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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 65 days ago http://thecurrent.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/leaving-the-gop-behind.php
| Scandals, voting trends and helpless leadership portend electoral defeat for the GOP in the upcoming election. A Republican Senate candidate is embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal. A Republican congressman is caught up in a tawdry sexual affair. And across the country, from Illinois to Louisiana to last night's special election in a deep-red district in Mississippi, which Democrat Travis Childers won handily, Republicans are losing races they expected to win. The 2008 election may be all about "change" -- but it has an awfully familiar feel to it. For the GOP, is this 2006 all over again?
In Colorado, Bob Schaffer, the Republican Senate nominee, made a horrendous blunder last month when he touted the guest-worker program in the Northern Marianas Islands (notorious for forcing abortions and trafficking in sex slaves), which he had once visited on Abramoff’s dime. (There were pictures of Schaffer parasailing to prove it.) His response to the uproar that followed was to attack the press and then go into hiding.
In Virginia, married Staten Island congressman Vito Fossella was busted for drunk driving last week. This turned out to be the least of his worries when it was discovered he was en route to visit his mistress and their illegitimate daughter (which his other family knew nothing about). And then there is the series of election losses, all of them in states and districts that George W. Bush carried easily in 200 ... |
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