
-"dead"
-"unresponsive"
-"screwed up"
-"can't do strategy"
-"crazy uncle"



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Nov 21, 2008

I wouldn't necessarily lump my comments into that categorization. In my remarks, I discussed the disturbing trend of the GOP continuing to lose the Gen Next vote, how Obama's team effectively used the Internet to empower others, and offered substantive steps I'd take to help the GOP start impacting "change." But, yeah, we have work to do and I'm "fired up and ready to go." David All http://davidallgroup.com

 


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